"This comprehensive book charts the multifarious ways in which China-centric futurologies—the promises of the China dream based on rising Chinese power and wealth—are challenged by writers and artists across the Sinophone world. They do so by imagining and constructing critical Sinophone utopias, even as they must work with the dystopic and ruinous realities on the ground. Sinophone Utopias is an important and timely book." —Shu-mei Shih, Irving and Jean Stone Chair in the Humanities, UCLA
"A cornucopia of interpretative insights based on abundant sources, this impressive collection prompts a fundamental rethinking of Chinese discourses, fictional and historical. Be they about philosophy, literature, architecture, film, new media, political activism, the performing arts, academic debate, and other realms of knowledge production, such discourses can now be understood as variants of an inexhaustible series of engagements with utopia in thought and practice. This stimulating tome will appeal to all those invested in the study of China and in the generative agency of hope." —Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University
"Engaging an important topic in the emergent field of Chinese and Sinophone utopianisms, this book brings together essays that effectively explore how various kinds of 'existential utopias' are configured. Readers are inspired to (re)consider the validity of existing theories related to utopia as a theoretical framework for analyzing the contributing factors to explorations of the future. Having raised timely issues and defined related problems in a very useful manner, this conceptual project is of interest to readers from different disciplines." —Yiu-Wai Chu, Professor and Director of Hong Kong Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong