The Green Other: Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction

What changes when contemporary Chinese science fiction is read not simply as a reflection of China, technology, or geopolitics, but as ecological thought in its own right? The Green Other brings the genre’s distinctive ecological force into view, showing how it can unsettle established habits of reading and reshape global ecocriticism. It introduces Sino-solastalgia—the simultaneous experience of attachment to and estrangement from home—as a condition, a subjective experience, and a critical method. Moving through toxic landscapes, divided cities, submerged worlds, and homes stretched across planets, you discover how attachment to damaged homes that cannot be abandoned becomes ecological thought grounded in responsibility, endurance, co-survival, and the ethic of staying.