Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Chang, Chia-Ju (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030186334 ISBN-13: 9783030186333 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting - Social Science | Media Studies |
Dewey: 302.23 |
Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 8.4" (1.30 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |