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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): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... from Chinese-medium schools, and later morphed to become “helicopter”). 2 In circulation since the 1970s, the term has become a label that demeans Chinese-educated Singaporeans for their inadequate command of English, casting them as lower members of society. To those who recall the indignities...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 385–408.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of Chinese fluency, his father decides to send Wanggyel to a Chinese-medium school in the county seat. Wanggyel struggles at first, but soon masters Chinese and begins to turn his back on his own language and culture. After university, he returns to Tsezhung to become a government official. At this point...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... This article further investigates how such medium self-reflexivity in the form of voice-overs destabilized the Manichean structure of melodrama as an established genre in Cantonese cinema, thus making space for forms of female agency amidst contending ideologies in early Cold War. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the literary sphere in China for the previous decades. These writers took the liberty to turn toward the medium of literature itself and tested its innovative limits. This common ethos earned them the collective label “avant-garde school” ( xianfengpai 先鋒派), although they held individual agendas and never...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 197–200.
Published: 01 March 2019
... it in bounds politically and ideologically? As this example illustrates, Young China combines two main lines of inquiry. The first is a cultural history of youth as trope and symbol in the discourse of Chinese national reform and revolutionary movements. Of equal weight is Song's literary study...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by Eric Waddell , Vijay Naidu , and Epeli Hau‘ofa , 1 – 6 . Suva, Fiji : University of the South Pacific School of Social and Economic Development , 1993 . Hsia, C. T. “ Obsession with China .” In A History of Modern Chinese Fiction , 3rd ed., 509 – 32 . Bloomington : Indiana...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 220–234.
Published: 01 December 2023
... fused into a perfect conception-image, the virtual blueprint of a work-to-be before its achieving linguistic expression. Since both Chinese and Western literary critics saw the “image” or envisagement as an important medium or intermediary for translating transcendent mental experience...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... contemporary Asian American hate requires a more explicit focus on countering invisibility. This objective, necessitated by the ways in which ethnic Asians have been systematically elided and rendered as foreign throughout US history, should focus exclusively on educating Americans about Chinese Exclusion...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2023
... thought. Both Chinese and Western literary critics regard envisagement as an important medium to render transcendental experience into words. For Western critics, the core issue is usually transcendental imagination, for which the Latin root, imāginātiō , can also mean illusory image or “fancy...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
... yet few could write in it. Literacy was primarily sought in Malay, Indonesia's lingua franca. Many Chinese also spoke the regional language of the town they inhabited. In addition, Mandarin-medium schools opened their doors for Chinese pupils from 1900, and Dutch-medium schools opened from 1908...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., the figures loom large, and the field of vision is endless. 18 If only in retrospect, recent panoramic composition has found anchoring in revolutionary aesthetics. Shi Lu's work reflects also the modernization of Chinese painting associated with the New Nanjing School 新金陵畫派, which includes Fu Baoshi 傅抱...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Although a pathbreaker in the use of Yi script as a medium for modern poetry, Aku has also produced a significant body of Sinophone poetry. “The Spider King” is an adventurous prose-poem, written in Chinese, that is replete with images of small creatures that survive by tactics such as compactness...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... traditions. 1 Her family migrated from the coastal region around Quanzhou to Malaysia four generations ago. She speaks Mandarin, Hokkien, English, and Malay, in that order of proficiency. She went to a Chinese-language primary school and a national (Malaysian) middle school, before going to Singapore...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... a privileged place in the canon of Chinese landscape painting. More specifically, Qianli jiangshan tu has long stood as an exemplar of the blue-and-green school of landscape painting and of the Northern Song court painting patronized by Emperor Huizong 宋徽宗 (r. 1100–1126 CE). It therefore is already...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and/or the medium of the Sinograph. I am not suggesting here that the Sinitic languages and the Sinograph do not serve as important elements in determining the study of Chinese literature but, rather, that their function as a litmus test for inclusion in or exclusion from the field of Chinese studies represents...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the discourse stresses Hong Kong's exceptional status, reflecting a general anxiety that Hong Kong could be replaced by or even become just another Chinese city. This anxiety for the future is evident in an ecocritical turn, manifested in both the social realm (popular movements and organic communities...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 201–204.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the maidens to unbind their feet. Widmer connects this to Zhan Xi's activism against foot-binding and for women's rights generally, which included founding a school for both children and women. In chapters 4, 5, and 6, Widmer concentrates on three different kinds of writing by Zhan Kai: courtesan sketches...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... : Faber and Faber , 1954 . Saussy, Haun . “ Fenollosa Compounded: A Discrimination .” In The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition , by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound , edited by Haun Saussy , Jonathan Stalling , and Lucas Klein , 1 – 40 . New York...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Martin Svensson Ekström Abstract The author argues that the Greek tradition of ekphrasis and the Chinese genre of fu 賦 share at least two essential characteristics: they are devoted to exhaustive descriptions and are manifestly nonmetaphorical. The six texts under scrutiny—Mei Sheng's fu poem “Qi...
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