Guangzhao Lyu

The Boom & The Boom (eBook, PDF)

Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

This book compares the recent science fiction renaissances in the UK and China, known as the British and Chinese SF Booms, which emerged in the late 1980s. Emphasizing the «local» rather than the «global», the book interrogates how SF writers in the UK and China respond to specific sociopolitical conditions in their respective regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781803742335
• Artikelnr.: 72244907

Autorenporträt

LYU Guangzhao is a lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University, Shanghai. He completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at University College London and received the «Support a New Scholar» grant (2021-2022) sponsored by Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Mapping the Field: The Boom and the Boom - The Ones Who Walk Away: Disrupted Utopias in Han Song's Red Star Over America and Iain M. Banks's Culture Series - What's Past Is Prologue: Historical Rupture in Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds and Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution Quartet - Long Live the Vampire: Exploitive Heterotopias in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station and Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide - From Consumption to Prosumption: Spectacle of Political Economy in James Lovegrove's Days and Long Yi's Earth Province - Past the Point of No Return: Economization and Deterritorialization in Liu Cixin's Three-Body Trilogy and M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy - Epilogue: A Confession of Breach.