Kanyu Wang

• Wang, Kanyu (2025). Growth, Resource, Population. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 52(2), s. 323–349. doi: 10.1525/sfs.2025.52.2.323. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Both in reality and in sf stories, growth has been an enduring human goal, manifesting, for example, in economic expansion, increases in productivity, territorial conquests, and social developments. Regardless of its form, growth is consistently portrayed as an upward, outward, and progressive trajectory guiding the human species toward a better future. Growth does not occur in isolation, however, and should not be considered independently, because it relies on the consumption of resources and on the labor of populations. In this paper I first delineate the three key concepts of growth, resources, and population, as well as their interconnections in the context of China and Chinese sf. My focus is on sf stories set in extreme environments, authored by Chinese female writers who matured during a unique period—from the late 1970s to the early 2010s, spanning four decades of China’s economic boom and the implementation of the one-child policy. I conduct a macro-level analysis of these texts, examining how they illustrate the entanglements of growth, resources, and population while challenging the simplistic masculine pursuit of unlimited growth. Finally, I propose that the pattern observed in these stories—the GRP Triangle—might serve as a sociological tool to examine the limits of a yang utopia.

• Wang, Kanyu (2023). A Daoist Reading of Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds. I Taylor, Taryne Jade; III, Isiah Lavender; Dillon, Grace L. & Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (Red.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms. Routledge. ISSN 9780367330613. doi: 10.4324/9780429317828-38. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter provides a close reading of Chinese science fiction writer Hao Jingfang’s debut novel Vagabonds (Liulang cangqiong, 2016) from a Daoist perspective. After an introduction to Hao Jingfang’s writing as the first Chinese female winner of the Hugo Award and the novel Vagabonds, the chapter moves to discussion on why Daoist philosophy and cosmology still matters in contemporary China. Regina Kanyu Wang argues that Daoist concepts like qi, ziran, and the yin-yang paradigm is important to understand the novel, especially the Mars ecosystem transformation project. The chapter concludes with observations on what ecofeminism can do to inspire a Daoist reading.

• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hageman, Andrew & Wang, Kanyu (2022). Exploring SF Ecocinema: Ideologies of Gender, Infrastructure, and US/China Dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth. I Rust, Stephen; Monani, Salma & Cubitt, Seán (Red.), Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2. Routledge. ISSN 9781003246602. doi: 10.4324/9781003246602-10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter focuses on two major studio blockbusters that succeeded commercially in their respective domestic markets and garnered global screenings and attention, Interstellar (2014) directed by Christopher Nolan and The Wandering Earth (2019) directed by Frant Gwo. The analysis is divided into two sections: education, which looks at the ideological gestures and contradictions in both films’ uses of how these scenes establish the principle of young women characters; and food, which examines the ideological fabrics that inform the food systems and practices both films imagine in their ecological crisis speculations. By scrutinizing the infrastructural divergence in both films, the chapter provides an ideological and ecofeminist critic to the similarly planet-scaled eco-catastrophes and suggests a transnational and complex imagination of eco futures.

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• Wang, Kanyu (2022). The Making of the Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook. Routledge. ISBN 9781032072166. 292 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Wang, Kanyu (2024). Setter Kina på sci-fi-kartet. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2024). Growth, Resource, Population—the GRP Triangle in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2023). Feminism is a Theme in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. [Internet]. Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2023). Reproduction /Nurture Imaginations in (Post --)apocalypse Chinese Science Fiction Online Novels. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2023). A Brief “Herstory” of Chinese Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2023). Into a Real World: Book Review of Cordasco’s Out of this World. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 50(151), s. 484–486. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2023). The Globalization of Chinese Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2022). Gene/Data Management and Reproduction/Nurture Imaginations in (Post-)apocalypse Chinese Science Fiction Online Novels. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2022). Immobility, Technology and Wellbeing: A Reflection of Shanghai Lockdown. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2022). Imagining Diverse Futures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2022). Ecofeminism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2022). Mediating Resources in a Frozen World: An Eco-Feminist Perspective on Arctic and Icy Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2022). Social Utopian Experiments in Ecodystopias: Martian Exploration in Chinese Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Science Fiction as Ecofiction. [Internet]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dKJb4TyKU&t=407s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Science Fiction is a Many-gendered Thing: Regina Kanyu Wang. [Internet]. https://nettop.guru/wordpress/science-fiction-is-a-many-gend. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Conversation with Xia Jia and Regina Kanyu Wang: Women in Chinese Science Fiction. [Internet]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Xidqd2W0E. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). The Business of Translation. [Internet]. https://flights-of-foundry.org/schedule/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Conversation with Regina Kanyu Wang: Women in Chinese science fiction. [Internet]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrwmWzGtvM. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu & Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2021). Fiction and Future. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Sci-fi China: Avatars, Aliens, Anthropos. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Internationa Science Fiction Research | Report on Workshop "Sci-fi China: Avatars, Aliens, Anthropos". 《四十二史》(42 History). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Chinese SF industry. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). The global appeal of the new generation of Chinese sci-fi writers with Regina K Wang. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Exploring Chinese Science Fiction - Essence of Wonder Show. [Internet]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NL3Zxl2LBY. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). The Evolution of Nüwa: A Brief “Herstory” of Chinese SF. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Us in Flux. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). SFF in Non-Western Language. [Internet]. https://flights-of-foundry.org/schedule/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Talk on Chinese SF. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2021). Can Chinese Science Fiction Transcend Binary Thinking. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Thorsson, Bergsveinn; Brock, Patrick; Wang, Kanyu & Tveit, Marta (2021). Imagination Workshop. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva & Wang, Kanyu (2021). Chinese Science Fiction Database: Feng Zhang. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2020). The Imagination Desk with Regina Kanyu Wang on Chinese SF, CoFUTURES, Imagination. [Internet]. https://theimaginationdesk.libsyn.com/regina-kanyu-wang. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2020). Science Fiction Writing and Female Perspective in SF. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2020). Panel about Asian SciFi with Regina Kanyu Wang, YK Yoon, Taiyo Fujii and Shaoyan Hu. [Internet]. https://dreieichcon.de/2020/program. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wang, Kanyu (2020). 《道家思想与生态女性主义的中国应用——郝景芳<流浪苍穹>解读》(The Chinese Application of Daoism and Ecofeminism——Reading Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds.). s. 14–19. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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