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Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism.
List of contents
Part I: Living Wisdom & Lived Heritages
Chapter 1: Humility by Proportion: What Zhu Xi and St. Paul Have to Say about the Baconian Attack on 'Nature'
David Wang
Chapter 2: Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological Writer
Ban Wang
Chapter 3: Planetary Healing Through the Ecological Equilibrium of Ziran: A Daoist Therapy for the Anthropocene
Jialuan Li and Qingqi Wei
Chapter 4: Toward an Ecocriticism of Cultural Diversity: Animism in the Novels of Guo Xuebo and Chi Zijian
Lili Song
Chapter 5: Population, Food, and Terraforming: Ethics in He Xi's Alien Zone and Six
Realms of Existence
Hua Li
Chapter 6: Junkspace and Non-place in Taiwan's New Eco-Literature
Peter I-min Huang
Part II: The Embodied Imaginary
Chapter 7: The Loss of Genetic Diversity and Embodied Memories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl
Simon Estok and Young-Hyun Lee
Chapter 8: ShakespeaRe-Told's Macbeth and Eric Yoshiaki Dando's Oink, Oink, Oink
Iris Ralph
Chapter 9: The Logic of the Glance: Non-Perspectival Literary Landscape in Wildfires by Ooka Shohei
Kenichi Noda
Chapter 10: The Paradox of Aerial Documentaries: Eco-Gaze and National Vision
Sijia Yao
Chapter 11: Humans, Mermaids, Dolphins: Endangerment, Eco-Empathy, Multispecies' Co-existence in Stephen Chow's The Mermaid
Kiu-Wai Chu
Part III: Myriad Therapeutic Lands
Chapter 12: Displacement and Restoration: A Therapeutic Landscape in 311 Revival
Kathryn Yalan Chang
Chapter 13: Nuclear Power Plants, East Asia, and Planetary Healing
Philip F. Williams
Chapter 14: The Revitalization of Old Industrial Sites in Beijing: A Case Study of Shougang (Capital Steel) Park
Xin Ning
Chapter 15: Rebuilding the Pavilion: 'Doubled' Experience of Heritage at the Geo-Media Age
Xian Huang
About the author
Edited by Xinmin Liu and Peter I-min Huang - Contributions by Kiu-wai Chu; Simon Estok; Xian Huang; Peter I-min Huang; Young-Hyun Lee; Hua Li; Jialuan Li; Xinmin Liu; Kenichi Noda; Iris Ralph; Scott Slovic; Lili Song; Ban Wang; David Wang; Qingqi Wei; Phi
Summary
Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism.
