“中国气候故事”——西方气候小说中的中国书写研究

“China’s Climate Change Stories”:On the Writing about China in Western Cli-fi

“人类世”概念的提出和迅速传播预示了“人类世觉醒”时代的降临,重要表征之一就是西方作家通过大量的气候小说对“暗黑人类世”进行再现,且这些气候小说中充斥着中国想象。通过对21世纪以来包含中国书写的气候小说进行重点梳理,考察中国书写的表现形式、特征,探讨具体的研究内容和方法,提出“生态形象学”理念,认识到西方对气候话语权的操控呈现出更加丰富的形式,并对如何应对西方利用气候变化议题打压中国提供建议。

The proposal and spread of Crutzen’s concept“the Anthropocene”usher in the dawn of“the awakening age of the Anthropocene”which is characterized with the booming Western novels that envision“the dark Anthropocene”.Climate change and its global effect justify the representation of China in Western Anthropocene fictions.This paper reviews some significant Anthropocene novels since the advent of the 21st century that include Chinese factors,explores the patterns and features of how China is represented,discusses its research content and methodology,then delves into its discourse construction and offers some suggestions about studies on Chinese factors in cli-fi for the future.