Skip to main content
Vai all'homepage della Commissione europea (si apre in una nuova finestra)
italiano it
CORDIS - Risultati della ricerca dell’UE
CORDIS

Studying Imaginative Otherworlds: Chinese Fantasy Fiction, Literary Politics, and Media Creativity

Descrizione del progetto

Studiare la narrativa fantasy cinese contemporanea

La narrativa fantasy cinese, in particolare generi come la fantascienza, il silkpunk e il fantasy orientale, ha guadagnato una notevole popolarità. Questa crescita ha trasformato il settore, posizionandolo come una lente chiave attraverso cui comprendere la società cinese contemporanea e gli attuali dibattiti sul ruolo della storia, della cultura, della tecnologia e del soft power. Tuttavia, è sorprendentemente poco studiato negli studi cinesi. Il progetto SINOFANTASY, finanziato dal CER, esplorerà in modo esaustivo questo campo letterario esteticamente diversificato, politicamente sensibile e popolare. Uno degli obiettivi principali del progetto è quello di esaminare il fantasy sia come genere letterario sia come fenomeno socioculturale, offrendo nuove intuizioni su come la produzione letteraria si interseca con le norme sociali, le infrastrutture mediatiche e le dinamiche di potere nella Cina contemporanea.

Obiettivo

Fantasy fiction is one of the most understudied areas in in the field of contemporary Chinese literature, a gap that is particularly striking given the current popularity of genres such as Eastern fantasy, science fiction, and silk punk. Over the past two decades, Chinese fantasy fiction has undergone both a quantitative surge and a qualitative transformation, evolving from a niche youth subculture into a fixture of everyday cultural life. The popularity of fantasy fiction reflects not only its mass market appeal, but also its importance in mediating contemporary debates. As a result, fantasy fiction has become a central focus of China’s soft power ambitions, but also one of the most closely monitored areas of cultural production. SINOFANTASY is the first comprehensive study to explore this thematically diverse, immensely popular, and politically sensitive literary field.
Current research on fantasy fiction in China is skewed towards media analysis and often dismissive of the genre’s formulaic aesthetics and alleged disengagement from socio-political realities. Within fantasy studies there is also a strong bias towards science fiction, which has a critical pedigree in the West and addresses issues in a more realist key. SINOFANTASY addresses these knowledge gaps and biases by developing a novel, integrative approach to Chinese fantasy fiction and its role within a censored media landscape. In doing so, SINOFANTASY also makes a vital contribution to the global history of fantasy fiction.

SINOFANTASY has three main goals that address the meaning, embedding, and agency of fantasy fiction:

1) to develop a historically embedded and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary Chinese
fantasy fiction;

2) to study the relationship between fantasy fiction and key socio-cultural and political developments and debates of the postsocialist period;

3) to analyze the role of fantasy fiction and practices of fantasy fandom within the wider Chinese mediasphere.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

Parole chiave

Programma(i)

Argomento(i)

Meccanismo di finanziamento

HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC Grants

Vedi tutti i progetti finanziati nell’ambito di questo schema di finanziamento

Invito a presentare proposte

(si apre in una nuova finestra) ERC-2025-STG

Vedi tutti i progetti finanziati nell’ambito del bando

Istituzione ospitante

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 1 207 857,50
Indirizzo
NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE
KY16 9AJ ST ANDREWS
Regno Unito
Regione
Scotland Eastern Scotland Clackmannanshire and Fife
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 207 857,50

Beneficiari (2)