Selected Publications
- Andrea Riemenschnitter, with Zhuang Yue (eds.), Entangled Landscapes. Exchanges between Early Modern China and Europe, Singapore: NUS Press, in Press.
- Andrea Riemenschnitter, with Jessica Imbach and Justyna Jaguscik (eds.), Special Issue: Recognizing Ghosts, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 12, no. 1, 2014.
- Andrea Riemenschnitter, “Staging Local History Between Empires: Shandong Boxer Resistance as Maoqiang Opera,” in: Broken Narratives. Post-Cold War History and Identity in Europe and Asia, ed. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Leiden: Brill 2014, 165-189.
- Andrea Riemenschnitter, Karneval der Götter. Mythologie, Moderne und Nation in Chinas 20. Jahrhundert, Reihe Welten Ostasiens, Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
- Andrea Riemenschnitter, “Traces of Jingju: Staging Disappearance, Crossing Global Multiculturalism.” On Stage. The Art of Beijing Opera. Museum der Kulturen (ed.), Basel 2011: 181-193.
FRIAS Project
Landscape Fever. Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics and the Environment
Landscape Feveraims at analysing a selection of cultural interventions tackling China’s environmental degradation and contributing to an emergent trans- and interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Addressing the critique, hopes, and anxieties of concerned intellectuals and cultural producers in China, the book will study pertinent aesthetic representations and contextualize them with pressing historical, social, political, and ethical issues that both question and supplement the Chinese state’s current project of environmental modernization. Situated in the larger framework of an emergent trans- and interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities, it aims at contributing to the broadening and transculturalization of a common conceptual vocabulary, that was so far mostly derived from western contexts. The questions to be tackled in the course of the project arise from a paradigm shift in the perception of human-nonhuman relationships in view of degraded environments. It will be asked how landscape under the circumstances of the current environmental crisis is perceived, experienced, and recontextualized. Given the fact that the aggravating planetary effects of our era of the Anthropocene are irreversible, it will be asked how societies in and beyond China are perceived to cope with disasters, degradation and impending resource scarcity. Humanistic scholarship, it will be argued, is necessary for a comprehensive understanding and new perspectives – including the integration of hitherto marginalized ideas into the agenda of societies, policy makers and other stakeholders.