Chinese science fiction : concepts, forms, and histories /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Song, Mingwei (Editor), Isaacson, Nathaniel (Editor), Li, Hua, 1969- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Series:	Studies in global science fiction,
Subjects:	Science fiction, Chinese > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Kang Youwei's Book of the Heavens and the Porous Epistemological Grounds of Early-modern Chinese Science Fiction
Chapter 3. Intelligent Humanoid Machines: Imaginations of Physical and Mental Transformation in late Qing Literature and Their Intellectual Origins
Chapter 4. The King of Electricity from China: Science, Technology, and the Vision of World Order in Late Qing China
Chapter 5. Formal Fictions: "Chinese" "Science" "Fiction" in Translation
Chapter 6. The Writing Editors: Late Qing and Republican Media Professionals as Authors of Science Fiction
Chapter 7. Projecting Eco-Futures: Cinematic Visions of Utopian Science and Ecology from the Mao Era to the Deng Era
Chapter 8. Information, the Body, and Humanism in the Chinese Cyber Novel Forty Millennia of Authenticity Cultivation
Chapter 9. Open Up Your Brain Hole: Spatial Imaginaries in Chinese Online Science Fiction
Chapter 10. Of Illness and Illusion: The Chaosmology of Han Song's Hospital Trilogy
Chapter 11. Liu Cixin and the Cosmic Pastoral
Chapter 12. Bodies in Transformation: The Politics of Post-80s Science Fiction Authors Chi Hui, Chen Qiufan, and Zhang Ran
Chapter 13. The Posthuman and the Neo-Baroque in Taiwan Science Fiction .