Digital China : Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere (Paperback)

Acknowledgements, Note on Romanisation, List of Figures, Introduction: Locating digital China , 1 Re-inventing tianxia: Coming-of-age in xuanhuan fantasy fiction , 2 An online world of their own: Rethinking danmei fiction through a reading of A Tale of Jujube Valley, 3 Hong Kong's digital literary field: Serialization, adaptation, and readership, 4 Virtual conciliation: (Un-)Coding the split between tradition and modernity in Chinese artificial intelligence poetry, 5 Poetry as meme: The Xiangpi ..literature project, online replicators, and printed archives, 6 Cooking authenticity: Li Ziqi, affective labour, and China's influencer culture, 7 Affective labour on Kuaishou: Sister Zhao and her cyber karaoke bar, 8 Network fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, digital Futurism, and history as computer code, 9 Cyborg resistance: Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, dirty computers and the afterlives of digital things, 10 Virtual art in times of crisis: curatorial practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in China and Malaysia, 11 Viral text: Translation, censorship, community, Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index