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Zhuoyi Wang.
Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang recently published an article in Humanities (Volume 15, Issue 3, 2026), titled “Governing Survival, Managing Excess: Selection, Evaluation, and Survival Labor in The Wandering Earth Franchise.” 

The article examines The Wandering Earth (2019) and The Wandering Earth II (2023) as films about planetary survival, governance, and labor. Drawing on feminist social reproduction theory, affective and emotional labor scholarship, and critical posthumanism, Wang argues that the franchise turns survival into a problem of selection, evaluation, and managed attachment under conditions of permanent crisis.

Posted April 16, 2026

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