...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...

... evil exists. I also find people in the third zone more like humans than those who subscribe to the binary opposition between great benevolence and great evil. After abandoning the dichotomous mode of thinking, I realized that I should uphold the science of categorization. Without categorizing...

... 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...

...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...

..., and ultimately unsustainable. For Andolfatto, quoting Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science Fiction , utopia is “the verbal construction of a particular quasi-human community where sociopolitical institutions, norms, and individual relationships are organized according to a more perfect principle than...

..., 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...

..., and pointed out an irony: “In a certain way, I'm in a privileged position; [yet] if you mention my name in the Philippines, no one knows me. But in the science fiction or fantasy genre in the mainstream publishing industry, I'm usually known either as a blogger, reviewer, or interviewer.” 4 Who...

... 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...

... 27 , no. 3 ( 2012 ): 477 – 87 . Haraway, Donna . “ A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century ” [1989]. In Manifestly Haraway , by Donna J. Haraway , 5 – 90 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2016 . Jackson...

... 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 abroad, they are often appalled by the inchoateness of identity issues in societies where the state-society...

... 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 technologies turns a blind eye to the dire...

... 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...

... 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 meeting for recruitment of pioneers, she takes the lead...

..., but that our understanding does not emerge from direct engagement with nature, from working on the land.” 25 Through 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...

... Literature ]. Tokyo : Shin Nihon Shuppansha , 2014 . Pollan, Michael . How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence . New York : Penguin , 2018 . Ronchi, Rocco . “ The Virtues of the Virus...

... approach is typical of all premodern Chinese thinking, the conclusion drawn by Gomel and Wu that a unified space-time is neither counterintuitive nor relevant only to the field of natural science is significant. Though Bakhtin's schema of typological chronotopes may seem a little too generalizing...

... generate a (political) science that is anything but rational, if history presented in the future perfect tense can redeem bygone or ongoing mishaps, if a filial daughter's vengeful wrath can override her professional commitment to social well-being, if a national leader can be both a savior of humanity...

... 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...