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In the global pandemic era, it becomes more worthwhile than ever for us to consider humanity as a community whose destiny is shared regardless of planetary inequality. Science fiction provides a good vehicle to speculate on the future, especially in the thought experiments regarding high technologization, setbacks of globalization, and ecological crises. This paper explores Han Song’s  Subway  ( Ditie ) to understand what challenges high modernization—especially technologization and global capitalism—poses to human and nonhuman existence. The collection of short stories overarches its temporal setting from the Anthropocene to a post-Anthropocene era, where the planet is destroyed by an apocalypse. This article approaches Han Song’s representation of cybernetic (post)human existence, a situation generated when human embodied experience is subjugated under technological manipulation. Drawing on concepts from new materialist ecocriticism such as ecosickness, it argues that Han Song’s subway stories represent the dual crises of the posthuman era—both affective and ecological. These stories express deep concern about the potential apocalyptic impact of techno-utopianism, exploitative expansion of global capitalism, and historical teleology.

Beyond the National Allegory: Affect, Ecosickness, and the Posthuman Condition in Han Song’s Subway