Sustaining Landscapes - by Gerui Wang (Hardcover)

Name: Sustaining Landscapes - by Gerui Wang (Hardcover)
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Before climate policy, there was landscape painting--how visual culture illustrated ecological concerns in imperial China.
About the Author: Gerui Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
216 Pages
Art, Asian

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Book Synopsis

Before climate policy, there was landscape painting--how visual culture illustrated ecological concerns in imperial China.

Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368 CE examines the ecological thinking embedded in the rise of Chinese landscape genre in relation to state finance, natural resource management, and geospatial knowledge. It traces the pre-industrial notion of "sustainability" in policy debates, legal regulations, and arts. Landscape imagery on paintings, maps, as well as mass-produced artifacts such as fans and ceramic pillows documented both appropriate and exploitative use of natural resources and critiqued social inequity and political turmoil. This book breaks new ground by bringing together research on visual and material culture with analysis of politics and ecology. Wang argues that the Chinese landscape genre embodied a holistic approach to negotiating debates on human-nature interdependence and people-state relationships. It joins the increasing literature on ecocriticism and offers alternative perspectives to address contemporary challenges, ranging from environmental crisis to global governance.

About the Author

Gerui Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She previously taught at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Michigan.

Dimensions (Overall): 10.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W)

Weight: 1.0 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 216

Genre: Art

Sub-Genre: Asian

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Theme: General

Format: Hardcover

Author: Gerui Wang

Language: English

Street Date: November 19, 2025

TCIN: 1006060917

UPC: 9789888876938

Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-1344

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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