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In Coming Decades, Film Will Be One Of The Primary Ways In Which China Adopts And Expands Ecological Consciousness. This Anthology Is The First Book-length Study Of China's Ecosystem Through The Lens Of Cinema, In A Historic Moment Of Unparalleled Environmental Crises And Destruction. Proposing Ecocinema As A New Critical Framework, The Volume Collectively Investigates A Wide Range Of Urgent Topics In Today's World: Chinese And Western Epistemes Of Nature And Humanity; Socialist Modernization Amid Capitalist Globalization; Shifting Configurations Of Space, Locale, Cityscape, And Natural La Hydro-politics: Water, River, And National Trauma. Framing Ambient Unheimlich: Ecoggedon, Ecological Unconscious, And Water Pathology In New Chinese Cinema / Jiayan Mi; Gorgeous Three Gorges At Last Sight: Cinematic Remembrance And The Dialectic Of Modernization / Sheldon H. Lu; Submerged Ecology And Depth Psychology In Wushan Yunyu: Aesthetic Insight Into National Development / Nick Kaldis; Floating Consciousness: The Cinematic Confluence Of Ecological Aesthetics In Suzhou River / Andrew Hageman -- Eco-aesthetics, Heteroscape, And Manufactured Landscape. The Idea-image: Conceptualizing Landscape In Recent Martial Arts Movies / Mary Farquhar; Façades: The New Beijing And The Unsettled Ecology Of Jia Zhangke's The World / Jerome Silbergeld; Ruins And Grassroots: Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Discontents In The Age Of Globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban Space In Production And Disappearance. Of Humans And Nature In Documentary: The Logic Of Capital In West Of The Tracks And Blind Shaft / Ban Wang; Toward A Hong Kong Ecocinema: The Dis-appearance Of Nature In Three Films By Fruit Chan / Chris Tong; A City Of Disappearance: Trauma, Displacement, And Spectral Cityscape In Contemporary Chinese Cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, Non-anthropocentrism, And Green Sovereignty. In The Face Of Developmental Ruins: Place Attachment And Its Ethical Claims / Xinmin Liu; Ning Hao's