The Fantastic Truth About China
from New York Review of BooksIn 1902, Liang Qichao, a reformist intellectual of the late Qing dynasty, wrote a futuristic story called “A Chronicle of the Future of New China.” In the unfinished manuscript, he depicts Shanghai hosting the World Fair in 1962...
Author’s Vision of a Future Beijing Looks to China’s Present
Meet Hao Jingfang, author of "Folding Beijing,” the science-fiction novelette that beat out Stephen King to win a Hugo Award.
Dictatorship and Democracy, What China's Moviegoers are Learning From Star Wars
A Galaxy far, far away has finally arrived in the Middle Kingdom.
Science-Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Chinese Writer for First Time
The Chinese writer Liu Cixin has won the 2015 Hugo Award, the first time the prestigious prize has gone to a Chinese writer.
'Ghost Fleet' Depicts War Between China, U.S.
Peter Singer and August Cole expand their research as analysts into the realm of imagination about a future that could find the U.S. at war with China.
Science Fiction in China
from Sinica PodcastScience fiction serves as a kind of mirror for how a society sees itself in the future. So what future do Chinese sci-fi writers envision in the far-off yet-to-come? And what role does China play in that future? Do contemporary Chinese writers...