Feature by Isaac Stone Fish in Foreign Policy -- Why apocalyptic fiction and film haven’t caught on in the Middle Kingdom.

"Part of the reason Chinese writers haven’t written fiction about the destruction of their country involves religion: China does not follow the Judeo-Christian tradition that foretells the apocalypse and rapture. 'The Christian tradition is linear. There is an end, a judgment day,' said Mingwei Song, an expert on Chinese literature at Wellesley College. 'Whereas in China, there is a circle, a change of dynasty, but not a change of the world.'”