Article ID: CBB868932776

Chinese Science Fiction: Imported and Indigenous (2019)

unapi

The relation of science to science fiction in the history of Chinese science fiction has been closely linked to both the influence of Western science and to ideals of progress, nationalism, and empire. But when we turn to China’s long history of philosophical speculation, a rather different story needs to be told. This article examines the ways in which the indigenous Chinese sciences have fed into fiction, and considers the consequences for our understandings of the genre of science fiction itself and its broader social and historical contexts, as well as relationships between modernity, progress, and science in a non-Western, but globally crucial, context.

...More
Included in

Article Amanda Rees; Iwan Rhys Morus (2019) Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 1-15). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB868932776/

Similar Citations

Book F. James; R. Bud; M. Shiach; P. Greenhalgh; (2018)
Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century (/isis/citation/CBB441532378/)

Article Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra; (2018)
Bartolomé Inga’s Mining Technologies: Indians, Science, Cyphered Secrecy, and Modernity in the New World (/isis/citation/CBB962234774/)

Book Jing Jiang; (2021)
Found in Translation: "New People" in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction (/isis/citation/CBB709158853/)

Chapter Chun, Allen; (2012)
From Sinicization to Indigenization in the Social Sciences: Is That All There Is? (/isis/citation/CBB001202163/)

Chapter Jianmin, Wang; (2012)
Academic Universality and Indigenization: The Case of Chinese Anthropology (/isis/citation/CBB001202155/)

Chapter Chee-Beng, Tan; (2012)
Chinese of Different Nationalities, China, and the Anthropology of Chinese Culture (/isis/citation/CBB001202161/)

Chapter Yuhua, Guo; (2012)
Narratives of the “Sufferer” as Historical Testimony (/isis/citation/CBB001202166/)

Article Clayton, Jay; (2013)
The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman (/isis/citation/CBB001200682/)

Chapter Li, Guannan; (2012)
Cultural Policy and Culture under the Guomindang: Huang Wenshan and “Culturology” (/isis/citation/CBB001202158/)

Book Dirlik, Arif; Li, Guannan; Yen, Hsiao-pei; (2012)
Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism (/isis/citation/CBB001202153/)

Book Chen, Ruilin; (2012)
Renzhi yu pingjia: Kexue lilun yu shiyan de donglixue (shang xia ce) (/isis/citation/CBB001551369/)

Book Natania Meeker; Antónia Szabari; (2019)
Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (/isis/citation/CBB038984582/)

Article Frank Dikötter; Volker Roelcke; Heinz Schott; (2020)
The Discourse of Race in Modern China (/isis/citation/CBB339588073/)

Book Hillel J. Kieval; (2022)
Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle (/isis/citation/CBB196335991/)

Book Sabrina Ferri; (2015)
Ruins Past: Modernity in Italy, 1744-1836 (/isis/citation/CBB160123196/)

Authors & Contributors
Li, Guannan
Meeker, Natania
Szabari, Antónia
Ferri, Sabrina
Morag Shiach
Jiang, Jing
Concepts
Science and culture
Modernity
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Anthropology
Science fiction
Science and literature
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Modern
Early modern
19th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Places
China
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Americas
Spain
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment