A Study Of The Golden Age Of Chinese Science Fiction

In the historical context of the 1980 s,this paper centers on Kexue wenyi,trying to analyze the development of Chinese science fiction in the Golden Age,and inspect the close interaction between science fiction,which is characterized by modernity,and the politics of modernization,as well as the rich orientation and development of science fiction generated through this interaction.In March 1978,the national science congress was held,and then science fiction came to a climax.During this period,a large number of excellent science fiction writers emerged.In 1983,the campaign to clear mental pollution broke out,science fiction has been criticised as one of the “polluters”,so,the Golden Age came to an abrupt end.Kexue wenyi was published after the national science congress,no publication can compare with it.After the campaign to clear mental pollution,it began to transform and become self-financing.So,it is in sync with the development of science fiction.In this thing,the vicissitude of Kexue wenyi can be seen as the epitome of the rise and fall of Chinese science fiction in the Golden Age.In politics of “modernization”,political subjects quietly changed from workers and peasants to scientists(intellectuals).In times of transition,science fiction,which is related to science closely,took on the task of shaping the image of scientists.At the same time,those technological fantasies which seems “depoliticization” in science fiction,also contains the individualistic logic of “modernization” politics.Those science fictions that criticize western capitalist society at the same time,reflects the sensitivity of science fiction writers to the consequences of modernity ahead of time.And in the context of modernization,the advocates of “Exceptional Function” strive to maximize the exploration and development of human potential in order to accelerate the progress of Chinese science and technology.In view of this,behind the “Exceptional Function exploration”,a complex phenomenon which was even encouraged by the authorities in the 1980 s,is the development logic of “modernization”.And the criticisms of science fictions by people who work on science popularization also follow the mode of thinking of the “modernization”,they regard science fiction as a kind of science literature,and they hold the view that it should undertake the task of popularizing scientific knowledge and should not attempt to go beyond the boundary of science.This concept of scientific popularization originated from the concept of scientific novels in the late Qing dynasty,and gradually took shape in the process of national industrialization in the 1950 s and continued to the early stage of reform and opening up.And the nonfiction of scientific literary creation which is often ignored in the Golden Age also deserves attention.Among them,science fairy tales express the imagination and expectation that adults want children to be the subject of the “modernization” in the future through the pure imagination;The science poetry reflects the predicament of scientific aesthetic expression to a certain extent;The scientific report literature reconstructs the legal status of professional scientists;The regression of the attribute of science essays of “belles-lettres” is consistent with the economic directivity of “modernization”.In the case of science fiction being denounced as “pseudoscience”,science fairy tales,science poetry,scientific report literatures,science essays and many other types of science literatures built a buffer zone between “science popularization” and “science fiction”.It also leaves us historical resources which is worth to review and ideological enlightenment for today’s “science literature” which is almost equal to “science fiction”.This paper discusses these problems to study the history of science fiction,and explore the complex relationship between the science fiction of the Golden Age and the ideology of “modernization”,and the possible path of the diverse development of science fiction.