Double Variation Of Science And Humanity In Liu Cixin’s Science Fiction

Liu Cixin is a leader in the field of science fiction in China. His novels are full of rich hierarchy, deep connotation, reasoning and contradiction. Different from other writers’cold rational scientific worlds, the scientific world created by Liu Cixin is enriched with poetry and emotions. His vivid descriptions show to us a lot of great cosmic scenes of vast universe, with vibrant nature, and surprisingly advanced technology, and thus shocked readers’mind. Based on the knowledge of the universe’s vastness and deepness, he deeply felt the insignificance of human beings, however, he created a large number of great "heroes" willing to devoted themselves to science and technology. And the contrast between the ideal and reality of those little figures reflects sublime. He expresses a strong humanistic concern through the critique and reflection about science and humanity.In the introduction part, I will emphasize the value and significance of Liu Cinxin’s novels, by clarifying the development process of Chinese science fiction, and summarizing the research paper of him in recent years.The first chapter will analyze the poetic depiction of cosmic level scene, as well as the lyrical expression about universe, nature, technology in Liu Cixin’s novels, which exhibited his unique scientific pursuit of beauty. Liu Cixin is adept in describing the scientific object with literature language, which is better for readers to understand his opinion. And his portrayal of the whole human image shows his efforts to grasp the "universality" of human beings.The second chapter is about the Humanistic Concern in Liu Cinxin’s novels. Although he holds the position of "anti-anthropocentrism", but still displays a kind of praise and pursuit for the noble spirit of mankind in essence. He thinks human should be respected with a sense of reverent awe on the universe.Everything is possible in the science fiction world. The third chapter explores the double variation of science and humanity in Liu Cixin’s novels. He is willing to put the social mainstream values into a new scientific world he created, which makes him speculative.The fourth chapter is about the reasons of the variation, including the experience, accumulation of reading, view of values and the special era background.The last part is about the aesthetic value of Liu Cixin’s novels.