Experiencing Technologized Aging through Chinese Speculative Fictions

China, along with the rest of the Sinosphere, is rapidly aging. At the same time, it emerges as a techno giant, and recent developments have fostered an industry of eldercare products, such as AI care robots and VR treatments for dementia. As a result, there arise both concerns with the bioethics implications and excitement about the imaginative possibilities technologized aging creates. What are the biopolitics of technologized aging, and how do they redefine meanings of good aging, and as an extension, a good death? Through examining speculative fiction, I made several arguments: 1) they act as mirrors rather than perpetuators of social injustices of neoliberalism, 2) despite common framing on these technologies as “cold” or less-than-human, they hold potential in morphing new social relations and affirming selfhood, and 3) they ultimately align with the discourse of harmonious aging rather than successful aging.