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'Xin Zhongguo' ( "New China") is a 1910 novel written by Lu Shi'e. It is also known as 'Lixian sishi nianhou zhi Zhongguo' ("China, forty years after the establishment of the constitutional monarchy"). It was inspired by 'Xin Zhongguo weilai ji', a 1902 novel by Liang Qichao.Wang, David Der-wei. 'Fin-de-sicle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911'. Stanford University Press, 1997. , 9780804728454. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ng6YRePhbRMC&pg=PA306 306]. Song Weijie, author of 'Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography', wrote that the book "[envisions] a modern Shanghai and a strong China standing proudly in the ranks of nation-states."Song, Weijie. 'Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography'. Oxford University Press, November 17, 2017. , 9780190200688. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=A_U-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240 240].
The novel begins in Shanghai, depicted as modern and well-off, in 1950. The main character, after awakening, learns that Dr. Su Hanmin, the inventor of a spiritual medicine, used it to pull Chinese away from opium-laden dependence on Westerners as they become willing to help others, allowing them to become prosperous. (translated into English by Ken Liu) The foreign concessions were dissolved. By 1950 China has a surplus in funds, as well as established universities and a thriving industrial sector. It has incorporated Tibet as one of its provinces, and in China male and female citizens possess the same rights. 'Xin Zhongguo' depicted a universal exposition in Shanghai. The novel reveals that the protagonist was merely dreaming about this new China, and that it had not yet happened.
Xu Leiying of China Radio International stated that the author predicted the Expo 2010, held in Shanghai in 2010. David Der-wei Wang stated that the framework of 'Xin Zhongguo', using a dream, "[deflates] the fantastic magnitude of the center narrative." David Wang wrote that of the books inspired by 'Xin Zhongguo weilai ji' it had "the most complete narrative".
See also
* Chinese science fiction
References
Category:1910 novels
Category:1910 science fiction novels
Category:Chinese science fiction novels
Category:Qing dynasty novels
Category:Fiction set in 1950
Category:Novels set in the future
Category:Novels set in Shanghai
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