Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.3, 2019

The Light and Order of the Universe We See—Liu Cixin’s Methodology of Observing the World

(Abstract)

Du Xuewen

Liu Cixin concerns about the ultimate question of universe and human world, whose methodology has significantly realistic inspiration for us. Concretely, he can be taken as a thinker of materialistic dialectics. The inter-related status and dynamics of existence have been portrayed in his science fiction. A world of unity of opposites, interaction and transformation comes out of the existence of interrelation and movement. The advantages and disadvantages of various existences often transform from the absolute to the comparative during the process of movement, and the essential reversion emerges from the ultimate exploration.