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Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature
ISSN 2633-8815 · White Rose University Press · 32 artikel di indeks
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Algorithmic Drive, Aesthetic Transformation and the Production Logic of Chinese Online Literature within the context of the Platform Economy: The Case of Qidian
The rapid expansion of the internet has made online literature a key component of China’s cultural sector. With the increasing influence of platform algorithms, literary production has evolved beyond a purely individual creative endeavour, becoming increasingly shaped by reader preferences and…
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Wang Baochuan Beyond Traditional Theatre: Feminist Discourse, Digital Fluidity and Transmedia Character Network
This article explores the evolving figure of Wang Baochuan, a traditional Chinese traditional theatre character, as a “transmedia character network” within contemporary digital culture. Once celebrated in theatrical form for her loyalty and virtue, Wang Baochuan has recently re-emerged across…
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Writing Virtuality: Mu Xin’s Sinographic Designs Across Media and Nations
This article reinterprets the concept of "virtuality" within contemporary Sinophone literature through a study of contemporary Sinophone author Mu Xin (1927-2011)’s writings and media presence. Challenging the common conflation of virtuality with digital or online environments, I argue that…
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The Vulnerable Posthuman: The Existential Crisis in Taiwanese Queer Science Fiction
This essay examines the portrayal of posthuman vulnerability in Taiwanese queer science fiction (SF), focusing on works by Chi Ta-wei (紀大偉, 1972-) and Hong Ling (洪凌, 1971-). Through the lens of posthuman studies that emphasize corporeality and materiality, this essay argues that Taiwanese queer SF…
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The Internet, Shanghaiese Novel, and the Literary Memory of 'Blossoms'
The advent of the internet has significantly impacted Sinophone literature. However, when discussing the relationship between the internet and literature, most scholars focus on genre fiction, whereas Jin Yucheng’s (金宇澄, 1952-) novel Blossoms (繁花) stands as an exception to this paradigm despite…
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Cyborg and the Future Man: Children’s Stories for Chinese Boy Readers
This article examines how technological mastery addresses the boyhood crisis and advances national aspirations in Chinese children’s science fiction, with a focus on Yi Ping’s The Burning Planet. This paper argues that technological mastery is central to masculinity ideals in Chinese children’s…
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Revisiting ‘Internet Literature is Just Internet Literature’ 再论‘网络文学就是网络文学’
Translated Research Article The author 何平He Ping, Professor at the School of Literature, Nanjing Normal University, is an established literary critic. He serves as the Director of the Research and Publishing Centre for World Literature and Contemporary Chinese Original Literature at Nanjing Normal…
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Naughty electric monk: technological experience in the poetry of Cao Seng
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on Cao Seng, a young poet from Shanghai, and seeks to conceptualize digitally- and technologically-oriented strain of his poetry. The material for the study was chiefly obtained from the poet’s collection The Wild Herald (2023). The essay builds up on the text-by-text…
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The Modularized Self and The Companionate Mass Personalization in Chinese Online-Diary Writing —— Reconfiguring Subjectivities in A Journey, through Time, with Anthony
Despite its widespread popularity, blog writing in China has received limited scholarly attention, particularly regarding its impact on reconceptualizing subjectivity. This article examines the rise of blogging platforms for diary writing in 2000s China, claiming that this nascent writing condition…
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"The City’s Charms and Challenges" by P K Leung (translation)
In this essay “The City’s Charms and Challenges” 城巿的诱惑·城市的挑战' by P K Leung (alias Ye Si 也斯) published in Zhong Hua Du Shu Bao (《 中华读书报》) in 2013, Leung traces his own journey as he -- just like many other Chinese families -- moved with his family from Guangdong to Hong Kong in 1949, where he grew…
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All Things Female: Philogyny, Digital Feminism, and Storyworld in Chinese iFemale Novels
This article is among the first in Anglophone studies to explore an emerging new genre of Chinese online literature known as “iFemale” (ainü 爱女). iFemale novels, characterised by an ensemble of entirely female protagonists and an absence of male-centric romantic plots, represent a radical shift in…
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Anti-heroic figures, Dream Boxes, and the Search for the Nature of Humanity: A Cyborg Narrative in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
KEYNOTE Yuqin Jiang is Professor of Comparative Literature, at the School of Humanities, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen. Her research interests span cyborg narrative, sci-fi poetics, digital humanities, science fiction, postcolonial literature, and cultural theories. She is currently leading a…
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Pursuing the Trails of 'Jianghu': The Construction of the Chinese Online Fiction Realm
This paper employs the traditional concept of jianghu (lit. rivers and lakes) to elucidate the initial developmental phase of Chinese online fiction and the agencies that were actively engaged. The concept of jianghu pertains to spheres that frequently exhibit subversive or subcultural attributes…
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Contested Boundaries: Platformisation, Gender, and the Evolution of Jinjiang Literature City
This paper explores the platformisation of Chinese webnovels and its distinct gender divide by adopting a “platform biography” approach to Jinjiang Literature City, the largest nüpin (women’s webnovels) platform in China. Borrowing Benjamin Nicoll (2019)’s concept of “minor platforms”, I…
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Technology and Modern Chinese Literature
KEYNOTE ARTICLE Michel Hockx is a professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs. He has published widely, both in English and in Chinese, on topics…
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AFCC 2023: The Role of the Translator in the Age of AI
The following is a record of the session “The Role of the Translator in the Age of AI” at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content, in Singapore, on 28 May 2023, a few months after the launch of ChatGPT (November 2022). The panel comprised Nguyen Thanh Nam, Susan Xu Yun and Helen Wang, with Avery…
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Cosmopolitan Hybridity, Cultural Memory and Curation in Hong Kong Poetry
This article builds on previous research on the engagement of British-based Hong Kong Anglophone poets with the visual arts. It attempts to outline an object-based curatorial poetics observed in Hong Kong Anglophone poetry. Understanding curation as a mode of writing, we argue that Hong Kong poets…
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The Trope of Life in Hong Kong Poetry: Realism, Survival, and 'Shenghuohua'
This article studies the differing manifestations of “life” through the debate over various forms of realism in modern Chinese and Hong Kong poetics since the 1920s. It examines how the trope of life was configured over time in Hong Kong’s realist, romantic, and modernist poetics. This article…