I can still vividly recall the exhilaration I felt when reading the news of the first landing by humans on the moon in my childhood. Over the years, I have imagined countless scenarios of Chinese ...

Renowned Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin is accustomed to suspending his disbelief to appreciate surreal scenes in movies but a new documentary had him reminding himself that everything was ...

As China demonstrated its space credentials by landing a lunar probe on the far side of the moon in January 2019, a science fiction movie was hitting mainland cinemas that could also redefine China’s ...

Who would have imagined that pop singers - once fixtures of music charts and concert stages - would now be venturing into the world of science fiction literature? Yet, that is exactly what happened ...

Can the Games of Thrones team pull off a Chinese sci-fi saga? Netflix has announced it's recruited two of the masterminds behind Games of Thrones to adapt bestselling Chinese sci-fi novel The ...

China's most celebrated sci-fi writer Liu Cixin said that a defining feature of Chinese science fiction is its optimism toward the future, compared to its foreign counterparts. "I think a significant ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With the Earth on a collision course with Jupiter, humanity has one last hope of survival — a selfless team of ...

One impressed critic described this lesser-known Netflix film as "science-fiction escapism at its very best". The Wandering Earth is a Chinese sci-fi movie, loosely based on a short story by Liu Cixin ...

Different visions of the future are springing up around the globe. Tom Cassauwers explores what these movements reveal about the places in which they appear – including China, Russia and Africa – and ...

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