This paper discusses how Arthur C. Clarke’s four-volume Odyssey series (1968–1997) and
Charles Stross’s Accelerando (2005) relate to humanity’s narcissistic injuries. Here, powerful …

Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung features a number of passages that did not
make it into the finalized version of the Lehrjahre. In one of them, the narrator rants against …

Daniel Leonhard Purdy sets out to rehabilitate early European ideas about China, stating
that ‘[t] he many critiques that claim to expose the falsity of chinoiserie and orientalism …

This book considers the contemporary political formula of the “Chinese Dream” in the light
of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity. Sinic literary and …

In Cixin Liu’s trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past (2008–2010) and Neal Stephenson’s
Seveneves (2015), the surface of planet Earth becomes uninhabitable amid global states of …

In China, the early twentieth century coincided with an enthusiastic adaptation of the Western
literary canon. Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) played a crucial role in …

… Johannes D. Kaminski is a scholar on comparative literature with special consideration of
contemporary apocalyptic fiction and Chinese-language science fiction. His current project, …

In China, the advent of Romanticism coincided with the turbulent period following the fall of
the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). In the wake of the May Fourth Movement in 1919, many …

Since the end of the Goethezeit and the advent of large-scale destruction of the biosphere,
the way we observe nature has changed. While it holds true that the emphatic gaze at nature …

This paper elaborates on the ambiguity of a political rhetoric that builds on the dream
metaphor. Xi Jinping, since 2013 the President of the People’s Republic of China, helped the …