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Sinophone Unrealities – UiS podkast
by Universitetet i Stavanger
Podcaster og forelesninger fra Universitetet i Stavanger - UiS. Podcasts and lectures from UiS, University of Stavanger Norway
Episodes
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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 wandering warrior/martial arts fiction)...
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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 illustrated works of Ye Yonglie 叶永烈. We then move on to fan culture...
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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, Chi Hui, Gu Shi, and...
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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 I...
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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 fora as modern-day versions of...
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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 to experiment with a non-human narrative…
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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 Sinophone Unrealities podcast, I talk with Mingwei Song about his...
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Podcaster og forelesninger fra Universitetet i Stavanger - UiS. Podcasts and lectures from UiS, University of Stavanger Norway
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