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Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368 CE

Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368 CE

Wang, Gerui

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Asian ArtChinese HistoryGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9888876937
ISBN13: 9789888876938
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.63
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.94 Depth: 10.17
Language: English
Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368 CE examines ecological thought contested amid the rise of the Chinese landscape genre, tracing its intersections with infrastructure governance, natural resource management, and geospatial knowledge. It traces the pre-industrial notion of sustainability in policy debates, legal regulations, and arts. Landscape imagery on paintings, maps, as well as mass-produced artifacts such as fans and ceramic pillows documented both appropriate and exploitative use of natural resources, and critiqued on social inequity and political turmoil. This book breaks new ground by bringing together research on visual and material culture with analysis of politics and ecology. Wang argues that the Chinese landscape genre embodied a holistic approach to negotiating debates on human-nature interdependence and people-state relationships. It joins the increasing literature on ecocriticism and offers alternative perspectives to address contemporary challenges, ranging from environmental crisis to global governance.

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