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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... [ Confucian Humanism and Democratic Constitution: A Dialogue with Professor Zhang Hao ]. Zhongguo luntan 中國論壇 [ Chinese Tribune ], no. 347 ( 1991 ): 111 – 17 . Iovene, Paola . Tale of Future Past: Anticipation and the End of Literature in Contemporary China . Stanford, CA : Stanford University...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... examines the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. The Chinese equivalents to “borderland” include expressions such as bianjiang 邊疆, bianchui 邊陲, bianjing 邊境, and biandi 邊地, among others, all denoting the highly contested space in which people...
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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 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in Contemporary Chinese Literary Imagination .” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14 , no. 1 ( 2002 ): 231 – 65 . Dai, Jinhua , and Judy T. H. Chen . “ Imagined Nostalgia .” boundary 2 24 , no. 3 ( 1997 ): 143 – 61 . Davidson, Judith . “ Bakhtin as a Theory of Reading .” Centre...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 285–288.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Cara Healey Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Lorenzo Andolfatto's Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910 convincingly argues that the brief flourishing of utopian fiction ( wutuobang xiaoshuo 烏托邦小說) in the last decade of the Qing dynasty...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Shuang Shen Abstract The current state of Chinese literary studies is undergoing a process of re(b)ordering where the nation-state is no longer seen as the only acceptable framing for Chinese literature, and existing identificatory markers of Chinese literature—locality, language, ethnicity...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... writer who establishes herself within the dominant tradition of Chinese literature. As one of the few prominent Sinophone Uyghur writers, she inevitably becomes a token that sustains the rhetoric of Chinese literature as inclusive and diverse. Along this line of thought, the article argues that Padi...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of Europe and the United States and how Chinese academia repositioned itself in response to the adoption of Western criticism on Orientalism in the 1980s. This article also traces the institutionalization of oriental literature studies in modern China under the influence of both Soviet Russian and Western...
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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 (2019) 16 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Maghiel van Crevel Abstract Battlers poetry ( dagong shige 打工詩歌), a genre whose name has mostly been rendered in English as “migrant worker poetry” to date, presents an important development in Chinese literature since the 2000s. Written by members of a new precariat that plays a key role...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., this article argues that he seeks to further detach literature from politics by calling for various transcendental dimensions of Chinese literary works beyond the realistic one and by paying intense attention to the literary descriptions of people's sin of complicity and their inner struggle. Liu's evocation...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... ,” translated by Harry Zohn . In Illuminations , edited by Hannah Arendt , 69 – 82 . New York : Schocken Books , 1968 . Cheah, Pheng . What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Chen, Ping . Modern Chinese: History...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 183–198.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in literature. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 third zone literary subjectivity Farewell Revolution exile the god return to the classics cosmopolitanism In 2015, the twenty-sixth year of his exile to the United States, Liu Zaifu 劉再復 (1941–), a renowned contemporary Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Nicholas Y. H. Wong Abstract This article proposes resource extraction politics as a lens to analyze the relationship between Malaysian Chinese (or Mahua) literature and the global literary economy. Rather than ascribe Mahua literature to its present national boundaries and diasporic communities...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and assumes a sober voice as he calls for ethnic equality. Simultaneously lyrical and political, Shen's ethnically themed works are significant for forming new scholarly understandings of both May Fourth literature and the broader discourse of ethnicity, which underpins the very notion of Chineseness...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and publication systems, through which the imposition of the Chinese language and the Sinitic script became possible. The May Fourth Movement of 1919 further signaled the start of the Chinese enlightenment, in which modern Chinese literature played an important role in the struggle against tradition and, as one...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... specifically, the essay considers how multiple waves of migration from China to Southeast Asia have resulted in a wide array of Chinese communities throughout the region, and how modern literature may be used as a prism through which to examine some of the sociocultural formations that have been generated...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker Abstract This article examines sociopolitical commentary in contemporary Chinese science fiction literature written by authors of the post-1980s generation. With a close reading of Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing, 2014) and Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆...
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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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