Mingwei Song
Biographic Data
| ID | 4812577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mingwei Song |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mingwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Song |
| SIGNATURE | SONG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social Anthropology Cambridge University CambridgeCB2 3RFUnited Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9633-0201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fear of Seeing
Fear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction’s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital.
A Topology of Hope
This essay investigates how utopian thinking met with dystopian variations in contemporary Chinese science fiction. The dystopian gaze into the utopian dreams, the alternative histories contending with the utopian narratives, and the heterotopian experiments challenging ideological orthodoxy are the focus of my analysis. Reading the dystopian fiction by Chan Koonchung and science fiction stories and novels by Han Song, Bao Shu and Hao Jingfang et…
Youth in a viral age
Young China
After 1989
This paper examines the new wave of Chinese science fiction as both a subversion and variation of the genre’s utopianism of the earlier age. Wang Jinkang’s Ant Life (2007), Liu Cixin’s China 2185 (1989), the Three-Body Trilogy (2006-2010), and the short story “The Micro-Era” (1999) are the main texts this paper studies. Their reflections on utopianism speak to the post-1989 changing intellectual culture and political economy. This paper argues th…
Variations on Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
Variations on Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
After 1989
This paper examines the new wave of Chinese science fiction as both a subversion and variation of the genre’s utopianism of the earlier age. Wang Jinkang’s Ant Life (2007), Liu Cixin’s China 2185 (1989), the Three-Body Trilogy (2006-2010), and the short story “The Micro-Era” (1999) are the main texts this paper studies. Their reflections on utopianism speak to the post-1989 changing intellectual culture and political economy. This paper argues th…
Young China
Youth in a viral age
A Topology of Hope
This essay investigates how utopian thinking met with dystopian variations in contemporary Chinese science fiction. The dystopian gaze into the utopian dreams, the alternative histories contending with the utopian narratives, and the heterotopian experiments challenging ideological orthodoxy are the focus of my analysis. Reading the dystopian fiction by Chan Koonchung and science fiction stories and novels by Han Song, Bao Shu and Hao Jingfang et…
Fear of Seeing
Fear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction’s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital.
Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · China (2 works) · Dystopia (2 works)