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literature. Our society has become obsessed with the idea of travelling through time.
However, that wasn t true just 150 years ago. The gate was opened by H. G. Wells novel, The Time
Machine, which 2 (publish) in 1895. In this book, Wells describes a man who builds a machine that
enables him 3 (move) throughout the course of history and into the future. The story is important
because it views time as something 4 (flow).
Before this book came out, time was 5 (basic) viewed as a one-way street. You could only go
forward, and only at one speed. In this way, Wells 6 (create) account transformed the way people
viewed time and time travel.
It was so successful largely because it came out at the end of 19th century when tremendous change
was in the air. As the 7 (twenty) century dawned, people were becoming incredibly excited for the
future. It was a period of huge technological as well as scientific 8 ( grow) and, for the first time
ever, people were living in a way that was dramatically different from 9 generation before them.
In other words, it was the first time that the past, future and present would be entirely different. This
simple historical moment is 10 made time travel so fascinating.
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The Japanese branch of the Chinese Literature Readers Club was established at the China Cultural
Centre in Tokyo 1 September, 2022.
The event had Chinese sci-fi writers Wang Jinkang, Bao Shu, and Qi Yue, alongside Japanese sci-fi
writer Taiyo Fujii and Nozomi Oomori, the Japanese 2 ( translate) of Liu Cixin s The Three-Body
Problem, as guest speakers to talk about their sci-fi creations 3 the development trend of sci-fi.
Shi Yongjing, cultural counsellor(参赞) at the Chinese embassy in Japan, said that “both China
and Japan have a long history of translating each 4 (other) cultural works”. The club will provide a
new platform for Japanese readers 5 (learn) about contemporary China, she said.
During the event, 6 ran for more than two hours, three Chinese writers shared stories about how
they became sci-fi writers. 7 ( start) from Chinese writer Lao She s Cat Country, Japanese guest
speakers talked about their 8 (joy) experiences of reading Chinese science fiction. For them, Chinese
sci-fi literature 9 (develop) quickly in the last 10 years, and works like The Three-Body Problem have
attracted many Japanese readers.
In recent years, on average, China has 10 (annual) published more than 500 sci-fi novels. In
2023, Chengdu in Southwest China s Sichuan Province will host the 81st World Science Fiction
Convention.
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