Emerging in the postmodern context

ecological aesthetics is closely associated with the deteriorating human environment caused by worsening pollution and nuclear threats

prompting greater ecological awareness. Such awareness is needed to shift the aesthetic preoccupations of this new age

diversify literary criticism

strengthen the ecological lterature and build on the traditional ecological intelligence of our nation. Essential issues in the field of ecological aesthetics include the need to conceptualise the discipline properly

treat the‘redemonizing world’appropriately

and frame a reasonable atitude to modernity

science

technology and their relationship to practical aesthetics.?The new field of ecological aesthetics in China is being explored in academic research

both in its narrow sense and as it is understood more broadly.The narrow view ofecological aesthetics focuses on the ecological and aesthetic relationships between humans and their natural environment. These are categorised quite specifically.