Confucianism and Nature: Ecological Motifs in Kang Youwei's Great Community -- Lu Xun's Mytho-ecological Refutation of Technocrats -- Romancing Landscape and Human Animal: Shen Congwen -- We Are the Dragon King -- Farewell to the God of Plague: The Revolution in Medicine -- Dignity and Misery of Labor -- Art and Labor in Han Song's Regenerated Bricks -- Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia in Chen Qiufan -- Artificial Intelligence, Affective Labor, and Death in Life -- Critical Ecotopia in Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds.
Summary:
"In this supplement to volume 19 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, author Ban Wang brings together two perspectives, ecosocialism and the critiques of the Frankfurt School, to consider how Chinese scholars and literati such as Kang Youwei, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Chen Quifan have responded to the ecological challenges of the Anthropocene and the rise of a global technocratic elite. Reckless development, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and other varieties of technoscientific hubris have caused rifts in human-human and human-nature relationships. In essays, speculative fiction, films, documentaries, Chinese artists pursue various strategies to critique eco-destructive tendencies. Ban Wang likewise seeks to recover the utopian dream of the reconciliation of humans and nature"-- Provided by publisher.
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