“an anomaly of the emergence of science fiction in China that while the genre associated its origins with the translations of western imports, ‘science fiction’ (kexue xiaoshuo) began to appear regularly in China as a generic category associated with specific stories before it did so in the English-language press (circa 1904).”
— Nathanial Isaacson, quoted in a very interesting article on the history of SF in China
The Adelaide Fan Review 