multitude often incline to think of scientific discipline fiction authors outside of Europe and the United States chiefly being influenced by English - language authors like H.G. Wells or Isaac Asimov . And those authors did have an encroachment — but the ample history of global science fiction also includes set of cultural interchange among writers in unlike non - westerly country . Including the Soviet Union .
Chinese skill fable source Fei Daodiscusses the history of SF in China , in a great consultation over in the L.A. Review of Books . include the recent vast boom in interest in science fiction among new multitude , and the “ three generals ” ( Liu Cixin , Han Song and Wang Jinkang ) who are the most popular and weighty creator of Taiwanese SF .
But perhaps the most interesting nugget is when Feitalks about the non - westerly root of inspiration for Taiwanese SF :
[ Chinese ] sci fi writers today have also read a lot of Western sci fi . They ’re very familiar with it , and it ’s given them a lot of breathing in . For example , Liu Cixin emphasise his admiration of Arthur Clarke .
AA : What are the other main influences ?
FD : There ’s also a big influence from Japan . Historically there were a lot of Japanese [ sci fi ] account translated into Chinese . Jules Verne was also first translate from Japanese into Chinese . And contemporary Japanese sci fi , for example Japan Sinks(日本沈没 ) by Sakyo Komatsu , is very pop in China . Zanzibar copal and manga are also an influence , but only starting from the post 80s propagation … because that is the contemporaries where television display start out to become popular .
Another big influence on Chinese sci fi is Soviet sci fi . specially after 1949 , when China had less connection to the West and more connection to the USSR , the most famous Formosan sci fi author were most influenced by Soviet sci fi with communist motif . So there are three grownup influences : the West , Japan and the USSR .
The whole consultation is unquestionably worth reading . [ L.A. Review of Books ]
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