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Record W4409210101 · doi:10.24043/001c.133250

Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction

2025· article· en· W4409210101 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jiang Yu-qin

Bibliographic record

VenueIsland Studies Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicUtopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Social Science Fund of China
KeywordsHomelandConsciousnessHistoryGeographyPolitical sciencePhilosophyEpistemologyLawPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract: Chinese maritime island science fiction is an essential part of the genre, reflecting China’s historical sea-land worldview, which is deeply rooted in land-based politics and cultural identity. As a subcategory of Chinese science fiction literature, it constructs a knowledge landscape centered on the dynamic interplay between the mainland, the ocean, and the islands. This landscape is fundamentally anchored in a profound homeland consciousness. This homeland consciousness in Chinese maritime island science fiction manifests in three key narrative modes: (1) Political mode. The homeland consciousness serves as the driving force behind the use of advanced technology to safeguard national security and enhance state power. (2) Cultural mode. The homeland consciousness is envisioned as both a cultural homeland and an imagined utopia, explored through the dialectical relationship among the mainland, the ocean, and the islands. (3) Cyclical mode. The homeland consciousness embodies China’s deeply ingrained cosmological belief in the cyclical harmony of heaven and humanity, where the longing for and protection of homeland remains an enduring theme. The homeland consciousness in Chinese maritime island science fiction both engages with and transcends the conventional binary of islands and continents. It integrates oceanic islands into a new dialectical cultural framework, where they are not only the frontier guardians and pioneers of home, but also its philosophical embodiment. This perspective provides a fresh foundation for establishing a new island poetics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.033

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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