Art, Labor, and Ecology in Han Song's "Regenerated Bricks".
Revisiting the romantic and ecological insights into artistic labor and Homo faber of embodied practice, this essay examines Han Song's 2010 novella "Regenerated Bricks" ("Zaisheng zhuan"). The narrative depicts how the victims of the Wenchuan earthquake, guided by an architect, produce a brick by u...
| Published in: | Chinese Literature & Thought Today Vol. 53; no. 3/4; pp. 6 - 17 |
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