Chinese Environmental Humanities

Chia-ju Chang is Associate Professor of Chinese at Brooklyn College–CUNY, 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).

• 1. Environing at the Margins: Huanjing as a Critical Practice.- Section I Chinese Ecocriticism and Ecotranslation Studies.- 2. Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La:  Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming’s “Peach-Blossom Spring”.- 3. The Nakedness of Hope: Solastalgia and Soliphilia in the Writings of Yu Yue, Zhang Binglin, and Liang Shuming.- 4. Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China.- 5.From Jiang Rong to Jean-Jacques Annaud: An Ecological Rewrite of Wolf Totem.- 6. An Ecotranslation Manifesto: On the Translation of Bionyms in Nativist and Nature Writing from Taiwan.- Section II Chinese Ecocinema and Ecomedia Studies.- 7. Worms in the Anthropocene:  The Multispecies World in Xu Bing’s Silkworm Series.- 8. Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang’s Beijing Besieged by Waste.- 9. Land, Technological Triumphalism and Planetary Limits: Revisiting Human-Land Affinity.- 10. Ecomedia Events in China: From Yellow Eco-Peril to Media Materialism.- Section III Sustainability, Organic Community, and Buddhist Multispecies Ethics.- 11 The Paradox of China’s Sustainability.- 12 Contemplating Land: An Ecocritique of Hong Kong.- 13. The Intersection of Sentient Beings and Species, Traditional and Modern, in the Practices and Doctrine of Dharma Drum Mountain.- 14. An Exposition of the Buddhist Philosophy of Protecting Life and Animal Production.