{"product_id":"fear-of-seeing-9780231204422","title":"Fear of Seeing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eFear of Seeing,\u003c\/i\u003e Mingwei Song opens our eyes to a brave new world of Chinese science fiction. It is a book that simultaneously celebrates the genre’s literary audacity, explores its innovative vision of the future, and reveals the uncanny horror hidden beneath its surface. -- Michael Berry, translator of \u003ci\u003eExorcism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSong has written the most critically significant and astonishingly revelatory account of the rise of new wave Chinese SF.  Brilliant scholarship like this appears once in a lifetime, if we’re lucky. -- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear of Seeing \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the paradoxical significance of the “new wave” of Chinese science fiction as a genre whose aesthetics and ethics offer their audience an alternative window on the cultural sphere: a window upon that which is unknown, uncertain, or otherwise hidden. -- Nathaniel Isaacson, author of \u003ci\u003eCelestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is remarkably visionary and insightful scholarship on Chinese New Wave science fiction from the late 1990s to 2020s. Song’s panoramic yet in-depth analysis of various New Wave sf works is exceptionally informative. His theoretical exploration of the Neo-Baroque poetics in Chinese SF is thoroughgoing and inspiring. -- Hua Li, author of \u003ci\u003eChinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a near-encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary Chinese-language SF literature, combined with long-standing friendships with many of the corresponding authors, Song’s \u003ci\u003eFear of Seeing \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a provocative new look at this dynamic emerging field, while also examining how a dialectics of sight and blindness runs through the genre itself. -- Carlos Rojas, author of \u003ci\u003eHomesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMingwei Song has written the definitive book on contemporary Chinese science fiction. From space odyssey to dystopian adventure, galactic cataclysm to millennial apocalypse, Song probes why science fiction matters so much for how we engage with—and imagine—China’s future and past, and offers observations on speculative poetics at the planetary scale. A groundbreaking work! -- David Der-wei Wang, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Fiction Matters in Contemporary China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: A Lonely Hidden Army, 2010\u003cbr\u003e1. Poetics of the Invisible: Introducing the New Wave\u003cbr\u003e2. Science Fiction as Method: Worlding the Genre\u003cbr\u003e3. Can We Read “A Madman’s Diary” as Science Fiction? Rewriting Literary History\u003cbr\u003eExcursus I: Looking Backward: 2010–1900\u003cbr\u003e4. A Poetic Heart in the Dark Forest: Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Universe\u003cbr\u003e5. The Power of Darkness in Han Song: Mythology of the Chthonic\u003cbr\u003e6. Variations on Utopia: Specters and Myths\u003cbr\u003e7. A Topology of Hope: Sinotopia and Heterotopia\u003cbr\u003e8. Chinese New Wave Goes Global: The Posthuman Turn\u003cbr\u003eExcursus II: The Rise of She-SF: 2010–2022\u003cbr\u003e9. New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: Opening of the Neo-Baroque\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Wandering Earth, 2019\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400365973847,"sku":"9780231204422","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231204422.jpg?v=1730470506","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fear-of-seeing-9780231204422","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}