The Political Imagination in Liu Cixin's Critical Utopia: China 2185.
This article focuses on contemporary Chinese science fiction, specifically the political elements in Liu Cixin's (b.1963) critical utopian novel China 2185 [Zhongguo 2185], written in 1989 against the social and political background of China in the 1980s. I analyze China 2185 at the "iconic level,"...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 519 - 541 |
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University of California Press
Nov2015
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