The Quotidian and the Utopian of Techno-modernity: Unbinding China’s Post-Socialist Temporality in Urban Media Artefacts

Article by Hao Wang and Chenhao Ye Abstract: This article critically examines the post-socialist temporality of China’s techno-developmentalism. By identifying “temporal grammars” and “temporal vocabularies” of everyday media artefacts in Shenzhen, we show how China’s post-socialist temporality configures the interplay of past, present, and future while aligning temporal horizons across […]

複數記憶與時間的非同步:當代台灣文學的時間政治 |Plural Memories and Temporal Asynchrony: The Politics of Time in Contemporary Taiwan Literature

Article by 楊子聰 Yeung Tsz Chung Abstract: This article takes “plural temporalities” as its central problematic and approaches “plural memories” as its concrete literary manifestation, in order to rethink the historical consciousness of contemporary Taiwan literature. “Asynchrony” not only reveals the interweaving of narrative temporalities, but also manifests the temporal […]