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Is AI a blessing or a curse for China’s new generation of writers?

Cs news6 months ago02 mins

Some young Chinese writers are said to be “in a state of panic” over rapid advances in artificial intelligence tools like DeepSeek, as they question whether the emerging technology is a blessing or a curse. The debate was one of the key themes at a two-day conference held in Suzhou in late September – “Border…

China stakes a claim on the future with the soft power of sci-fi and speculative fiction

Cs news6 months ago02 mins

Speculative fiction, which encompasses sci-fi and other futuristic literature, is emerging as a strong vehicle for China to project soft power in a competition with the US over the imagined future. The genre may help China and the Global South challenge Western views of colonialism, capitalism and future tech, according to Chinese scholars of literature…