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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 285–288.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the genre. Chapter 1 draws from a rich theoretical framework, ranging from science fiction studies to postcolonial studies, to “make a case for the wutuobang xiaoshuo genre as a coherent and useful analytical tool for the further understanding of early modern Chinese literature and the historical...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., a territorial gateway, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, a “state of exception,” and an imaginary portal. In eleven essays, this issue explores the intersection of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland, from the Northeast to the Southwest...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jerôme de Wit Abstract Korean-Chinese literature after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) predominantly eulogized the lives of farmers. Such literature portrayed farmers' lives and how, through their work, they could transform both their own livelihoods and that of the nation...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Kyle Shernuk Abstract By interrogating the borderlands of the discipline of Chinese literature, this article argues that Chinese literary studies should recognize non-Sinitic-language literatures that engage with issues of Chineseness as proper objects of study. Prevailing frameworks in Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Cheow Thia Chan Abstract Recent studies on Singapore Chinese literature have employed analytical lenses such as the Sinophone and postloyalism, which are exogenous to the historical and everyday experiences in the region that produced the texts. This article proposes using the lens of the Chinese...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2023
... diplomatic intents through the translations. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 poetic form diplomacy foreignizing translation Sino-Western relation Qian Zhongshu In 1935, Chinese literary critic Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書 (1910–1998) rediscovered British...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 117–138.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to geopolitical reasons. This article begins with an overview of the introduction of Russian literature into Taiwan in the twentieth century. Then it focuses on the Russian imaginary in modern Chinese poetry in Taiwan as represented by two major poets: Ya Xian and Yang Mu. Rather than an influence study...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Cosima Bruno; Lianjun Yan Abstract This article explores a contemporary Chinese poem, Zhang Zao's “Dadi zhi ge,” as an intermedial translation of an intermedial source text—Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (musical and verbal). The article's aim is threefold: to enhance appreciation of the Chinese...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Cheng Li Abstract By engaging with and bringing together Chinese environmental humanities and science fiction studies, this article argues that the narratives of weather and climate revealed in late Qing science fiction serve as a metonymic vehicle and a medium for addressing China's social...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 ecological dystopia Chinese science fiction The environmental issue has been a pervasive theme in science fiction. Anxiety about climate change, energy depletion, and environmental degradation has given rise to a new genre...
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Published: 01 September 2022
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature from antiquity through modern times. It is of profound paradigmatic significance because each major reconceptualization of qing by literary writers and scholars almost invariably signifies...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the methodological questions at the heart of that controversy are still very much alive as the protean field of Chinese studies continues reinventing itself in relation to theory. A still deeper reason is to rethink, via Bruno Latour, the status of fiction in the age of posttruth and fake news—a task incumbent upon...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 300–303.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Melody Yunzi Li Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey . Chunmei Du . PHILADELPHIA : UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS , 2019 . 251 PP. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 This book guides us through Gu Hongming's eccentric odyssey with extensive readings of rich...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 138–169.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Lucas Klein Abstract Examining how contemporary poets raised in China are looking at classical Chinese poetry from the Tang—in particular, the poetry and the figure of Li Bai 李白 (701–762)—this article questions the epistemological divide, common to scholarship, between premodern and modern Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 394–410.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Ko Chia-Cian; Sun Pingyu Abstract As a Chinese-medium educational institution, Chung Ling High School (CLHS) in Penang enjoyed an illustrious reputation in the Malayan era. During the fall of Penang in World War II, the deaths of eight teachers and forty-six students from CLHS marked a painful...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shirley O. Lua Abstract This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning movement were included in the anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology (2012), edited by Charles A. Tan...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Yunte Huang; Hangping Xu Abstract This article, introduction to the special issue, lays out the theoretical groundwork for reading Chinese poetry. Situating critical discussions of Chinese poetry within the larger discourse of world literature, the introduction examines key concepts and concerns...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Haun Saussy Abstract Readers of Chinese poetry in English translation have long been accustomed to seeing Wang Wei's quatrain “Lu zhai” as a microcosm of the Chinese poetic tradition. Thematically, it is also a world in miniature, including an “empty mountain,” “human voices,” and “returning...
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