Abstract

The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary is a science fiction by Chinese American science fiction writer Ken Liu (1976-). Based on the theory of Post-Colonial Criticism, this paper makes a concrete analysis of the text from the perspectives of three eminent contemporary theorists, aiming at the readers’ better understanding of the work, and eliminating ethnocentrism, racism, unilateralism and hegemony; keeping history in mind and justifying the names of innocent humans who have been persecuted; safeguarding world peace, and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Highlights

  • The protagonist, Chinese American historian Evan Wei, and his wife, Japanese American physicist Akemi Kirino, in order to restore the atrocities of Japanese Unit 731 to the world, together made a machine that can bring participants back to the past to witness historical events, but ended up with many disputes

  • Through the method of post-colonial criticism, this paper analyzes the text from the perspectives of three notable theorists in order to enrich the academic research

  • It can be seen that the protagonists, Chinese American historian Evan Wei, and his wife, Japanese American physicist Akemi Kirino, are secular intellectuals as said by Said

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Introduction

The protagonist, Chinese American historian Evan Wei, and his wife, Japanese American physicist Akemi Kirino, in order to restore the atrocities of Japanese Unit 731 to the world, together made a machine that can bring participants back to the past to witness historical events, but ended up with many disputes. In the literature review of CNKI, using “The man who ended history: A Documentary” as the key words, title and theme respectively, there are two essays among which there is one cross existing, so there is only one research on The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary. The search results show that the research on The man who ended history: A Documentary is very limited. It can be seen that there is less research on Liu Yukun’s The man who ended history: A Documentary in China. There will be the revelation of why Liu Yvkun is called an excellent science fiction novelist, of why Liu Yvkun lost the award, and warning for the development of peace and the world’s ethnic and cultural diversity

Edward Said’s View on Secular Critic and Exiling Intellectual
Secular Intellectuals Typified by Dr Wei and Dr Kirino
Their Voyage in European and American Discourse
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s View on Females
Japanese American Dr Kirino’s Prominent Achievements in Scientific Research
Japanese American Dr Kirino’s True Self Guaranteed in Her Marriage
The Hybridity in Mr and Mrs Wei’s Marital Relationship
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