Writing the therapeutic waterscape
Bodies, memories, and nature in post-socialist Chinese texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13019804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Winnie L M Yee (0000-0003-0752-3210, University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 322-334 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and the Public (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-0473 • E-ISSN: 2057-0481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2057047318813205 |
| OpenAlex | W2902949839 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
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 Yellow River in Dong Jun’s Flood or the river/water world in Su Tong’s The Boat to Redemption. Instead of commenting directly on the destruction of nature as a result of human development and cultural upheaval, both works use water as an indirect means to raise these issues
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Film director · Flood myth · Literature · Mainland China · Movie theater · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Chinese history and philosophy · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |