Winnie L M Yee
Biographic Data
| ID | 907160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Winnie L M Yee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Winnie L M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yee |
| SIGNATURE | YEE W L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0752-3210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Manufacturing Environmental Disasters
This essay examines how our new awareness of human complicity in disaster has affected our storytelling and, reciprocally, how storytelling shapes the way we interpret and come to terms with disaster. A close study of documentaries from Asia suggests that the three Asian societies represented all wish to replicate the endless acquisition of the West and to reconcile their cosmopolitan aspirations with their cultural traditions. All three can be s…
Ecopoetry as Method
Ecocriticism is a field that is inherently cross-cultural, and poetry is an art form that creates bonds across cultural communities. This paper focuses on Gary Snyder, a prominent poet in his own right, who is famous for his translation of the works by Chinese poet Han Shan. His attraction to Chinese classical poetry and Eastern civilization offers an alternative to the Western developmental paradigm, and the ecopoetry he espouses is pertinent to…
Denaturalizing natural tropes
Environmental problems, including climate change, exhaustion of natural resources, and persistent degradation of air quality, have escalated in the name of development despite the warnings of scientists and environmentalists. Written when the interconnectedness of the globe is evident in the Coronavirus pandemic and extensive carbon footprints, this paper examines the role of ecocriticism in illuminating the condition of a city such as Hong Kong,…
Writing the therapeutic waterscape
This article takes an ecocritical approach that challenges the urban imaginary informing the notion of place and the identity of inhabitants in mainland China. It explores an alternative mode of imagination, symbolized by the flow and instability of water. The work of documentary filmmaker Dong Jun and renowned writer Su Tong can be seen as attempts to evaluate and revisit history and memories through a reconnection with water, whether it be the …
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Writing the therapeutic waterscape
This article takes an ecocritical approach that challenges the urban imaginary informing the notion of place and the identity of inhabitants in mainland China. It explores an alternative mode of imagination, symbolized by the flow and instability of water. The work of documentary filmmaker Dong Jun and renowned writer Su Tong can be seen as attempts to evaluate and revisit history and memories through a reconnection with water, whether it be the …
Denaturalizing natural tropes
Environmental problems, including climate change, exhaustion of natural resources, and persistent degradation of air quality, have escalated in the name of development despite the warnings of scientists and environmentalists. Written when the interconnectedness of the globe is evident in the Coronavirus pandemic and extensive carbon footprints, this paper examines the role of ecocriticism in illuminating the condition of a city such as Hong Kong,…
Ecopoetry as Method
Ecocriticism is a field that is inherently cross-cultural, and poetry is an art form that creates bonds across cultural communities. This paper focuses on Gary Snyder, a prominent poet in his own right, who is famous for his translation of the works by Chinese poet Han Shan. His attraction to Chinese classical poetry and Eastern civilization offers an alternative to the Western developmental paradigm, and the ecopoetry he espouses is pertinent to…
Manufacturing Environmental Disasters
This essay examines how our new awareness of human complicity in disaster has affected our storytelling and, reciprocally, how storytelling shapes the way we interpret and come to terms with disaster. A close study of documentaries from Asia suggests that the three Asian societies represented all wish to replicate the endless acquisition of the West and to reconcile their cosmopolitan aspirations with their cultural traditions. All three can be s…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (4 works) · History (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · China (2 works) · Ecocriticism (2 works)