Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing: New Ecological Perspectives from East Asia (Environment and Society)

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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Foreword 8 References 10 Introduction 12 Notes 25 Works Cited 26 Part I: Living Wisdom & Lived Heritages 28 Chapter 1: Humility by Proportion: What Zhu Xi and St. Paul Have to Say about the Baconian Attack on “Nature” 30 Francis Bacon 31 Humility by Proportion (1): Zhu Xi and the Investigation of Things 36 Proportion and Humility (2): St. Paul and Recycling 40 Conclusion 42 Notes 44 Chapter 2: Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological Writer 48 The Hypocrite Gentry 52 Critiques of the Hypocrite Gentry in Lu Xun’s Short Stories 59 Notes 64 Works Cited 66 Chapter 3: Planetary Healing through the Ecological Equilibrium of Ziran: A Daoist Therapy for the Anthropocene 68 The Historical Context of Daoism in the Anthropocene 68 The Traditional and Modern Interpretations of Ziran 71 The Ziran Therapy for the Anthropocene 77 Conclusion 80 Notes 80 Works Cited 81 Chapter 4: Toward an Ecocriticism of Cultural Diversity: Animism in the Novels of Guo Xuebo and Chi Zijian 84 Narrating the Search for the Shaman and Shamanic Culture 88 The Animistic Worldview of Shaman Culture 89 Communicative 90 Transformative 92 Holistic 95 Note 98 Works Cited 98 Chapter 5: Population, Food, and Terraforming: Ethics in He Xi’s Alien Zone and Six: Realms of Existence 100 Solutions to Food and Housing Problems 101 The Ethics of Terraforming 106 Conclusion 110 Notes 111 Works Cited 111 Chapter 6: Junkspace and Nonplace in Taiwan’s New Eco-Literature 114 Taiwanese Urban Ecocriticism 114 Notes 127 Works Cited 129 Part II: The Embodied Imaginary 134 Chapter 7: The Loss of Genetic Diversity and Embodied Memories in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl 136 Notes 145 Works Cited 146 Chapter 8: The BBC Drama Series ShakespeaRe-Told and Eric Yoshiaki Dando’s Oink, Oink, Oink 148 Notes 159 Works Cited 160 Chapter 9: The Logic of the Glance: Nonperspectival Literary Landscape in Wildfires by Ooka Shohei 164 The Idea of Landscape in Modern Japanese Literature 164 Postwar Literary Landscape 166 Why Was This Novel Titled “Wildfires”? 167 Vision and Visuality 170 Sentry’s Habit 171 Time in Landscape 173 Temporalized Landscape 175 Notes 177 Works Cited 179 Chapter 10: The Paradox of Aerial Documentaries: Eco-Gaze and National Vision 180 The Power of Aerial View 181 Eco-Gaze, Filial Sorrow, and Beyond Beauty 182 The Structure of Eco-Narrative in Chi’s Aerial Documentary 184 National Vision in China from Above and Aerial China 188 Conclusion 191 Notes 192 Works Cited 193 Chapter 11: Humans, Mermaids, Dolphins: Endangerment, Eco-empathy, Multispecies Coexistence in Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid 194 The Mermaid and Its Multiple Layers of Environmental Messages 195 Deterritorializing the Endangered Environment 196 The Legend of Lo Ting: Multispecies Imagination through Ancient Folklores 197 Species Endangerment: The Chinese White Dolphins 200 Eco-Empathy and Multispecies Justice 202 Conclusion: A Time to Heal 206 Notes 207 Works Cited 208 Part III: Myriad Therapeutic Lands 212 Chapter 12: Displacement and Restoration: A Therapeutic Landscape in 311 Revival 214 Displacement and Nostalgia 216 A Therapeutic Landscape: Active Engagement and Communal Power 221 Notes 229 Works Cited 231 Chapter 13: Nuclear Power Plants, East Asia, and Planetary Healing 234 Introduction 234 Issues of Safety and Nonproliferation in Nuclear Power Plants 236 Electric Generation Capacity, Reliability, and Footprint of Nuclear vs. Alternatives 239 Relative Compactness of Nuclear Fuel and Nuclear Wastes Compared with Coal 240 Nuclear’s Costs: Cheaper to Run Overall, but Larger Start-up Expenses 241 A Status Report on Nuclear Power in the PRC as of Spring 2019 241 Attitudes toward Nuclear Power Plants in Selected PRC Science Fiction Narratives 242 Conclusion 244 Works Cited 245 Chapter 14: The Revitalization of Old Industrial Sites in Beijing: A Case Study of Shougang (Capital Steel) Park 248 Introduction 248 From Model Factory to Olympic Park 249 Creative Economies and Urban Ecology on the Old Industrial Sites 252 Works Cited 260 Chapter 15: Rebuilding the Pavilion: “Doubled” Experience of Heritage at the Geo-Media Age 262 Introduction 262 Technologies as Mediation of Human–World Relationships 263 Memorizing the Place and Its Rebuilding 266 Rebuilding the Memories and Imagining of Heritage 270 Conclusion: Doubled Experience of Heritage in Geo-Media Age 274 Notes 277 Works Cited 277 Conclusion 280 Notes 283 Works Cited 284 Index 286 About the Editors and Contributors 294 Editors 294 Contributors 295 "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"-- Provided by publisher