{"product_id":"questioning-borders-robin-visser-9780231199810","title":"Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples.\u003ci\u003e Questioning Borders\u003c\/i\u003e explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of center and periphery that informs what she calls \"Beijing Westerns\" with Indigenous and hybridized ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy centering Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonize approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Visser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231199813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231199810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Robin Visser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181436662015,"sku":"9780231199810","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_619d53d3-d363-4963-9cbb-75aba6370fef.jpg?v=1690260442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/questioning-borders-robin-visser-9780231199810","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}