TY  - JOUR
TI  - Demise of the False Utopia: China's Post-socialist Transition in Han Song's Red Star Over America
SN  - 2327-6207
AV  - public
IS  - 1
EP  - 119
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
Y1  - 2022/03//
N2  - The eeriness in Han Song's stories has made him a unique writer in the New Wave of Chinese science fiction. His "eerie" writings blend the imageries of utopia and dystopia, blurring the boundaries between "good" and "bad" places and creating a new form of utopianism that can account for the rapid social transition in China since the 1990s. This essay focuses on one of Han Song's earlier novels, Red Star over America (2000), and interrogates the seemingly utopian China, governed by the omnipotent artificial intelligence Amanduo, through the lens of Moylan's "critical utopia" and Bakhtin's "adventure chronotope." The collapse of Amanduo reflects the decline of "top-down" elitist discourse in China, developed during the New Enlightenment of the 1980s. Han's protagonist's hesitant journey in the post-Amanduo world in search of a new order represents China's ideological transition during the post-socialist era.
ID  - discovery10151125
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0007
VL  - 49
SP  - 100
JF  - Science Fiction Studies
A1  - Guangzhao, Lyu
PB  - Project Muse
ER  -