Commentary

karen thornber is Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she is also Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center and Chair of the Harvard Asia Center Council. Thornber is author of the award-winning Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard 2009) and Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan 2012), as well as a new book Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care. A prize-winning translator and author of more than 70 articles/chapters, Thornber has also (co)edited several volumes.

sheldon lu is Professor and Department Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of a dozen books in English and Chinese. Among his publications, he is co-editor with Jiayan Mi, Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010); editor of Chinese-language Ecocinema, a special issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas vol. 11, issue 1 (March 2017); co-editor with Haomin Gong 龚浩敏, Essays on Chinese Ecocinema 中国生态电影论集 (Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2017).