Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my wonderful and supportive wife, Kaori Isaacson, and our two children, Kenzo and Karina, for their patience during the past years. Thanks are also due to Arthur Evans, Parker Smathers, and the rest of the staff at Wesleyan University Press for their guidance, expertise, and support through the process of writing and revision. I would also like to express my sincerest appreciation to the reviewers of my articles and book manuscript.
In China, I would also like thank Li Guangyi, Ren Dongmei, and Jia Liyuan for their guidance and support. Johnson, Matthew Cochran, Aynne Kokas, Winnie Chang, Hanmo Chang, Ma Lujing, and Makiko Mori. I am also grateful for the support and encouragement of my graduate cohort at UCLA: David Hull, Maura Dykstra, CedarBough T.
Jennifer Feeley, Sarah Wells, and all the panelists at the 2011 “Visions of the Future: Global Science Fiction Cinema” conference in Iowa City, Iowa, were instrumental in convincing me that truly interdisciplinary work was worth the toil. Me through the field of Chinese science fiction. Song Mingwei and Wu Yan have also been particularly crucial mentors in guiding vii I am grateful to Carlos Rojas, Andrea Bachner, Chris Hamm, and Eileen Chow for their mentorship and support, especially in presenting and revising various versions of chapter 5 at Duke University for the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature and for the Triangle East Asia Colloquium. I also owe a great debt to Paola Iovene for her careful review of my dissertation, which played a significant role in the revisions that went into this manuscript.
I owe special debts to Theodore Huters, David Schaberg, Jack Chen, Shumei Shih, Andrea Goldman, and Robert Chi for their mentorship during my PhD studies. Travel and research funding from North Carolina State University, which allowed me to conduct research at libraries in Beijing and Shanghai, and a dissertation-year fellowship from UCLA and a Distinguished Teaching Assistant fellowship were especially helpful. I would like to thank North Carolina State University and UCLA for supporting this research from its earliest stages up through publication. This research continues to expand the field of Chinese science fiction, examining its relationship to China’s own literary canon and to science fiction as a global phenomenon. Chinese science fiction has emerged as a field in its own right, with scholars producing research and translation at a breakneck pace. In the intervening years, I think that it is safe to say that both of us have been proven wrong. I am eternally grateful to him for having the patience and wisdom to let me find out the answer to this question on my own. As I neared completion of the dissertation, my adviser confessed to me that when I had originally proposed the project, he had thought it was not feasible at all. When I first began research for this project as a PhD student at UCLA, I was under the impression that I would be able to cover the entire twentieth century and that the paucity of available materials would mean that the decisions about what to include and what to exclude had already been made for me. IntroduCtion Colonial Modernity and Chinese Science Fiction 1 1 Genre trouble 27 2 lu Xun, sCienCe, FiCtion 46 3 Wu Jianren and late QinG sF 60 4 sF For the nation 93 5 makinG room For sCienCe 108 6 lao she ’ s City oF Cats 125 7 Whither sF / Wither sF 146 ConClusion 181 Notes 187 Glossary of Chinese Terms 211 Bibliography 217 Index 243 Classification: LCC PL2275.S (print) | LCC PL2275.S34 (ebook) | DDC 895.13/0876209-dc23 LC record available at 5 4 3 2 1Ĭover illustration: A Chinese depiction of what was most likely an unmanned, steam-powered aircraft made by American inventor Samuel Langley (1834–1906). paper) | ISBN 9780819576699 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Science fiction, Chinese-History and criticism. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2017. Title: Celestial empire: the emergence of Chinese science fiction / Nathaniel Isaacson. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Names: Isaacson, Nathaniel, author. Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 © 2017 Nathaniel Isaacson All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Richard Hendel Typeset in Miller and Gill types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Wesleya n U niv ersity P re ss Middletown, Connecticut INTRODUCTION Colonial Modernity and Chinese Science FictionĬelestial empire The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction
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