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Unnatural Causes: Racial Taxonomies, Pandemic, and Social Contagion
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Patrice D. Douglass Abstract This essay approaches Blackness as a social contagion to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence. By placing the COVID-19 deaths of Black people who are refused hospital treatment in critical conversation with police murders during...
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COVID Cough and Fukushima Novels: On the Not-Bareness of Life in Environmental Humanities
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Margherita Long Abstract This essay introduces three works of post-Fukushima Japanese literature, by Hayashi Kyoko (1930–2017), Kimura Yusuke (1970–) and Kobayashi Erika (1978–), to offer an environmental humanities alternative to Giorgio Agamben's response to COVID-19. Politically, Hayashi...
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Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Alexa Alice Joubin Abstract The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism...
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Xiqu 2.0: Expanded Chinese Opera in Digital Times
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
... The Interrupted Dream , launched in 2018. The latter links Tang's oneiric imaginary to the postcolonial critique of orientalism through references to seventeenth-century chinoiserie at the court of Louis XIV. Updated for livestreaming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the series served as a virtual channel...
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Introduction: Between the Universal and the Particular
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... death almost certainly were “the largest movement in the country's history,” 6 in reality neither event was a unique or historically isolated occurrence. Instead, Covid-19 is just the most recent in a string of pandemics caused by influenza or an influenza-like illness, with earlier crises including...
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“And This Is What He Did”
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that erupted with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the winter of 2020? Perhaps nothing—and everything. Following the Atlanta mass shootings of March 16, 2021, there was a moment in which law officials attempted to ascertain whether the shocking violence truly constituted an anti-Asian hate crime...
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Chapter Five: Farewell to the God of Plague: The Revolution in Medicine
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... “communicative, cooperative, and articulate as an active collective subject.” 5 In China, the fight against COVID-19 has revealed both divisive and unitary aspects of politics. This chapter shows that politics is central to medicine and public health care. The inseparable link of politics and medicine...
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Future Emotions and Senses: Chen Qiufan's Science Fiction of the Anthropocene
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., earthquakes, hurricanes, and air and water contamination, and global and planetary calamities involving species extinctions, nuclear disasters, and the COVID-19 pandemic—can no longer be easily distinguished as strictly natural or unnatural/human-induced in nature. The disintegration of boundaries between...
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Dog Has No Buddha Nature: The Compulsion for Meaning, Nihilphobia, and Chan Therapy in the Anthropocene End-Time
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Buddhism is the therapeutic technology we need in the Anthropocene eschatology. Humanity has gone through two years of COVID-19. The global pandemic has devastated the denizens of planet Earth. Even a “First World” country such as the United States lost over a million lives in this pandemic...
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Postornamentality: Ajumma Fabulosity and the Art of Wearing a Visor with Ferocity
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is not solely marked by youthful aesthetics? More significantly, how does Cheng's ornamentalism speak to the very real contempt for and violence against Asians/Asian Americans, which has undergone a resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic? Does ornamentalism, when separated from the protective walls of critical...
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The Analogy of Race and Species in Animal Studies
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... Published amid the emergence of what antiracist activists in the United States have widely called the “multiple pandemics” of police violence, border imperialism, and COVID-19, these books suggest the significance of the connection between racial and environmental crises and representations of human/animal...
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Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... communicate, access information, and form group identities. It has greatly furthered the trend of digitization in cultural production that began when the world's first word processor for personal computers was made commercially available in the mid-1970s. And the recent global COVID-19 pandemic did its part...
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The Thrill of Becoming: Writing Poetry in Digital Times
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Chinese-Language College Students Short Poems Competition. The background of the poem is the state's ban on college students’ leaving school grounds “unless it is absolutely necessary” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unnecessarily Leaving Campus By Zhu Haoyue Internship; making a medical...
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Latour, Tiananmen, and Glass Slippers; or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Chinese Studies
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. For now, I will leave the task of charting the directions of Chinese studies in the time of coronavirus to other scholars. 40 Bell, China Model . 41 Nathan, “Problem with the China Model.” 42 Shih, Visuality and Identity . 43 Lim, People's...
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Inter-imperial, Ecological Interpretations of the “Five Coolies” Myth in Penang and Medan
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Mahua literature Ba Ren plantation labor coolie trade inter-imperiality Having witnessed rising inequalities amid trends of rapid deglobalization during our transformative COVID-19 moment, I found it untenable to write about geopolitical rhythms...
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Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... sweatshop, 45 so too was the wu consciousness being banished or repressed in China's own smog modernity. If China's mai (and now COVID-19) alarms the world by calling attention to China's (as well as the world's) vulnerability and never having been modern, then wu gives us a more hopeful reminder...
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Surface Classicism: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Remediation in Digitally Enhanced Chinese Performance
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a major annual state-sponsored event and the purportedly most watched television program in the PRC, the Gala has been analyzed extensively for its role in promoting ideology, attempting to create a sense of kinship and shared culture, and highlighting national...
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Writing in the Digital Sand: Technological Transformation and Classicist Poetry Writing in China's Fluid Cyberspace
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 341–366.
Published: 01 September 2023
... is gone. Another noteworthy phenomenon is the real-time versified commentary on contemporary social or political events, such as the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the lockdown of Shanghai in April 2022, and human tragedies caused by China's draconian anti...
