Book launch: China +100
| Dates: | 29 October 2026 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Book launch |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Families, Adults, Age Friendly, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16, Secondary schools |
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| Speaker: | Anna Wu (Wu Shuang), Dan Shi, Xueting C. Ni |
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What might China look like in the year 2119, a century after the first outbreak of Covid-19? This is the question posed by editor Xueting C. Ni to ten leading Chinese science fiction writers in Comma Press’s new anthology China +100.
Join us to explore the book and its themes, including readings from two of the anthology’s authors – Anna Wu (Wu Shuang) and Dan Shi, visiting from China courtesy of the Confucius Institute at Manchester University – followed by a panel discussion with the book’s editor Xueting C. Ni.
Expect stories of future pandemics, surprising new vaccines and love between scientists, as well as a wide-ranging discussion of the book’s creation and its place in the wider context of contemporary Chinese science fiction. Followed by an audience Q&A.
Speakers
Anna Wu (Wu Shuang)
Biography: Anna Wu (Wu Shuang) is a writer of science fiction for both the page and screen. Her film script, Cloud and Mist, won the Gold Medal of Originality for the Best Science Fiction Film of the Sixth Chinese Nebula Awards. As translator, Anna's work includes stories for the science fiction collection, The Shape of Thought, by Ken Liu. Her novella collection, Twins was published in June of 2017.
Dan Shi
Biography: Dan Shi is an emerging voice in Chinese feminist science fiction who has published numerous pieces in the Chinese edition of Galaxy’s Edge, an Eastern Wood anthology, and other platforms. Her short story ‘The Twelve-Piece Puzzle’ was selected for Best Chinese Science Fiction of 2024, edited and published by Science Fiction World.
Xueting C. Ni
Biography: Xueting C. Ni has written extensively on China’s cultures and its place in the Western consciousness. Her nonfiction titles include From Kuanyin to Chairman Mao: An Essential Guide to Chinese Deities (Weiser Books) and Chinese Myths (Amber Books). She is the curator of two definitive anthologies of Chinese genre writing in translation: Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction and Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror (both published by Solaris).
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