TY - CHAP
T1 - LET A HUNDRED SINOFUTURISMS BLOOM
AU - Conn, Virginia L.
AU - de Seta, Gabriele
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - This chapter reviews two decades of discourses and debates around the term sinofuturism. After connecting the term’s emergence to China’s rise on the world stage and contextualizing it in a longer history of techno-orientalist representation, we outline other articulations of China and the future, including futurist ideas in Chinese politics, imaginations of futurity in Chinese science fiction, and sinofuturist aesthetics in contemporary art. By tracing the circulation of this term from its othering formulation through local reappropriations, we conclude that the complex history of sinofuturism reflects the contested and at times contradictory role of future temporalities in China.
AB - This chapter reviews two decades of discourses and debates around the term sinofuturism. After connecting the term’s emergence to China’s rise on the world stage and contextualizing it in a longer history of techno-orientalist representation, we outline other articulations of China and the future, including futurist ideas in Chinese politics, imaginations of futurity in Chinese science fiction, and sinofuturist aesthetics in contemporary art. By tracing the circulation of this term from its othering formulation through local reappropriations, we conclude that the complex history of sinofuturism reflects the contested and at times contradictory role of future temporalities in China.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780429317828-37
DO - 10.4324/9780429317828-37
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85177520629
SN - 9780367330613
SP - 345
EP - 355
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Cofuturisms
ER -