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Focusing on ecocritical aspects throughout Chinese literature,
particularly modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the
contributors to this book examine the environmental and ecological
dimensions of notions such as qing (情) and jing (境). Chinese
modern and contemporary environmental writing offers a unique
aesthetic perspective toward the natural world. Such a perspective
is mainly ecological and allows human subjects to take a benign and
nonutilitarian attitude toward nature. The contributors to this
book demonstrate how Chinese literary ecology tends toward an
ecological-systemic holism from which all human behaviors should be
closely examined. They do so by examining a range of writers and
genres, including Liu Cixin’s science fiction, Wu Ming-yi’s
environmental fiction, and Zhang Chengzhi’s historical
narratives. This book provides valuable insights for scholars and
students looking to understand how Chinese literature
conceptualizes the relationship between humanity and nature, as
well as our role and position within the natural realm.
This edited volume contains an excellent collection of
contributions and presents various informative topics under the
central theme: literary and translation approaches to China's
greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four
Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Hongloumeng (known in
English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone)
epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to
its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture, the
novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature.
Its various translations, either full-length or abridged, have been
widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this
volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by
bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and
translation studies. Specifically, the use of corpora in the
framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps
re-address many issues of the novel and its translations, from an
innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both
scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on
translation studies.
Focusing on ecocritical aspects throughout Chinese literature,
particularly modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the
contributors to this book examine the environmental and ecological
dimensions of notions such as qing ( ) and jing ( ). Chinese modern
and contemporary environmental writing offers a unique aesthetic
perspective toward the natural world. Such a perspective is mainly
ecological and allows human subjects to take a benign and
nonutilitarian attitude toward nature. The contributors to this
book demonstrate how Chinese literary ecology tends toward an
ecological-systemic holism from which all human behaviors should be
closely examined. They do so by examining a range of writers and
genres, including Liu Cixin's science fiction, Wu Ming-yi's
environmental fiction, and Zhang Chengzhi's historical narratives.
This book provides valuable insights for scholars and students
looking to understand how Chinese literature conceptualizes the
relationship between humanity and nature, as well as our role and
position within the natural realm.
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