meidu

Mei Du is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her current research explores critical utopianism/dystopianism in Lu Xun’s writings and its influence on contemporary Chinese speculative fiction, focusing on Liu Cixin's text. She is particularly interested in exploring the connection between historical trauma and futuristic imaginations and the discussion of ethics and morality in Chinese SF and beyond. Her general research interests lie in several intersecting motifs, such as nationalism, evolutionary thinking, progress and development, trauma, martyrdom, and memorialization.