Source: China – South China Morning PostSpeculative fiction, which encompasses sci-fi and other futuristic literature, is emerging as a strong vehicle for China to project soft power in a competition with the US over the imagined future.
The genre may help China and the Global South challenge Western views of colonialism, capitalism and future tech, according to Chinese scholars of literature and culture.
“Speculative fiction, as a genre that imagines the future while critiquing the present, has long been dominated by Euro-American…Read More