Abstract

Han Song’s works are unique in the history of Chinese science fiction. This essay examines eeriness as a stylistic feature, and parable/prophecy as its form, noting that the open-ended nature of Han Song’s fiction is the result of a permeation of the worldview of particle physics, the valorization of pluralism, and a mystic bent. Han Song’s works oscillate between satirical parables of contemporary reality and extrapolative prophecies of the future, and both writing and thematic content aestheticize the eerie.

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