The reincarnated giant : an anthology of twenty-first-century Chinese science fiction / edited by Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters.

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Series: Weatherhead books on AsiaPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780231542548
0231542542

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reincarnated giant.DDC classification:

895.13/0876208 23

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PL2658.E8 R45 2018

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Introduction : does science fiction dream of a Chinese new wave? / Mingwei Song -- 1. Regenerated bricks / Han Song -- 2. The village schoolteacher / Liu Cixin -- 3. Histories of time : the luster of mute porcelain (excerpts) / Dung Kai-Cheung -- 4. The dream devourer / Egoyan Zheng -- 5. The demon-enslaving flask / Xia Jia -- 6. The poetry cloud / Liu Cixin -- 7. "Science fiction" : a chapter of Daughter / Lo Yi-Chin -- 8. Balin / Chen Qiufan -- 9. The radio waves that never die / La La -- 10. 1923 : a fantasy / Zhao Haihong -- 11. The passengers and the Creator / Han Song -- 12. The reincarnated giant / Wang Jinkang -- 13. The rain forest / Chi Hui -- 14. The demon's head / Fei Dao -- 15. Songs of ancient earth / Bao Shu.

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.

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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.

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