Steampunk, Zombie Apocalypse, and Homoerotic Romance: Rewriting Revolution Plus Love in Contemporary China

dc.contributor.author	Ni, Zhange	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-19T15:03:24Z	en
dc.date.available	2018-10-19T15:03:24Z	en
dc.date.issued	2018-10	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85435	en
dc.description.abstract	What if the industrial revolution had first taken place in late imperial China, which had taken the lead in technological innovations but suffered a severe shortage of fossil fuels and clashed with the equally energy-hungry West? What if, fast forward to 2012, global warming had released a fatal virus and unleashed a zombie pandemic threatening to terminate the human civilization and transform the entire planet? These are some of speculative scenarios enacted in contemporary Chinese popular novels. To one’s surprise, these novels are not associated with the relatively more established field of science fiction, but consumed and produced as danmei, that is, homoerotic romance featuring love affairs of male characters primarily but not exclusively for the entertainment of young women.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.ispartof	ASPECT working papers	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.title	Steampunk, Zombie Apocalypse, and Homoerotic Romance: Rewriting Revolution Plus Love in Contemporary China	en
dc.type	Working paper	en

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