Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins

1.Introductory Chapter/ Environing at the Margins: Huanjing as a Critical Practice / Chia-ju Chang1.1Why does China Matter?:  From Industrial Modernity to Ecological Civilization1.2Sketching a Field: Chinese Environmental Humanities (CEH)1.3Two Keywords in CEH1.3.1China and Hong Kong1.3.2Beyond China and Hong Kong1.4Chapter Outline1.4.1Huanjing and the Practice of Environing1.4.2Ziran and Nature1.5Chapter Outline1.6Conclusion
Section I:  Chinese Ecocriticism and Ecotranslation Studies2.Chapter One Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La: Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming's "Peach-Blossom Spring" / Chia-ju Chang2.1The Emergence of Ecological Discourses and Ecocriticism in the Cultural and Academic Domains2.2Lu Shuyuan and Spiritual Ecology (Jingshen Shengtai)2.3Tao Yuanming's Lost Generation: Migrant Workers' "Moonlight Poetry" and Tao Yuanming's "Specters"2.4The Peach-Blossom Spring: Cultural Imagination and Beyond2.5Conclusion
3.Chapter 2 The Nakedness of Hope: Solastalgia and Soliphilia in the Writings of Yu Yue, Zhang Binglin, and Liang Shuming / Stephen Roddy3.1The Evil Twins of Materialism and Militarism3.2Revolution, Not Evolution!3.3Life, The Supreme Good3.4Reviving Hope, Nakedly
4.Chapter 3 Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China / Dong Isbister, Xiumei Pu and Stephen Rachman4.1Allegorical Marginality: Herbs as Agents of Healing4.2Cosmic Transcendence: "Snow Lotus"4.3Conclusion
5.Chapter 4 From Jiang Rong to Jean-Jacques Annaud: An Ecological Rewrite of Wolf Totem / Runlei Zhai5.1Annaud's Focus on the Ecological Theme5.2The Ecological Theme as a Trans-national and Trans-cultural Bridge 5.3Gain and Loss in the Ecological Rewrite5.4Conclusion
6.Chapter 5 An Ecotranslation Manifesto: On the Translation of Bionyms in Nativist and Nature Writing from Taiwan / Darryl Sterk6.1Waiting for the Name of a Flower with Huang Chun-Ming6.2Searching For the Name of a Plant With Carl Linnaeus 6.3Sustaining Bionym Diversity Through Translation 6.4Translating the Name of a Fig with Wu Ming-Yi 6.5ConclusionSection II:  Chinese Ecocinema and Ecomedia Studies7.Chapter 6 Worms in the Anthropocene:  The Multispecies World in Xu Bing's Silkworm Series / Kiu-wai Chu7.1 Worms in Contemporary Art7.2 Silkworm Books and the Ecological Art7.3 Non-human Agencies in the Multispecies World7.4 Anthropocene Metaphor and the Confucian Eco-Governance7.5 Concluding Notes:  Rethinking Silk Road Culture and Civilization
8.Chapter 7 Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang's Beijing Besieged by Waste / Haomin Gong8.1Place in Beijing Besieged by Waste8.2Place of Waste and Urbanization8.3Displacement of Commodities in a Consumer Society8.4"Waste Becomes Politics": Human and Animal Positions in a Consumer Society8.5Conclusion
9.Chapter 8 Land, Technological Triumphalism and Planetary Limits: Revisiting Human-Land Affinity / Xinmin Liu9.1Misconceiving Tech-induced Modernity9.2Unmasking the "Wizardry" of Cash Change-over    9.3Mending Human-Land Affinity
10.Chapter 9 Eco-Media Events in China:  From Yellow Eco-Peril to Media Materialism / Ralph Litzinger and Fan Yang10.1 Eco-media Events10.2 Media as Mediation10.3 Media Materialism: Time, Body, and Matter10.4 Chinese Eco-Media Events in Global Contexts10.5 Conclusion
Section III:  Sustainability, Organic Community, and Buddhist Multispecies Ethics11.Chapter 10 The Paradox of China's Sustainability / Christopher K. Tong11.1 "Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth"11.2 "Green Paradoxes"11.3 The Future of China's Sustainability
12Chapter 11 Contemplating Land: An Ecocritique of Hong Kong / Winnie L. M. Yee12.2 Farming as Living and the Tactics of Everyday Life 12.3 The Film Festival as a Cross-cultural Connection12.4 Planting Hong Kong's Future and Green Activism12.5 Conclusion
13Chapter 12 The Intersection of Sentient Beings and Species, Traditional and Modern, in the Practices and Doctrine of Dharma Drum Mountain / Jeffrey Nicolaisen13.2 Animals13.3 Are Trees Sentient?13.4 Animal Release13.5 Sheng Yen's Ecological Views13.6 Conclusion
14Chapter 13 An Exposition of the Buddhist Philosophy of Protecting Life and Animal Protection / Chao-Hwei Shih (translated by Jeffrey Nicolaisen)14.2 Dependent arising, Emptiness, Protecting life, and the Middle Way: The Definition and Connotation of Core Concepts 14.3 The Difference in Treatment Between Sentient Beings and Nonsentient Beings14.4 The Categorization of the Academic Discipline of Animal Ethics14.5 Animal Ethics and Ethical Principles14.6 Justification for the Obligation to Protect Life14.7 Middle Way: Situational Considerations of the Principle of Equality14.8 The Middle Way Thinking on Reasonable Self-Defense14.9 Adjusting to Differences in the Level of Development of Enlightened Nature14.10Conclusion