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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494563303321

Autore

Peyton Will

Titolo

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin's Three Body Trilogy / / by Will Peyton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030793159

303079315X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Collana

Studies in Global Science Fiction, , 2569-8834

Disciplina

895.1352

895.136

Soggetti

Oriental literature

Literature

Comparative literature

Ecocriticism

Popular culture

China - History

Asian Literature

World Literature

Comparative Literature

Popular Culture

History of China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Humanism through Scientism -- Chapter 3: Utopia through History -- Chapter 4: Afterword. .

Sommario/riassunto

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.