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...

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Published in:	Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 748 - 772
Main Author:	Ni, Zhange
Format:	Article
Published:	Open Library of Humanities Sep2020
Subjects:	Twenty-first century Science fiction Transhumanism Quantum computing Alchemy Bolts & nuts China
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