The paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the birth and development of contemporary Chinese science fairy tales based on the historical changes of social context, and divides its writing during the 100 years into five major periods, namely 1. initial stage (1920—1949); 2. emerging stage (1949—1966); 3. suppression stage (slack stage) (1966—1976); 4. booming stage (1976—1999); 5. rejuvenating stage (2000—). It also offers a thorough analysis of the achievements, features and experiences of each stage, and holds great confidence and expectation of its new development in the rejuvenating stage.

science fairy tale  /  boom  /  rejuvenating  /  motive power