{"id":1351,"date":"2021-07-28T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T10:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T10:31:49","slug":"issue-9-environments-and-ecologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/issue-9-environments-and-ecologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 9: Environments and Ecologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Read - Issue 9: Environments and Ecologies - on the Contemporary China Centre Blog http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/issue-9-environments-and-ecologies\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-456\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/02\/twitter_share_icon_wordpress-1-300x100.png\" alt=\"Share this post in Twitter\" width=\"80\" height=\"26\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Written by Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Our ninth issue explores a variety of themes, topics and visions in the study of the environment and ecologies. We asked contributors to reflect on the various ways in which environment and ecologies are\/have been understood, inhabited, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and\/or commodified in China and the Sinophone world past and present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Our opening piece,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/revisiting-the-maoist-smart-village\/\">Jessica Imach<\/a> discusses how techno-pastoral narratives from 1950 and 1960s&#8217; Chinese science fiction continue to resonate with current articulations of state environmentalism and its promotion of &#8216;ecological civilisation&#8217; (\u751f\u6001\u6587\u660e s<em>hengtai wenming<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The second piece comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/china-in-an-era-of-ecological-finitude\/\">Ross Anthony<\/a> and takes a look at how, at a time of accelerating atmospheric warming and ecological fragmentation, China has become a signifier of planetary anxiety in many western countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In the third piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/garbage-bins-are-for-containing-people-too\/\">Adam Liebman<\/a> examines how changing garbage bin designs, aesthetics, and the politics of their placement provide a lens into shifting urban political ecologies in contemporary China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The fourth piece in this issue comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/sometimes-we-have-some-toxins-eco-anxiety-in-chinese-female-authored-writing-and-cultural-activism\/\">Justyna Jaguscik<\/a>\u00a0and explores\u00a0the local\/transnational and cross-class dimensions of Sinophone eco-feminism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In the fifth piece in this issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/embodied-activity-and-intimating-environment-a-report-from-lancheng-taiwan\/\">Shaw-wu Jung<\/a> discusses a project which saw the\u00a0successful reconstruction of a community garden in Lancheng, Taiwan, and the various ways in which\u00a0environmental justice and local sensibilities converge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Our final piece in this issue comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/indigenous-language-autoethnobotany-and-translation-in-taiwan\/\">Darryl Sterk<\/a> and examines\u00a0Indigenous language autoethnobotany and translation in Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Image credit: University of Westminster&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/westminster-atom.arkivum.net\/index.php\/cpc-1-h-51\">China Visual Arts Project<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Editor Our ninth issue explores a variety of themes, topics and visions in the study of the environment and ecologies. 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