THE OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF THE 51/2 Spring 2021 EDITORIAL SFRA SCIENCE FICTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION COLLECTIVE Review ISSN 2641-2837 GENERAL EDITORS SFRA Review is an open access journal published four times a year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) since 1971. SFRA Review SENIOR EDITOR publishes scholarly articles and reviews. As the flagship journal of SFRA, Ian Campbell the Review is devoted to surveying the contemporary field of SF scholarship, [email protected] fiction, and media as it develops. EDITOR Virginia Conn [email protected] Submissions EDITOR SFRA Review accepts original scholarly articles, interviews, review essays, and Amandine Faucheux individual reviews of recent scholarship, fiction, and media germane to SF amandine.faucheux studies. Articles are single-blind peer reviewed by two of three general editors @louisiana.edu before being accepted or rejected. SFRA Review does not accept unsolicited reviews. 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For more information about the Review, its history, thomas.connolly.2009 policies, and editors, visit www.sfrareview.org. @gmail.com PB • SFRA Review 51.2 • Spring 2021 SFRA Review 51.2 • Spring 2021 • 1 SFRA Review, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring 2021 FROM THE EDITOR Spring 2021 .........................................................................................................................6 FROM THE SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE From the President ............................................................................................................8 From the Vice President ...................................................................................................9 THE REVIEW AT FIFTY The SFRA Review at Fifty: Interrogating Our History ...............................................11 Call for Papers: Interrogating Our History .................................................................12 FEATURES The SF in Translation Universe #11 ..............................................................................15 SFRA Country Report: India .........................................................................................17 Call for Papers: Trans-Indigenous Science Fictions ..................................................20 FICTION Call for Submissions: Fiction .......................................................................................23 1761 ...................................................................................................................................24 SYMPOSIUM: CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION AND THE WORLD Chinese Science Fiction in the Global Context ..........................................................58 The Global Reception of Chinese Science Fiction The Wind of the Future Blows from China ..........................................................59 Sino-American SF: Trans-national Participatory Culture and Translation ......62 Chinese Science Fiction in Contemporary Russia ...............................................71 Chinese Sci-Fi in the Arab World ..........................................................................76 The Chinese Reception of Global Science Fiction Sci-Fi Film Studies in Mainland China .................................................................80 China’s Pluralistic Studies of English Science Fiction: Doctoral Dissertations as Examples ................................................................................86 Finding Missing Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle: A Survey of Japanese Science Fiction Studies in China ...................................................................................97 Science Fiction Education in China: Then and Now .........................................108 2 • SFRA Review 51.2 • Spring 2021 SFRA Review 51.2 • Spring 2021 • 3 SFRA REVIEW, VOL. 51, NO. 2, SPRING 2021 Science Fiction and the Method: Forum 1 World Literature as an Approach in the Study of Chinese Science Fiction ....113 Chinese Science Fiction and Environmental Criticism: From the Anthropocentric to the Cosmocentric .........................................................116 The Possibilities and “Impossibilities” of Studying Chinese and Latin American Science Fiction ...............................................................................124 Cultural Exceptionalism in the New Generation of Chinese Science Fiction .............................................................................127 The State of the Field: Forum 2 Interaction Between Science Fiction and Mainstream Literary Criticism .....129 Chinese Science Fiction of the Republican Era, 1912-1949 .............................131 The Development of Science Fiction Studies in 21st-Century China .............133 The History and Reality of Chinese Science Fiction Studies ............................137 SYMPOSIUM: LIVING IN THE END TIMES The “Living in the End Times” Conference ...............................................................144 Diseased Bodies Entangled: Literary and Cultural Crossroads of Posthuman Narrative Agents .....................................................................................................150 Podcasting in a Pandemic: Dystopian Audio Drama in 2020 Brazil .....................158 Imperialism is a Plague, Too: Transatlantic Pandemic Imaginaries in César Mba Abogo’s El sueño de Dayo (2007) and Junot Díaz’s Monstro (2012) ........167 The Wrong Kind of Viral: Post-Apocalyptic Pandemics in Contemporary North American Fiction ........................................................................................175 The Underside of Time................................................................................................. 181 Apocalypse Never: Walter Benjamin, the Anthropocene, and the Deferral of the End .................................................................................................184 Pandemics in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Rethinking the (Post)Human ....191 Dreaming as Pharmakon in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves ................................................................................................199 Connectivity and Collectivity: Network- Oriented Sociological Storytelling, Intra-Action, and the Pandemic Response Scenario in Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio ...............................................................................209 Living Beyond the End Times: An Argument for Queer Utopianism ...................220 The Failure of Progress and the Example of Fraternity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man ...........................................................................................................228 2 • SFRA Review 51.2 • Spring 2021 SFRA Review 51.2 • Spring 2021 • 3 SFRA REVIEW, VOL. 51, NO. 2, SPRING 2021 NONFICTION REVIEWS Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology .....................................................................................236 Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction ................................239 EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest ...............................................................242 The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games ..............................................................................................244 Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy .......................247 Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse ............................................................................251 Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century ..............254 The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction .............................256 FICTION REVIEWS Docile, by K.M. Szpara .................................................................................................260 Border Crosser, by Tom Doyle .....................................................................................262 MEDIA REVIEWS Color