The Three-Body Problem, written by Liu Cixin, won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, with over 200,000 copies in English already sold. This gure is hundreds of times the average sales volume of Chinese novels in the ...The Three-Body Problem, written by Liu Cixin, won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, with over 200,000 copies in English already sold. This gure is hundreds of times the average sales volume of Chinese novels in the USA. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of overseas readers' comments on The Three-Body Problem posted on the online platforms of Goodreads and Amazon, this paper concludes that the novel's success overseas lies in its catering to the concerns of overseas readers. The ThreeBody Problem is popular among overseas readership thanks to its re ection on the ultimate existence of mankind, science ction vision & imagination, literary familiarity & identi cation, ideological di erence-triggered cultural curiosity, and a good translation. This paper attempts to interpret Liu Cixin's work on the map of world literature from the perspective of overseas readers' preferences to provide references for contemporary Chinese science ction creation and overseas reception.展开更多
As the global climate situation worsens and more scholars become aware of the existence and necessity of the climatic fiction,the shift in climate change writing not only connects the humanities with the natural scien...As the global climate situation worsens and more scholars become aware of the existence and necessity of the climatic fiction,the shift in climate change writing not only connects the humanities with the natural sciences,but also raises the public eye to a global perspective.With the purpose of humanistic care,Chinese and foreign novelists have captured the political contradictions and scientific and technological discussions caused by climate change,and created a large number of science fiction novels with climate change as the background.Chinese writer Liu Cixin and Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have used climate change as a background to write science fiction novels,expressing concerns about the environmental impact of climate change on human survival,and drawing human attention to climate change by comparing the similarities and differences between the two climate change writings.展开更多
This article explores Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin＇s 刘慈欣 novelette ＂The Poetry Cloud＂ （Shi yun, 1997） by contextualizing it within the debate between scientism and humanism in 1990s China, an even...This article explores Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin＇s 刘慈欣 novelette ＂The Poetry Cloud＂ （Shi yun, 1997） by contextualizing it within the debate between scientism and humanism in 1990s China, an event that has been downplayed in its significance in shaping Liu＇s ideas. The first section of this article will investigate how the narrative framework of science fiction represents and refreshes the symbolic meaning of poetry in the abovementioned context. Secondly, by analyzing the three main characters, Yiyi, Big-tooth, and Li Bai, with a focus on their perceptions of poetry, the next section will discuss the different opinions they represent with regard to the debate. Finally, by studying Liu＇s work in the context of Martin Heidegger＇s reflections upon technology, the last section examines his solution to the tension between scientism and humanism in the programming of a poetry cloud that marries poetic imagination with technological means. This article argues that the story demonstrates how Liu, a technological elite, vacillates between technological determinism and humanism, and tries to provide a possible solution to their inherent contradictions.展开更多
Compared with pure literature,Liu Cixin's science fiction novels show a high degree of novelty.Due to his creative accommodation of third world experience and the Chinese cultural spirit of the 1950-70s,he is able...Compared with pure literature,Liu Cixin's science fiction novels show a high degree of novelty.Due to his creative accommodation of third world experience and the Chinese cultural spirit of the 1950-70s,he is able to challenge the universal hegemony of the Enlightenment.The deep feelings of Liu Cixin's novels come from the"guerrilla"character of third world intellectuals who resisted colonization and guarded the country,a resistance derived from China's vanguard position in the third world independence movement.Liu Cixin's continuous writing of the story of weakness over power is not only a response to China's modern and contemporary situation,but also a borrowing from the revolutionary experience to imagine the possibility of another world for readers of thepost-revolutionary era.展开更多
This article examines Liu Cixin＇s ＂The Western Ocean＂ （Xiyan~, a story in which Liu satirizes Zheng He＇s voyages into the Indian Ocean and presents an alternate history of China from the fifteenth century to the ...This article examines Liu Cixin＇s ＂The Western Ocean＂ （Xiyan~, a story in which Liu satirizes Zheng He＇s voyages into the Indian Ocean and presents an alternate history of China from the fifteenth century to the present. The combination of China＇s imagined future and the historical memory of its past provides a political and social commentary on the Chinese narrative of ＂peaceful rise.＂ ＂The Western Ocean＂ is also a good example of how the subgenre of alternate history can become a tool for Chinese writers to tactfully express their concerns and criticism of contemporary world politics while strict restrictions on the media and internet, as well as self-censorship among PtLC intellectuals in general, still prevail in the country.展开更多
文摘The Three-Body Problem, written by Liu Cixin, won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, with over 200,000 copies in English already sold. This gure is hundreds of times the average sales volume of Chinese novels in the USA. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of overseas readers' comments on The Three-Body Problem posted on the online platforms of Goodreads and Amazon, this paper concludes that the novel's success overseas lies in its catering to the concerns of overseas readers. The ThreeBody Problem is popular among overseas readership thanks to its re ection on the ultimate existence of mankind, science ction vision & imagination, literary familiarity & identi cation, ideological di erence-triggered cultural curiosity, and a good translation. This paper attempts to interpret Liu Cixin's work on the map of world literature from the perspective of overseas readers' preferences to provide references for contemporary Chinese science ction creation and overseas reception.
