In their introduction to The Environmental Humanities (MIT Press, 2017), the authors Robert S. Emmett and David E. Nye sum up the state of affairs of the planet. They repeat what many other environmentalist thinkers and activists are reporting and supporting with scientific evidence: species extinction is occurring at an alarming rate, the present “consumption of the earth’s resources” is unsustainable, and the notion that “humanity has a special place in creation that legitimizes the elimination of other forms of life” is a commonplace that should be jettisoned and relegated to the ranks of other notions that once were taken for granted and now are obsolete, idiosyncratic, or anachronistic (1).

This Call for Papers is part of the effort to confront and slow the attrition (and incarceration) of species—the overfishing of seas; the egregiously excessive slaughtering of animals; the routine dumping, aquatic and terrestrial, of megatons of plastic waste; the proliferation of nuclear waste; the primarily human-caused apocalyptic fires and floods—an effort that admittedly is up against seemingly insurmountable odds. Specifically, this Call for Papers focuses on these grave concerns by inviting scholars to contribute papers that address Sinophone literature and film from ecocritical and related points of view (e.g., critical animal studies, critical plant studies, indigenous studies, environmental history, and posthumanism).