Nathaniel Kenneth Isaacson

Chinese Science Fiction

Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity

[Review of Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity, by T. Huters]. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. https://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/isaacson-2/

An Analysis of the Concept of ‘Science Fiction in the Late Qing Dynasty

[Translation]. Comparative Literature and World Literature, 7(1), 1–19.

Liu Cixin (2000) and Frant Gwo (2019), The Wandering Earth / Deimperializing Empire

In I. Yoshinaga, S. Guynes, & G. Canavan (Eds.), Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (pp. 153–162).

The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture by Mark Bould

Science Fiction Studies, 49(3), 555–558.

Sino-American SF: Trans-national Participatory Culture and Translation

SFRA Review, 51(2), 62–70.

Special Issue on Chinese Science Fiction

In Comparative Literature and World Literature (Vol. 6).

Trains in Late Qing Print Culture

In D. Ambaras & K. M. D. Nov (Eds.), Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.

Trains, Technology and National Affect in Socialist-Realist Cinema 1949-1965

Comparative Literature and World Literature, 6(1), 63.

‘Subaltern’ No More: of What Does Chinese Science Fiction Speak?

Comparative Literature and World Literature, 6(1), 1–4.

A Primer to Han Song

[Translation]. Los Angeles: Dark Moon Books.

The Automation of Affect: Robots and the Domestic Sphere in Sinophone Cinema

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (Tor Books, 2019)

[Review of Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, by K. Liu]. Los Angeles Review of Books.

China Turns Outward: On the Literary Significance of Liu Cixin's Science Fiction

Science Fiction Studies, 46(1), 1–20.

Locating Kexue Xiangsheng (Science Crosstalk) in Relation to the Selective Tradition of Chinese Science Fiction

OSIRIS, 34(1), 139–157.

Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965

Isaacson, N. (2019, November). JOURNAL OF CHINESE OVERSEAS, Vol. 15, pp. 287–290.

Eerie Parables and Prophecies: An Analysis of Han Song’s Science Fiction

Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 28–32.

Evolution or Samsara? Spatio-Temporal Myth in Han Song's Science Fiction

Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 23–27.

Han Song

Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 4–5.

Science as Institutional Formation in <i>The New Era

Monde Chinois, 51-52(3), 28.

Soul-stealing Sand': War and Time in Xin jiyuan [The New Era] (Xin jiyuan yu ‘zhuihun sha’ – Xin jiyuan zhong de shijian yu zhanzheng)

[Translation]. Science Fiction Studies, 46(1), 1–23.

Special Issue on Han Song and Contemporary Chinese SF

In Chinese Literature Today (Vol. 7).

The Fundamental Nature of the Universe

Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 12–15.

"Qinggan de waibao” (The Outsourcing of Affect)

[Translation]. Wenxue.

Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Death Ray on a Coral Island

[Translation of subtitles for film]. New York: MOMA.

The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China. By Christopher Rea . Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xvi + 335 pp. $70.00 (hardcover)

[Review of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China, by C. Rea]. Journal of Chinese History, 2(1), 266–269.

Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection ed. by Robert Hegel

[Review of Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection, by R. Hegel]. China Review International, 23(1), 62–65.

Invisible Planets

In The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80s Generation in China (pp. 239–254).

Minzu kehuan xiaoshuo: Yueqiu zhimindi xiaoshuo yu xiandai zhongguo xiaoshuo de dansheng

In W. Yan (Ed.), Zhongguo kehuan yanjiu. Wuhan: Hubei kexue jixu chubanshe.

Orientalism, Scientific Practice, and Popular Culture in Late Qing China

In C. Rojas & A. Bachner (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online.

Blurred Visions of Nation and State in Tong Enzheng’s Death Ray on a Coral Island

In J. Feely & S. A. Wells (Eds.), Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kinkley, Jeffrey, Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels, (Columbia University Press, 2015)

[Review of Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels, by J. Kinkley].

Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China

[Review of Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China, by P. Iovene]. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. https://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/isaacson/

The Hospital

Chinese Literature Today, 4(2), 52–53.

Author profile of Chen Ran

In Dictionary of Literary Biography (Vol. 370). Detroit: Gale Cengage.

Science fiction for the nation: Tales of the moon colony and the birth of modern Chinese fiction

Science Fiction Studies, 40, 33–54.

"As Night Fell it Began to Rain,” and “The Flowers Beneath the Overpass"

In Pathlight: New Chinese Writing [Translation].

"New Tales of Mr. Braggadocio” (Xin faluo xiansheng tan)

[Translation]. Renditions, 77&78, 15–38.

"The Passengers and the Creator” (Chengke yu chuangzaozhe)

[Translation]. Renditions, 77&78, 144–172.

“Lessons From the History of Science” (Kexue shi jiao pian)

[Translation]. Renditions, 74, 80–99.