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World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution

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Kin Yuen Wong ,Gary Westfahl ,Amy Kit-sze Chan
2005
Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
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World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

pp. v-vii

Contributors

pp. ix-xi

Introduction From Semaphores and Steamships to Servers and Spaceships: The Saga of Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution

pp. 1-4

PART 1 - Global Perspectives

1. Going Mobile: Tradition, Technology, and the Cultural Monad

pp. 7-24

2. Urbe et Orbe: A Prehistory of the Postmodern World City

pp. 25-40

3. 2001, or A Cyberpalace Odyssey: Toward the Ideographic Imagination

pp. 41-54

4.The Genealogy of the Cyborg in Japanese Popular Culture

pp. 55-72

5. Hermeneutics and Taiwan Science Fiction

pp. 73-94

6. Is Utopia Obsolete? Imploding Boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age1

pp. 95-110

PART 2 - History Lessons

7. Tales of Futures Passed: The Kipling Continuum and Other Lost Worlds of Science Fiction

pp. 113-134

8. Globalization in Japanese Science Fiction, 1900 and 1963: The Seabed Warship and Its Re-Interpretation

pp. 135-142

9. The Limits of "Humanity" in Comparative Perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji

pp. 143-156

10. The Idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle

pp. 157-166

11. Godzilla's Travels: The Evolution of a Globalized Gargantuan

pp. 167-188

PART 3 - Contemporary Case Studies

12. Black Secret Technology: African Technological Subjects1

pp. 191-204

13. The Teeth of the New Cockatoo: Mutation and Trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia

pp. 205-214

14. When Cyberfeminism Meets Chinese Philosophy: Computer, Weaving and Women

pp. 215-232

15. Hollywood Enters the Dragon

pp. 233-244

16. Romeo Must Die: Action and Agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong Action Films

pp. 245-254

Afterword

pp. 255-258

Notes

pp. 259-286

Bibliography of Works Related to Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution

pp. 287-300

Index

pp. 301-307
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