Chia-ju Chang’s The Global Imagination of Ecological Communities is a very important contribution to Sinophone ecocriticism. It introduces and develops many concepts that have not been previously explored or have received scant attention in China and other Chinese speaking countries. As the eminent Chinese ecocritic Cheng Xiangzhan points out in one of the three introductions to the book (the other two are by Scott Slovic and Greta Gaard), “with her expertise in East and West ecological discourses,” Chia-ju Chang is pioneering “areas that many Chinese ecocritics have not paid attention to” (ii).
