Locating<i>Kexue Xiangsheng</i>(Science Crosstalk) in Relation to the Selective Tradition of Chinese Science Fiction

Isaacson, Nathaniel

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“…Although a trivial minority of xiangsheng takes the form of solo monologues, it is predominantly performed by two actors, i.e. an illogical 逗哏 dougen 'joke-cracker' narrating or playing the fool, as well as a straight 捧哏 penggen 'joke-setter' serving as an interlocutor in a chatty style of performance (Link 1984, Moser 2018, Isaacson 2019, Chen and Dunn 2020. Chinese stand-up comedy, on the contrary, is conducted by a solo comedian, analogous to its Western equivalent.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

Wang

2024

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Notwithstanding the fact that ?? youmo ‘humour’ is a neologism and transliteration coined in the 1920s, the conception has been existing in Chinese civilisation for millennia. The earliest extant treatise on humour in Chinese literature is regarded to be an anthology ?? Xiao Lin ‘The Forest of Laughs’ cumulated circa 2ndc CE, yet the most illustrious pre-modern jestbook is a 1791 assemblage entitled ???? Xiao Lin Guang Ji ‘A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes’. In the 2000s, stand-up comedy entered China’s entertainment market as a niche cultural import, though it was, and still is, mistranslated into ??? tuokouxiu ‘talk show’. Recently, stand-up comedy attains visibility in China by means of phenomenal online programmes. I postulate that Chinese stand-up comedy is featured by unique attributes, in that it is disparate from ‘A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes’ and the traditional theatrical comedy called ?? xiangsheng ‘cross-talk’, and it is not parallel to its equivalent in the West either. To be more specific, being subject to stringent censorship, stand-up comedy in China is circumspect about content appertaining to (homo)sexual titillation and supernaturalism. Nonetheless, I posit that in terms of inducing humorous effects, contemporary stand-up comedy still evinces similitude to ‘A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes’ from phonetic, semantic and pragmatic perspectives.

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A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

Wang

2024

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“…Their function during the Mao years was largely didactic; their illustrations were intended to inform through accessible visuals. As I have argued elsewhere (Conn 2022), we may understand these materials as a type of "quotidian utopian" (Isaacson 2019) literature. They depicted a post-scarcity, utopian future as an already-assured goal, but one that necessitated action in the present 2 to achieve.…”

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Scry, the Beloved Country: Sinofuturist Forecasting and Accelerationist Aesthetics

Conn

2023

World Futures Review

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Sinofuturism has emerged within the last 5 years as a compelling label for a wide variety of artistic and literary practices that posit China as “the future” and the future as “Chinese.” Yet this term remains broadly undertheorized outside of accelerationist spheres, where it is often taken as a self-evident truism. In this piece, I explore how—despite its many and varied instantiations—sinofuturist approaches broadly share a preoccupation with temporal surveillance that reinterprets the past as a precondition of an inevitable future, thereby enrolling viewers/readers in the creation of such a future. This practice has a longer history than the term itself presupposes, although the contemporary reimagining of sinofuturist characteristics as part of a globalized, self-defining network is almost entirely a result of engagement with internet technologies. Sinofuturism, despite its short history, carries deterministic paths (and assumptions) in its representations that constrain the potential for plural futures.

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2024

Studies in Global Science Fiction

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LocatingKexue Xiangsheng(Science Crosstalk) in Relation to the Selective Tradition of Chinese Science Fiction

Cited by 6 publications

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A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

Scry, the Beloved Country: Sinofuturist Forecasting and Accelerationist Aesthetics

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