Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2009
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2009 16(3):425-427; doi:10.1093/isle/isp069
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When I spent this past spring teaching courses on Currents Trends in Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature in China, my students displayed impressive familiarity with traditional Chinese literature and genuine concern for contemporary environmental problems in their own country and across the planet. One of the distinctive trends in Chinese ecocriticism these days is the identification of admirable environmental ideas in early Chinese literature and philosophy, such as the patterns of ecological sensitivity in the poetry and prose of Tao Yuanming, who lived from 372 to