China

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Fannish activity in China takes place in Shanghai; Beijing; Chengdu, Sichuan; and likely other places obscure to the West.

SF AppleCore in Shanghai, the largest and most active sf club in eastern China, has held the Shanghai SF & Fantasy Festival in 2009 and annually since 2011.

The Beijing Science Fiction Reading Group meets weekly. The city has hosted the China Science Fiction Convention since 2016.

The Nebula Awards have been given annually since 2010 for pro and fan activity by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association.

Chengdu, regarded by the Chinese SF community as the "capital of Chinese SF," is home to professional groups like Eight Light Minutes Culture and SFW Publishing, publishers of Science Fiction World, the biggest circulation Chinese prozine; the magazine established the annual Galaxy Awards in 1985. Chengdu is also flourishing with SF-related industries like game developers, film and television.

There has been a professional sf presence in Chengdu for decades. The Chinese sf community came into Western notice in 1989, when Yang Xiao, editor of Science Fiction World magazine (then called Science Literature) traveled to the 1989 conference of World SF: An Organization of SF Professionals in San Marino, and bid to hold the 1991 meeting in Chengdu, Sichuan. The bid won, over Poland and Yugoslavia.

Together with Xiang Jichun (arts editor of Science Literature) and Shen Zaiwang, Yang attended ConFiction, the 1990 Worldcon in the Netherlands.

Malcolm Edwards reported that the 1991 WSF Conference in China was the best to date, with over 300 SF authors and editors attending.

Chengdu hosts the Chengdu International Science Fiction and Fantasy Conference launched by Yang in 1991; with the fourth event, in 2017, it is now biennial.

The city is also developing a science fiction museum and theme park.



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