Aihua Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aihua Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aihua |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2208-2716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vegetarianism and Science Fiction
The Effects of Relational Embeddedness and Network Routines on Industry–University Cooperation in Chinese Construction Firms
Cooperation between industry and universities is vital in the sustainable development of industries. However, research on industry–university cooperation in specific industries remains limited, which motivates our examination of this issue. Drawing on social network theory and the knowledge-based view, we discuss the effects of relational embeddedness and network routines on industry–university cooperation by Chinese construction firms as well as…
Space, Power, and Resistance
The female protagonists in Margaret Atwood’s duology The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments do not surrender themselves to the dystopian world, but desire to change the status quo and act on it. Drawing on scholarship in power politics, utopian studies, and space studies, this article intends to interrogate Atwood’s attention to aligning the utopian desire with space to act out resistance and agency. It argues that although in this duology the to…
The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth
But which is the Way the World Ends
N.K. Jemisin’s masterpiece Broken Earth Trilogy articulates the anger of marginalised minorities. Current studies have not thoroughly explored the dual nature of anger or the power of brotherly love in the Broken Earth Trilogy, nor have they probed into the intricate relationship between anger and love within the narrative. Building on previous scholarship, this article seeks to explore the anger experienced by protagonists such as Essun and Nass…
The Redemptive Implications of Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide
Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan’s debut sci-fi novel, has received growing critical attention. While most of the scholarship focuses on the explicit themes of globalization, post-human, cyborg, and alienation, the perspective of Christianity and the redemptive implications it reveals have not been given due attention. Christian stories and doctrines referred to in the novel are quite closely related to the theme of the redemption of the characters. By pr…
Ecofeminist Science Fiction
As Darko Suvin states, science fiction offers social critique through cognitive estrangement and seeks alternatives for a better future. The ecofeminist dimension is embedded in science fiction. However, the extant scholarship hasn’t given due attention to the intertwined relationship between sci-fi and ecological feminism. The critical anthology Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature (2021), ed…
Literature
Reviewed by: Literature: Why It Matters by Robert Eaglestone Aihua Chen Eaglestone, Robert. Literature: Why It Matters. Polity Press, 2019. 123pp. Is literature a worthy topic of study in an era fixated on science, technology, and information? This has become a subject of debate in recent years, especially as enrollment in college literature courses has declined. J. Hillis Miller has noted that “all who love literature are collectively anxious to…
The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy
The lullaby “The Meadow Song” in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy provides a narrative fulcrum and plays a vital role in reinforcing these novels’ thematic concern. However, extant criticism has not given due attention to its utopian function. Drawing upon Ernest Bloch’s philosophy of music and other critics’ theories on green utopia, this article intends to argue that the lullaby fulfills the utopian function of fueling Katniss’s and o…
Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Susan Watkins' monograph Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (2020) offers a new and distinctive perspective to the growing body of scholarship on post-apocalyptic fiction with the post-apocalyptic turn in recent decades. Watkins focuses on exploring how contemporary women novelists “successfully transform and rewrite the apocalyptic genre to imagine different possible futures for humanity post-apocalypse” (1). Her studies enrich the na…
If we had a spaceship could we go there?”
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road depicts the journey of an unnamed man and his young son across a devastated American wasteland in a post-apocalyptic world. The spaceship, Mars, other planets and aliens are referred to in this novel. Moreover, it also explicitly refers to the residues of modernisation the father and son come upon on their journey to the south. However, the significance and implications of these references have not been given due attent…
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Carrying the Boy’s Book” and “Carrying the Fire”
The Road is Cormac McCarthy’s tenth novel, the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. In this novel McCarthy depicts the odyssey of an unnamed man and his young son, who is about eight y
Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century
The unprecedented outpouring of post-apocalyptic fiction in English since the start of the twenty-first century has brought more critical attention to what was once considered a lowbrow genre. Heat
The Antiwar Theme in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel No Country for Old Men involves two intertwined strands. One is Ed Tom Bell’s interior monologue printed in italics, and the other is the main storyline involving Llewe
Parents' perspectives on the effects of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan
It has been almost a decade since the introduction of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan. Many controversial issues and problems have emerged from this implementation that continue to constitute great challenges for the Taiwanese government in reforming current policies and practices related to English language teaching at the primary level. The purpose of this study was to explore these implementation problems and issues that have arisen…
Parents' perspectives on the effects of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan
It has been almost a decade since the introduction of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan. Many controversial issues and problems have emerged from this implementation that continue to constitute great challenges for the Taiwanese government in reforming current policies and practices related to English language teaching at the primary level. The purpose of this study was to explore these implementation problems and issues that have arisen…
If we had a spaceship could we go there?”
