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The Imaginations About China And The Vision Of Future

Posted on:2017-08-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330485992604Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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As the leader of China New Generation science fiction writers, when Liu Cixin first published one of his novels in journal Science Fiction World, he soon attracted the attention of readers and made more and more influence on them, also, Liu Cixin's writing on science fiction are becoming more sophisticated at the same time. During years 2006 to 2010, Liu Cixin finished The Three-Body Problem series:The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, The Dead End, which was also called Once Upon The Earth Story series. This series obtained a lot of fans, and was also attractive to the readers outside the circle of science fition, which has caused heated debate. In August 2015, Liu Cixin was awarded the 73th Hugo Award for Best Novel for his book, The Three-Body Problem.This paper is about the study of Liu's The Three-Body Problem series, the study will put the work in the development of the science fiction of China, and combine with the background of globalization, take China experience as the starting point and the foothold, which will help us realize the complex and multivariate of this work, and dig up the potential power in the end.There are six main parts in this paper. The first chapter is also the introduction part, the author will put forward the main research problems and the research methods after giving a briefly review on researches about Liu Cixin and his The Three-Body Problem series. The relationship between Liu Cixin and China science fiction literature will be discussed in the second part. The writer will draw the outline of the development of China science fiction literature in about one hundred years firstly, point out the new face of the China New Generation science fiction and anaylse its colse ties with the 1990's, then recommend Liu Cixin, the representative writer of China New Generation science fiction literature. In the third part, the author will explore the strong consciousness of China experience which was reflected in The Three-Body Problem series from three aspects, one is about the Cultural Revolution, as the story starting point, one is to take this work as national fable of Third World Countries, another one is to find out the straits of Chinese heroes by selecting and analysing four Chinese characters in the work. The Cultural Awareness will be put forward in the fourth chapter, and this chapter will focus on The Three-Body Problem series'transcendence of the Modern Individual and the Tiny Time, as well as the subtle relationship between this work and The Chinese Dream. In the fifth chapter, the analysis of the Utopia spirit in The Three-Body Problem series will be gave. The author will use Michel Foucault's concept Heterotopias as a method to observe and comprehend this work, then indicate that there always exists the immortal Utopia impulse in the science fiction literature, through which we can look expectantly toward a new vision and new future imagination. Finally is the ending part, is the summary and reflection.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin, China science fiction literature, China experience, cultural awareness, Utopia impulse
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