'The Grace of Kings' draws on Western traditions as much as it does on Chinese traditions, though the bones of the story are drawn from the Chu-Han Contention period before the Han Dynasty.
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
