Jessica Imbach is Junior Professor of Sinology/contemporary China at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. She is the author of Not Afraid of Ghosts: Stories of the Spectral in Modern Chinese Fiction (University of Zurich, 2017) and co-editor of Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream (Cambria Press, 2023). In 2023, she was awarded the FAN Award for early career researchers of the University of Zurich for her ongoing research project, Chinese Literature of the Future: Technology and Nation in Science Fiction and New Media.

• Acknowledgements, Note on Romanisation, List of Figures, Introduction: Locating digital China , 1 Re-inventing tianxia: Coming-of-age in xuanhuan fantasy fiction , 2 An online world of their own: Rethinking danmei fiction through a reading of A Tale of Jujube Valley, 3 Hong Kong's digital literary field: Serialization, adaptation, and readership, 4 Virtual conciliation: (Un-)Coding the split between tradition and modernity in Chinese artificial intelligence poetry, 5 Poetry as meme: The Xiangpi ..literature project, online replicators, and printed archives, 6 Cooking authenticity: Li Ziqi, affective labour, and China's influencer culture, 7 Affective labour on Kuaishou: Sister Zhao and her cyber karaoke bar, 8 Network fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, digital Futurism, and history as computer code, 9 Cyborg resistance: Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, dirty computers and the afterlives of digital things, 10 Virtual art in times of crisis: curatorial practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in China and Malaysia, 11 Viral text: Translation, censorship, community, Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index

"Digital China is a timely and intellectually stimulating collection that provokes reflection on human identity, cultural tradition and social well-being within and beyond the Sinocybersphere. Its interdisciplinary approach, bridging literary studies, media theory and cultural sociology, offers a nuanced understanding of how digital practices reconstruct cultural expression and social imagination in the Chinese-speaking world… It offers refreshing insights for future research on how digital technologies mediate the interplay between power, culture and creativity in contemporary China."Weiyu (Weilla) Yuan, Durham University, Europe-Asia Studies

Jessica Imbach is Junior Professor of Sinology/contemporary China at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. She is the author of Not Afraid of Ghosts: Stories of the Spectral in Modern Chinese Fiction (University of Zurich, 2017) and co-editor of Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream (Cambria Press, 2023). In 2023, she was awarded the FAN Award for early career researchers of the University of Zurich for her ongoing research project, Chinese Literature of the Future: Technology and Nation in Science Fiction and New Media.

• Acknowledgements, Note on Romanisation, List of Figures, Introduction: Locating digital China , 1 Re-inventing tianxia: Coming-of-age in xuanhuan fantasy fiction , 2 An online world of their own: Rethinking danmei fiction through a reading of A Tale of Jujube Valley, 3 Hong Kong's digital literary field: Serialization, adaptation, and readership, 4 Virtual conciliation: (Un-)Coding the split between tradition and modernity in Chinese artificial intelligence poetry, 5 Poetry as meme: The Xiangpi ..literature project, online replicators, and printed archives, 6 Cooking authenticity: Li Ziqi, affective labour, and China's influencer culture, 7 Affective labour on Kuaishou: Sister Zhao and her cyber karaoke bar, 8 Network fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, digital Futurism, and history as computer code, 9 Cyborg resistance: Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, dirty computers and the afterlives of digital things, 10 Virtual art in times of crisis: curatorial practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in China and Malaysia, 11 Viral text: Translation, censorship, community, Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index

"Digital China is a timely and intellectually stimulating collection that provokes reflection on human identity, cultural tradition and social well-being within and beyond the Sinocybersphere. Its interdisciplinary approach, bridging literary studies, media theory and cultural sociology, offers a nuanced understanding of how digital practices reconstruct cultural expression and social imagination in the Chinese-speaking world… It offers refreshing insights for future research on how digital technologies mediate the interplay between power, culture and creativity in contemporary China."Weiyu (Weilla) Yuan, Durham University, Europe-Asia Studies

Jessica Imbach is Junior Professor of Sinology/contemporary China at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. She is the author of Not Afraid of Ghosts: Stories of the Spectral in Modern Chinese Fiction (University of Zurich, 2017) and co-editor of Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream (Cambria Press, 2023). In 2023, she was awarded the FAN Award for early career researchers of the University of Zurich for her ongoing research project, Chinese Literature of the Future: Technology and Nation in Science Fiction and New Media.

• Acknowledgements, Note on Romanisation, List of Figures, Introduction: Locating digital China , 1 Re-inventing tianxia: Coming-of-age in xuanhuan fantasy fiction , 2 An online world of their own: Rethinking danmei fiction through a reading of A Tale of Jujube Valley, 3 Hong Kong's digital literary field: Serialization, adaptation, and readership, 4 Virtual conciliation: (Un-)Coding the split between tradition and modernity in Chinese artificial intelligence poetry, 5 Poetry as meme: The Xiangpi ..literature project, online replicators, and printed archives, 6 Cooking authenticity: Li Ziqi, affective labour, and China's influencer culture, 7 Affective labour on Kuaishou: Sister Zhao and her cyber karaoke bar, 8 Network fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, digital Futurism, and history as computer code, 9 Cyborg resistance: Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, dirty computers and the afterlives of digital things, 10 Virtual art in times of crisis: curatorial practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in China and Malaysia, 11 Viral text: Translation, censorship, community, Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index

"Digital China is a timely and intellectually stimulating collection that provokes reflection on human identity, cultural tradition and social well-being within and beyond the Sinocybersphere. Its interdisciplinary approach, bridging literary studies, media theory and cultural sociology, offers a nuanced understanding of how digital practices reconstruct cultural expression and social imagination in the Chinese-speaking world… It offers refreshing insights for future research on how digital technologies mediate the interplay between power, culture and creativity in contemporary China."Weiyu (Weilla) Yuan, Durham University, Europe-Asia Studies