Despite the vibrant development of the field of ecocriticism on the island of Taiwan, there has, as yet, been no single volume in English dedicated to illustrating Taiwan's important contributions to international ecocriticism, especially the emerging "vernacular" trend in the field that emphasizes the significance of local perspectives and styles, including non-western, aboriginal, and comparative approaches. Ecocriticism in Taiwan provides a model for a more nuanced version of the locale-specific, vernacular thinking about the environment, art, and human identity.

Introduction - Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic
Section One: Island Identities, Eco-postcolonial Historiography, and Alter(native) Strategies
1.Going Back into a Future of Simplicity: Taiwan Aborigines' Sustainable Utilization of Natural resources - Ming-tu Yang
2.(W)ri(gh)ting Climate Change in Neqou Soqluman's Work - Hsinya Huang
3.Taiwanese Mountain and River Literature from a Postcolonial Perspective - Peter I-min Huang
4.Taiwan Is A Whale: The Emerging Oneness of Dark Blue and Human Identity in Chia-Hsiang Wang's Historical Fiction - Shu-fen Tsai
5.Agrarian Origin Stories, National Imaginaries, and the Ironies of Modern Environmentalism: On Chi-Po Lin's Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above - Hannes Bergthaller
Section Two: Slow Violence, Creative Activism, and Environmental Movements
6.Toxic Objects, Slow Violence, and the Ethics of Trans-Corporeality in Chi Wen-Chang's The Poisoned Sky - Robin Chen-hsing Tsai
7.Imagining the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Spectacles of Environmental Disaster: Environmental Entanglement and Literary Engagement in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes - Rose Hsui-li Juan
8.If Nature Had a Voice: A Material-Oriented Environmental Reading of The Man with the Compound Eyes - Kathryn Yalan Chang
9.Imagining Catastrophe: Nuclear Issues in postwar Taiwan Literature - Hueichu Chu
10.Pre-texts for Tree-texts, W.S. Merwin and the Trees of Taiwan - Iris Ralph
11.Revisiting Resistance: Urban Foraging, Public Markets, and New Organic Landscape - Serena Shiuhhuah Chou
Section Three: Animal Fiction, Avant-garde Art, and Posthumanist Ecoaesthetics
12.What's in a Plant?: The Transcorporeality in Yucca Invest Trading Plant - Iping Liang
13.Becoming-Animal: Liu Kexiang's Writing Apprenticeship On Birds - Yu-lin Lee
14.Aesthetic Configurations and Qualia in Environmental Consciousness in Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry and Installation Art - Dean Anthony Brink
15.Utopia in Theatre: Mulian Rescues Mother Earth - Joy Shih-yi Huang

Edited by Chia-ju Chang and Scott Slovic - Contributions by Hannes Berthaller; Dean Anthony Brink; Kathryn Yalan Chang; Shiuhhuah Serena Chou; Hueichu Chu; Hsinya Huang; Peter I-min Huang; Rose Hsui-li Juan; Yu-lin Lee; Iping Liang; Iris Ralph; Robin Chen