Nathaniel Isaacson

Isaacson, N. (2023). 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. Retrieved from https://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/isaacson-2/

Isaacson, N., & Shu, Z. (2022). An Analysis of the Concept of ‘Science Fiction in the Late Qing Dynasty [Translation]. Comparative Literature and World Literature, 7(1), 1–19.

Isaacson, N. (2022). 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). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14093.003.0023

Isaacson, N. (2022). The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture by Mark Bould. Science Fiction Studies, 49(3), 555–558. https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0054

Isaacson, N. (2021). Sino-American SF: Trans-national Participatory Culture and Translation. SFRA Review, 51(2), 62–70.

Isaacson, N. (Ed.). (2021). Special Issue on Chinese Science Fiction. In Comparative Literature and World Literature (Vol. 6).

Isaacson, N. (2021). 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.

Isaacson, N. (2021). Trains, Technology and National Affect in Socialist-Realist Cinema 1949-1965. Comparative Literature and World Literature, 6(1), 63.

Isaacson, N. (2021). ‘Subaltern’ No More: of What Does Chinese Science Fiction Speak? Comparative Literature and World Literature, 6(1), 1–4.

Isaacson, N. (Ed.). (2020). A Primer to Han Song [Translation]. Los Angeles: Dark Moon Books.

Isaacson, N. (2020). The Automation of Affect: Robots and the Domestic Sphere in Sinophone Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48244-2_35

Isaacson, N. (2019). 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.

Guangyi, L., & Isaacson, N. (2019). China Turns Outward: On the Literary Significance of Liu Cixin's Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies, 46(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2019.0010

Isaacson, N. (2019). Locating Kexue Xiangsheng (Science Crosstalk) in Relation to the Selective Tradition of Chinese Science Fiction. OSIRIS, 34(1), 139–157. https://doi.org/10.1086/703827

Isaacson, N. (2019, November). Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965. JOURNAL OF CHINESE OVERSEAS, Vol. 15, pp. 287–290. https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341405

Guangyi, L., & Isaacson, N. (2018). Eerie Parables and Prophecies: An Analysis of Han Song’s Science Fiction. Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 28–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2018.1458375

Yao, W., & Isaacson, N. (2018). Evolution or Samsara? Spatio-Temporal Myth in Han Song's Science Fiction. Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 23–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2018.1458374

Isaacson, N. (2018). Han Song. Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2018.1458367

Isaacson, N. (Ed.). (2018). 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.

Isaacson, N. (Ed.). (2018). Special Issue on Han Song and Contemporary Chinese SF. In Chinese Literature Today (Vol. 7).

Isaacson, N. (2018). 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/JCH.2017.37

Song, H., & Isaacson, N. (2018). The Fundamental Nature of the Universe. Chinese Literature Today, 7(1), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2018.1458371

Isaacson, N., & Chen, W. (2017). "Qinggan de waibao” (The Outsourcing of Affect) [Translation]. Wenxue.

Isaacson, N. (2017). Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Isaacson, N. (2017). Death Ray on a Coral Island [Translation of subtitles for film]. New York: MOMA.

Isaacson, N. (2017). Science as Institutional Formation in <i>The New Era. Monde Chinois, 51-52(3), 28. https://doi.org/10.3917/mochi.051.0028

Isaacson, N. (2016). 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. https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.2016.0079

Jingfang, H., & Isaacson, N. (2016). Invisible Planets. In The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80s Generation in China (pp. 239–254). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv105b9gq.18

Isaacson, N., & Kun, B. (2016). Minzu kehuan xiaoshuo: Yueqiu zhimindi xiaoshuo yu xiandai zhongguo xiaoshuo de dansheng. In W. Yan (Ed.), Zhongguo kehuan yanjiu. Wuhan: Hubei kexue jixu chubanshe.

Isaacson, N. (2016). Orientalism, Scientific Practice, and Popular Culture in Late Qing China. In C. Rojas & A. Bachner (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.4

Isaacson, N. (2015). 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.

Isaacson, N. (2015). 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].

Isaacson, N. I. (2014). 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. Retrieved from https://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/isaacson/

Shijiang, L., & Isaacson, N. (2014). The Hospital. Chinese Literature Today, 4(2), 52–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2014.11834054

Isaacson, N. (2013). Author profile of Chen Ran. In Dictionary of Literary Biography (Vol. 370). Detroit: Gale Cengage.

Isaacson, N. (2013). Science fiction for the nation: Tales of the moon colony and the birth of modern Chinese fiction. Science Fiction Studies, 40, 33–54. https://doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.40.1.0033

Isaacson, N., & Yangzi. (2012). "As Night Fell it Began to Rain,” and “The Flowers Beneath the Overpass". In Pathlight: New Chinese Writing [Translation].

Nianci, X., & Isaacson, N. (2011). "New Tales of Mr. Braggadocio” (Xin faluo xiansheng tan) [Translation]. Renditions, 77&78, 15–38.

Song, H., & Isaacson, N. (2011). "The Passengers and the Creator” (Chengke yu chuangzaozhe) [Translation]. Renditions, 77&78, 144–172.

Xun, L., & Isaacson, N. (2010). “Lessons From the History of Science” (Kexue shi jiao pian) [Translation]. Renditions, 74, 80–99.