Chinese Environmental Humanities

Linnaeus 6.3 Sustaining Bionym Diversity Through Translation 6.4 Translating the Name of a Fig with Wu Ming-Yi 6.5 ConclusionSection II: Chinese Ecocinema and Ecomedia Studies7. Chapter 6 Worms in the Anthropocene: The Multispecies World in Xu Bing's Silkworm Series / Kiu-wai Chu7.1 Worms in Contemporary Art7.2 Silkworm Books and the Ecological Art7.3 Non-human Agencies in the Multispecies World7.4 Anthropocene Metaphor and the Confucian Eco-Governance7.5 Concluding Notes: Rethinking Silk Road Culture and Civilization 8. Chapter 7 Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang's Beijing Besieged by Waste / Haomin Gong8.1 Place in Beijing Besieged by Waste8.2 Place of Waste and Urbanization8.3 Displacement of Commodities in a Consumer Society8.4 "Waste Becomes Politics": Human and Animal Positions in a Consumer Society8.5 Conclusion 9. Chapter 8 Land, Technological Triumphalism and Planetary Limits: Revisiting Human-Land Affinity / Xinmin Liu9.1 Misconceiving Tech-induced Modernity9.2 Unmasking the "Wizardry" of Cash Change-over 9.3 Mending Human-Land Affinity 10. Chapter 9 Eco-Media Events in China: From Yellow Eco-Peril to Media Materialism / Ralph Litzinger and Fan Yang10.1 Eco-media Events10.2 Media as Mediation10.3 Media Materialism: Time, Body, and Matter10.4 Chinese Eco-Media Events in Global Contexts10.5 Conclusion Section III: Sustainability, Organic Community, and Buddhist Multispecies Ethics11. Chapter 10 The Paradox of China's Sustainability / Christopher K. Tong11.1 "Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth"11.2 "Green Paradoxes"11.3 The Future of China's Sustainability 12 Chapter 11 Contemplating Land: An Ecocritique of Hong Kong / Winnie L. M. Yee12.2 Farming as Living and the Tactics of Everyday Life 12.3 The Film Festival as a Cross-cultural Connection12.4 Planting Hong Kong's Future and Green Activism12.5 Conclusion 13 Chapter 12 The Intersection of Sentient Beings and Species, Traditional and Modern, in the Practices and Doctrine of Dharma Drum Mountain / Jeffrey Nicolaisen13.2 Animals13.3 Are Trees Sentient?13.4 Animal Release13.5 Sheng Yen's Ecological Views13.6 Conclusion 14 Chapter 13 An Exposition of the Buddhist Philosophy of Protecting Life and Animal Protection / Chao-Hwei Shih (translated by Jeffrey Nicolaisen)14.2 Dependent arising, Emptiness, Protecting life, and the Middle Way: The Definition and Connotation of Core Concepts 14.3 The Difference in Treatment Between Sentient Beings and Nonsentient Beings14.4 The Categorization of the Academic Discipline of Animal Ethics14.5 Animal Ethics and Ethical Principles14.6 Justification for the Obligation to Protect Life14.7 Middle Way: Situational Considerations of the Principle of Equality14.8 The Middle Way Thinking on Reasonable Self-Defense14.9 Adjusting to Differences in the Level of Development of Enlightened Nature14.10 Conclusion