Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw / / Hua Li.
The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chinese science fiction. This period served as a bridge between science-popularization science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s and New Wave Chinese science fi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 16 b&w illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION DURING THE POST-MAO CULTURAL THAW -- 1 The Field of Chinese Science Fiction, 1976–1983 -- 2 A Study of Zheng Wenguang’s Mars Series -- 3 A Scientific Holmes in Post-Mao China: Ye Yonglie and His SF Thrillers -- 4 Tong Enzheng and the Motif of Alien Invasions -- 5 Posthuman Conditions in Xiao Jianheng’s SF Narratives -- 6 Tech-SF and the Four Modernizations -- 7 Fledgling Media Convergence: PRC SF from Print to Electronic Media -- 8 Blooming, Contending, and Boundary-Breaking Even in a Genre of Government-Backed Literature -- Notes -- Chinese Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chinese science fiction. This period served as a bridge between science-popularization science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s and New Wave Chinese science fiction from the 1990s into the twenty-first century. Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw surveys the field of Chinese science fiction and its multimedia practice, analysing and assessing science fiction works by well-known writers such as Ye Yonglie, Zheng Wenguang, Tong Enzheng, and Xiao Jianheng, as well as the often-overlooked tech-science fiction writers of the post-Mao thaw. Exploring the socio-political and cultural dynamics of science-related Chinese literature during this period, Hua Li combines close readings of original Chinese literary texts with literary analysis informed by scholarship on science fiction as a genre, Chinese literary history, and media studies. Li argues that this post-Mao thaw science fiction began its rise as a type of government-backed literature, and yet often stirred up controversy and pushback as a contentious and boundary-breaking genre. Topically structured and interdisciplinary in scope, Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw will appeal both to scholars and fans of science fiction. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781487537807 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754124 9783110753899 9783110739220 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781487537807 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Hua Li. |