ABSTRACT: Estranging Realism in Chinese Science Fiction: Hybridity and Environmentalism in Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide By Cara Healey Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 29, no.2 (Fall 2017), pp. 1-33 In this essay, Healey considers Chinese science fiction author Chen Qiufan’s (陈楸帆 b. 1981) 2013 novel THE WASTE TIDE.