Chris Fan 范致忠
@chrisfan.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English, UC Irvine. ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 (Columbia UP, 2024), TECHNO-ORIENTALISM 2.0 (Rutgers UP, 2025). Mellon New Directions Fellow. Hyphen magazine co-founder. 🇹🇼 American. https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/chrisfan
PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.
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Join us for a screening of the documentary A CHIP ODYSSEY 造山者 and Q&A with director Chu-Chen Hsiao 蕭菊貞 and producers. Fri, 11/7, 3:30PM, McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine. Tickets are free, please register here: bit.ly/AChipOdyssey...
October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Join us for a screening of the documentary A CHIP ODYSSEY 造山者 and Q&A with director Chu-Chen Hsiao 蕭菊貞 and producers. Fri, 11/7, 3:30PM, McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine. Tickets are free, please register here: bit.ly/AChipOdyssey...
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Sixth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Christopher T. Fan’s ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY from @columbiaup.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Very exciting to see two @columbiaup.bsky.social books shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize! Congratulations to Chris Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) author of ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 and Sarah Dimick, author of UNSEASONABLE.
October 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Very exciting to see two @columbiaup.bsky.social books shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize! Congratulations to Chris Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) author of ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 and Sarah Dimick, author of UNSEASONABLE.
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We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility
Christopher Lee; Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility, American Literary History, Volume 37,
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September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month!
We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST!
Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg
We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST!
Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg
September 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month!
We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST!
Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg
We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST!
Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg
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New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2
-Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media
-Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
-With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social
-OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
-Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media
-Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
-With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social
-OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
August 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2
-Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media
-Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
-With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social
-OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
-Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media
-Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
-With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social
-OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
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This dataset rules.
@chrisfan.bsky.social 👀
@chrisfan.bsky.social 👀
"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature."
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...
The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This dataset rules.
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“Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.”
The Origin of Love and Nightmares
Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.
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July 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on
Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
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June 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on
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Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net
Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
lareviewofbooks.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net
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“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/
June 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/
My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).
Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
lareviewofbooks.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).
Fascism bad. New books good. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...
June 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fascism bad. New books good. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...
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RIP Joshua Clover
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April 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
RIP Joshua Clover
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👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
Thread: see the shortlisted books for the $10k Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language. Winner and honorable mentions announced in May! Follow our newsletter for updates
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Shortlist: 2024 Translated Literature Award | China Books Review
Presenting the jury’s shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
"My strongest guess is that it is because I have been reasonably outspoken in my critiques of the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza."
March 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"My strongest guess is that it is because I have been reasonably outspoken in my critiques of the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza."
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“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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March 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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"A must-read for anyone who studies or teaches contemporary Asian American literature."
ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social
ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"A must-read for anyone who studies or teaches contemporary Asian American literature."
ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social
ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social
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A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
Many thanks to Bonnie Yonbom Chung for her lovely review in MELUS of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965. academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan
Christopher T. Fan’s Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility is a meticulously researched work that offers a thoroug
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February 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Many thanks to Bonnie Yonbom Chung for her lovely review in MELUS of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965. academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
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Cover revealed for Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions... release date July 15, 2025... Edited by David S, Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. Fan: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...
Techno-Orientalism 2.0 - Rutgers University Press
Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, ...
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January 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Cover revealed for Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions... release date July 15, 2025... Edited by David S, Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. Fan: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...