East Asian Ecocriticisms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms

   1. Partial Views

      • Simon C. Estok

      Pages 1-13

3. Japanese Section

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Toward a Language of Life

      • Masami Yuki

      Pages 17-33

   3. First There Were Stories

      • Bruce Allen

      Pages 35-57

   4. A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of “Matsuri [Festival]“ by Hiromi Ito

      • Keitaro Morita

      Pages 59-73

4. Korean Section

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature

      • Won-Chung Kim

      Pages 77-90

   3. The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology

      • Dooho Shin

      Pages 91-110

   4. Korea’s Divided Circumstances and the Imagination of the Border

      • Chan Je Wu

      Pages 111-122

5. Taiwanese Section

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to It in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale and in Sheng Wu’s Poetry

      • Peter I-min Huang

      Pages 125-143

   3. Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time

      • Shiuhhuah Serena Chou

      Pages 145-163

   4. Ang Li’s The Butcher’s Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism

      • Kathryn Yalan Chang

      Pages 165-184

6. Chinese Section

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism

      • Jincai Yang

      Pages 187-204

   3. Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture

      • Lily Hong Chen

      Pages 205-220

   4. On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation

      • Xiangzhan Cheng

      Pages 221-236

   5. Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures

      • Karen Thornber

      Pages 237-258

7. Back Matter

   Pages 259-279

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East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions to global conversations.

• China
• Chinese
• culture
• discourse
• drawing
• Ecocriticism
• English literature
• environment
• essay
• identity
• imagination
• Japan
• literature
• poetry
• writing

"Taking up matters from restoration of the ancient Cheongye stream as an urban water park in downtown Seoul to the fight to protect the pink dolphins of Western Taiwan from petrochemical plant pollution, the volume succeeds in giving an East Asian voice and specificity to globally experienced environmental concerns . . . Reecommended." - CHOICE

Yuki Masami, Kanazawa University, Japan Bruce Allen, Seisen University, Japan Keitaro Morita, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA Dooho Shin, Kangwon National University, South Korea Chan-Je Wu, Sogang University, South Korea Peter I-min Huang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Yalan Chang, Huafan University, Taiwan Chen Hong, Shanghai Normal University, China Liu Bei, Shandong Normal University, China Jincai Yang, Nanjing University, China Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA

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