REIMAGINING DAOIST ALCHEMY, DECOLONIZING TRANSHUMANISM: THE FANTASY OF IMMORTALITY CULTIVATION IN TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY CHINA: with Emanuelle Burton, "The Nuts and Bolts of Transformation: Science Fiction's Imagined Technologies and the Civic Imagination"; Michelle A. Marvin, "Memory Altering Technologies and the Capacity to Forgive: Westworld and Volf in Dialogue"; Nathan Schradle, "In Algorithms We Trust: Magical Thinking, Superintelligent AI, and Quantum Computing"; and Zhange Ni, "Reimagining Daoist Alchemy, Decolonizing Transhumanism: The Fantasy of Immortality Cultivation in Twenty‐First Century China"
This article studies a new fantasy subgenre that emerged in contemporary China, xiuzhen xiaoshuo (immortality cultivation fiction), which builds imaginary worlds around the magical practice of Chinese alchemy and fuses it with science and technology. After the arrival of the modern, Western triad of...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 748 - 772 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=145367503&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 145367503 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 05912385 ZYG jtl: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science issn: 05912385 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2020 vid: 55 iid: 3 pid: 15576 pub: Open Library of Humanities artinfo: ui: 145367503 10.1111/zygo.12634 ppf: 748 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 209KB tig: atl: REIMAGINING DAOIST ALCHEMY, DECOLONIZING TRANSHUMANISM: THE FANTASY OF IMMORTALITY CULTIVATION IN TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY CHINA: with Emanuelle Burton, "The Nuts and Bolts of Transformation: Science Fiction's Imagined Technologies and the Civic Imagination"; Michelle A. Marvin, "Memory Altering Technologies and the Capacity to Forgive: Westworld and Volf in Dialogue"; Nathan Schradle, "In Algorithms We Trust: Magical Thinking, Superintelligent AI, and Quantum Computing"; and Zhange Ni, "Reimagining Daoist Alchemy, Decolonizing Transhumanism: The Fantasy of Immortality Cultivation in Twenty‐First Century China" aug: au: Ni, Zhange su: Twenty-first century Science fiction Transhumanism Quantum computing Alchemy Bolts & nuts China sug: subj: China Twenty-first century Science fiction Transhumanism Quantum computing Alchemy Bolts & nuts keyword: Chinese alchemy fantasy magic/superstition secularization transhumanism ab: This article studies a new fantasy subgenre that emerged in contemporary China, xiuzhen xiaoshuo (immortality cultivation fiction), which builds imaginary worlds around the magical practice of Chinese alchemy and fuses it with science and technology. After the arrival of the modern, Western triad of science, religion, and magic/superstition, alchemical practices of the Daoist tradition were labeled as a "superstition" to be eradicated; however, they persisted and began to flourish within and beyond the realm of fantasy literature in the late twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries. Immortality cultivation fiction has generated a magical form of transhumanism, which envisions human enhancement through techniques beyond the boundaries of "proper" science and "legitimate" religion. While transhumanism in the Euro‐American West is popular among white bourgeoisie males and dominated by tendencies to reaffirm the human subject constructed by excluding the various subhuman others, magical transhumanism in Chinese fantasy explores the possibility of transcending that antagonistic relationship and making a posthuman subject and a utopian world. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science is the property of Open Library of Humanities and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science holder: Open Library of Humanities dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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