Scott Slovic

Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan provides a diverse and energetic collection of scholarly studies of anthro-botanical relationships in Taiwan. The book builds upon and extends the work of earlier Taiwan- and East-Asia-focused projects in the environmental humanities, such as East Asian Ecocriticism: A Critical Reader (2015) and Ecocriticism in Taiwan (2015), neither of which dwells on plants in particular. Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan includes many examples of botanical ecocriticism, scrutinizing both Taiwanese writing and writing about Taiwan by non-Taiwanese authors, but it also extends widely into the realms of plant-related environmental history and cultural studies.