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, [...]

Does anyone have access to a digital copy of the following book?   蔡元培 – 催眠術講義.  There appears to be a ~1906 version, and a 1921 reprint; either will do.  I am looking at the relationship between Japanese scholarship on Mesmerism and its translation into Chinese.  This is relevant to the work of 徐念慈.  The [...]

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 [...]