As one of the most highly regarded Chinese science fiction writers of the 1980s, Liu Xingshi shows the spirit of enlightenment and the will of revitalizing China by positivism method and enhancement of science and technology in his fiction. Liu's work is influenced by his academic career and its “one subject, one article” stereotypy is somehow similar to a research report. Liu prefers to set the historical or geographic mysteries as the context of stories and make imaginative use of these materials with the applying of suspense and romanticizing. Liu's fiction establishes standards of hard science fiction in China and makes its own contribution to Chinese science fiction. The Columbus from America is normally considered as his classic and best fiction.

Liu Xingshi  /  science fiction  /  spirit of enlightenment  /  positivism  /  project research