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Kanyu Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow - Cultural History and Museology
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Phone +47 22 85 52 35
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 P. A. Munchs hus 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests

Chinese science fiction; China studies; science fiction studies; futurism; gender studies; eco criticism; environmental humanities; science fiction industry studies; international communication of science fiction; creative writing.

Background

2012-2014, Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing), Fudan University

2008-2012, Bachelor of Management Sciences (Business Administration), Fudan University

Awards

  • 2023 Finalist for Best Short Story of Hugo Award ("Zhurong on Mars")
  • 2023 Finalist for Best Fanzine of Hugo Award (Journey Planet, co-edited by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yen Ooi, Arthur Liu, Sara Felix, Amanda Wakaruk, Olav Rokne, Jean Martin, Steven H Silver, Chuck Serface, Erin Underwood, Alissa Wales, John Coxon, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia)
  • 2023 Finalist for Best Anthology of Locus Award (co-edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang)
  • 2023 Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF
    • Silver Award for Best Short Story ("A Record of Lost Time")
    • Silver Award for Best Translation (The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin, co-translated by Zhou Huaming, Hu Shaoyan, Regina Kanyu Wang, Chen Qiufan, Hu Xiaoshi, Jiang Bo, Li Te, Yao Renjie, Muming, Sanfeng)
  • 2022 Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF
    • Silver Award for Best Review (“What do We Expect When We Read Fantastic Literature? Notes on Reading Sunlight Trilogy”)
    • Silver Award for Best Non-fiction (“Workshop Report on 'Sci-Fi China: Avatars, Aliens & Anthropos'”)
  • 2019  Annual Short Story Award of Shanghai Writers' Association ( "The Language Sheath")
  • 2016   Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF
    • Silver Award for Best Novella (“Of Cloud and Mist”)
    • Silver Award for Best New Writer
    • Shortlist Award for Best Work for Potential Movie Adaption (“Mechanical Squirrel”)
  • 2015    Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF
    • Gold Award for Best Movie Script (“Of Cloud and Mist”, co-authored with Anna Wu)
    • Silver Award for Best New Writer
    • Silver Award for Best Fan
  • 2015    SF Comet - International Science Fiction Short Story Competition
    • Winner ("Back to Myan")
  • 2014   Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF   
    • Silver Award for Best Fan

Appointments

  • 2016-2020, Overseas Market Director, Storycom
  • 2014-2016, Program Officer, Nordic Center, Fudan University < https://www.nordiccentre.net/>

Positions held

  • Plurality University Network (U +), board member < https://www.plurality-university.org/>
  • Asia SF Association, founding member < https://asiasfassociation.com/>
  • Shanghai Writers Association, contract writer of 2019 and regular member < http://www.shzuojia.cn/>
  • Science Fiction Committee of Shanghai Popular Science Writers' Association
  • World Chinese Science Fiction Association, vice chair
  • SF AppleCore, co-founder  <http: // en. applecore.cc>
Tags: Science Fiction, China, Chinese literature, Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender Studies, Creative Writing

Publications

  • Wang, Kanyu (2025). Growth, Resource, Population. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 52(2), p. 323–349. doi: 10.1525/sfs.2025.52.2.323. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wang, Kanyu (2023). A Daoist Reading of Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds. In Taylor, Taryne Jade; III, Isiah Lavender; Dillon, Grace L. & Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms. Routledge. ISSN 9780367330613. doi: 10.4324/9780429317828-38. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wang, Kanyu (2023). Midway towards Planetarity: (Im)mobility in The Wandering Earth (English version). Transtext(e)s Transcultures Journal of Global Cultural Studies. doi: 10.4000/transtexts.2170. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wang, Kanyu (2023). 通往行星主义的中途——电影《流浪地球》中的流 动/不可流动性 (Chinese version). Transtext(e)s Transcultures Journal of Global Cultural Studies. doi: 10.4000/transtexts.2164. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wang, Kanyu (2023). Female SF, Porridge SF, and Sinopedia: Xia Jia and Genres of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. ISSN 0897-0521. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hageman, Andrew & Wang, Kanyu (2022). Exploring SF Ecocinema: Ideologies of Gender, Infrastructure, and US/China Dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth. In Rust, Stephen; Monani, Salma & Cubitt, Seán (Ed.), Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2. Routledge. ISSN 9781003246602. doi: 10.4324/9781003246602-10. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Wang, Kanyu (2022). The Making of the Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook. Routledge. ISBN 9781032072166. 292 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wang, Kanyu (2022). The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators. Tordotcom. ISBN 9781250768919. 400 p. Full text in Research Archive

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