The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction

✍ Scribed by Song, Mingwei; Huters, Theodore (editor)

• Book ID: 110286660
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 328 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780231542548

✦ Synopsis

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...