{"id":137759,"date":"2025-10-04T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137759"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:00:08","slug":"china-stakes-a-claim-on-the-future-with-sci-fi-and-speculative-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137759","title":{"rendered":"China stakes a claim on the future with sci-fi and speculative fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\n\u201cSpeculative fiction, as a genre that imagines the future while critiquing the present, has long been dominated by Euro-American&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3327833\/china-stakes-claim-future-soft-power-sci-fi-and-speculative-fiction?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; 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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}