소설 〈접는 도시(北京折疊)〉와 새로운 도시 공간의 상상 (“Folding Beijing”: Imagining a New Urban Space)

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· 발행기관 : 한국중국어문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 중국문학 / 103권 / 207 ~ 222페이지
· 저자명 : 김태연

초록

본 논문은 기술발달에 따른 도시공간의 미래에 대한 상상력이 SF 소설을 통해 어떻게 전개되는지 고찰하기 위해 2016년 휴고상을 수상한 郝景芳의 SF 소설 〈접는 도시〉가 묘사하는 베이징의 디스토피아적 미래를 중심으로 살펴본다. 그를 위해 본 논문은 도시학자들의 이론들을 빌어 〈접는 도시〉에서 묘사된 베이징의 속성에 대한 분석을 시도한다. 그리고 작품에묘사된 접는 도시가 실은 현재 베이징이 직면하고 있는 여러 가지 도시문제를 반영해낸 것임을 규명한다. 현재의 대도시들이 직면하고 있는 각종 도시문제들이 과학기술의 발전에 기댄디지털 전환과 결합되었을 때 드러나게 될 디스토피아적 전망을 살펴본다.

영어초록

This paper seeks to examine how the imagination of the future of urban space as a result of technological development develops through SF fiction, and Hao Jingfang’s novel “Folding Beijing” as the target text. In the SF genre, urban space is one of the most important factors. The city is portrayed as the best embodied space for the cutting edge of science and technology covered by the SF genre and the new living conditions that humans face to face to face. Therefore, SF fiction presents a variety of imaginations in various ways about how the digital transformation of urban space we face today will unfold. This paper, among others, looks at what type of urban space Beijing’s dystopian future presents, described by Hao Jingfang’s novel “The Folding Beijing” which won the Hugo Prize in 2016.
Beijing, the “Folding Beijing” drawn by Hao Jingfang, is divided into first, second and third spaces, each inhabited by upper, middle and lower classes, and these spaces do not coexist at the same time. When one space is spread out on the surface at a specified time, the rest of the space folds and disappears on the other side of the surface.
This paper attempts to analyze the properties of Beijing as described in the “Folding Beijing” using the theories of urban scholars. And identify the folding city depicted in the work as a reflection of the various urban problems that Beijing now faces. Take a look at the dystopian prospects that will emerge when the various urban problems facing the current metropolises are combined with digital transitions that lean on the development of science and technology.

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