Two Future Circles In Chinese Literature At The Turn Of The Century

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the late Qing Dynasty novels began to describe the future; Since a century past, Chinese literature in the late 20th century andearly 21st century presents us the writing of Doom Day and the future imagine. One hundred years ago, novelists in the late Qing Dynasty was trying to break away from "Lookback" literary tradition since ancient China and fabricated future story with strong appeal for country’s being prosperity.The huge gap between prosperity dream and poor reality in late Qing Dynasty is too difficult to be closed that created the unique novel narrative of this period. This China Renaissance prospect in "future perfect tense" is a completion remains to be done. After the 1990s, in both aspects of resisting invaders and national governance, the future writing in Chinese literature transformed "completion" into "model test", jumped out of the plight of late Qing Dynasty although concerns still remained. Individual in the future world also across the two periods at the turn of the century. When Utopian and dystopian literature works think of "de-private", they always begin with the smallest social unit-the family as the logical starting point. Depriving marriage rights of the individual, is questioned and deconstructed more frequently. another disputeabout individual is personal thought, to rule voice or to develop intelligence, the two opposite forces competed continuously in the past century. In the late 20th century and early 21st century, desire indulgence replaced body-mind captivity. However, reviewingthe unintentional prophecies in the novels of late Qing Dynasty, the soft, warm happiness avenue may leads to new slavery. Literature and epoch evolution in the past one hundred years, also echoes the cosmic space-time weexist. The technology infantilism in Chinese literature since late Qing Dynasty which lasts for more than half a century, turned to be the pessimistic attitude to sciencific technology and salvation willing by the end of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 21st century, represented by Liu Cixin’sscience f ictionsgo beyond anthropocentrism and concern about the decline and fall of the universe itself, being pessimistic and resolute, we could tell its fragile and noble civilizationcare.Along with historical evolution of one hundred years, the future worldpresented in Chinese literature casted exciting expectation away, guarded the value of a civilization heavily. In this process, rational spiritdeepening played as "sublation" role. At the same time, the literary imagination about the future world is waning.