Preface - 6 Acknowledgements - 10 Contents - 12 Introduction - 16 The Utopia of Thomas More - 32 From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia - 50 Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai - 84 Enlightenment Utopias - 96 Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China - 136 Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias - 166 Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or “The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo” - 196 Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky’s Dystopian Foresight - 212 When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics … - 234 Bellamy’s Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland - 256 Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress - 272 H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia - 290 Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism - 302 Mao Zedong’s Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response - 322 Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I - 346 Concluding Observations - 400 References - 412 Subject Index - 432 Index of Names - 442