Sinophone Utopias Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream.
"This study examines the vibrant space of Chinese and Sinophone cultural negotiations between state and grassroots utopianist discourses and teases out both the declining and emergent visions for the future as embedded in the analyzed literary narratives and visual representations. It probes th...
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Cambria Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Technology
- Chapter 1: Liu Cixin's Poetry Cloud and the Utopian Role of Literature
- Chapter 2: Do China's Robots Dream the China Dream?
- Chapter 3: Female Utopia on the World Wide Web
- Chapter 4: Life in the Surveillance Dystopia
- Part II: Values and Traditions
- Chapter 5: Reimaginations of Utopian Socialism and Post-Solar Nightmares
- Chapter 6: Between Utopianism and Political Realism
- Chapter 7: Existential Utopia
- Chapter 8: The Road to Revolutionary Utopia
- Chapter 9: The "Northeast Renaissance" Phenomenon in Contemporary Chinese Literature
- Part III: Places and Stages
- Chapter 10: Dialectical Utopianism
- Chapter 11: Rethinking Utopia through Theater
- Chapter 12: Utopias of Unalienated Labor
- Chapter 13: Cultivating Heterotopia
- Part IV: Specters of the Past
- Chapter 14: Anti-Utopia and the Poetics of Ruins, 1978-2018
- Chapter 15: Specters of Utopia in Diceng Literature
- Chapter 16: Revisiting Hong Kong's Myth of Success
- Chapter 17: Beyond the Chinese Dream
- Chapter 18: Post-Utopian Returns
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors€
- Cambria Sinophone World Series