Next week at Archipelacon! I'll be introducing my doctoral project and talking about redundant laborers in Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing" and Xia Jia's "A Hundred Ghost Parade Tonight" in Fafnir's Anniversary Symposium plus taking part in a panel about supernatural powers in Chinese SFF. Whole programme here: https://archipelacon.org/programme/#display:list
#Archipelacon #Mariehamn #HaoJingfang #XiaJia #ChineseSFF #ChineseLit #ScholarErrant #PäivystäväSinologi #supernaturally
Great article/review of Shelley Parker Chan’s She Who Became the Sun as a diasporic text - quite old but very worth your time whether you’ve read the (incredible, amazing, mindblowing) book or not.
Gave yet another dimension to Parker Chan’s fantastic prose.
Reminded me how extraordinary the book (and its sequel) was - still the best I’ve read in the last few years.
#diaspora #chineseSFF #wuxia
https://reactormag.com/destiny-and-diaspora-in-shelley-parker-chans-she-who-became-the-sun/
Recently, we’ve been blessed by authors of the Asian diaspora producing and publishing incredible works of SF/F literature, but what many people don’t realize when reading English-language SF/F inspired by Asian history, literature, and culture, is that each book embodies a unique, diasporic reception of that so-called heritage. Particularly in the Chinese tradition, there are […]
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