FOW063 – Chinese Science Fiction (with Virginia Conn) [EN]

Guest: Dr Virginia Conn Website Twitter SFRA Review, which she edits Shownotes WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for »Pacific Rim 2« Darko Suvin »Little Smartie Travels to the Future« bv Ye Yonglie Translations by Lena Henningsen et al and Nick Stember Cultural Revolution Great Leap Forward Lu Xun May 4th Movement Liang Qichao 1989: Song Mingwei 1991: Science Fiction Convention Magazine »Science Fiction World« 科幻世界 »Three Body Problem« by Liu Cixin »Folding Beijing« by Hao Jingfang Scar literature »Invisible Planets« and »Broken Stars«, two collections of Chinese Sci-Fi edited and translated by Ken Liu »Vagabonds« by Hao Jingfang »Wandering Earth« by Liu Cixin (also a movie on Netflix) »The Fat Years« by Chan Koonchung Techno-orientalism FOW045 – Mythbusting China’s Social Credit System Ning Ken’s »the ultra unreal« Book recommendations »Three Body Problem« trilogy by Cixin Liu German title: »Die Drei Sonnen« (2016, 2018, 2019) »Folding Beijing« and »Vagabonds« by Hao Jingfang German titles: »Peking falten« (2017), »Wandernde Himmel« (2018) »Waste Tide« by Chen Qiufan/Stanley Chen German Title: »Die Siliziuminsel« (2019) more recent publication on AI: »AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future« with Kai-fu Lee, read her review the LA Review of Books to find out what Virginia thinks about it Xia Jia in German: u.a. in »Kapsel: Fantastische Geschichten aus China. Band 2: In den Wolken« »Invisible Planets« and »Broken Stars«, two collections edited and translated by Ken Liu »Sinopticon«, edited by Christina Xueting Ni (publication date: November 2021) »The Way Spring arrives«, (publication date: March 2022) For listeners in the US, we recommend finding and supporting your local indie book store if you want to buy any of these books, e.g. using https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder For listerners in Germany: Wo kaufen? Beim Science-Fiction-Buchladen unseres Vertrauens: Otherland in Berlin. Abholung in Berlin oder Lieferungen in ganz Deutschland: Otherland Buchladen in Berlin Tel: 030-69 50 51 17 E-Mail: [email protected] Instagram Facebook Photo: Uroš Novina, CC BY 2.0, no changes made