From nostalgia to solastalgia: the paradox of extinction photography in Jia Pingwa's Remembering Wolves (2000).
A defining feature of turn-of-the-millennium Chinese literature is its conscious engagement with environmental issues, referred to as "the ecological turn." Jia Pingwa's 2000 novel Remembering Wolves (Huainian Lang), an ecofictive narrative, helps to set the tone for such creative efforts in mainlan...
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