Chinese Environmental Humanities
Practices of Environing at the Margins
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Open AccessThe new X-ray/visible microscopy MAXWELL technique for fast three-dimensional nanoimaging with isotropic resolution
Microscopy by Achromatic X-rays With Emission of Laminar Light (MAXWELL) is a new X-ray/visible technique with attractive characteristics including isotropic resolution in all directions, large-volume imaging ...
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Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La: Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming’s “Peach Blossom Spring”
This chapter focuses on literary and cultural studies to show how Chinese literary scholars contribute to the larger conversation regarding China’s “practice of environing” and the construction of China’s eco-...
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Environing at the Margins: Huan**g as a Critical Practice
This chapter sketches a field of Chinese Environmental Humanities (CEH). It first outlines the context for the emergence of CEH. Second, it introduces scholarly CEH activities in China and beyond to a global a...
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Wasted Humans and Garbage Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism
The juxtaposition of these two terms—garbage and animal—has a long material history that can be traced back to medieval gastronomic practices and tastes in the West. The material and symbolic entanglements of ...
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Open AccessGold nanoparticles as multimodality imaging agents for brain gliomas
Nanoparticles can be used for targeted drug delivery, in particular for brain cancer therapy. However, this requires a detailed analysis of nanoparticles from the associated microvasculature to the tumor, not ...
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Open AccessZerumbone, a tropical ginger sesquiterpene, ameliorates streptozotocin-induced diabetic nephropathy in rats by reducing the hyperglycemia-induced inflammatory response
Zerumbone is one of the pungent constituents of Zingiber zerumbet (L) Smith (Zingiberaceae family). The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of zerumbone in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabeti...
