Chinese Science Fiction Sources
Recent media reports (in English) about Chinese Science Fiction and English translations of a few new writings by the so-called New Wave Sci-fi writers from China.
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宋明炜，美国哥伦比亚大学博士（2005年），卫斯理大学东亚系助理教授。著有《浮世的悲哀：张爱玲传》（台北，1996；上海，1998）、《德尔莫的礼物：纽约笔记本》（上海，2007）等作品，另有论文发表于《中国学术》、《现代中国》、《上海文学》、《上海文化》、《天涯》、Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese等期刊。目前正在撰写英文专著Young China: Youth, Nation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1958。论文集《批评与想象》即将由复旦大学出版社出版。近期研究课题为晚清与当代的科幻小说。
Song Mingwei (Ph.D. Columbia, 2005) is currently an assistant professor of Chinese literature at Wellesley College. His major publications include: The Sorrows of a Floating World: a Biography of Eileen Chang (Taipei, 1996; Shanghai, 1998), Delmore's Gift: a New York Notebook (Shanghai, 2007), and journal articles appearing in China Scholarship, Studies of Modern China, Shanghai Literature, Shanghai Culture, Frontier, and Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. He is completing a monograph titled "Young China: Youth, Nation, and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1958". A collection of his critical essays, Criticism and Imagination, will be published by Fudan University Press in 2011. His recent research interest lies in the Chinese science fiction writings of the late Qing and the contemporary.
A Chapter on Science Fiction in A New Literary History of China
A New Literary History of China, Harvard University Press, forthcoming.
Renditions Special Issue: Science Fiction from China
The upcoming 2011 Fall issue of Renditions, a literary journal based in Hong Kong, will offer English readers a fine selection of translated Chinese scifi stories. For anyone interested in China, this special issue is a must-read.
