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Title
Chinese shock of the anthropocene : image, music and text in the age of climate change / Kwai-Cheung Lo, Jessica Yeung, editors.
ISBN
9789811366857 (electronic book)
9811366853 (electronic book)
9789811366840
9811366845
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
GF75 .C45 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
This book examines China's role and its cultural productions in the process of environmental destruction and transformation, focusing on how various cultural media play a significant role in shaping and reproducing Chinese subject formation in relation to changing ecological conditions. It argues that China under the leadership of Xi Jinping vowed in 2017 to play a leading role in preserving the planet for the future, but many of its actions such as its "Belt and Road" initiative have aroused apprehension rather than inspired confidence. Against this backdrop of environmental concern, this volume brings together a cutting-edge critical analysis of Chinese literature, music and cinema, offering a transdisciplinary and comprehensive vision of Chinese arts and literature under the current conditions of the Anthropocene. This volume sets a high scholarly standard in the field, and constitutes a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese cultural studies, Chinese studies and Anthropocene studies.
Note
This book examines China's role and its cultural productions in the process of environmental destruction and transformation, focusing on how various cultural media play a significant role in shaping and reproducing Chinese subject formation in relation to changing ecological conditions. It argues that China under the leadership of Xi Jinping vowed in 2017 to play a leading role in preserving the planet for the future, but many of its actions such as its "Belt and Road" initiative have aroused apprehension rather than inspired confidence. Against this backdrop of environmental concern, this volume brings together a cutting-edge critical analysis of Chinese literature, music and cinema, offering a transdisciplinary and comprehensive vision of Chinese arts and literature under the current conditions of the Anthropocene. This volume sets a high scholarly standard in the field, and constitutes a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese cultural studies, Chinese studies and Anthropocene studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2019).
Part II: Nonhuman and Mythic SpectresChapter 5: The Eternal Return of Mythology: The White (Green) Snake Legend in Maoist China and Colonial Hong Kong; Anthropocene and Myth Criticism; Evolution of the White Snake Mythology; Green Snake and the Chinese Anthropocene; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Magic Realism as a Critical Response to the Anthropocene; Magic Realism; Developmentalism; Homecoming; The Red Sorghum Family; Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord; Tibet, Days of Eclipse; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Expansionist Ethnic Ecology: On Reading Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem
Chapter 10: "Original Ecology" Style of China's Minority Performing Arts: Examples from Uyghur MusicIntroduction; The "Original Ecology" Style; Ecologizing Music; Original Ecology Singing as Intangible Cultural Heritage; Concluding Thoughts; Bibliography; Chapter 11: Animals, Ethnic Minorities, and Ecological Concerns in Chinese Digital Cinema; Becoming-Animal: Environmental Politics in Ethnic Minority Regions; Animal Films in the Chinese Ecological State; Coda; Bibliography; Chapter 12: Pristine Tibet? The Anthropocene and Brand Tibet in Chinese Cinema; Introduction; Pristine Tibet
