Titlebook: Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy; Will Peyton Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Auth

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05033-5se science fiction through the post-Mao period and the problem of the categorization of the genre. In understanding Liu Cixin as a literary figure influenced by a set of Western writers, the author proposes a translingual and transcultural approach to reading ..

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05033-5 able to capture grand ethical questions at the scale of the human species. In classifying Liu’s worldview as one that conforms with scientism, a persistent ideological current in modern Chinese intellectual history, we begin an exegesis of scenes from the first volume of the trilogy, ., in which th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05033-5r not to be,” an idea that conceptually bookends the overall trilogy, also exploring the role of human agency in Earth’s attempts to defend itself from invasion, which contains an implicit anthropocentrism, or humanism, that is counter to Liu Cixin’s scientistic worldview. This chapter discusses the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05033-5o make his narrative a convincing historicized illustration of the future. This chapter considers the use of historical deixis and realist aesthetics, through which Liu tries to enumerate a concrete reality of Earth’s future using the intertextuality of real and imaginary past events, as well as fic

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02355-3articular pieces of microfiction, for Liu, capture the utopian impulse of Chinese sf, something distinct from Western sf. This utopian thinking manifests in detailed descriptions of technological invention and adaptation. This technological adaptation to overcome constraints imposed by physical natu

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