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This book is a comprehensive examination of contemporary Chinese science fiction under the framework of Chinese techno-nationalism, aimed at introducing the genre to both general and academic readers, and providing new in-depth perspectives on work that has been published in the early twenty-first century. While China has made technology an important pillar of its external power projection and internal management strategy, this book approaches contemporary Chinese SF as a complicated mode of both aspiration and subversion within the sphere of techno-nationalistic discourse. Using a general theoretical framework informed by the emergence and dominance of global neoliberalism, this book locates Chinese SF as part of a world literature that is concerned with class inequality, exploitative capitalism, and the ways in which new technology contributes to these problems.
For those interested in the state of contemporary Chinese SF and its scholarship, this book also provides a review of recent developments as well as emerging trends. Its thematic chapters are organized in terms of different types of responses generated by techno-power and techno-nationalism: SF that addresses traditional Chinese culture and myth, SF that ruminates on the way China wields power internally and externally, SF that considers global concerns in terms of Chinese responsibility, and finally SF that critiques authoritarianism and censorship.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chinese Science Fiction History, Scholarship, and Methodological Concerns
Reassessing Tradition with a Science-Fictional Lens
The Chinese Century? Science Fiction as Propaganda and Critique
Confronting World Issues in Chinese Science Fiction
Dystopic Visions of China
Coda: Looking to the Future
