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Unlocking the Future The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
By Luo Xiaoming
Copyright 2023
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future.
The author argues that ‘the future’ is a set of directional and normative ideas that forms the basis of the entire social mobilization mechanism in China, while the capacity to imagine the future is likely to be produced in response to... Read more
1 The Divided City: Imagining the Urban in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction 2 Time as Variation: "China Speed" and Synchronic Illusions 3 ‘Urban Malaise’ and the New Infrastructures of City Life 4 When the Future Gazes at Urban–Rural Relations in China 5 Alternative ‘Civilizations’ 6 Unlocking the Future: Characterizing "Hope" in Contemporary Chinese Society
Biography
Luo Xiaoming is an associate professor working in the Program in Cultural Studies of Shanghai University. Her research interests are urban culture, social space in everyday life, and contemporary Chinese science fiction. She is also the chief editor of the online journal Refeng Xueshu (2017–2021).
