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Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre Trans Thomas Moran. The first thing I should do, of course, is explain what I mean by “chaohuan,” which we are rendering in English as “ultra-unreal.” The literal meaning o…
China’s New ‘Ultra-Unreal’ Fiction: Only Strange Art Can Explain It Hao Jingfang explains impetus for writing “Folding Beijing”: “One morning, I was shopping at a street market just like the one described at the start of the story: Crowded, chaotic, dirty, lively, full of cheap goods piled up everywhere. Everyone was devoted to the task…
F Jameson: “Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future?” Source: Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, Utopia and Anti-Utopia (Jul., 1982), pp. 147-158
The Molecular Cafe (Soviet Science Fiction Stories) : Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (Eds.) “The book contains stories published by Soviet science-fiction writers in the last three or tour years. Ot course, neither the selection of the authors in this little book, nor the stories themselves can offer a comprehensive idea ot Soviet Science fiction,…
Dispatches from the Future of a New China – Los Angeles Review of Books Nathaniel Isaacson: TRANSLATED BY KEN LIU, Broken Stars is a welcome second collection of 16 Chinese speculative fiction short stories and three short essays recounting the genre’s recent cultural and academic prominence. The volume gives voice to an eclectic group, serving…
coffeenuts: Melanitis phedima polishana by Isaac Chiu_TW https://flic.kr/p/2hNMo9U