Guest: Dr Virginia Conn
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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Devid
Thank you for this episode!
(yes i’am late)