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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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Front. Lit. Stud. China    2016, Vol. 10 Issue (1) : 113-132    https://doi.org/10.3868/s010-005-016-0007-2
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Traveling through Time and Searching for Utopia: Utopian Imaginaries in Internet Time-Travel Fiction
Shuang XU()
U.F.R. Langues et Civilisations de l'Asie Orientale, Université Paris Diderot - Paris VII, Casier 7009 16, rue Marguerite Duras, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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Abstract

The time-travel genre of Chinese Internet literature combines old mythological motifs with contemporary science fiction approaches to create a narrative line in which the protagonist travels through time, undergoes a series of trials, discovers new worlds, and realizes an idealized life. Borrowing Foucault’s theory of utopian bodies and heterotopias and taking Tianxia Guiyuan’s female-oriented Internet novel Empress Fuyao as its exemplary case, this study analyzes how time-travel fiction uses time travel in order to image a “utopia” and what kind of “new world” is projected by this utopia. In the process, this paper will simultaneously examine the relationship between utopia and twenty-first century China’s new media literature.

Keywords Internet literature      time-travel fiction      utopian body      heterotopia      Tianxia Guiyuan      Empress Fuyao     
Issue Date: 26 April 2016
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Shuang XU. Traveling through Time and Searching for Utopia: Utopian Imaginaries in Internet Time-Travel Fiction[J]. Front. Lit. Stud. China, 2016, 10(1): 113-132.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/flsc/EN/Y2016/V10/I1/113
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