Fear of Seeing - A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction

Fear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction's origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Lonely Hidden Army, 2010
1. Poetics of the Invisible: Introducing the New Wave
2. Science Fiction as Method: Worlding the Genre
3. Can We Read "A Madman's Diary" as Science Fiction? Rewriting Literary History
Excursus I: Looking Backward: 2010-1900
4. A Poetic Heart in the Dark Forest: Liu Cixin's Three-Body Universe
5. The Power of Darkness in Han Song: Mythology of the Chthonic
6. Variations on Utopia: Specters and Myths
7. A Topology of Hope: Sinotopia and Heterotopia
8. Chinese New Wave Goes Global: The Posthuman Turn
Excursus II: The Rise of She-SF: 2010-2022
9. New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: Opening of the Neo-Baroque
Epilogue: The Wandering Earth, 2019
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mingwei Song is a professor of Chinese literature at Wellesley College. He is the author of Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959 (2015) and a coeditor of The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia, 2018).

Summary

Fear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction’s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital.

Product details

• Authors: Mingwei Song
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231204439
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20443-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Global Chinese Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; China, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary Criticism