"Sinophone Utopias" by Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach , & Justyna Jaguscik, eds. "prompts a fundamental rethinking of Chinese discourses, fictional and historical." cambriapress.com/SinophoneUtopi…

"Atoms and Love" or I prefer "Atomic Love"💓 Found this nice #lianhuanhua adaptation of the play 原子与爱情 from 1980. The story is as much about eulogizing scientists and China's nuclear program as it is about the aftermath of the CR

The fake Shijing scandal poem #伪诗经

On the state of sf barrons.com/news/chinese-s…

Geheime Sponsoren, ein spektakulärer Neubau und kommunistische Pioniere: zu Besuch beim Weltkongress für Science-Fiction in China nzz.ch/technologie/sc…

Thanks for stopping by our panel 😁 Matthias Sander

Thanks Grady McGregor for the feature of our old seminar translations of Liu Cixin's wild debut novel China 2185! It would be awesome to see a full translation one day, but there are issues...

New LLM for Classical Chinese with a BLEU score higher than GPT-4. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xJT6bK-sVFh9…

Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach and Justyna Jaguscik (eds.). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2023. 484 pp. $129.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781621966463 | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/46yE2t6

"Sinophone Utopias," by Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach , & Justyna Jaguscik, eds., "prompts a fundamental rethinking of Chinese discourses, fictional and historical." cambriapress.com/SinophoneUtopi…

And also features a beautiful review by Prof. Nicola Spakowski of our book "Sinophone Utopias" Cambria Press . Thank you🙏

English recap~the assumption that Chinese science fiction is necessarily different than NA sf is very problematic. Chinese thought is diverse and not automatically rooted in some transcendental Dao-verse. HOWEVER: Chinese sf is an important field for understanding China today

Thrilled to announce that starting in April, I will join Universität Freiburg as junior professor Sinology/contemporary China. Looking forward to working with new students and colleagues on science fiction, new media, AI情 and much more!

Very pleased to announce the book is now available open access! Chapters on the fascinating concept of the Sinocybersphere, from the perspectives of literary and media studies. Had the honor of contributing a piece on WeChat, Susan Sontag, and Mars. (Thank you Jessica Imbach !)

How have digital technologies reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape in the last 10 years? Now available via #openaccess, Jessica Imbach's book 'Digital China' examines these developments through the notion of the Sinocybersphere. aup.nl/en/book/978904…

A welcome respite from democratic meltdown doom scrolling nature.com/articles/s4158…

Sign-up for the info session for our English MA Modern China Studies program is now open. uni-freiburg.de/sinologie/onli…

Out since a few days: our Corona DVCS conference volume "Crisis and risk: China and how to deal with imponderable" (tinyurl.com/55rcuurw). Thanks to Samira Müller, Jessica Imbach, Simona Alba Grano et al. for their help on the long editorial journey.