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A series of conversations with scholars/translators/authors about the weird, fantastic, speculative and science fictional aspects of contemporary Sinophone literature.”

By NettOp UiS / Posted on16/05/2022

Daoist Gaming Fantasy and Danmei Romances with Zhange Ni

In this episode, Zhange Ni introduces us to some of the myriad fantasy genres proliferating on Chinese internet platforms and beyond. She describes and contextualises recent subgenres such as qihuan 奇幻 and xuanhuan 玄幻 (and their relationship with wuxia 武俠 Les mer …

By NettOp UiS / Posted on07/04/2022

Pre-internet Fandom, Graphic Novels, and Eco-SF with Hua Li

In This episode, Hua Li relates how modern Chinese SF was popularized as a transmedial practice in the 1980s. She explains the key role played by a kind of graphic novel format known as lianhuanhua连环画 and gives examples from the Les mer …

By NettOp UiS / Posted on10/03/2022

Resistance is Versatile with Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker

In this episode, we discuss three types of resistance found in post-80s Chinese SF: resistance to social inequalities, to political repression/censorship, and to gender stereotypes. Frederike gives examples from her research into works by Hao Jingfang, Ma Boyong, Zhang Ran, Les mer …

By NettOp UiS / Posted on26/11/2021

Owlish and Other Translated Languages with Natascha Bruce

In this fourth episode, Natascha Bruce talks about wormbooks, birdcats and owlfish, about haunting Hong Kong protests, and about keeping alive uncanny textual elements across languages. She reveals how it was to translate 謝曉虹 Dorothy Tse’s 鷹頭貓與音樂箱女孩 Eaglehead Cat and the Music Box Girl (which Les mer …

By NettOp UiS / Posted on21/10/2021

SF and the Internet Teahouse: Xueting Christine Ni

In this episode, Xueting Christine Ni introduces the new anthology Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction (out 9 November 2021) that she has compiled and edited, and shares thoughts on the diversification of the genre. She interprets literary internet Les mer …

By NettOp UiS / Posted on01/07/2021

Science Fiction is a Many-gendered Thing with Regina Kanyu Wang

How does writing in a foreign language help authors think beyond their own perspective and imagine other beings, other identities, other species? In this episode, Regina Kanyu Wang talks about her research into environmental SF, her own use of English Les mer …

By NettOp UiS / Posted on07/06/2021

Invisible Realms of Science Fiction with Mingwei Song

What is the New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction and how do the invisible aspects of reality that it brings to light impact the genre, the scholarship, and our understanding of literature in general? In this first instalment of the Les mer …

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