Chinese Science Fiction Concepts, Forms, and Histories
"The collection, a first-of-its-kind project in English-language scholarship, heralds a kind of Chinese sf studies 2.0, emphasizing the multiple points of origin and the sheer diversity of the histories, cultures, aesthetic expressions, and transmedial forms that together make up the sprawling...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Studies in Global Science Fiction
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Kang Youwei’s Book of the Heavens and the Porous Epistemological Grounds of Early-modern Chinese Science Fiction
- Chapter 3. Intelligent Humanoid Machines: Imaginations of Physical and Mental Transformation in late Qing Literature and Their Intellectual Origins
- Chapter 4. The King of Electricity from China: Science, Technology, and the Vision of World Order in Late Qing China
- Chapter 5. Formal Fictions: “Chinese” “Science” “Fiction” in Translation
- Chapter 6. The Writing Editors: Late Qing and Republican Media Professionals as Authors of Science Fiction
- Chapter 7. Projecting Eco-Futures: Cinematic Visions of Utopian Science and Ecology from the Mao Era to the Deng Era
- Chapter 8. Information, the Body, and Humanism in the Chinese Cyber Novel Forty Millennia of Authenticity Cultivation
- Chapter 9. Open Up Your Brain Hole: Spatial Imaginaries in Chinese Online Science Fiction
- Chapter 10. Of Illness and Illusion: The Chaosmology of Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy
- Chapter 11. Liu Cixin and the Cosmic Pastoral
- Chapter 12. Bodies in Transformation: The Politics of Post-80s Science Fiction Authors Chi Hui, Chen Qiufan, and Zhang Ran
- Chapter 13. The Posthuman and the Neo-Baroque in Taiwan Science Fiction