Chinese Science Fiction (eBook) von Mingwei Song

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Kang Youwei’s Book of the Heavens and the Porous Epistemological Grounds of Early-modern Chinese Science Fiction.- Chapter 3. Intelligent Humanoid Machines: Imaginations of Physical and Mental Transformation in late Qing Literature and Their Intellectual Origins.- Chapter 4. The King of Electricity from China: Science, Technology, and the Vision of World Order in Late Qing China.- Chapter 5. Formal Fictions: “Chinese” “Science” “Fiction” in Translation.- Chapter 6. The Writing Editors: Late Qing and Republican Media Professionals as Authors of Science Fiction.- Chapter 7.  Projecting Eco-Futures: Cinematic Visions of Utopian Science and Ecology from the Mao Era to the Deng Era.- Chapter 8. Information, the Body, and Humanism in the Chinese Cyber NovelForty Millennia of Authenticity Cultivation.- Chapter 9. Open Up Your Brain Hole: Spatial Imaginaries in Chinese Online Science Fiction.- Chapter 10. Of Illness and Illusion: The Chaosmology of Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy.- Chapter 11. Liu Cixin and the Cosmic Pastoral.- Chapter 12. Bodies in Transformation: The Politics of Post-80s Science Fiction Authors Chi Hui, Chen Qiufan, and Zhang Ran.- Chapter 13. The Posthuman and the Neo-Baroque in Taiwan Science Fiction