New Story of the Stone - An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel

One of China's first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as Dream of the Red Chamber).

About the author

Wu Jianren (1866-1910) was a leading figure of the late Qing literary scene, best known as a writer of satirical exposé fiction and influential romances. His other notable works include Strange Events Eye-Witnessed Over Twenty Years and Sea of Regret.

Liz Evans Weber is an assistant professor of instruction in Chinese and research assistant professor at the University of Rochester. She is a 2025 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, which will support work on her next translation project.

Product details

• Authors: Jianren Wu
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Weber (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.07.2025
• EAN: 9780231203463
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20346-3
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Satirical fiction and parodies, Science fiction: time travel, FICTION / World Literature / China / 20th Century