{"id":26471,"date":"2016-06-04T21:31:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T04:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-chinese-government-is-setting-up-its-own-major-science-fiction-award"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:17:24","slug":"the-chinese-government-is-setting-up-its-own-major-science-fiction-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-chinese-government-is-setting-up-its-own-major-science-fiction-award","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Government is Setting Up Its Own Major Science Fiction Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-chinese-government-is-setting-up-its-own-major-science-fiction-award.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s SciFi Awards \u2014 I can see the red carpet and the outfits too. Wonder if China could do their own SciFi Walk of Fame?.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This is pretty interesting: during the latest national congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, chairman Han Qide announced that the country would be setting up a program to promote science fiction and fantasy, including the creation of a new major award.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout much of its genre\u2019s history, China\u2019s science fiction has had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/blog\/sci-fi-fantasy\/narratives-of-modernization-chinas-history-of-science-fiction\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legacy of usefulness<\/a>, often promoted to educate readers in concepts relating to science and technology. This new award will be accompanied by an \u201cinternational sci-fi festival\u201d and other initiatives to promote the creation of new stories.<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of decades, China has enjoyed an unprecedented boom when it comes to science fiction. Since the 1990s, dozens of authors have broken out and written a number of high profile books, creating a viable community. Every year, Chinese science fiction magazine Science Fiction World issues its own major award, the Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-chinese-government-is-setting-up-its-own-major-scie-1780570782\">http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-chinese-government-is-setting-up-...1780570782<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s SciFi Awards \u2014 I can see the red carpet and the outfits too. Wonder if China could do their own SciFi Walk of Fame?. This is pretty interesting: during the latest national congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, chairman Han Qide announced that the country would be setting up a program [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61628,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471\/revisions\/61628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}