Chinese and Western literary influence in Liu Cixin's Three body trilogy / Will Peyton.
2021
PL2947.C59
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Chinese and Western literary influence in Liu Cixin's Three body trilogy / Will Peyton.
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9783030793159 (electronic bk.)
303079315X (electronic bk.)
3030793141
9783030793142
303079315X (electronic bk.)
3030793141
9783030793142
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-79315-9 doi
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PL2947.C59
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895.136
Summary
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.
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Palgrave pivot.
Studies in global science fiction, 2569-8826
Studies in global science fiction, 2569-8826
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Humanism through Scientism
Chapter 3: Utopia through History
Chapter 4: Afterword.
Chapter 2: Humanism through Scientism
Chapter 3: Utopia through History
Chapter 4: Afterword.