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Planar War
How will future wars be fought, in what spaces, and which countries will have the capability to engage in such wars? These are the questions that people are most curious about and explore the most. The First and Second World Wars are distant from us, but will a Third World War really happen? There are reports suggesting that Hawking predicted the timing of the Third World War, roughly around 2035. Will Hawking's prediction of the Third World War come true? Science fiction writers have always had many imaginative ideas about future wars. What kind of sparks can be generated from the collision of science fiction and military concepts? "Two-Dimensional Warfare" collects science fiction stories ...
Pathological
On the surface, the life of young scientist Mei Yin seems perfect. She runs her own research institute in China, she's getting married, and she founded an orphanage that helps hundreds of girls. But Mei Yin has a dark secret--three vials of "Satan's gift," a deadly smallpox virus left over from Russian scientific research conducted during the Cold War. She's determined to find a vaccine, even if that means endangering those she holds dear. Zia Baj, a terrorist educated in the West, has also obtained Satan's gift. But he's not looking for a cure--instead, he plans to exact revenge and start a war. So he unleashes the virus in an American classroom. At the same time, thousands of miles away, the children of Mei Yin's orphanage fall ill. Soon authorities realize that this is no ordinary outbreak: it's the start of an epidemic. How are the two cases linked? And can a worldwide pandemic be stopped? From award-winning Chinese author Wang Jinkang comes a terrifying look at the future of war.
Sinopticon
This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th Century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni. From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City, and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all fans of great fiction. Award winners, bestsellers, screenwriters, playwrights, philosophers, university lecturers and computer programmers, these thirteen writers represent the breadth of Chinese SF, from new to old: Gu Shi, Han Song, Hao Jingfang, Nian Yu, Wang Jinkang, Zhao Haihong, Tang Fei, Ma Boyong, Anna Wu, A Que, Bao Shu, Regina Kanyu Wang and Jiang Bo.
Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)
If you love the mission of science fiction, the interchange between cultures, the hopeful and inexorable trajectory of technology and ideas, you'll love this anthology of new stories from Chinese and English-language writers. An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are brought together to demonstrate that technology and humanity when they work together bring challenges, joy and benefits to all of humankind. From Bao Shu comes 'A Trip to the End', from Allen Stroud 'The First', from He Xi 'Never Meet Again in Life', from Amdi Silvestri 'A Minuet of Corpses' and under the guiding eye of Patrick Parrinder (President of the H.G. Wells society) and Yao Haijun (celebrated editor of Science Fiction World in China) thirteen authors create a series of worlds which will enthral and entertain.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures
With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.
Global Healing
Read an interview with Karen Thornber. In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities. Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19. Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.
Fear of Seeing
Winner, 2023 SFRA Book Award, Science Fiction Research Association A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China’s new era, speaking to a future filled with uncertainties. Deeply entangled with the politics and culture of a changing China, contemporary science fiction has also attracted a growing global readership. Fear of Seeing traces the new wave’s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital. Mingwei Song argues that recent Chinese science fiction is united by a cap...
Quantenträume
Eine Sprachwissenschaftlerin wird mitten in der Nacht angerufen. Die neueste Entwicklung auf dem Spielzeugmarkt, ein Plüsch-Seehund mit KI, hat offenbar eine eigene, für Menschen unverständliche Sprache entwickelt ... Ein König liebt nichts so sehr, wie neuen Geschichten zu lauschen. Doch irgendwann hat er alles gehört, was es zu erzählen gibt – und so lässt er kurzerhand einen Geschichtenroboter bauen ... Das Spektrum an Ideen, die fünfzehn der berühmtesten chinesischen Science-Fiction-Autorinnen und -Autoren in diesem Sammelband ausbreiten, zeigt auf beeindruckende Weise, wie einfallsreich und innovativ man sich in China mit dem Thema Künstliche Intelligenz auseinandersetzt.
Everybody Loves Charles
"Everybody Loves Charles" is one of the selected works in the Nebula Award-winning collection. The content primarily includes "Everybody Loves Charles" by Baoshu, "Jinling Twelve Districts" by Gui Gongzi, "I tell my grandfather's story" by AQue, among other works. The titular novella "Everyone Loves Charles" tells the story of a young man named Zhiren, who becomes increasingly addicted to his virtual identity as "Charles," struggling between reality and the virtual world.
