Questioning Borders - Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan

Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.

List of contents

Introduction: Ecoliteratures Inhabiting Borders
1. Beijing Westerns and Hanspace Elixirs in Southwest China
2. Grassland Logic and Desert Carbon Imaginaries in Inner Mongolia
3. Sacred Routes and Dark Humor in Grounded Xinjiang
4. Cosmic Ecologies and Transcendent Tricksters on the Tibetan Plateau
5. Island Excursions and Indigenous Waterways in Activist Taiwan
Epilogue: Indigenous Entanglements in Techno Hypersubjectivity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Robin Visser is professor and associate chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China (2010).

Summary

Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Visser
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231199803
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19980-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Global Chinese Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; China, Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000