...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...

... ecoambiguity, 2, 57 ecofeminism, 12, 14, 136, 186 ecosocialism, 6, 8, 10, 170, 173 ecotopia, 14, 164, 166–67, 170, 178–79 Ecotopia (Callenbach), 164 Elvin, Mark, 1 enlightenment, 8, 10, 14, 35–38, 40–42, 45, 56, 60, 78, 176, 181 environmental humanities, vii Eternal Hospital (Hao...

... and limitations of two systems. The novel explores a critical ecotopia and projects utopian hopes for ecologically sound human-nature relations by rebuilding Mars under the principle of reconciliation between humans and nature. The vision of ecotopia parallels the coming of age of young Martians, who grow...

... of imagination. This article explores ecotopias and the ways nature has been appropriated for different purposes at various stages of Hong Kong's literary history. Hong Kong nature writing has generally followed two paths in popular culture. One collates the rich multispecies natural resources of Hong Kong...

... villages. The barefoot doctor militates against a bureaucratic and elitist medical system and underscores the embodied experience of labor and mass dissemination of science and technology. Sci-fi ecotopias speak to the unfilled and forgotten motifs in building an ecological society. In the doomsday...