ecoArt China Bibliography in progress

Brubaker, David A. 2014. “Jizi and contemporary ink art: ‘Re-Chineseness’ and unification with nature.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 1, no. 1: 237–55.

Brunner, Elizabeth Ann. 2017. “Contemporary Environmental Art in China: Portraying Progress, Politics, and Ecosystems.” Environmental Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2016.1269822

Byrnes, Corey. 2019. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges. New York: Columbia University Press.

Cacchione, Orianna, and Weicheng Lin. 2021. The Allure of Matter: Materiality across Chinese Art. University of Chicago Press.

Chan Amy Kit-sze. 2022. “Chinese Literature and Ecofeminism.” In The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature, 17–25. London and New York: Routledge. 

Chang, Chia-ju. 2019. “Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La: Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming’s ‘Peach Blossom Spring.’” In Chinese Environmental Humanities. Edited by Chia-ju Chang, 35–56. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18634-0_2.

Chao, Jennifer, and Panos Kompatsiaris. 2020. “Curating climate change: The Taipei Biennial as an environmental problem solver.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7 (1): 7–26.

Chen, Guo, Feng Jia, and Liwen Chen. 2023. “Dharavi in Beijing? A Hidden Geography of Waste and Migrant Exclusion.” The Professional Geographer 75 (1): 187–205.

Chen, Lu, and Mette Halskov Hansen. 2022. “Gender and Power in China’s Environmental Turn: A Case study of three women-led initiatives.” Social Sciences 11 (3): 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030097

Chiu, King-Pong. 2011. “The Implications of Buddhist ‘Middle Path’ to Environmental Ethics: An Applicable Approach.” Applied Ethics Review (51): 1–18.

Claypool, Lisa. 2022. “Hauntings: An Ink Painter and a Coal Mine in 1960s China.” Oxford Art Journal 45, no. 1 (July): 45–61.

–––––. 2025. “’High Prices for Recycling’: Thinking about Art History with Photographer Yao Lu.”  In (Re)Made in China: Material Dis:connections, Art and Creative Reuse. Edited by Anna Grasskamp. Berlin: de Gruyter. Forthcoming.

Claypool, Lisa, ed. 2021. ecoArt China. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Department of Art & Design.

Davidson, Jane Chin. 2020. “Environment, Labor, and Video: (Eco)feminist Interpellations of Chineseness in the Work of Yuk King Tan, Cao Fei, and Wu Mali.” In Staging Art and Chineseness: The Politics of Trans/nationalism and Global Expositions, 89–117. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Girardot, N. J., James Miller, and Xiaogan Liu. 2001. Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape. Religions of the World and Ecology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Goldstein, Joshua. 2021. The Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing. University of California Press.

Haraway, Donna. 2015. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Humanities, 6 (1): 159-165.

Hillenbrand, Margaret. 2019. “Ragpicking as Method.”Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 16 (2): 260-97.

Lee, De-nin D. 2015. “Domesticated Landscapes of Li Gonglin: A View from the Anthropocene.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies (45): 139–74.

–––––. 2019. “Zhang Hongtu and Domesticated Landscapes in Chinese Painting.” In Eco-Art History in East and Southeast Asia. Edited by De-nin D. Lee, 137–64. Cambridge Scholars Publisher.

Li, Cheng. 2014. “Echoes from the Opposite Shore: Chinese Ecocritical Studies as a Transpacific Dialogue Delayed.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21 (4): 821–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26430509.

Li, Danke. 2012. “Ecofeminist Literary Criticism in Mainland China: A Window into China’s Academic Globalization.” Asian Women 28 (4): 36–58.

Lin, Nancy P. 2020. “Keepers of the Waters: Experiments in xianchang art practice in 1990s China.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7 (2–3): 325–343.

Liu, Jing. 2022. “Daoist Ecofeminism as a New Democracy: An Analysis of Patriarchy in Contemporary China and a Tentative Solution.” Hypatia 37 (2): 276–292. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2022.14.

Liu, Pinghua. 2024. “Laozi’s Ecofeminist Ethos: Bridging Ancient Wisdom with Contemporary Gender and Environmental Justice.” Religions 15 (5): 599; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050599

Macrì, Elena. 2017. “Being, Becoming, Landscape: The Iconography of Landscape in Contemporary Chinese Art, Its Ecological Impulse, and Its Ethical Project.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 16 (1): 32–43.

Magagnoli, Paolo. 2016. “The civilized artist beautifies pollution: Zhao Liang’s Water and Beijing Green.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3 (3): 367–376.

Tan, Chang. 2016. “Landscape without nature: Ecological reflections in contemporary Chinese art.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3 (3): 223–241.

Tsing, Anna. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.

Tuan, Yifu. 1990. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions. New York: Columbia University Press.

Tung, Wei Hsiu. 2020. “From social art practice to environmental aesthetic awakening and civil engagement: The case study of Cijin Kitchen.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7 (2–3): 307–324.

Wang, Meiqin. 2017. “Waste in Contemporary Chinese Art. By-products of China’s Urban Development and Consumerism”. The Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies), 76 (Spring), https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/waste-contemporarychinese-art-byproducts-chinas-urban-development.

–––––. 2023. “Performing eco-public art: Tseng Chi-ming and his embodied environmental artivism.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10 (1–2): 157–82.

Wang, Ning. 2014. “Global in the Local: Ecocriticism in China.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21 (4): 739–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26430504.

Wang, Olivia. 2014. “Contemporary Chinese ink paintings: The dawn of a rock renaissance.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 1 (1): 215–236.

Wang, Yan Preston. 2020. “Forest re-seen: From the metropolis to the wilderness.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7 (2–3): 345–366.

Wei, Qingqi. 2015. “The Way of Yin: The Chinese Construction of Ecofeminism in a Cross-Cultural Context.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21, no. 4 (Autumn): 749–65. DOI:10.1093/isle/isu148

Whiteley, Gillian. 2011. Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash. I.B. Tauris: New York.

Wu, Hung. 2008. Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wu, Kaming, and Jieying Zhang. 2019. “Living with Waste: Becoming ‘Free’ As Waste Pickers in Chinese Cities.” China Perspectives (2): 67-74.

Yapp, Hentyle. 2021. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Duke University Press.

Yates, Michelle. 2011. “The Human-As-Waste, the Labor Theory of Value and Disposability in Contemporary Capitalism.” Antipode 43 (5): 1679-95.

Zhang, Ling. 2012. “Traditional Chinese and the Environment.” In Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History. Edited by Naomi Standen, 79–88. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.

Zhang, Xinrui. 2023. “(In)visible bodies: Air pollution, performance art and China’s environmental governance.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10 (1–2): 183–204.

Zheng, Bo, and Sohl Lee. 2016. “Contemporary art and ecology in East Asia.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art3 (3): 215–22.

Zulueta, Concepción Cortés. 2016. “Two artists, two ecologies, and a shared empathy towards non-human animals’ agencies: Yanagi Yukinori and Liang Shaoji.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 3 (3): 377–87.