This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume breaks new ground in Chinese and global film studies.
Sheldon Lu is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis.
A timely volume addressing issues of hydro-politics, eco-aesthetics, manufactured landscape, and bioethics, Chinese Ecocinema charts a new direction for film studies and establishes cinema as a vital force in renegotiating fractured relationships amongnature, history, technology, and culture, as it gestures toward a place-bound ideal of planetarianism. -- Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego