Ecological Critique of Alienation in Chinese Science Fiction

Ban Wang discusses how Chinese sci fi writers have explored environmental crises, alienation of labor, erosion of communities, and technologically-induced class disparity in the context of globalization and technological advances. Wang is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and the author of “The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics of Twentieth Century China” and “At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China,” among many other books. This Asia on the Palouse Speakers Series event in the Clearwater Room (ISUB) is co-sponsored by the Habib Institute for Asian Studies and the School of Global Studies.