FOW063 – Chinese Science Fiction (with Virginia Conn) [EN]

Guest: Dr Virginia Conn

• Website
• Twitter
• SFRA Review, which she edits

Shownotes

WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for »Pacific Rim 2«

• Darko Suvin
• »Little Smartie Travels to the Future« bv Ye Yonglie
  • Translations by Lena Henningsen et al and Nick Stember
• Cultural Revolution
• Great Leap Forward
• Lu Xun
• May 4th Movement
• Liang Qichao
• 1989: Song Mingwei
• 1991: Science Fiction Convention
• Magazine »Science Fiction World« 科幻世界
• »Three Body Problem« by Liu Cixin
• »Folding Beijing« by Hao Jingfang
• Scar literature
• »Invisible Planets« and »Broken Stars«, two collections of Chinese Sci-Fi edited and translated by Ken Liu
• »Vagabonds« by Hao Jingfang
• »Wandering Earth« by Liu Cixin (also a movie on Netflix)
• »The Fat Years« by Chan Koonchung
• Techno-orientalism
• FOW045 – Mythbusting China’s Social Credit System
• Ning Ken’s »the ultra unreal«

Book recommendations

• »Three Body Problem« trilogy by Cixin Liu
  • German title: »Die Drei Sonnen« (2016, 2018, 2019)
• »Folding Beijing« and »Vagabonds« by Hao Jingfang
  • German titles: »Peking falten« (2017), »Wandernde Himmel« (2018)
• »Waste Tide« by Chen Qiufan/Stanley Chen
  • German Title: »Die Siliziuminsel« (2019)
  • more recent publication on AI: »AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future« with Kai-fu Lee, read her review the LA Review of Books to find out what Virginia thinks about it
• Xia Jia
  • in German: u.a. in »Kapsel: Fantastische Geschichten aus China. Band 2: In den Wolken«
• »Invisible Planets« and »Broken Stars«, two collections edited and translated by Ken Liu
• »Sinopticon«, edited by Christina Xueting Ni (publication date: November 2021)
• »The Way Spring arrives«, (publication date: March 2022)

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