meidu

 Mei Du is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her current research explores the intertextuality between Liu Cixin’s science fiction and other writings, such as those of Lu Xun and Arthur C. Clarke, and examines the entanglement of humanist, transhumanist, and posthumanist thought in Liu Cixin’s SF. Her broader research interests lie in several intersecting themes in contemporary speculative narratives, including progress, futuristic imagination, trauma, memorialization, morality, and utopianism.