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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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Front. Lit. Stud. China    2020, Vol. 14 Issue (2) : 275-305    https://doi.org/10.3868/s010-009-020-0013-4
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The Clash of Civilizations and Cultural Self-Consciousness: Science Fiction and Social Reality in The Three-Body Problem Trilogy
CHEN Qi()
School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Abstract

In the view of the relation between science fiction and social reality, the core question of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy is the clash of civilizations between human and Trisolaran, which causes the future possibility of the end of human history. The narrative perspectives of the trilogy are the intelligentsia narrative by Wang Miao (The Three-Body Problem), the heroic narrative by Luo Ji (The Three-Body Problem II: The Dark Forest), and the narrative of “the last man” by Cheng Xin (The Three-Body Problem III: Death’s End). If the future civilization of the human beings is likely to encounter the cosmic catastrophe which is caused by the clash of civilizations between human and aliens, contemporary human elite have to rethink the values of morality and civilization, and bravely creating new history of human by rejecting the temptation of era of the end of history.

Keywords The Three-Body Problem      Liu Cixin      science fiction      social reality      clash of civilizations      cultural self-consciousness     
Issue Date: 16 July 2020
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CHEN Qi. The Clash of Civilizations and Cultural Self-Consciousness: Science Fiction and Social Reality in The Three-Body Problem Trilogy[J]. Front. Lit. Stud. China, 2020, 14(2): 275-305.
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