{"id":214875,"date":"2025-05-27T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-science-fiction-writer-wrestles-with-chinas-rise-and-his-own-decline"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:08:01","slug":"a-science-fiction-writer-wrestles-with-chinas-rise-and-his-own-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-science-fiction-writer-wrestles-with-chinas-rise-and-his-own-decline","title":{"rendered":"A Science Fiction Writer Wrestles With China\u2019s Rise, and His Own Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-science-fiction-writer-wrestles-with-chinas-rise-and-his-own-decline2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China\u2019s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China\u2019s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}