“All that happens on the earth”: On Wei An’s deep ecological view

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dc.contributor.authorZhou, Yulin
dc.contributor.supervisorKing, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-30T23:47:15Z
dc.date.available2008-07-30T23:47:15Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-07-30T23:47:15Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Pacific and Asian Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the writing of Wei An苇岸 (1960-1999), a contemporary Chinese nature writer, from an eco-critical perspective grounded in deep ecological view. Urged on by China’s environmental crisis and social problems, and influenced by Western literature and his own life experience, Wei An developed his own deep ecological life philosophy. He respected every creature’s intrinsic value, appreciated the beauty and wonders of nature, advocated the Land Ethic and practiced vegetarianism. He highly treasured the agrarian civilization and objected to modern industrialization, in which he saw very little of any value. Meanwhile, Wei An’s ideas contain questionable aspects like the exaggeration of the defects of modernization and idealization of rural living. Although filled with weak aspects, Wei An’s ecosophy is a faint but significant voice in contemporary Chinese literature and society, and reflects important changes happening in contemporary China.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1037
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectContemporary Chinese literatureen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Literatureen_US
dc.subjectWei An 苇岸en_US
dc.subjectEcocriticismen_US
dc.subjectDeep Ecologyen_US
dc.subjectAnti-Modernismen_US
dc.subjectNon-anthropocentrismen_US
dc.subjectNature Writingen_US
dc.subjectEcoliteratureen_US
dc.subjectAll that Happens on the Earth 大地上的事情en_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Literature::Oriental literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Literature::Literature, Modernen_US
dc.title“All that happens on the earth”: On Wei An’s deep ecological viewen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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