Abstract
ABSTRACT‘The future’ is the primary premise for the development of Chinese science fiction. This article will endeavour to examine how ‘hope’ is characterized from two different perspectives. First, are there any reiterations of the future more free or unique than that which already exists with high-tech life? Second, is there a more active approach to conceptualizing the individual’s relationship with the future? The Town Beneath the Tower by Liu Weijia will be this article’s entry point to examining depictions of the future in the genre of contemporary Chinese science fiction for the past twenty years. Using The Town Beneath the Tower’s portrayal of the future, this article will analyze contemporary Chinese science fiction’s imagined aspects of a barbarous world vehemently opposed to progress, low-tech society, and the relationship between the individual and the future. Based on this analysis, what are the advantages and disadvantages that stem from society’s search for hope and projections of its future in contemporary Chinese science fiction?
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