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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Petrus Liu Abstract This essay proposes a reconceptualization of the Cold War as a critical methodology for the study of contemporary Chinese-language cultures and literatures. Arguing that the Cold War is not over but simply transformed, the author redefines it as an enduring “problematic...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
...James Shea Abstract This article examines the Hong Kong writer Gu Cangwu 古蒼梧 (1945–) and his grassroots activism during the Cold War, namely, his appropriation of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (IWP). At the IWP from 1970 to 1971, Gu grew critical of US foreign policy...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shuang Shen Abstract This article addresses the neglect toward popular literary networks with Hong Kong in the Cold War period by influential Mahua scholars. Aiming to make way for a more robust discourse of cultural politics in tandem with a regional conceptualization of Sinophone cultural...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in the new millennium. The essay aims to denaturalize the idea of infectious disease by reframing it as an assemblage of multiple histories of American geopower and biopower from the Cold War to the War on Terror. In particular, Asia and Asian bodies have been targeted by US discourses of infection...
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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. Let us return...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... intrinsic literary borders “in the ontological sense in which [they] are involved in making or creating worlds.” 49 Yet the aesthetic discourse is not self-contained but complexly embedded in and engaged with the geopolitics and the historical transformations in Asia and beyond. The Cold War's...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 212–215.
Published: 01 March 2020
... capitalism and communism, these events led to the escalation of the Cold War between capitalist and communist countries and thereby contributed to the emergence of a new world order. Freedom , though not without controversy, had become a key word of the time. In chapter 1, Hu follows the strand...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Shih has made an enormous contribution to Sinophone studies, but her approach also points to areas where additional critical efforts are desired. Whereas Shih's distinction between (socialist) China and the Sinophone world unwittingly duplicates the polarized agenda of the Cold War era, colonialism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... architecture, however, is susceptible to misperception. Eko, a filmmaker from Earth, is struck by the ubiquitous transparent glass walls and left wondering about the lack of privacy. Steeped in Earth's Cold War views of authoritarianism and surveillance, he rushes to a judgment of political control, only...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Kong and Japan. For example, in her critique of Cold War narratives, Lisa Yoneyama examines how US and Japanese imperialisms have operated in concert in the postwar period, arguing that we recognize “the myriad instances of violence that the two empires have occluded or made invisible, and hence...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of words, texts, and traditions” (60). Further, in “the search for a post-colonial poetics,” Brathwaite “lays the groundwork for the later rise of iterative poetics as a response to digital technology and the post-Cold War wave of globalization” (61). From the Third World to the Second World, before...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Library Singapore , 2019 . Zhou, Taomo . Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2019 . 51 See Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka. 50 Ba Ren, Wuzu Mao , 258. The English translation is Zhou's, from Zhou...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
... as nationalist sentiments and cultural memories centering around the ancient capital and modern city, which has framed the material infrastructures, human conditions, mental images, political regimes, cultural identities, and literary imaginations from the late Imperial and Republican periods to the Cold War era...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
...) is geo-historically and culturally actualized, while method inevitably lapses into a comparative analysis within the Asia area and between different cultural entities that leads to the regional integration of Asia as the ultimate goal of anticolonialism, anti-Cold War, and anti-imperialism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on experts and scientists in pursuit of development and technology. This Cold War model, often aligned with Soviet revisionism, came under fire in the late 1950s and in the Cultural Revolution. In medicine and health care, medical bureaucrats and professionals were entrenched in elitism and relied heavily...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
...]. Shanghai : Shijie chuban , 2011 . Han Song . Lengzhan yu xinshi 冷戰與信使 [The Cold War and Messengers]. Nanjing : Jiangsu fenghuang , 2018 . Hanssen, Beatrice . Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels . Berkeley : University of California Press...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... critical acclaim, paints gloomy and epic fantasies of Cold War geopolitics in conjunction with planetary wars, traumas of China's political turmoil, humanity's environmental self-destruction, and the end of Earth. 2 Hao Jingfang emerged as an internationally recognized sci-fi writer after her...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Nationalist versus Communist political leanings during the late colonial period and the two world wars. 36 Indonesia also witnessed the competition for overseas Chinese students' support mounted by the two Chinas during the Cold War. The complex streams of vernacular and colonial Chinese schools...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Wang, “Translating Modernity and Reconstructing World Literature.” 72 Ji, “Zuowei shijie wenxue de Zhongguo wenxue.” 73 Cheah, What Is a World? 74 Ibid., 11. 75 D. D. Wang, “Introduction,” xiv. 76 X. Wang, “Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... became synonymous with traditional Chinese values as opposed to Western values. Given this, the East was a rallying point for defenders of traditional Chinese culture as much as a lightning rod for criticism by Westernization advocates. In the 1950s, thanks to the Cold War division of Eastern and Western...
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