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road depicts the journey of an unnamed man and his young son across a devastated American wasteland in a post-apocalyptic world. The spaceship, Mars, other planets and aliens are referred to in this novel. Moreover, it also explicitly refers to the residues of modernisation the father and son come upon on their journey to the south. However, the significance and implications of these references have not been given due attent…
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century
The unprecedented outpouring of post-apocalyptic fiction in English since the start of the twenty-first century has brought more critical attention to what was once considered a lowbrow genre. Heat
Parents' perspectives on the effects of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan
It has been almost a decade since the introduction of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan. Many controversial issues and problems have emerged from this implementation that continue to constitute great challenges for the Taiwanese government in reforming current policies and practices related to English language teaching at the primary level. The purpose of this study was to explore these implementation problems and issues that have arisen…
The Antiwar Theme in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel No Country for Old Men involves two intertwined strands. One is Ed Tom Bell’s interior monologue printed in italics, and the other is the main storyline involving Llewe
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century
The unprecedented outpouring of post-apocalyptic fiction in English since the start of the twenty-first century has brought more critical attention to what was once considered a lowbrow genre. Heat
Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
Carrying the Boy’s Book” and “Carrying the Fire”
The Road is Cormac McCarthy’s tenth novel, the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. In this novel McCarthy depicts the odyssey of an unnamed man and his young son, who is about eight y
If we had a spaceship could we go there?”
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road depicts the journey of an unnamed man and his young son across a devastated American wasteland in a post-apocalyptic world. The spaceship, Mars, other planets and aliens are referred to in this novel. Moreover, it also explicitly refers to the residues of modernisation the father and son come upon on their journey to the south. However, the significance and implications of these references have not been given due attent…
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Susan Watkins' monograph Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (2020) offers a new and distinctive perspective to the growing body of scholarship on post-apocalyptic fiction with the post-apocalyptic turn in recent decades. Watkins focuses on exploring how contemporary women novelists “successfully transform and rewrite the apocalyptic genre to imagine different possible futures for humanity post-apocalypse” (1). Her studies enrich the na…
Literature
Reviewed by: Literature: Why It Matters by Robert Eaglestone Aihua Chen Eaglestone, Robert. Literature: Why It Matters. Polity Press, 2019. 123pp. Is literature a worthy topic of study in an era fixated on science, technology, and information? This has become a subject of debate in recent years, especially as enrollment in college literature courses has declined. J. Hillis Miller has noted that “all who love literature are collectively anxious to…
The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy
The lullaby “The Meadow Song” in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy provides a narrative fulcrum and plays a vital role in reinforcing these novels’ thematic concern. However, extant criticism has not given due attention to its utopian function. Drawing upon Ernest Bloch’s philosophy of music and other critics’ theories on green utopia, this article intends to argue that the lullaby fulfills the utopian function of fueling Katniss’s and o…
The Redemptive Implications of Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide
Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan’s debut sci-fi novel, has received growing critical attention. While most of the scholarship focuses on the explicit themes of globalization, post-human, cyborg, and alienation, the perspective of Christianity and the redemptive implications it reveals have not been given due attention. Christian stories and doctrines referred to in the novel are quite closely related to the theme of the redemption of the characters. By pr…
Ecofeminist Science Fiction
As Darko Suvin states, science fiction offers social critique through cognitive estrangement and seeks alternatives for a better future. The ecofeminist dimension is embedded in science fiction. However, the extant scholarship hasn’t given due attention to the intertwined relationship between sci-fi and ecological feminism. The critical anthology Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature (2021), ed…
The Effects of Relational Embeddedness and Network Routines on Industry–University Cooperation in Chinese Construction Firms
Cooperation between industry and universities is vital in the sustainable development of industries. However, research on industry–university cooperation in specific industries remains limited, which motivates our examination of this issue. Drawing on social network theory and the knowledge-based view, we discuss the effects of relational embeddedness and network routines on industry–university cooperation by Chinese construction firms as well as…
Space, Power, and Resistance
The female protagonists in Margaret Atwood’s duology The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments do not surrender themselves to the dystopian world, but desire to change the status quo and act on it. Drawing on scholarship in power politics, utopian studies, and space studies, this article intends to interrogate Atwood’s attention to aligning the utopian desire with space to act out resistance and agency. It argues that although in this duology the to…
The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth
But which is the Way the World Ends
N.K. Jemisin’s masterpiece Broken Earth Trilogy articulates the anger of marginalised minorities. Current studies have not thoroughly explored the dual nature of anger or the power of brotherly love in the Broken Earth Trilogy, nor have they probed into the intricate relationship between anger and love within the narrative. Building on previous scholarship, this article seeks to explore the anger experienced by protagonists such as Essun and Nass…
Vegetarianism and Science Fiction
Art (9 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (8 works) · Modern American Literature Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works)