Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing: New Ecological Perspectives from East Asia

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
	References
Introduction
Notes
Works Cited
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”
	Francis Bacon
	Humility by Proportion (1): Zhu Xi and the Investigation of Things
	Proportion and Humility (2): St. Paul and Recycling
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological Writer
	The Hypocrite Gentry
	Critiques of the Hypocrite Gentry in Lu Xun’s Short Stories
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 3: Planetary Healing through the Ecological Equilibrium of Ziran: A Daoist Therapy for the Anthropocene
	The Historical Context of Daoism in the Anthropocene
	The Traditional and Modern Interpretations of Ziran
	The Ziran Therapy for the Anthropocene
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 4: Toward an Ecocriticism of Cultural Diversity: Animism in the Novels of Guo Xuebo and Chi Zijian
	Narrating the Search for the Shaman and Shamanic Culture
	The Animistic Worldview of Shaman Culture
	Communicative
	Transformative
	Holistic
	Note
	Works Cited
Chapter 5: Population, Food, and Terraforming: Ethics in He Xi’s Alien Zone and Six: Realms of Existence
	Solutions to Food and Housing Problems
	The Ethics of Terraforming
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 6: Junkspace and Nonplace in Taiwan’s New Eco-Literature
	Taiwanese Urban Ecocriticism
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part II: The Embodied Imaginary
Chapter 7: The Loss of Genetic Diversity and Embodied Memories in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 8: The BBC Drama Series ShakespeaRe-Told and Eric Yoshiaki Dando’s Oink, Oink, Oink
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 9: The Logic of the Glance: Nonperspectival Literary Landscape in Wildfires by Ooka Shohei
	The Idea of Landscape in Modern Japanese Literature
	Postwar Literary Landscape
	Why Was This Novel Titled “Wildfires”?
	Vision and Visuality
	Sentry’s Habit
	Time in Landscape
	Temporalized Landscape
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 10: The Paradox of Aerial Documentaries: Eco-Gaze and National Vision
	The Power of Aerial View
	Eco-Gaze, Filial Sorrow, and Beyond Beauty
	The Structure of Eco-Narrative in Chi’s Aerial Documentary
	National Vision in China from Above and Aerial China
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 11: Humans, Mermaids, Dolphins: Endangerment, Eco-empathy, Multispecies Coexistence in Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid
	The Mermaid and Its Multiple Layers of Environmental Messages
	Deterritorializing the Endangered Environment
	The Legend of Lo Ting: Multispecies Imagination through Ancient Folklores
	Species Endangerment: The Chinese White Dolphins
	Eco-Empathy and Multispecies Justice
	Conclusion: A Time to Heal
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part III: Myriad Therapeutic Lands
Chapter 12: Displacement and Restoration: A Therapeutic Landscape in 311 Revival
	Displacement and Nostalgia
	A Therapeutic Landscape: Active Engagement and Communal Power
	Notes
	Works Cited
Chapter 13: Nuclear Power Plants, East Asia, and Planetary Healing
	Introduction
	Issues of Safety and Nonproliferation in Nuclear Power Plants
	Electric Generation Capacity, Reliability, and Footprint of Nuclear vs. Alternatives
	Relative Compactness of Nuclear Fuel and Nuclear Wastes Compared with Coal
	Nuclear’s Costs: Cheaper to Run Overall, but Larger Start-up Expenses
	A Status Report on Nuclear Power in the PRC as of Spring 2019
	Attitudes toward Nuclear Power Plants in Selected PRC Science Fiction Narratives
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 14: The Revitalization of Old Industrial Sites in Beijing: A Case Study of Shougang (Capital Steel) Park
	Introduction
	From Model Factory to Olympic Park
	Creative Economies and Urban Ecology on the Old Industrial Sites
	Works Cited
Chapter 15: Rebuilding the Pavilion: “Doubled” Experience of Heritage at the Geo-Media Age
	Introduction
	Technologies as Mediation of Human–World Relationships
	Memorizing the Place and Its Rebuilding
	Rebuilding the Memories and Imagining of Heritage
	Conclusion: Doubled Experience of Heritage in Geo-Media Age
	Notes
	Works Cited
Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
	Editors
	Contributors