Mingwei Song is a scholar of modern Chinese literature and intellectual history, and director of the Chinese program at Wellesley College. His first monograph, Young China, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015 and investigates the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse. His second book, Fear of Seeing, is a deep-dive into the emergence of the “new wave” of Chinese science-fiction writers, heralded by the publication of Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem. Song ear