eprintid: 10151125
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creators_name: Guangzhao, Lyu
title: Demise of the False Utopia: China's Post-socialist Transition in Han Song's Red Star Over America
ispublished: pub
divisions: C01
divisions: J42
divisions: B03
divisions: UCL
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: 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.
date: 2022-03
date_type: published
publisher: Project Muse
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0007
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1943260
doi: 10.1353/sfs.2022.0007
lyricists_name: Lyu, Guangzhao
lyricists_id: GLYUX15
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Science Fiction Studies
volume: 49
number: 1
pagerange: 100-119
issn: 2327-6207
citation:        Guangzhao, Lyu;      (2022)    Demise of the False Utopia: China's Post-socialist Transition in Han Song's Red Star Over America.                   Science Fiction Studies , 49  (1)   pp. 100-119.    10.1353/sfs.2022.0007 <https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0007>.       Green open access   
 
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