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Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema: Reimagining a Field book cover

1st Edition

Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema Reimagining a Field

Edited By Sheldon H. Lu, Haomin Gong Copyright 2020
256 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to the present. The ten chapters examine films with ecological significance in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, including documentaries, feature films, blockbusters and independent productions.... Read more

Introduction: Revisiting the Field of Chinese Ecocinema, Haomin Gong 

Part 1: Eco-Documentaries and Eco-Festivals 

1. Mapping Taiwanese Ecodocumentary Landscape: Politics of Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics in Taiwanese Ecodocumentaries, Kuei-fen Chiu

2. Nature in the City: A Study of Hong Kong Independent Eco-Cinema and Eco-Film Festival, Winnie L. M. Yee

Part 2: Contemporary Ecologies 

3. Three Ecologies of Cinema, Migration, and the Sea: Anchorage Prohibited and Luzon, Elizebath Wijaya 

4. Tracing Extraction in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Tie Xi Qu and the politics of the resource image, Pietari Kääpä 

5. Chai Jing’s Under the Dome: A Multimedia Documentary in the Digital Age, Shuqin Cui

Part 3: Humans and Animals 

6. Global Animal Capital and Animal Garbage: Documentary Redemption and Hope, Chia-ju Chang 

7. Transcendence and Transgression: Reading Wolf Totem as Environmental World Literature/Cinema? Haomin Gong

8. Fabulating Animals-Human Affinity: Towards an Ethics of Care in Monster Hunt and Mermaid, Fiona Yuk-wa Law

Part 4: Landscape and Nation 

9. Sinification by Greening: Politics, Nature, and Ethnic Borderlands in Maoist Ecocinema, Cheng Li 

10. No Man’s Land: Eco-Western in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Kun Qian

Biography

Sheldon Lu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author, editor and co-editor of a dozen books in English and Chinese, including Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge (2009, co-editor with Jiayan Mi).



Haomin Gong is Associate Professor of Chinese at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China (2012) and Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture (2017).

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