Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism.

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing critically engages with the major East Asian cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices that influence environmental consciousness in the twenty-first century. This volume examines key thinkers and aspects of Daoist, Confucianist, Buddhist, indigenous, animistic, and neo-Confucianist thought. With a particular focus on animistic perspectives on environmental healing and environmental consciousness, the contributors also engage with media studies (eco-cinema), food studies, critical animal studies, biotechnology, and the material sciences.

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’

David Wang

Chapter 2: Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological Writer

Ban Wang

Chapter 3: Planetary Healing Through the Ecological Equilibrium of Ziran: A Daoist Therapy for the Anthropocene

Jialuan Li and Qingqi Wei

Chapter 4: Toward an Ecocriticism of Cultural Diversity: Animism in the Novels of Guo Xuebo and Chi Zijian

Lili Song

Chapter 5: Population, Food, and Terraforming: Ethics in He Xi’s Alien Zone and Six

Realms of Existence

Hua Li

Chapter 6: Junkspace and Non-place in Taiwan’s New Eco-Literature

Peter I-min Huang

Part II: The Embodied Imaginary

Chapter 7: The Loss of Genetic Diversity and Embodied Memories in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

Simon Estok and Young-Hyun Lee

Chapter 8: ShakespeaRe-Told’s Macbeth and Eric Yoshiaki Dando’s Oink, Oink, Oink

Iris Ralph

Chapter 9: The Logic of the Glance: Non-Perspectival Literary Landscape in Wildfires by Ooka Shohei

Kenichi Noda

Chapter 10: The Paradox of Aerial Documentaries: Eco-Gaze and National Vision

Sijia Yao

Chapter 11: Humans, Mermaids, Dolphins: Endangerment, Eco-Empathy, Multispecies’ Co-existence in Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid

Kiu-Wai Chu

Part III: Myriad Therapeutic Lands

Chapter 12: Displacement and Restoration: A Therapeutic Landscape in 311 Revival

Kathryn Yalan Chang

Chapter 13: Nuclear Power Plants, East Asia, and Planetary Healing

Philip F. Williams

Chapter 14: The Revitalization of Old Industrial Sites in Beijing: A Case Study of Shougang (Capital Steel) Park

Xin Ning

Chapter 15: Rebuilding the Pavilion: ‘Doubled’ Experience of Heritage at the Geo-Media Age

Xian Huang