The Luoting Lectureship

The Luoting Lectureship is an ensemble science-fiction novel set against the imagined future institution of Luoting University. The story begins with the partners Ma Feili and Ada, who, after becoming entangled in a series of mysterious incidents, are “exiled” to Luoting as instructors. Yet this university is anything but an ivory tower. It comprises three colleges—Historical Narrative, Archives and Protocols, and Engineering and Life Support—each bound to a covert and formidable mission: to preserve memories erased by the system, restore fractured protocols, and safeguard the final threshold of human survival in an age saturated with advanced technology and informational contamination.

As the “White Porcelain” collective, the ancient remnants known as the “Snail Ark / Pot-Heaven,” the hostile organization “Clean Room,” and the ultimate concept of “the Outside” gradually come into view, faculty and students alike move between field investigations, theoretical inquiry, and life-and-death rescue missions. In doing so, they confront a persistent question: how can individuals defend difference, sustain connection, and pursue freedom within a system that grows ever more homogenizing? With a style at once austere and delicate, the novel interweaves philosophical reflection with narrative momentum, probing the essential questions of what it means to be human and how civilization might endure.