基金primary achievement,supported by a grant from the Innovative Research Program of Wuhan University of Technology.
文摘As the global climate situation worsens and more scholars become aware of the existence and necessity of the climatic fiction,the shift in climate change writing not only connects the humanities with the natural sciences,but also raises the public eye to a global perspective.With the purpose of humanistic care,Chinese and foreign novelists have captured the political contradictions and scientific and technological discussions caused by climate change,and created a large number of science fiction novels with climate change as the background.Chinese writer Liu Cixin and Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have used climate change as a background to write science fiction novels,expressing concerns about the environmental impact of climate change on human survival,and drawing human attention to climate change by comparing the similarities and differences between the two climate change writings.
文摘This article explores Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin＇s 刘慈欣 novelette ＂The Poetry Cloud＂ （Shi yun, 1997） by contextualizing it within the debate between scientism and humanism in 1990s China, an event that has been downplayed in its significance in shaping Liu＇s ideas. The first section of this article will investigate how the narrative framework of science fiction represents and refreshes the symbolic meaning of poetry in the abovementioned context. Secondly, by analyzing the three main characters, Yiyi, Big-tooth, and Li Bai, with a focus on their perceptions of poetry, the next section will discuss the different opinions they represent with regard to the debate. Finally, by studying Liu＇s work in the context of Martin Heidegger＇s reflections upon technology, the last section examines his solution to the tension between scientism and humanism in the programming of a poetry cloud that marries poetic imagination with technological means. This article argues that the story demonstrates how Liu, a technological elite, vacillates between technological determinism and humanism, and tries to provide a possible solution to their inherent contradictions.
文摘Compared with pure literature,Liu Cixin's science fiction novels show a high degree of novelty.Due to his creative accommodation of third world experience and the Chinese cultural spirit of the 1950-70s,he is able to challenge the universal hegemony of the Enlightenment.The deep feelings of Liu Cixin's novels come from the"guerrilla"character of third world intellectuals who resisted colonization and guarded the country,a resistance derived from China's vanguard position in the third world independence movement.Liu Cixin's continuous writing of the story of weakness over power is not only a response to China's modern and contemporary situation,but also a borrowing from the revolutionary experience to imagine the possibility of another world for readers of thepost-revolutionary era.
文摘This article examines Liu Cixin＇s ＂The Western Ocean＂ （Xiyan~, a story in which Liu satirizes Zheng He＇s voyages into the Indian Ocean and presents an alternate history of China from the fifteenth century to the present. The combination of China＇s imagined future and the historical memory of its past provides a political and social commentary on the Chinese narrative of ＂peaceful rise.＂ ＂The Western Ocean＂ is also a good example of how the subgenre of alternate history can become a tool for Chinese writers to tactfully express their concerns and criticism of contemporary world politics while strict restrictions on the media and internet, as well as self-censorship among PtLC intellectuals in general, still prevail in the country.
