Overview
- Discusses the recent history of Chinese science fiction and its relationship to global science fiction
- Examines the literary reception of Liu Cixin’s fiction in English
- Studies utopian and dystopian themes in Chinese science fiction
Part of the book series: Studies in Global Science Fiction (SGSF)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy examines Liu Cixin’s acclaimed trilogy, a Chinese science fiction epic whose translation is exceedingly popular in the Western world. Will Peyton argues that the ingenuity of Liu’s writing is found in its conscious engagement with translated Western fiction rather than, as one might expect, in Chinese language science fiction of the past. The book illustrates how contemporary Chinese fiction, since the economic opening of China in the late 1980s, is deeply and complexly influenced by various strains in Western literary and intellectual thought, an area that scholars of Chinese literature have tended to neglect. Providing a lucid and succinct close-reading and textual analysis of Three Body trilogy, the book also makes reference to broader ideas and themes in modern Chinese and Western intellectual history.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Will Peyton is an Independent Scholar and completed a PhD in Chinese and Comparative Literature at the Australian National University and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library in Taiwan. His other work is featured in The International History Review and The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy
Authors: Will Peyton
Series Title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79315-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79314-2Published: 31 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79315-9Published: 30 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2569-8826
Series E-ISSN: 2569-8834
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 156
Topics: Asian Literature, Literature, general, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Popular Culture , History of China