...Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker Abstract This article examines sociopolitical commentary in contemporary Chinese science fiction literature written by authors of the post-1980s generation. With a close reading of Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing, 2014) and Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆...

... with the New Culture movement. The New Literature movement could also be considered an enlightenment movement, for it is a de facto ideological revolution with the specific purpose to replace Confucianism, aka Mr. Kong, with the ideas of democracy and science, aka Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science. The May Fourth...

...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...

... in Greater China beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article focuses in particular on four literary works dating from around 1994 that examine queer individuals in relation modern institutional structures associated with disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism...

... individualism, represented by the Hollywood science fiction model, to inclusive planetarianism. However, the film's persuasiveness is significantly limited by the double-layered restraint imposed on it by the state and the market. This article traces the turn and the restraint to their historical sources...

...] was at the vanguard of late Qing utopian fiction) but also because both genre and movement were contradictory, transitional, short-lived, somewhat naive, and ultimately unsustainable. For Andolfatto, quoting Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science Fiction , utopia is “the verbal construction of a particular quasi...

..., Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions. Like his May Fourth contemporaries, Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936) embraced the ideas of enlightenment, evolution, science, and modernity as means of saving China. But early on Lu Xun became skeptical of how science...

... and alternative “aero-ontology” in an era of “airpocalypse,” the basis of which may be either toxic particulate matter or airborne pathogens. While smog art inadvertently gives rise to a type of aeromisia (hatred of air) informed by science, smog life champions aerophilia (love of air), reminding us of a still...

..., encompassing genre types such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, dystopian, and superhero, projects an array of imagined worlds and alternate universes, pushing the boundaries of the real and transgressing the limits of the possible. In this sense, it interrogates and dismantles the traditional Western...

... Revolutionary Theory .” Cultural Critique 80 ( Winter 2012 ): 151 – 81 . Chen Wangheng 陳望衡 . “ ‘Huangdi neijing’ zhong de shengming meixue sixiang ” 黃帝內經中的生命美學思想 [The Aesthetics of Life in Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine]. Hunan Social Sciences , no. 1 ( 2021 ): 37 – 43...

... sciences “are slowly advancing the thesis that human-animal binarism is the original and foundational paradigm upon which discourses of human difference including, or even especially, racialization were erected.” 1 In justifying the importance of considering the lifeworlds, histories, and social...

... from the “revolution,” 11 race, gender, and sexuality have for all intents and purposes become the leitmotifs of progressive scholarship in the West and have dominated the agendas of literary and cultural studies and the interpretative social sciences for decades. When these scholars cast their gaze...

... Mars find a recent avatar in Elon Musk's recent Space X project to build “a self-sustaining city on Mars.” 1 Such fantasies, be it in aerospace projects or in science fiction, are an illusionary endeavor to evade intractable malaises of Earth. The faith in a new frontier through advanced...

... wrote papers that engaged theories of critical ecology to consider contemporary environmental issues in the East and West. Hailing from departments ranging from Asian studies, economics, earth science, anthropology, Modern Thought and Literature, and comparative literature, the students were excited...

..., and mountains. The protagonist, Kong Shuzhen, declares at high school graduation her resolve to go back to her home village to be a farmer. A robust and intelligent girl, she has learned the rudiments of science and engineering, ready and eager to tackle the water shortage of her own village. At the public...

... alienation of capitalist production and consumption, the rift in our relations with external nature fundamentally damages our inner nature. If science and technology investigate nature with the goal of maintaining ecological harmony, these productive forces pursue organic affinities between human producers...

..., with regard to Italian public opinion on lockdown, what our lectures and assigned readings often could not, with regard to issues like immigration and climate change. His answer is that the virus acts as what philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers would call the “intrusion” of a commons, which gathers human...

... innovative pursuit of a “spectral chronotope,” she reframes haunted narratives as vessels for collective memory. Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker's contribution, “Spatiotemporal Explorations: Narrating Social Inequalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction,” analyzes the fantastic space-time...

... York : Simon and Schuster , 1996 . Gould, Stephen , and Richard Lewontin . “ The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme .” Proceedings in the Royal Society of London Biological Science 205 ( 1979 ): 581 – 98 . Hsia, Tsi...

..., seeing each as vital to its existence. Indeed the possibility that humans “are such an overwhelming malignant force that Life itself faces planetary extinction has changed the topical foci of the humanities and humanistic social sciences and the quantitative social sciences and natural sciences.” 2...