Introduction: Chinese-language ecocinema

Abstract

This article is a short introduction to the genealogy, theory and practice of Chinese ecocinema. It situates Chinese ecocinema in the broad context of a general ecological and environmental turn in contemporary humanistic and cultural studies. The article pays close attention to contemporary Chinese-language documentaries that embrace an ecological consciousness. Furthermore, the article zeroes in on a specific Taiwanese documentary: My Fancy High Heels 我爱高跟鞋 (2010) in order to tease out the contestation and tension between the environment, human labor and animals on the one hand and the nexus of global manufacture, circulation and consumption of commodities on the other. The conclusion of the article calls for a flexible transnational approach in ecocinema studies.

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