Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia: Rethinking the Human (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and ethical responsibilities, seeking to fill a major lacuna in previous academic literature around ecocriticism in speculative fiction.Contributions are thematically organized into three sections-Human-Nature Co-evolution and Ecomedia, Technologies and East Asian Heritage, and Posthuman Ecology.Chapter authors draw on global viewpoints to provide a multi-dimensional analysis that includes Indigenous knowledge, trans-local (inter-Asian) exchanges, and perspectives from the Global South.To end, the book provides a reflection on how speculative fiction promotes a vision of interconnected kinship among humans, the nonhuman, and the natural world.