A monthly newsletter containing the latest important news from the world of Chinese science fiction, including new writing, film adaptations, cultural events, and scholarly developments will be compiled by the HTS (幻通社) and will form a starting point for publicizing Chinese science fiction. Launched in June, the newsletter will be published on the 20th of each month on the World Chinese-Language Science Fiction Research Workshop website. An English version will also be posted on Danwei.org.
Dun Wang(王敦), “The Late Qing’s Other Utopias: China’s Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910,” in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (Taipei, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University) 34.2 Special Issue “Asia and the Other” (September 2008): 37-62.
CFP--Chinese Science Fiction
AAS Annual Conference Panel, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011
Many researchers often have vague or contradictory place while using the concept of science fiction, it is because when science fiction introduced to China it was named "scientific romance"(Ke Xue Xiao Shuo). Therefore, from a genetic point of view, sorting out and restoring on the name of the birth of late Qing "scientific romance" and the process of development will be carried out urgently, very worthwhile and very meaningful.
This three-day conference—sponsored by the Eaton Collection of Science
Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature at the University of California, Riverside—proposes to examine the ways in which science fiction (SF) is a truly global phenomenon, crossing territorial, linguistic, and ideological boundaries in its imaginative engagement with the possibilities of the future. We are interested in papers that explore historical and contemporary SF in relation to processes of globalization, international social movements, universalist ideologies, multinational cultures, technoscientific networks, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, neo- and postcolonial politics, separatist and sovereignty movements, and more.
By studying the representative images of China in Chinese Science Fiction since 1990s, this thesis interprets the contemporary cultural appeal and explores the multifunction of SF in nation-state construction, specifically , its vital role in China’s modernization drive. It hopes to create a new field in SF interpretation.
