Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change /
This book examines China's role and its cultural productions in the process of environmental destruction and transformation, focusing on how various cultural media play a significant role in shaping and reproducing Chinese subject formation in relation to changing ecological conditions. It argu...
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| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Impoverishing Anthropocene with Chinese Characteristics
- Part I Disposing and Recurring
- 2. The World Besieged by Waste: On Garbage, Recycling, and Sublimation
- 3. The Environment and Social Justice in Chinese Documentaries: Crisis or Hope?
- 4. Recognition, Reinhabitation, and Recreation: Engaging Nature in Hong Kong Literature
- Part II Nonhuman and Mythic Spectres
- 5. The Eternal Return of Mythology: The White (Green) Snake Legend in Maoist China and Colonial Hong Kong
- 6. Magic Realism as a Critical Response to the Anthropocene
- 7. Expansionist Ethnic Ecology: On Reading Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem
- 8. Too Inhuman to Die; Too Ethereal to Become a Ghost: Children are Not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts
- Part III Ethnicity and Im-Purity
- 9. The "Nature" of Ethnic Tensions: Under the Flaming Mountains as Xinjiang's First Novel
- 10. "Original Ecology" Style of China's Minority Performing Arts: Examples from Uyghur Music
- 11. Animals, Ethnic Minorities, and Ecological Concerns in Chinese Digital Cinema
- 12. Pristine Tibet? The Anthropocene and Brand Tibet in Chinese Cinema
- 13. Conclusion.
