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East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions to global conversations.

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As an American ecocritic who has visited East Asia more than fifty times in the past twenty years, I am delighted to welcome this effort to introduce East Asian scholarship to Western readers. These fourteen voices represent one fascinating petal of the lotus flower of East Asian ecocriticism. I hope readers will take this volume as an invitation to continue learning about the diverse vernacular ecocritical perspectives in East Asia (and throughout the world). Good ideas should flow in many directions. - Scott Slovic, Professor, University of Idaho, USA and editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment This volume contributes to a reorienting of the transnational praxis of ecocriticism through a commingling of perspectives, theories, literary texts, and cultural phenomena. As a portent of even greater contributions in the future, these essays embody the best of an ethical ecocritical engagement. - Patrick D. Murphy, Professor and Chair, English, UCF, USA and author of Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies and other works Occidental activists and scholars will be surprised to discover how deeply East Asian thinkers have already gone in the field of ecocriticism. The environmental problems faced by Korea, Japan, and China are enormous. Writers and all other concerned people in these landscapes have seen it happening and are responding deeply and intelligently. This book is an eye-opener for all the rest of us. - Gary Snyder, Professor, UC Davis, USA With original essays by speakers of Chinese, Hangul, Japanese and Taiwanese - who write compellingly in English - this collection reveals the specific geo-political and cultural situations that are shaping the aesthetics of the most revered and cutting-edge literatures being read by one-fourth of the world's population. These essays introduce the wild species thriving in the DMZ, a place studded with two million land mines, and explain the significance of the endangered pin

Taking up matters from restoration of the ancient Cheongye stream as an urban water park in downtown Seoul to the fight to protect the pink dolphins of Western Taiwan from petrochemical plant pollution, the volume succeeds in giving an East Asian voice and specificity to globally experienced environmental concerns . . . Reecommended. - CHOICE

<p> As an American ecocritic who has visited East Asia more than fifty times in the past twenty years, I am delighted to welcome this effort to introduce East Asian scholarship to Western readers. These fourteen voices represent one fascinating petal of the lotus flower of East Asian ecocriticism. I hope readers will take this volume as an invitation to continue learning about the diverse vernacular ecocritical perspectives in East Asia (and throughout the world). Good ideas should flow in many directions. - Scott Slovic, Professor, University of Idaho, USA and editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment<p> This volume contributes to a reorienting of the transnational praxis of ecocriticism through a commingling of perspectives, theories, literary texts, and cultural phenomena. As a portent of even greater contributions in the future, these essays embody the best of an ethical ecocritical engagement. - Patrick D. Murphy, Professor and Chair, English, UCF, USA and author of Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies and other works<p> Occidental activists and scholars will be surprised to discover how deeply East Asian thinkers have already gone in the field of ecocriticism. The environmental problems faced by Korea, Japan, and China are enormous. Writers and all other concerned people in these landscapes have seen it happening and are responding deeply and intelligently. This book is an eye-opener for all the rest of us. - Gary Snyder, Professor, UC Davis, USA<p> With original essays by speakers of Chinese, Hangul, Japanese and Taiwanese - who write compellingly in English - this collection reveals the specific geo-political and cultural situations that are shaping the aesthetics of the most revered and cutting-edge literatures being read by one-fourth of the world's population. These essays introduce the wild species thriving in the DMZ, a place studded with two million land mines, and explain the significance of the en

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Yuki Masami, Kanazawa University, Japan Bruce Allen, Seisen University, Japan Keitaro Morita, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA Dooho Shin, Kangwon National University, South Korea Chan-Je Wu, Sogang University, South Korea Peter I-min Huang, Tamkang University, Taiwan Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Yalan Chang, Huafan University, Taiwan Chen Hong, Shanghai Normal University, China Liu Bei, Shandong Normal University, China Jincai Yang, Nanjing University, China Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA

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