Conférence de Martina CODELUPPI (Université de Bologne, Italie). Conférence en anglais.
As the environmental crisis deepens, the Anthropocene has become a crucial framework for rethinking humanity’s relationship with the planet. While scientific discourse often struggles to engage emotions or ethics, literature—particularly climate fiction, or cli-fi—offers a compelling medium for representing ecological anxiety and moral responsibility. In the Sinophone world, however, climate fiction remains undertheorized, with critics only beginning to map its contours beyond Anglophone dominance. This conference explores how Sinophone writers imagine the intersection of artificial intelligence and the climate crisis, examining how technological mediation reshapes ecological ethics and subjectivity.
Focusing on Gu Shi’s “Ze cheng” (City of Choice, 2023) and Chi Ta-wei’s “Biospheres” (2024), I will employ an econarratological approach to investigate how narrative form articulates human and nonhuman agency. Gu Shi’s story, set in a future where AI governs environmental decision-making, probes the ethical boundaries of technological responsibility in climate action. Chi Ta-wei’s “Biospheres,” a sequel to The Membranes, envisions a queer, posthuman world in which bodies adapt to life in protected ecosystems, foregrounding corporeality as both agent and victim of ecological change.
By situating these texts within the broader framework of Sinophone literature—from mainland China to Taiwan—this paper argues for a transnational, multilingual mapping of climate fiction that
resists a monolithic view of “Chinese” writing. Through the lens of AI, these narratives reimagine the human condition in an age of environmental precarity, illuminating how the Sinophone imagination contributes distinct ethical, cultural, and affective perspectives to global climate discourse.
Martina Codeluppi is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Chinese literature and translation. Her research focuses on Chinese and Sinophone fiction, with particular attention to diasporic writing, literary translation, and climate fiction. She is the author of Fictional Memories (L’Harmattan, 2020) and her current project explores the emergence of climate fiction in the Sinophone world. She also translates contemporary Chinese authors into Italian.
Jeudi 11 décembre 2025
18h-20h
Inalco – Pôle des Langues et
Civilisations
Amphi 2
65, rue des Grands Moulins
75013 Paris
Contacts : Victor Vuilleumier et Shuang Xu
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