eprintid: 10151125 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/11/25 datestamp: 2022-07-01 13:16:49 lastmod: 2022-07-05 09:55:57 status_changed: 2022-07-01 13:16:49 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151125/2/Lyu_%28Revision%20Accepted%29%20Demise%20of%20False%20Utopia%20-%20Chinas%20Post-socialist%20Transition%20in%20Han%20Songs%20Red%20Star%20over%20America%20%282000%29%20%20copy.pdf