Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of <italic style="font-style: italic">The Wandering Earth</italic> and A <italic style="font-style: italic">Writer's Odyssey</italic>

Yunxin Gong

doi:10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786542.20260703

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Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of <italic style="font-style: italic">The Wandering Earth</italic> and A <italic style="font-style: italic">Writer's Odyssey</italic>

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Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of The Wandering Earth and A Writer's Odyssey
Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of The Wandering Earth and A Writer's Odyssey
Faculty of Humanities, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310023, China
2026年7卷第3期页码：190-194
网络首发：2026-08-04，

纸质出版：2026-06-30
DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786542.20260703
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Yunxin Gong. (2026). Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of The Wandering Earth and A Writer's Odyssey. 文艺发展研究（英文版）, 7(3), 190-194. DOI: 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786542.20260703.

Gong Yunxin.Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of The Wandering Earth and A Writer's Odyssey[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2026,07(03):190-194.
Yunxin Gong. (2026). Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of The Wandering Earth and A Writer's Odyssey. 文艺发展研究（英文版）, 7(3), 190-194. DOI: 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786542.20260703. DOI：

Gong Yunxin.Chinese Literary Adaptation Films in the Context of Post-colonial Anxiety Transformation: Case Studies of The Wandering Earth and A Writer's Odyssey[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2026,07(03):190-194. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786542.20260703.

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Abstract

This paper proposes a theoretical framework of "internalized post-colonial anxiety

" taking

The Wandering Earth

and

A Writer's Odyssey

as case studies to examine how Chinese cinema transitions from "being defined" to "self-definition" in an era of growing national power. The study reveals that

The Wandering Earth

advances a complicit model through collectivist narratives and the "Chinese solution

" vying for discursive authority within global disaster storytelling;

A Writer's Odyssey

conversely

articulates a tension-based model through meta-narrative structures and the reconstruction of indigenous mythology

probing cultural identity within commercial frameworks. Both films collectively address the core issue of who possesses the right to define "Chinese stories." The research argues that post-colonial anxiety has not diminished with strengthened national power

but has instead been internalized as a deep tension in the process of self-definition. Cultural confidence is not the antithesis of anxiety

but a dialectical process established through recognizing and transforming it. By systematically integrating the power discourse of adaptation with post-colonial analysis

this study provides a novel theoretical lens for understanding the construction of contemporary Chinese cultural subjectivity.

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