Cat Country analysis

THOUGHTS ON CAT COUNTRY, BY LAO SHE A SCI-FI POLITICAL DYSTOPIA FROM 1930S CHINA WRITTEN BY LLA When we think of the science fiction genre today, we have in mind an imaginary impregnated by the cult films between the 70s and 90s: Star Trek, Matrix, Blade Runner or Star Wars (the latter halfway between science fiction and fantasy), but for a long, very long time the science fiction media par excellence remained the book, in which it was imposed and also reaches its first climax with the work of H.G.Wells. Certainly before him there had already been books of settings and features more or less sci-fi, like those of Verne, but novels such as the invisible man, the war between the two worlds or (my favorite) the time machine created, Still at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the guidelines that would later become the pillars of the genre. When Lao She first approached the science fiction novel in 1932, this world could not be called mature, it was a genre still in strong development and that opened to many possible emerging themes and that’s what She tried to do. It was, however, completely absent in Chinese literature, and will continue to be for a certain period after its publication, given its only partial success both by the public and critics. Written between 1932 and 1933, the day after, and in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and Shanghai, Cat Country belongs to several subgenres: science fiction, of course, for the setting and plot, …