Books by Mingwei Song
Mingwei Song is a professor of Chinese Studies and Chinese at Wellesley College. His most recent monograph is Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction. He also published a book in Chinese: The New Wave in Chinese Science Fiction: History, Poetics, Text 中國科幻新浪潮:歷史,詩學,文本. In 2012, he edited a special issue for Renditions that translated stories by authors such as Liu Cixin and Han Song into English for the first time. In 2018, he co-edited The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction.
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction
edited by Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters
Interviews with Mingwei Song
The Best Chinese Science Fiction, recommended by Mingwei Song
Chinese science fiction is increasingly available in English, and mirrors the country’s philosophical and historical developments. Chinese literature scholar Mingwei Song, a professor at Wellesley, talks us through his top five choices—from 1905 to the present day—and tells us about the ‘new wave’ taking the Chinese literary world by storm.
