Author Description

"The world faces unprecedented challenges from war, disease, and environmental disasters. Post-COVID-19, the need to reconsider human-nonhuman relations has become critical. This book remaps China's socio-environmental landscape through ecocinema and ecocriticism, exploring how we might redefine the relationship between nature and culture beyond anthropocentric perspectives. Focusing on four turns-to the historical, spatial, material, and animal-the book examines twelve films, from Hollywood blockbusters to Chinese documentaries. It demonstrates how shifting from an anthropocentric to an eco-environmental perspective transforms our view of the world. This interdisciplinary approach integrates humanities and sciences, fostering environmental awareness and offering practical insights"--