Narrating Chinese Identity in Contemporary Art and Culture : Diaspora, Science Fiction and Cinematic Communities

An interdisciplinary team of humanities scholars examine how identities are narrated, constructed, and aesthetically represented in Chinese art and culture around the world.

Featuring contributions from cultural studies, film and literature, history, and media arts, this collection is organized around three interrelated themes: Narrating Chinese Diaspora, Posthumanism in Chinese Science Fiction, and Collective Chinese Cinephilia. Each section connects contemporary Chinese culture with recent work in gender studies, literary theory, and visual culture.

The first section explores representations of identity, cultural hybridity, and transnational belonging. The second critically engages with emerging narratives in popular Chinese sci-fi, challenging conventional notions of subjectivity, boundaries, and relationality. The final section investigates how spectatorship and filmmaking practices contribute to community-building and shared cultural memory. Chapters offer timely insights through case studies on museum exhibitions, science fiction literature, and cinema.

This unique interdisciplinary approach to identity narration captures the dynamics of changing cultural worlds. It uses analysis of new aesthetic forms to shed light on the ongoing dialectics of identity formation and presents an original framework for understanding Chinese diaspora in the 21st-century.