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 [...]
David Der-wei Wang, one of today's most renowned scholar of modern Chinese literature, has delivered a thoughtful and inspiring speech on Chinese science fiction to date.
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.”
