TY  - JOUR
AU  - Weijie SONG
PY  - 2023
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
IS  - 1
VL  - 20
SN  - 2065-5002
TI  - Environmentality, Sustainability, and Chinese Storytelling
DO  - 10.3726/CUL012023.0005
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1426337
N2  - Environmentality teases out the multilayered human-environment contacts and connections in terms of human agency and governmentality, ecological objects and their (in)dependence, power/knowledge and environmental (in)justice. “Sustainable Development Goals” recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our environment. This paper outlines the scopes, scales, and methods of Chinese storytelling and multimedia exhibitions on deforestation and afforestation, pollution and purification, and wastelands and eco-systems in industrial, de-industrial, and post-industrial times. The author considers short stories, novels, reportages, nonfiction writings, and visual artworks, with specific focus on trees, forests, and plant writing. By reading Kong Jiesheng’s “Forest Primeval,” Ah Cheng’s “King of Trees,” Xu Gang’s 
KW  - environmentality, sustainability, storytelling, ecological imagination
ER  -