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Virginia L. Conn

Virginia L. Conn is a lecturer at Stevens Institute of Technology. She researches depictions of the “new socialist human” in socialist science fiction and how those depictions guided policy decisions in Mao-era China, Soviet Russia, and East Germany.

The Tyranny of Neutrality in “AI 2041”

Virginia L. Conn reviews the new collection of scientific fiction from Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee, “AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future.”...

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Making a Mess of the World: On Hao Jingfang’s “Vagabonds”

Hao Jingfang’s “Vagabonds” considers the reflexive matrix of Chinese and Western cultural perceptions....

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AROUND THE WORLD

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Finding and Losing Oneself in “Invisible Planets”

Virginia L. Conn visits "Invisible Planets," a collection of Chinese SF stories and criticism edited and translated by Ken Liu....

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AROUND THE WORLD

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