Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese
culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first
collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind this book brings together sixteen
scholars from a diverse range of disciplines including literary and cultural studies
philosophy ecocinema and ecomedia studies religious studies minority studies and animal or
multispecies studies. The fourteen chapters are conceptually framed through the lens of the
Chinese term huanjing (environment or ¿encircling the surroundings¿) a critical device for
imagining the aesthetics and politics of place-making or ¿the practice of environing at the
margin.¿ The discourse of environing at the margins facilitates consideration of the modes
aesthetics ethics and politics of environmental inclusion and exclusion providing a lens
into the environmental thinking and practices of the world¿s most populous society.
