Coda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis

Abstract

In the coda that concludes this volume, the book’s editors confront COVID-19 as a global phenomenon that forces into view cultural anxieties about critical work on fantastic Chinese cinema. The key question the pandemic raises is not just the significance of studying the fantastic as a cinematic form but also how one’s understanding of the fantastic, especially as seen through the theory of Sino-enchantment, can help reconceptualize the understanding of life on this shared planet, as one is ‘re-enchanted anew’ toward the hope of better days to come.