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The Membranes: A Novel (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan) by Ta-wei Chi

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EAN
9780231195713
UPC
9780231195713
ISBN
9780231195713
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Item Length
21.6 cm
Item Weight
0.2 kg
Publication Year
2021
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Membranes: a Novel
Item Height
216mm
Author
Ta-Wei Chi
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Topic
Literature
Item Width
140mm
Number of Pages
168 Pages

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It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city's best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes?heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies?into a sensitive portrait of one young woman's quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader's own role. Ari Larissa Heinrich's translation brings Chi's hybrid punk sensibility to all readers interested in books that test the limits of where speculative fiction can go.

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Columbia University Press
ISBN-13
9780231195713
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Book Title
The Membranes: a Novel
Author
Ta-Wei Chi
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2021
Number of Pages
168 Pages

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Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm

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Ta-Wei Chi
Series Title
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
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