Description: How does China speak for nature? Green Communication and China is the first volume to identify the importance of studying environmental communication in, about, and with China, a rising global environmental leader whose ecological and political controversies often make international headlines. Organized into three sections on communicating crisis, communicating care, and environmental futurity, these essays span multimodal communication practices and methods in green public culture and address topics ranging from The North Face advertisements to NGO advocacy to global governmental policy. These complex projects engage transnational and national politics, ecological and economic challenges, media saturation, and government control. Holding these tensions together without glossing over differences, Green Communication and China will inform new agendas for environmental communication in China, the United States, and beyond.
Brief description: JINGFANG LIU is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, as well as a Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar from 2019 to 2020.
Review Quotes: "A must-read for those interested in environmental issues in the globalized China. This collection eloquently weaves influential forces from various sectors to examine how the environment is engaged from the Chinese cultural lens. A groundbreaking resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of environmental communication."
--HSIN-I CHENG, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University