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- Examines China’s role and its cultural productions in the process of environmental destruction and transformation
- Brings together cutting-edge critical analyses across Chinese literature, music and cinema
- Offers an transdisciplinary and comprehensive vision of Chinese arts and literature under the current conditions of the Anthropocene
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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 argues that China under the leadership of Xi Jinping vowed in 2017 to play a leading role in preserving the planet for the future, but many of its actions such as its “Belt and Road” initiative have aroused apprehension rather than inspired confidence. Against this backdrop of environmental concern, this volume brings together a cutting-edge critical analysis of Chinese literature, music and cinema, offering a transdisciplinary and comprehensive vision of Chinese arts and literature under the current conditions of the Anthropocene. This volume sets a high scholarly standard in the field, and constitutes a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese cultural studies, Chinese studies and Anthropocene studies.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nonhuman and Mythic Spectres
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Ethnicity and Im-purity
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kwai-Cheung Lo is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions (2010), and Chinese Face / Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong (2005), and the editor of a Chinese-language anthology entitled Re-Sighting Asia: Deconstruction and Reinvention in the Global Era (2014).
Jessica Yeung is Associate Professor of Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University, and the author of Ink Dances in Limbo: Gao Xinjian’s Writings as Cultural Translation (2008) and Hong Kong's Third Way: The Anarchist People's Theatre of Augustine Chiu-yu Mok (2019, in Chinese).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change
Editors: Kwai-Cheung Lo, Jessica Yeung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6685-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6684-0Published: 16 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6685-7Published: 07 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 281
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Environment Studies, Asian Literature, History of China