{"id":3170,"date":"2022-05-16T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2022-05-18T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:46:30","slug":"daoist-gaming-fantasy-and-danmei-romances-with-zhange-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/daoist-gaming-fantasy-and-danmei-romances-with-zhange-ni\/","title":{"rendered":"Daoist Gaming Fantasy and Danmei Romances with Zhange Ni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 \u5947\u5e7b and xuanhuan \u7384\u5e7b (and their relationship with <em>wuxia <\/em>\u6b66\u4fe0 wandering warrior\/martial arts fiction) before zooming in on xiuzhen \u4fee\u771f (immortality cultivation) tales that effortlessly mingle contrasting realms of (the idea of) ancient Daoism and contemporary computer games. Finally, we discuss the danmei \u803d\u7f8e (tanbi) boy\u2019s love romances predominantly produced and consumed by women readers as well as these transmedial genres\u2019 implications for our understanding of what literature is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Magical Guest:<\/strong> Zhange Ni\uff08\u502a\u6e5b\u8238\uff09is an associate professor of religion and literature at Virginia Tech currently posted as a research fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study (France). She received her Ph.D. in religion and literature from the University of Chicago Divinity School, did postdoctoral work at the &#8220;Women&#8217;s Studies in Religion Program&#8221; at Harvard Divinity School. She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled <em>The Cult of Fiction in the Age of the Internet: Chinese Religions, Digital Capitalism, and the Fantasy Boom in Contemporary China<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Host under Cultivation<\/strong>: Astrid M\u00f8ller-Olsen is the author of <em>Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction<\/em> (Cambria Press, 2022). She is currently international research fellow with the Universities of Lund, Stavanger, and Oxford, funded by the Swedish Research Council working on a cross-generic study of plant-human relationships in contemporary Sinophone literature from science fiction to surrealism. She hosts the xiaoshuo.blog and has published on arboreal temporalities, fictional dictionaries, oneiric soundscapes, digital chronotopes, and sensory urban spacetime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8280\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3170-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/erasmus_enfermera_espaola\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/podcast.uis.no\/media\/Sinophone_unrealities\/sinophone_Zhange_ni.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/erasmus_enfermera_espaola\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/podcast.uis.no\/media\/Sinophone_unrealities\/sinophone_Zhange_ni.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/erasmus_enfermera_espaola\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/podcast.uis.no\/media\/Sinophone_unrealities\/sinophone_Zhange_ni.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/erasmus_enfermera_espaola\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/podcast.uis.no\/media\/Sinophone_unrealities\/sinophone_Zhange_ni.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/?powerpress_pinw=3170-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/erasmus_enfermera_espaola\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/podcast.uis.no\/media\/Sinophone_unrealities\/sinophone_Zhange_ni.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sinophone_Zhange_ni.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 30:34 &#8212; 42.0MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('3170-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_3170-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_3170-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/?powerpress_embed=3170-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u5947\u5e7b and xuanhuan \u7384\u5e7b (and their relationship with wuxia \u6b66\u4fe0 <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/daoist-gaming-fantasy-and-danmei-romances-with-zhange-ni\/\">Les mer &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1192],"tags":[576,1358,1360,1361,1362,1363,1364,1365,1366,1367],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sinophone-unrealities","tag-gaming","tag-tanbi","tag-danmei","tag-fantasy","tag-neidan","tag-qihuan","tag-xuanhuan","tag-inner-alchemy","tag-xiuzhen","tag-boys-love-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SinophoneUnrealities_Podcast_440x300px_POST.png?fit=440%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OAJ5-P8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2200,"url":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/the-power-of-speculative-fiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":3170,"position":0},"title":"The power of speculative fiction","author":"NettOp UiS","date":"14\/05\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The monstrous and the wondrous often co-exist in speculative fiction and science fiction\u202f\u202f\u2013 related genres and storytelling practices that allow for imagining otherwise. 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