Xueting C. Ni ๅ€ช้›ชๅฉท (she, they)

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Award-winning author ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง :queer and geeky, writes non-fiction about Chinese cultures, curates and translates genre fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia). snowpavilion.co.uk

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Past national day, new book's out in the world, I can post spooky stuff! Chinese #horror storytelling and detective fiction have traditionally been closely related, a connection that's very much kept alive. Released this year, ๆฐ‘้—ดๅฅ‡ๆกˆๅฝ• Chronicles of the Extraordinary, Republic Era crime mystery #Cdrama

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Finale! Glaze ้‡‰ by globally acclaimed author, columnist, script writer ้™ˆ็ง‹ๅธ† Stanley Qiufan Chen. A concept artist expresses pain with her biotech body, but real pain and generational trauma takes much more than Glaze to erase. It was a pleasure translating this key voice of Chinese Cyberpunk. 11/11

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Finale! Glaze ้‡‰ by globally acclaimed author, columnist, script writer ้™ˆ็ง‹ๅธ† Stanley Qiufan Chen. A concept artist expresses pain with her biotech body, but real pain and generational trauma takes much more than Glaze to erase. It was a pleasure translating this key voice of Chinese Cyberpunk. 11/11

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Xueting's #Popculture Digest looks at #Y3K fashion and aesthetics. That's right, it's a new iteration of Y2K, but rather than the colourful retro-futurism of its millennial predecessor, Y3K emerged online around 2024, and casts a colder, bolder look into the more distant future of 3000. 1/

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I'd be fascinated to see some Y3K art or costume designs inspired by some of the stories in Sinopticon, Tombs of the Universe, The Great Migration perhaps, or Starship Library. 4/4

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Key elements of Y3K include use of 3D printed materials as well as fabrics, flowing lines, metallics (especially futuristic silver), the robotic and mechanical humanoid, but also 'wasteland' style with a 'battle-ready' functionality, which would have come from works such as Dune and Mad Max. 3/

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Unlike Y2K which was influenced by trends such as (mainly Western) cyberpunk, Y3K is a futurism that is inspired by from East Asian pop culture, things like K-pop, anime and a new generation of Chinese who grew up in the digital age, pandemic and trad culture revival. 2/

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