On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-Rae Lee

In this chapter, “On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China,” examines China Mountain Zhang (1992) and On Such a Full Sea (2014). In both works, the universal duality of “good cop, bad cop,” utopia and dystopia, sinophilia and sinophobia, is attributed to the rise of China as the world power and the scourge...

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Autor principal: Ma, Sheng-mei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121929/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3_9
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description In this chapter, “On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China,” examines China Mountain Zhang (1992) and On Such a Full Sea (2014). In both works, the universal duality of “good cop, bad cop,” utopia and dystopia, sinophilia and sinophobia, is attributed to the rise of China as the world power and the scourge of the world. In Maureen F. McHugh’s and Chang-rae Lee’s sci-fi novels, they trade the police badge of justice and violence for the Chinese face—a countenance of beauty and bastardy, awesome “China Mountain” that somehow infects with the suggestive C-illness in Lee.
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spelling pubmed-71219292020-04-06 On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-Rae Lee Ma, Sheng-mei Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet Article In this chapter, “On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China,” examines China Mountain Zhang (1992) and On Such a Full Sea (2014). In both works, the universal duality of “good cop, bad cop,” utopia and dystopia, sinophilia and sinophobia, is attributed to the rise of China as the world power and the scourge of the world. In Maureen F. McHugh’s and Chang-rae Lee’s sci-fi novels, they trade the police badge of justice and violence for the Chinese face—a countenance of beauty and bastardy, awesome “China Mountain” that somehow infects with the suggestive C-illness in Lee. 2017-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7121929/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3_9 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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