The Reincarnated Giant : An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction / Mingwei Song, Theodore Huters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huters, Theodore, editor.

Song, Mingwei, editor.

Series:

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--21st century--Translations into English.

Chinese fiction.

Science fiction, Chinese--Translations into English.

Science fiction, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : no art

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments-ranging from space opera to cyberpunk, utopianism to the posthuman, and parodies of China's rise to deconstructions of the myth of national development.This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China. In fifteen short stories and novel excerpts, The Reincarnated Giant opens a doorway into imaginary realms alongside our own world and the history of the future. Authors such as Lo Yi-chin, Dung Kai-cheung, Han Song, Chen Qiufan, and the Hugo winner Liu Cixin-some alive during the Cultural Revolution, others born in the 1980s-blur the boundaries between realism and surrealism, between politics and technology. They tell tales of intergalactic war; decoding the last message sent from an extinct human race; the use of dreams as tools to differentiate cyborgs and humans; poets' strange afterlife inside a supercomputer; cannibalism aboard an airplane; and unchecked development that leads to uncontrollable catastrophe. At a time when the Chinese government promotes the "Chinese dream," the dark side of the new wave shows a nightmarish unconscious. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of the genre.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Does Science Fiction Dream of a Chinese New Wave? / Song, Mingwei

PART I: OTHER REALITIES

1. REGENERATED BRICKS / Song, Han

2. THE VILLAGE SCHOOLTEACHER / Cixin, Liu

3. HISTORIES OF TIME: THE LUSTER OF MUTE PORCELAIN (EXCERPTS) / Kai-Cheung, Dung

4. THE DREAM DEVOURER / Zheng, Egoyan

5. THE DEMON-ENSLAVING FLASK / Jia, Xia

PART II: OTHER US

6. THE POETRY CLOUD / Cixin, Liu

7. "SCIENCE FICTION": A CHAPTER OF DAUGHTER / Yi-Chin, Lo

8. BALIN, BY CHEN QIUFAN / Qiufan, Chen

9. THE RADIO WAVES THAT NEVER DIE / La, La

10. 1923: A FANTASY / Haihong, Zhao

PART III: OTHER FUTURES

11. THE PASSENGERS AND THE CREATOR / Song, Han

12. THE REINCARNATED GIANT / Jinkang, Wang

13. THE RAIN FOREST / Hui, Chi

14. THE DEMON'S HEAD / Dao, Fei

15. SONGS OF ANCIENT EARTH, BY BAO SHU / Shu, Bao

Notes

Recommended Reading

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780231542548

0231542542

OCLC:

1022075653