Membranes Chi Ta-wei
Membranes Chi Ta-wei It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on…
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Membranes Chi Ta-wei
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change.
But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality.First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city's best-known media personalities. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes--heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies--into a sensitive portrait of one young