| Titre | After 1989: The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction | |
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| Auteur | Mingwei Song | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 2015/1 Utopian/Dystopian Fiction in Contemporary China | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special Feature |
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| Page | 7-13 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This paper examines the new wave of Chinese science fiction as both a subversion and variation of the genre's utopianism of the earlier age. Wang Jinkang's Ant Life (2007), Liu Cixin's China 2185 (1989), the Three-Body Trilogy (2006-2010), and the short story “The Micro-Era” (1999) are the main texts this paper studies. Their reflections on utopianism speak to the post-1989 changing intellectual culture and political economy. This paper argues that the new wave of Chinese science fiction contains a self-conscious effort to energise the utopian/dystopian variations rather than a simple denial of utopianism or a total embrace of dystopian disillusionment, and this is particularly represented in Liu Cixin's novels. The paper also provides some preliminary thoughts on the vision of a post-human future depicted in Liu Cixin's science fiction. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/6618 |
