Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the singularity event of why Liu Cixin's Three-body Problem can single-handedly upgrade Chinese science fiction literature to the world prominence in the era of science fiction globalization. The paper argues that the scientific imagination in The Three-body Problem starts at the scientific frontier of "singularity" and expands on the spectacle of singularity. In The Three-body Problem, the essentialism of identity politics is transcended, which allows for the conceptualization of internal diversity of the post-human and the establishment of a cosmetic sociology on the principle of the dark forest. Therefore, it is possible for an analysis of singularity politics of the novel. The aesthetics of singularity in the novel shows in its construction of a concept system of multi-dimensional time and in its choice of different narratives based on that time.
First Page
84
Last Page
93
Recommended Citation
Zeng, Jun. 2016. "Singularities of The Three-body Problem, or Chinese Logic in the Era of Science Fiction Globalization." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (1): pp.84-93. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss1/16
