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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Bozhou Men Abstract First appearing in 1892 as a serialized novel, Han Bangqing's Haishanghua liezhuan 海上花列傳 (The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai) demonstrates the problematic of an “atypical” novel and the challenges it poses to the notion of the Chinese literary “modern.” This article examines...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article investigates the underexamined ethnic motifs of the modern literary master Shen Congwen's 沈從文 fictional creations. In the field of Chinese literary scholarship, Shen is widely recognized as a leading figure of the May Fourth “native soil” literary tradition...
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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 (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 (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of “immanent transcendence.” 34 In this sense, Liu accommodates the distant Chinese philosophy to new, modern thought by introducing, appropriating, and combining some concepts and ideas from Western literary and religious tradition. He expects that Chinese contemporary writers, by means of paying adequate...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Chinese Literary Studies” uses an attention to the sociodemographic category of Chinese-educated Singaporeans to develop a novel approach to modern Chinese-language literature from Singapore. In particular, Chan analyzes Singaporean Chinese author Chia Joo Ming's 2015 novel Exile or Pursuit...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of his fiction, the author consolidated his literary endeavor of making the multiethnic grassland Chinese and maximized the literary work's impact on the political consciousness and territoriality awareness of its readers. Concealing the fictionality, or the constructedness of the discourse of modern...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Yiju Huang Abstract Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936) has remained a most prominent figure in modern Chinese literary studies, but not so in modern Buddhism scholarship. This article shows the interlacing of Lu Xun's revolutionary vision with Buddhism on three primary terrains: his indebtedness to his teacher...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... understanding of the dynamic textual spaces that harbor same-sex intimacies, erotic desires, and clandestine longings in vernacular traditions. Early modern Chinese literary manifestations of male homosexuality can be considered in light of what one critic has identified as “an epistemological impasse...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
...David Der-wei Wang Abstract Liu Zaifu is one of the most influential critics in the New Era after the Cultural Revolution. His works, such as On Literary Subjectivity (1985) and A Treatise of Character Composition (1986), inspired a generation of Chinese youth yearning for intellectual...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of nudity. As far as we know, this story is the first-ever literary work commenting on nudity written by a female author, heralding the emergence of a new treatment of (female) nudity in modern Chinese literature. The story starts out with a lengthy description of a “remarkable beauty” 奇美人 ( qi meiren...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a kind of conceptually counterintuitive, southbound Sinophonic detour of the dominant impulses of May Fourth and left-wing literature of Ai Wu's forebears and contemporaries—key movements in the nationalist foundations of Chinese literary modernity. Ai Wu's uninvited trespass into the colonial port city...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Novels and Chinese Literary Modernity . Leiden : Brill , 2018 . Chow, Rey . Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading between West and East . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1991 . Des Forges , Alexander Townsend . “ Street Talk and Alley Stories: Tangled...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... From this perspective, Liu proceeded to question the absence of such moral awareness in Chinese literary modernity. In Liu's judgment, Chinese writers are so obsessed with the project of nation building as to ignore the question of how literature could engage in soul-searching interrogation...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... may demonstrate the worlding potentiality of the Chinese literature. We also agree with David Wang that the concept of worlding may help us understand Chinese literary modernity in the broader sense of wen 文 as a vehicle “bringing the world home” and, more important, as an agency that continuously...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Experience . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Chow, Rey . “ On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem .” In Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field , edited by Rey Chow , 1 – 25 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2000 . Chow...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 183–198.
Published: 01 March 2020
... artistic policy that restricts individual freedom of creativity in the modern and contemporary literary field. Although the famous Chinese literary theorist Hu Feng 胡風 (1902–85) also advocates writers' subjective initiative ( zhuguan nengdongxing 主觀能動性), he emphasizes the subject's embrace of the object...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 385–408.
Published: 01 October 2021
... historically unprecedented challenges as it adapts to an environment dominated by spoken and written Chinese. The dilemma of the Tibetan language in modern China has received critical attention from scholars in a number of disciplines, and in the literary realm, theoretical debates over language choice...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and gaps in cultural attainment among ethnic Chinese Singaporeans and their migrant predecessors. It ends by charting future directions for Southeast Asian Chinese literary studies that collectively track a broader locus of “Chinese-educated” literary and cultural practices, and that promote critical inter...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the City Red ; Scheen, Shanghai Literary Imaginings ; Song, Mapping Beijing ; Zhang, City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film . 11 This shift is described in detail by Robin Visser in her brilliant work Cities Surround the Countryside . 12 I use the term time-space...
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