Unlocking the Future
The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 8 October 2024
- ISBN 9781032483474
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages188 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 300 g
- Language English 652
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Short description:
The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future.
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The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future.
The author argues that ?the future? is a set of directional and normative ideas that forms the basis of the entire social mobilization mechanism in China, while the capacity to imagine the future is likely to be produced in response to the present challenges. By discussing the urban space, the reconstruction of time, the infrastructure, and concepts of the 'urban-rural' and civilization in contemporary Chinese science fiction, she demonstrates how contemporary Chinese sci-fi may offer potential solutions to ways of ?unlocking? the future. In addition, she also points out the limitations of Chinese society?s imaginative vision of the future.
The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of modern Chinese literature, science fiction studies, urban studies, or cultural studies.
MoreTable of Contents:
1 The Divided City: Imagining the Urban in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction 2 Time as Variation: "China Speed" and Synchronic Illusions 3 ?Urban Malaise? and the New Infrastructures of City Life 4 When the Future Gazes at Urban?Rural Relations in China 5 Alternative ?Civilizations? 6 Unlocking the Future: Characterizing "Hope" in Contemporary Chinese Society
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