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Abstract

This monograph studies Malcolm Lowry, Fred Cogswell, Lo Fu, and Paul Yee in relation to newly constructed Canadian Daoist poetics and ethics in the global context. As a sort of a Daoist collective by philosophical, inter-literary, and cross-cultural associations, these writers have made specific and distinct contributions to globalized and globalizing Daoism as follows. In the first place, they have expanded the field of Daoist ecology by establishing an eco-poetics relevant to the modern, postmodern, high-tech age of “late capitalism”, to use Fredric Jameson’s term. They have also questioned the meanings of progress and civilization, critiqued Western Enlightenment notion of subjectivity and dualism, and addressed complex problems brought about by unplanned industrialization, aggravating environmental pollution, and deepening ecological imbalances.