Genre Bridge

[Jonathan Tam]

I'm going to build upon the comment that I made in class by saying that it is a little surprising how science fiction does not derive as much from our own cultures as one might expect in books and stories. But, the themes that Professor Bernard was able to derive from The Wandering Earth made a lot more sense than I initially thought. He connected the idea of mass mobilization in China's history to moving Earth and also changes in faith to the sun to China's religious history. It definitely makes the story seem a touch more characteristically Chinese compared to how American stories of space tend to be - which are these solo missions of great heroics and human domination of nature (ex. Interstellar, Armageddon, First Man, Gravity, etc.).