- 任冬梅
重庆人。上海华东师范大学文学学士，北京师范大学文学硕士（中国现当代文学专业），即将成为北京师范大学文学院博士生。从小爱好科幻。本科期间开始进行晚清科幻小说研究，撰写多篇论文。硕士毕业论文《1902-1912：“科学小说”命名及其背后的意义》从发生学的角度对晚清“科学小说”进行了全面系统地梳理。 学术兴趣：晚清文学、中国科幻文学、科幻文学与文化等等。
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Normal University. M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (BNU, 2010). BA in Chinese Literature (East China Normal University, 2007). She is a big sci-fi fan. She began to research on late Qing science fiction since she was a college student at ECNU. Her master’s thesis is "1902-1912: Naming of ‘Scientific Romance’ and the Meaning Behind." It sorted out late Qing scientific romance from a generic point of view. Academic interests: late Qing literature, Chinese science fiction, world science fiction and culture.
Surprise in Taiwanese Science Fiction Authors Vote The Taiwanese Mao Chang launched a vote for the “Most Loved Science Fiction Author” with twenty Chinese language authors and thirty in foreign languages. The number of people voting for Chinese language authors and Chinese authors on the list are clearly few, showing the weakness of Chinese science [...]
In 2012 Mainland China will produce two hundred Science Fiction Books According to statistics from the Chinese Science Fiction Industry Website, continuing after the high tide of science fiction publishing in 2010, in 2012 more than ten publishing houses will be putting out their own science fiction books. Academic texts on science fiction will set [...]
First WCSFA Congress, 2nd XINGYUN Awards At the first congress of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association, association president Wu Yan outlined the state of the WCSFA: membership is over ninety and includes members from all regions across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, [...]
Non-Fiction But Some of Us are Looking at the Stars by Kun Kun, translated by Lucy Johnston (Chutzpah Magazine) http://en.chutzpahmagazine.com.cn/EnNewDetails.aspx?id=116 A nice profile of Chinese SF and its key figures. China Daily on Han Song http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2011-03/18/content_12192254.htm China Daily on Liu Cixin http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-12/17/content_11715438.htm http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-12/17/content_11716724.htm Interview with Zhao Haihong http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2010/05/03/zhao-haihong-interview/ Science Fiction in China, by Wu Yan [...]
The Dragon and the Stars has won the Aurora Award for Best Related Work in English. The Aurora Award is Canada’s national science fiction award, decided by voting of Canadian science fiction readers. This is probably the first time that a Chinese-theme science fiction and fantasy theme anthology has won a national award outside China.
Second XINGYUN Awards The list of presenters for the World Chinese Science Fiction Association XINGYUN Awards includes Yan Feng, Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, Liu Xingshi, Wang Xiaoda, Wu Yan, Yang Ping, Yan Peng, Xi Xia, Han Song, He Xi, Guo Yuefang, Zheng Jun, Li Wuxun (from Taiwan), Gu Bei, Hu Hu, Siu Yuen (from Hong [...]
Second XINGYUN Awards The Second XINGYUN Awards closed nominations on August 16 and commenced the voting phase on September 1. To increase exposure, voting is taking place on three websites. The awards will also conduct a “XINGYUN Forum” around the theme “Chinese SF in the Three Body Era.” A new mobile platform has been made [...]
Yazhou Zhoukan Publishes Chinese SF Feature
The winners of the 2010 Galaxy awards were announced in the July edition of Science Fiction World.
At Peking University on May 17, Professor David Wang Der-Wei presented a lecture entitled “Utopias, Dystopias, and Heterotopias: From Lu Xun to Liu Cixin.”
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