Description

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environmental consciousness in the twenty-first century. This volume examines key thinkers and aspects of Daoist, Confucianist, Buddhist, indigenous, animistic, and neo-Confucianist thought. With a particular focus on animistic perspectives on environmental healing and environmental consciousness, the contributors also engage with media studies (eco-cinema), food studies, critical animal studies, biotechnology, and the material sciences.

Table 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

Product details

Published 22 Aug 2023
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 300
ISBN 9781793647610
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 5 b/w illustrations
Dimensions 231 x 154 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Xinmin Liu

Anthology Editor

Peter I-min Huang

Contributor

Kiu-wai Chu

Contributor

Simon Estok

Contributor

Xian Huang

Contributor

Young-Hyun Lee

Contributor

Hua Li

Contributor

Jialuan Li

Contributor

Xinmin Liu

Contributor

Kenichi Noda

Contributor

Iris Ralph

Contributor

Scott Slovic

Contributor

Lili Song

Contributor

Ban Wang

Contributor

David Wang

Contributor

Qingqi Wei

Contributor

Xin Ning

Contributor

Sijia Yao

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