Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction

by Mingwei Song

Winner, 2023 SFRA Book Award, Science Fiction Research Association

A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China's new era, speaking to a future filled with uncertainties. Deeply entangled with the politics and culture of a changing China, contemporary science fiction has also attracted a growing global readership...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231204434
• ISBN13: 9780231204439
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"