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題名 Sericultural Imagination and Queer Kinship in Chinese Mythologies: Yuan Ke’s Silk Garden and Mulan’s Camel
作者 許立欣
Hsu, Li-hsin
貢獻者 英文系
日期 2025-12
上傳時間 20-Mar-2026 09:51:04 (UTC+8)
摘要 This paper explores the intersection of Chinese folklore, queer kinship, and the early Anthropocene by examining sericultural tales, the Silk Road, and war narratives through the lens of multi-species entanglement. The discussion centers on three stories, “Yuan ke yang can” (Yuan Ke and Silkworm Farming), “Nu hua can” (The Silkworm Girl), from Gan Bao’s Sou shen ji (In Search of the Supernatural, 350 CE), and the “Ballad of Mulan” (386–535 CE). These tales foreground human domestication of and dependence on the nonhuman, while destabilizing heteronormative representations of agricultural (as well as biological) productivity. Accounts of military conflicts and economic consumption further complicate the narratives of silk cultivation. The talk compares the differing man–silkworm–horse-camel intimacies in the folklore to highlight the connection between sericultural narrative and early Anthropocene discourse.
關聯 Critical Canons International Symposium: Rethinking Aesthetics in a More-Than-Human World, Department of English & Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University
資料類型 conference
dc.contributor 英文系
dc.creator (作者) 許立欣
dc.creator (作者) Hsu, Li-hsin
dc.date (日期) 2025-12
dc.date.accessioned 20-Mar-2026 09:51:04 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 20-Mar-2026 09:51:04 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 20-Mar-2026 09:51:04 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/162080-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This paper explores the intersection of Chinese folklore, queer kinship, and the early Anthropocene by examining sericultural tales, the Silk Road, and war narratives through the lens of multi-species entanglement. The discussion centers on three stories, “Yuan ke yang can” (Yuan Ke and Silkworm Farming), “Nu hua can” (The Silkworm Girl), from Gan Bao’s Sou shen ji (In Search of the Supernatural, 350 CE), and the “Ballad of Mulan” (386–535 CE). These tales foreground human domestication of and dependence on the nonhuman, while destabilizing heteronormative representations of agricultural (as well as biological) productivity. Accounts of military conflicts and economic consumption further complicate the narratives of silk cultivation. The talk compares the differing man–silkworm–horse-camel intimacies in the folklore to highlight the connection between sericultural narrative and early Anthropocene discourse.
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dc.relation (關聯) Critical Canons International Symposium: Rethinking Aesthetics in a More-Than-Human World, Department of English & Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University
dc.title (題名) Sericultural Imagination and Queer Kinship in Chinese Mythologies: Yuan Ke’s Silk Garden and Mulan’s Camel
dc.type (資料類型) conference