TY - JOUR
T1 - Mind and peace
T2 - The “democratic” info-technological determinism of Gu Junzheng’s “The Dream of Peace”
AU - Tsang, Gabriel F.Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Gabriel F. Y. Tsang 2024.
PY - 2024/12/16
Y1 - 2024/12/16
N2 - Gu Junzheng (1902–1980) published “The Dream of Peace” in 1939, adapted from Edmond Hamilton’s short story “The Conqueror’s Voice”. Junzheng’s tale is highly scientific and includes many technical terms and ideas. It corresponds to the May-Fourth legacy of emphasizing scientific precision for strengthening the nation, but trickily excludes China in the information warfare between the US and “Eastern-most Nation”. Taking “The Dream of Peace” as a both national and personal allegory that reflects the ideas of democracy, minzhu, and communism in relation to represented info-technological determinism, one can discover that Gu’s acceptance of techno-hierarchy, anti-concession, obscurantism, patriotic exclusionism, and absolute public control originated in his specific wish for peace rather than in democratic thought.
AB - Gu Junzheng (1902–1980) published “The Dream of Peace” in 1939, adapted from Edmond Hamilton’s short story “The Conqueror’s Voice”. Junzheng’s tale is highly scientific and includes many technical terms and ideas. It corresponds to the May-Fourth legacy of emphasizing scientific precision for strengthening the nation, but trickily excludes China in the information warfare between the US and “Eastern-most Nation”. Taking “The Dream of Peace” as a both national and personal allegory that reflects the ideas of democracy, minzhu, and communism in relation to represented info-technological determinism, one can discover that Gu’s acceptance of techno-hierarchy, anti-concession, obscurantism, patriotic exclusionism, and absolute public control originated in his specific wish for peace rather than in democratic thought.
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U2 - 10.31577/WLS.2024.16.4.4
DO - 10.31577/WLS.2024.16.4.4
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85213034023
SN - 1337-9275
VL - 16
SP - 47
EP - 60
JO - World Literature Studies
JF - World Literature Studies
IS - 4
ER -
