New Era (novel)

rdf:langString New Era (novel)

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rdf:langString Xīn Jìyuán

rdf:langString 新纪元

rdf:langString 新紀元

rdf:langString Hsin chi-yüan

rdf:langString New Era (Chinese: 新紀元) is a 1908 novel by (碧荷館主人). The novel, set in 1999, focuses on a world war between China and The West, in which China becomes the world superpower and a "yellow peril" (黃禍 huánghuò) with one trillion residents. The country had political free speech, an active science and technology industry, and a parliamentary political system operating nationally and sub-nationally. It also had control of all former Chinese concessions as well as Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang; the former were given to China circa 1939. The novel was inspired by Xin Zhongguo weilai ji. David Wang wrote that it was "more polemical" than another work inspired by Xin Zhongguo weilai ji, the 1910 novel Xin Zhongguo. David Wang added that due to the Century of humiliation in which Europeans subjugated Chinese, to the readers the ending "must have been exhilarating". The novel has supernatural and scientific elements. David Wang stated that the novel is more similar to than ("The Eastern Expedition of Xue Rengui") since New Era uses highly intelligent scientists in the way Quell the Bandits uses supernatural characters. David Wang argued that for readers at the time the future setting was "the ultimate machina" in which China's geopolitical standing and power have drastically changed, although some elements seem anachronistic to a reader in the decade of the 2000s.