Chinese Environmental Humanities

Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including literary and cultural studies, philosophy, ecocinema and ecomedia studies, religious studies, minority studies, and animal or multispecies studies. The fourteen chapters are conceptually framed through the lens of the Chinese term huanjing (environment or "encircling the surroundings"), a critical device for imagining the aesthetics and politics of place-making, or "the practice of environing at the margin." The discourse of environing at the margins facilitates consideration of the modes, aesthetics, ethics, and politics of environmental inclusion and exclusion, providing a lens into the environmental thinking and practices of the world's most populous society.

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Chia-ju Chang is Associate Professor of Chinese at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY, USA. Her book Global Imagination of Ecological Communities: Chinese and Western Ecocritical Praxis (2013) won the 2013 Bureau of Jiangsu Province Journalism and Publication award in China. She also co-edited Ecocriticism in Taiwan: Identity, Environment, and the Arts (2016).

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Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including literary and cultural studies, philosophy, ecocinema and ecomedia studies, religious studies, minority studies, and animal or multispecies studies. The fourteen chapters are conceptually framed through the lens of the Chinese term huanjing (environment or encircling the surroundings), a critical device for imagining the aesthetics and politics of place-making, or the practice of environing at the margin. The discourse of environing at the margins facilitates consideration of the modes, aesthetics, ethics, and politics of environmental inclusion and exclusion, providing a lens into the environmental thinking and practices of the world's most populous society.

Inhalt
1.Introductory Chapter/ Environing at the Margins: Huanjing as a Critical Practice / Chia-ju Chang1.1Why does China Matter?: From Industrial Modernity to Ecological Civilization1.2Sketching a Field: Chinese Environmental Humanities (CEH)1.3Two Keywords in CEH1.3.1China and Hong Kong1.3.2Beyond China and Hong Kong1.4Chapter Outline1.4.1Huanjing and the Practice of Environing1.4.2Ziran and Nature1.5Chapter Outline1.6Conclusion
Section I: Chinese Ecocriticism and Ecotranslation Studies2.Chapter One Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La: Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming's Peach-Blossom Spring / Chia-ju Chang2.1The Emergence of Ecological Discourses and Ecocriticism in the Cultural and Academic Domains2.2Lu Shuyuan and Spiritual Ecology (Jingshen Shengtai)2.3Tao Yuanming's Lost Generation: Migrant Workers' Moonlight Poetry and Tao Yuanming's Specters2.4The Peach-Blossom Spring: Cultural Imagination and Beyond2.5Conclusion
3.Chapter 2 The Nakedness of Hope: Solastalgia and Soliphilia in the Writings of Yu Yue, Zhang Binglin, and Liang Shuming / Stephen Roddy3.1The Evil Twins of Materialism and Militarism3.2Revolution, Not Evolution!3.3Life, The Supreme Good3.4Reviving Hope, Nakedly
4.Chapter 3 Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China / Dong Isbister, Xiumei Pu and Stephen Rachman4.1Allegorical Marginality: Herbs as Agents of Healing4.2Cosmic Transcendence: Snow Lotus4.3Conclusion
5.Chapter 4 From Jiang Rong to Jean-Jacques Annaud: An Ecological Rewrite of Wolf Totem / Runlei Zhai5.1Annaud's Focus on the Ecological Theme5.2The Ecological Theme as a Trans-national and Trans-cultural Bridge 5.3Gain and Loss in the Ecological Rewrite5.4Conclusion
6.Chapter 5 An Ecotranslation Manifesto: On the Translation of Bionyms in Nativist and Nature Writing from Taiwan / Darryl Sterk6.1Waiting for the Name of a Flower with Huang Chun-Ming6.2Searching For the Name of a Plant With Carl Linnaeus 6.3Sustaining Bionym Diversity Through Translation 6.4Translating the Name of a Fig with Wu Ming-Yi 6.5ConclusionSection II: Chinese Ecocinema and Ecomedia Studies7.Chapter 6 Worms in the Anthropocene: The Multispecies World in Xu Bing's Silkworm Series / Kiu-wai Chu7.1 Worms in Contemporary Art7.2 Silkworm Books and the Ecological Art7.3 Non-human Agencies in the Multispecies World7.4 Anthropocene Metaphor and the Confucian Eco-Governance7.5 Concluding Notes: Rethinking Silk Road Culture and Civilization
8.Chapter 7 Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang's Beijing Besieged by Waste / Haomin Gong8.1Place in Beijing Besieged by Waste8.2Place of Waste and Urbanization8.3Displacement of Commodities in a Consumer Society8.4Waste Becomes Politics: Human and Animal Positions in a Consumer Society8.5Conclusion
9.Chapter 8 Land, Technological Triumphalism and Planetary Limits: Revisiting Human-Land Affinity / Xinmin Liu9.1Misconceiving Tech-induced Modernity9.2Unmasking the Wizardry of Cash Change-over 9.3Mending Human-Land Affinity
10.Chapter 9 Eco-Media Events in China: From Yellow Eco-Peril to Media Materialism / Ralph Litzinger and Fan Yang10.1 Eco-media Events10.2 Media as Mediation10.3 Media Materialism: Time, Body, and Matter10...