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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of Communist Party organizations in Shanghai by Chiang Kai-shek and his allies in 1927, Wang first illustrates how the frustration and anxiety over the failed National Revolution experienced by Guo and other members of the Creation Society led to the founding of the short-lived journal Cultural Critique...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
...” by the privileged and the powerful, such that it even generates its own antithesis in terms of hegemony and totalitarianism. Above all, Liu and Li derive their critical stance from none other than Lu Xun, who set out to critique as early as 1927: “Revolution, revolutionize revolution, revolutionize revolutionized...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... used wires and pulleys to hold actors in midair during a fight scene. The arrival of Tsui Hark on the scene, however, completely revolutionized martial arts cinema and made it appear more modern. 22 Tsui's Swordsman movies were among the first ones to employ digital technologies—including computer...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Xiaobing Tang Abstract “The Answer,” a poem by Bei Dao first published in 1978, marks the emergence of a defiant voice in contemporary Chinese poetry and asserts skepticism as the political stance of a young generation in post–Cultural Revolution China. It also heralds a historic transition from...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” and “the Humanist Enlightenment and the ‘Root-Seeking’ wave” in China. Alai's “pure literature” manifests in his “‘de-revolutionization’ of ideologies, transcendental cultural stand, and allegorization in literary creation.” We believe this critique fails to see that, instead of retreating from a real engagement...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
...: Zuni Icosahedron and Drama Box's One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0: Cultural Revolution . ” In Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore , edited by Rossella Ferrari and Ashley Thorpe , 69 – 91 . London : Routledge , 2021 . Parui, Avishek...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. Li applies a holistic and coherent view of Mao's era by privileging continuity over rupture. Although an account of Mao's China guided with this integrative approach may seem teleological to some, Utopian Ruins points to a perpetual tendency throughout the socialist...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 236–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... history, memory, and literature when it comes to political violence and traumatic experiences, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution? These are questions at the center of modern and contemporary Chinese literary studies. There have been a number of works focusing on the issues...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 289–292.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as how these digital images exemplify a generational split produced by public secrecy. Also concerning Cultural Revolution but further into the twenty-first century, chapter 3 examines the digital network of photo-forms and its entangled relationship with public secrecy. The portrait of Bian Zhongyun...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 260–263.
Published: 01 March 2022
... spirit of man ” (151). As a conceptual corollary, Crespi's formulation brings to mind Barbara Mittler's reading of Cultural Revolution lianhuanhua as “chain pictures” that had the power to “chain” their unwitting readers to Maoist ideology. 2 Is this (as Crespi encourages us to consider) another...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and collective aspirations, as well as the disillusionment arising from filling the ideological void after the Cultural Revolution with empty capitalist pursuits. For members of the older generation who were active participants in the Revolution and members of the younger generation who believed in the myth...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., with their references to his travels around the world and to an international cast of literary acquaintances. 6 Born in 1949, Bei Dao was a teenager at the outset of the Cultural Revolution. In the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution's first years, Bei Dao was one of many children of the party elite who joined Red...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... (1953–), author of Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966 , has compared Hu's letter to another famous letter, by someone called Pan Xiao 潘曉, that was published in China Youth in 1980. Pan Xiao—possibly a pen name or a group of people—asks why...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Opening in the throes of China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), The Three-Body Problem tells the story of a disillusioned young scientist (Ye Wenjie) who responds to an alien message from Trisolaris and implores them to come to take over Earth. Consequently, humanity has four hundred years to prepare...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the sacred and charismatic appeals of various political utopias—be they enlightenment, reform, or revolution. It is therefore unsurprising that the post-Mao cultural reflection ( wenhua fansi 文化反思) was consistently imbued with religious imaginaries, from the reenactment of neo-Confucianism to the nativist...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 255–259.
Published: 01 March 2022
...” as intersecting with three major discourses between the May Fourth Movement and the eve of the Cultural Revolution: enlightenment, revolution, and socialist industrialization. The six chapters of the book are chronologically organized into three parts, each of which focuses on one of these discourses and related...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... at arrogance.” In other words, it was too demanding, too arrogant, and too pretentious. Guo solemnly broke with the May Fourth spirit and publicly altered his maxim to let revolutionism conquer individualism, calling for the opening to the new era of “revolution literature.” The New Literature movement...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and engineering process, this trend relied 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...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... sent-down youth ( zhiqing 知青) such as Jiang Rong, who moved from urban centers to ethnically diverse border regions during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), appropriates indigenous ecological perspectives to criticize Maoist destruction of the environment and concomitant undermining of neo...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... before the Cultural Revolution, ethnic minority programs were suspended. Since the use and promotion of minority languages were displaced by a unity message of communalism, some minority parents would send their children to Chinese schools to learn Chinese and Putonghua instead. Some of them see...
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