MCLC: Science Fiction Studies special issue

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Mingwei Song <msong2 at wellesley.edu>
Subject: Science Fiction Studies special issue
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Dear MCLC list members:

Science Fiction Studies is going to publish a special issue (40:1) which
focuses on Chinese science fiction. The special issue is co-edited by Wu
Yan and Veronica Hollinger. It features two essays by Han Song and Liu
Cixin, two of the most influential sf writers in China today. Seven
research papers examine various aspects of Chinese science fiction from
its inception in late Qing to the genre's contemporary revival.

The special issue's web link is

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov119.html

The journal's content is accessible through JSTOR.

Here is the table of content:

Science Fiction Studies
#119 = Volume 40, Part 1 = March 2013
 
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ARTICLES
SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION (Edited by Yan Wu and Veronica
Hollinger)

Yan Wu. “Great Wall Planet”: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction

Han Song. Chinese Science Fiction: A Response to Modernization

Liu Cixin. Beyond Narcissism: What Science Fiction Can Offer Literature

Nathaniel Isaacson. Science Fiction for the Nation: Tales of the Moon
Colony and the Birth of Modern Chinese Fiction

Shaoling Ma. “A Tale of New Mr. Braggadocio”: Narrative Subjectivity and
Brain Electricity in Late Qing Science Fiction

Lisa Raphals. Alterity and Alien Contact in Lao She’s Martian Dystopia,
Cat Country

Mingwei Song. Variations on Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Jia Liyuan. Gloomy China: China’s Image in Han Song’s Science Fiction

Qian Jiang. Translation and the Development of Science Fiction in
Twentieth-Century China

Wei Yang. Voyage into an Unknown Future: A Genre Analysis of Chinese SF
Film in the New Millennium