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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more

Zian Chen interviews the curators of the 11th Shanghai Biennial. >> Read more

Shanghai Project, and its theme of Envision 2116, considers mankind’s future – 100 years from now. >> Read more

Chen Xi has opted to look into some popular scientific theories from the perspective of a sci-fi fan. His ideas about “painting in a reduced dimension” perhaps complement Peng Yi-Hsuan’s drawings. >> Read more