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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
... childhood in the fictional county of Tsezhung (Rtse gzhung)—where most of Tsering Döndrup's work is set—focusing in particular on his love of cars. Since his father's official career was hampered by a lack of Chinese fluency, his father decides to send Wanggyel to a Chinese-medium school in the county seat...
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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. In appropriating...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 197–200.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the new medium of the popular press, early reformers such as Liang Qichao, Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, and Lu Xun aligned images of youth with progressive politics, Western learning, and ideas of modern selfhood. As “old youth,” this vanguard generation held up the “Gate of Darkness” through which the younger...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... he says, the text he produces is not Chinese: “Originally written in Malay.” The narrator has, after all, failed in his final, most consequential attempt to reassert his Chinese identity via the medium of the Chinese script. His ability to write Chinese has vanished, dissolved in the long years...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Amirah . “ How Beyond the Lights Gave the Phrase ‘I See You’ New Meaning .” Medium , November 17 , 2014 . https://medium.com/@AmirahMercer/how-beyond-the-lights-gave-the-phrase-i-see-you-new-meaning-527fc9c9105a . Miao, Hannah . “ Here's What Mattered Most to Voters in the 2020 Election...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., Mandarin-medium schools opened their doors for Chinese pupils from 1900, and Dutch-medium schools opened from 1908. In the printed domain, however, Malay remained the predominant language of choice. This so-called Sino-Malay tradition provides fascinating glimpses into the history of the everyday. Chinese...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... veer far from genteel ink drawings or academic oil painting. Their medium of choice—photography posted online—suggests a carefree coolness. Instead of the socialist motherland in Maoist painting, the rooftopping selfies feature the capitalist global city. The rooftoppers themselves prefer precarity...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... cultures. These changes are intertwined with, and even stimulated by, the growth of new media technology and the alteration, displacement, or extinction of oral traditions, local scripts, and other communicative mediums. There are also questions of agency, state power, and the expression of local poetic...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., that the quintessence of Chineseness is somehow intrinsically bound to Sinitic languages 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...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of water recur in another chapter, “Xiyi jie” 洗衣街 (Sai Yee Street); they draw attention to the functions of water: “In an activity such as laundry [water] is not nourishment or the sustenance of life, but a medium for washing, and the water used in the process of washing necessarily ends up depleted...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 201–204.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as a medium for changing people's opinions, though not the most serious genre, may be “evidence of a period of adjustment—between earlier in the Qing, when the novel was regarded as a lesser (or more unmannerly) form, and the May Fourth period, when it became literature's leading genre. It was an era with its...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... S. Eliot , 4 – 6 . London : 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...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
... ]” of the listener or reader. 16 Note the tendency toward synesthesia and intermediality in this quote of the rhetorician Aelius Theon: if his words are taken literally, he is here describing a properly monstrous and quasi-magical activity that takes place in the medium of written or spoken language but has...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Animistic language reveals the deeper conditions of language that allows humans to experience and access the world directly in a bodily and incarnate medium. 30 Instead of setting the human apart from nature, it allows human bodies to experience immediate sensations, sights, and sounds from nature. More...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that is beautiful and ingenious.” 33 The beautiful is more than a matter of aesthetics; it entails a religious view of poetry and the world: poetry is rooted in nature, and human-nature bonds are expressible through the transparent medium of human voice. On the other hand, human resonance with nature provides...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... are expressible through the transparent medium of human voice. On the other hand, human resonance with nature provides an exhaustible source for poetry, imagination, and myths. This “aesthetic-religious view,” based on the embrace of Heaven and Earth, entails a deep ecological intimacy between humans and nature...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... wealth and power. 111 This kind of Thirdspace would intermingle various elements from different cultures and different historical stages to benefit the project of Chinese modernization. For Zhang, Thirdspace also denoted a kind of “middle medium” ( zhongjian meijie wu 中間媒介物) through which ideals...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as a medium of community. On the other end of the spectrum, the smog life cultural phenomenon has emerged. As previously mentioned, smog life refers to a lifestyle outside the dome. Instead of being locked under the dome and subject to cyberregimentation courtesy of measures that include the Air Quality...
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