Book review: <i>Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China</i> by Ying Qian
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
is post-human critique, presented in the older generation of writers, such as Han Song and Liu Cixin.Another reveals a more tolerant post-humanism, prevailing among writers in Taiwan.Chapter 9 examines the second wave created by women writers, filled with 'fluidity' by integrating history (p.294), traditional fantasy stories, and ghost stories into science fiction.The Epilogue claims that increasing government attention reduces Chinese science fiction's experimental nature while at the same time inspiring more creative writing.The commonalities of the new wave writers are prominently represented here; however, the differences among them warrant elaboration.Furthermore, Song could have properly addressed why the new wave suddenly emerged and broke the long-time silence of Chinese science fiction, for example, as a response to modernization (see Han Song, Chinese science fiction: A response to modernization, Science Fiction Studies 40(1), 2013: 15-21).Nonetheless, none of these issues detract from the monograph's strength which illuminates the invisibility of the new wave from the perspectives of genre, history, author, narrative, globalization, and gender.Compared to domestic researchers, Song finds that the new wave bypasses rather than follows the mandates of the mainstream.Fear of Seeing is an inspiring reference book for anyone who is interested in science fiction novels, students eager to understand the new wave, and scholars of science fiction studies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it