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- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 307 p.)
- Uniform Title
- World weavers (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- From semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl -- Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser -- Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix -- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen -- Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles -- Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher -- The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals -- The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / Véronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.
- LCCN
- 2008555470
- OCLC
- ssj0000431466
- Title
World weavers [electronic resource] : globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / edited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan.
- Imprint
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Wong, Kin-yuen, 1944-
Westfahl, Gary.
Chan, Amy Kit-sze.