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Questioning borders : Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan / Robin Visser.

"Examines the growing prominence within Chinese-language literature of ecological perspectives from China's border cultures. Drawing on eco-literature by Mongolian, Tibetan, Taiwanese Indigenous, Yi, Kazakh, Uyghur, and Han writers, Visser argues that while Beijing promotes China's ha...

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Main Author: Visser, Robin, 1962- (Author)
Other title:Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Series:Global Chinese culture.
Subjects:
Ecoliterature > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Boundaries in literature.
Ecocriticism in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Indigenous authors > China.
Chinese literature.
Indigenous authors.
China.
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Ecoliteratures Inhabiting Borders
  • 1. Beijing Westerns and Hanspace Elixirs in Southwest China
  • 2. Grassland Logic and Desert Carbon Imaginaries in Inner Mongolia
  • 3. Sacred Routes and Dark Humor in Grounded Xinjiang
  • 4. Cosmic Ecologies and Transcendent Tricksters on the Tibetan Plateau
  • 5. Island Excursions and Indigenous Waterways in Activist Taiwan
  • Epilogue: Indigenous Entanglements in Techno Hypersubjectivity
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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