Reincarnated Giant

Mingwei Song is associate professor of Chinese at Wellesley College. He is the author of Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959 (2015).Theodore Huters is professor emeritus in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China (2005).

A fascinating anthology of some of the contemporary stories coming out of China today . . . The stories represent just a slice of China’s science fiction community, but it’s an engrossing window into a fascinating body of work.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Does Science Fiction Dream of a Chinese New Wave?, by Mingwei SongPart I: Other Realities1. Regenerated Bricks, by Han Song (translated by Theodore Huters)2. The Village Schoolteacher, by Liu Cixin (translated by Christopher Elford and Jiang Chenxin)3. Histories of Time: The Luster of Mute Porcelain (excerpts), by Dung Kai-cheung (translated and introduced by Carlos Rojas)4. The Dream Devourer (chapters 5–7), by Egoyan Zheng (translated by Cara Healey)5. The Demon-Enslaving Flask, by Xia Jia (translated by Linda Rui Feng)Part II: Other Us6. The Poetry Cloud, by Liu Cixin (translated by Chi-yin Ip and Cheuk Wong)7. “Science Fiction”: A Chapter of Daughter, by Lo Yi-chin (translated by Thomas Moran and Jingling Chen)8. Balin, by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu)9. The Radio Waves That Never Die, by La La (translated by Petula Parris-Huang)10. 1923: A Fantasy, by Zhao Haihong (translated by Nicky Harman and Pang Zhaoxia)Part III: Other Futures11. The Passengers and the Creator, by Han Song (translated by Nathaniel Isaacson)12. The Reincarnated Giant, by Wang Jinkang (translated by Carlos Rojas)13. The Rain Forest, by Chi Hui (translated by Jie Li)14. The Demon’s Head, by Fei Dao (translated by David Hull)15. Songs of Ancient Earth, by Bao Shu (translated by Adrian Thieret)NotesRecommended ReadingContributors