Science Fiction in China: A Conversation with Fei Dao

http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/post/49379142505/science-fiction-in-china-a-conversation-with-fei

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"FD: I feel lots of people are prejudiced against sci fi. They think that if you’re a certain age and still read sci fi, that’s immature and unrealistic, like you are letting your fantasies run wild. So I think that prejudice is a problem. But now that Three Body (三体) [by Liu Cixin] has been publically praised, I hope that is slowly changing people’s opinion.

"AA: Who are the Chinese authors we should read?

"FD: The most popular authors now are Liu Cixin, Han Song and Wang Jinkang. Those three are the most famous at this time. Some people jokingly call them “the three generals”.

"AA: What is unique or particular about Chinese science fiction?

"FD: Chinese sci fi has about a hundred years of history...."