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It was therefore necessary to wait until the 1990s for a new generation of authors to emerge . Nourished by a little foreign literature, many are familiar with Jules Verne and HG Wells, whose old translations have long been a reference, they are carried by a genre that fits with its time: science fiction allows authors to report on the phase of unprecedented acceleration that the Chinese economy and society are experiencing, while questioning the role of technology that has been at the heart of the strategies of all governments for more than thirty years. It is also a space of relative freedom of expression for writers who play hide-and-seek with censorship: for stories that take place elsewhere or in another era.

Today's China is one of our possible futures!

Robots, artificial intelligence, space gambling data vietnam exploration, are all pretexts for stories that echo the priorities set by the government. But far from stories that would be blissfully admiring, readers discover stories of the future that depict geopolitical issues, social inequalities, two-speed access to health and education, pollution or the aging of the population. A literary game that is all the more fascinating since today's China is, for some, already a dystopia! A country where air pollution and the wearing of masks, widespread surveillance of the population or cloning without (almost) any barriers are developing on a unique scale.

Behind Liu Cixin , a leading figure in Chinese science fiction with her world-famous trilogy, awarded a prestigious Hugo Prize in 2015 (The Three-Body Problem, Acte Sud), there are young authors who often still have a professional activity despite their first success. A short story by one of them, "Beijing Origami" ,