Twenty-First Century Competencies in the Chinese Science Curriculum

Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Jari Lavonen ◽  
Kirsi Tirri
2018 ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Mingwei Song

This chapter introduces the life and work of Liu Cixin, a Chinese science-fiction writer who has played a major role in reviving the genre in twenty-first-century China. The chapter discusses Liu’s work in the context of the genre’s history in China. Liu and other writers belonging to the same generation have created a new wave, in which the genre has gained unprecedented popularity in China. The main part of the chapter analyzes several major works by Liu and attempts to theorize the aesthetics and politics of the new wave as represented in Liu’s stories and novels. The new wave makes visible the hidden dimensions of Chinese science fiction, together with the darker side of reality that it speaks to.


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