Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang’s Beijing Besieged by Waste

Haomin GONG

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18634-0_8

Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang’s Beijing Besieged by Waste

Haomin GONG

Lingnan University

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Gong’s chapter examines Wang Jiuliang’s eco-documentary Beijing Besieged by Waste. It investigates the ways in which places of waste, human beings, and animals are figured in the film, and the ecological implications that the discourse of waste has on a society marked by raging urbanization and rampant commercialization. Gong focuses on the concepts of place, misplacement, and displacement in the discourse of waste, and explores the ways in which they are inscribed in the narrative of the film and contribute to the construction of wasted nature, humans, and animals. Gong argues that waste, as an ecological problem and a social discourse, is a product of modern urbanization, commercialization, and consumerism, which not only defines the geographical place of waste but also constructs its social place.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Environmental Humanities : Practices of Environing at the Margins
Editors	Chia-ju CHANG
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Chapter	8
Pages	167-188
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030186340
ISBN (Print)	9783030186333
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18634-0_8
Publication status	Published - 2019

Publication series

Name	Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2945-7254
ISSN (Electronic)	2945-7262

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Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang’s Beijing Besieged by Waste. / GONG, Haomin.
Chinese Environmental Humanities : Practices of Environing at the Margins. ed. / Chia-ju CHANG. Springer International Publishing, 2019. p. 167-188 (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World).

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