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What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer to think of China as a dystopian world that is challenging American hegemony, so we would like to think that Chinese sci-fi is all either militaristic or dystopian. But that's just not the reality of it.
— Ken Liu
Tags: think, reality, world, people

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The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
— Ken Liu
Tags: color, problems, face, women
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
— Ken Liu
Tags: forward, way, past, me
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
— Ken Liu
Tags: act, performance, doing, i-am
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
— Ken Liu
Tags: society, you, science, love
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
— Ken Liu
Tags: science-fiction, like, work, science
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