Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema

Sheldon Lu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author, editor and co-editor of a dozen books in English and Chinese, including Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge (2009, co-editor with Jiayan Mi).

This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to the present.

Introduction: Revisiting the Field of Chinese Ecocinema Part 1: Eco-Documentaries and Eco-Festivals 1. Mapping Taiwanese Ecodocumentary Landscape: Politics of Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics in Taiwanese Ecodocumentaries 2. Nature in the City: A Study of Hong Kong Independent Eco-Cinema and Eco-Film Festival Part 2: Contemporary Ecologies 3. Three Ecologies of Cinema, Migration, and the Sea: Anchorage Prohibited and Luzon 4. Tracing Extraction in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Tie Xi Qu and the politics of the resource image 5. Chai Jing's Under the Dome: A Multimedia Documentary in the Digital Age Part 3: Humans and Animals 6. Global Animal Capital and Animal Garbage: Documentary Redemption and Hope 7. Transcendence and Transgression: Reading Wolf Totem as Environmental World Literature/Cinema? 8. Fabulating Animals-Human Affinity: Towards an Ethics of Care in Monster Hunt and Mermaid Part 4: Landscape and Nation 9. Sinification by Greening: Politics, Nature, and Ethnic Borderlands in Maoist Ecocinema 10. No Man's Land: Eco-Western in Contemporary Chinese Cinema