Asian SF/F (not Japan)

[oyceter]

Hi! I am lazy and depending on the goodwill of the internet to help with research!

So: tell me about Asian SF/F!

It must be:

• Created in Asia by Asians


• NOT from Japan


• Any medium


• Bonus points if I can get my hands on it (I am in the US and read/understand Mandarin Chinese)


• Extra bonus points for SF/F from and/or about Southeast Asia or South Asia

I have a slightly better sense of SF/F created in Asia and popular in the US, though if you have notes for your specific country, that would also be good! Please note: NOT from Japan.

For self: rachelmanija's notes on Indian SF/F

ETA:
Korea:
- Pahanjip (Korean folklore + Tang China ghost hunters, manhwa)
- Bride of the Water God (Korean folklore (?) + alternate world + beast bridegroom, manhwa)

China:
- Swordsman II

Comments

[octopedingenue]

The closest I can think of offhand is Snow, Fire, Sword, which is set in faux-Indonesia and relies on Indonesian mythos; the author was born in and spent early childhood in Indonesia, but she's of French descent.

SAWNET is a great brief resource, especially for kidlit. The Essential Guide to World Comics is a decent starting point: based merely on what it gets VERY VERY WRONG about manga I would not trust the rest of its factual authority farther than I could fling it, but I plan to get it from the library again because it has lots of names of Thai/Indian/Chinese/Korean series, with scans, to start tracking down elsewhere. (It actually made me tear up at one point; in the brief (ostensibly factual?) section on Cambodian comics, there was a bit about how the section was so brief because the massacres there likely cut back development of homegrown comic artists in comparison to surrounding Asian comic scenes.)

I am totally stalking this post for book-ordering-at-work purposes, FYI. Tiny awesome indie store SFF sections FTW!

[octopedingenue]

P.S. what zomg I have been flailing through a Pahanjip pimp-post all weekend!! Posting it tomorrow before you fully eat my brain.