Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing

Xinmin Liu is associate professor of Chinese and comparative cultures in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at the Washington State University.Peter I-min Huang is professor emeritus at Tamkang University.

• Part I: Living Wisdom & Lived HeritagesChapter 1: Humility by Proportion: What Zhu Xi and St. Paul Have to Say about the Baconian Attack on ‘Nature’David WangChapter 2: Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological WriterBan WangChapter 3: Planetary Healing Through the Ecological Equilibrium of Ziran: A Daoist Therapy for the AnthropoceneJialuan Li and Qingqi WeiChapter 4: Toward an Ecocriticism of Cultural Diversity: Animism in the Novels of Guo Xuebo and Chi ZijianLili SongChapter 5: Population, Food, and Terraforming: Ethics in He Xi’s Alien Zone and Six Realms of ExistenceHua LiChapter 6: Junkspace and Non-place in Taiwan’s New Eco-LiteraturePeter I-min HuangPart II: The Embodied ImaginaryChapter 7: The Loss of Genetic Diversity and Embodied Memories in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup GirlSimon Estok and Young-Hyun LeeChapter 8: ShakespeaRe-Told’s Macbeth and Eric Yoshiaki Dando’s Oink, Oink, OinkIris RalphChapter 9: The Logic of the Glance: Non-Perspectival Literary Landscape in Wildfires by Ooka ShoheiKenichi NodaChapter 10: The Paradox of Aerial Documentaries: Eco-Gaze and National VisionSijia YaoChapter 11: Humans, Mermaids, Dolphins: Endangerment, Eco-Empathy, Multispecies’ Co-existence in Stephen Chow’s The MermaidKiu-Wai ChuPart III: Myriad Therapeutic LandsChapter 12: Displacement and Restoration: A Therapeutic Landscape in 311 RevivalKathryn Yalan ChangChapter 13: Nuclear Power Plants, East Asia, and Planetary HealingPhilip F. WilliamsChapter 14: The Revitalization of Old Industrial Sites in Beijing: A Case Study of Shougang (Capital Steel) ParkXin NingChapter 15: Rebuilding the Pavilion: ‘Doubled’ Experience of Heritage at the Geo-Media AgeXian Huang

This is a superb book. In reconstructing the relationship between embodied memory and ecological consciousness in East Asian cultures, it also foregrounds the latest and exciting explorations of East Asian scholars in ecocriticism. With these contributions, this anthology will lead to a redrawing of the map of global ecological research.