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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Hazel Shu Chen Abstract In 1950s and early 1960s Hong Kong, radio permeated in everyday life as a major source of entertainment and information. It subsequently gave rise to a peculiar genre in Cantonese cinema, film adaptations of “airwave novels” ( tiankong xiaoshuo dianying 天空小說電影), which...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
...) and artistic circles (independent cinema and literature). This article looks at Hong Kong literature—Wu Xubin's 吳煦斌 (1949–) stories, Dung Kai-cheung's 董啟章 (1967–) literary experiments, and a recent edited volume about plants—to determine how ecotopian imaginaries and cultural identities are closely linked...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., Stephen Ching-kiu . “ Figures of Hope and the Filmic Imaginary of Jianghu in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema .” Cultural Studies 15 , nos. 3–4 ( 2001 ): 486 – 514 . Chen, Jian . Mao's China and the Cold War . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2001 . Chen, Kuan-Hsing...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and exposes such nostalgia to be staged and consumed. 35 Commenting on nostalgia cinema in Hong Kong, Ackbar Abbas reminds us that nostalgia “is not the return of past memory: it is the return of memory to the past.” 36 Similarly, Rey Chow clarifies that nostalgia is “most acutely felt not as an attempt...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
...: Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July–December 10, 1956. 38 Liu, “Xinjiapo gushi,” 12 . 39 Liu, Blue Saturday , 106 . 40 Wang, “Literary Field,” 22–23. 41 Ng, “Soft-Boiled, Anti-Communist Romance,” 96 . References Abbas, Ackbar . “ Wong Kar-wai's Cinema of Repetition...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2021
... sanshinian 回顧香港電影三十年 [ Looking Back at Hong Kong Cinema over the Past Thirty Years ]. Hong Kong : Joint Publishing , 1989 . Chen, Yeong-Rury . “ An Investigation of the Huangmei Opera Film Genre: The Audience's Perception of Ling Po's Male Impersonation .” In (En)Gendering Taiwan: The Rise...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... . . . of national identity.” 13 The idea of yellow peril has been used in the Chinese colonial history as a symbol of Western bullying. In Wei Lo's Fist of Fury (1972), Bruce Lee's character, Chen Zhen, tears apart a banner that says “Sick Men of Asia” ( figure 2 ). The Hong Kong film, set in what is known...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Film Academy], no. 4 ( 2016 ): 53 – 57 . Zhang, Rui . The Cinema of Feng Xiaogang: Commercialization and Censorship in Chinese Cinema after 1989 . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2008 . Zhang, Yingjin . Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China . Honolulu...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Lorraine Wong Abstract Tian yu di 天與地 (When Heaven Burns, 2011), a primetime television series that was screened in Hong Kong from November 2011 to January 2012, tells the story of a young rock band struggling with the memory of having eaten a fellow bandmate in order to survive a mountaineering...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... literary nationalism. The backdrop to “My Lover” relates directly to the circumstances that led to Ai Wu's deportation by British authorities from Rangoon in 1931, which forced him into a period of quarantine in colonial Hong Kong's Victoria Prison before he landed in Shanghai. 36 “My Lover” stands...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Paola Iovene iovene@uchicago.edu Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia . Edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2019 . 308 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 This inspiring...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as those made in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. 23 For details of the recovery, see Sansanfeng, “Zhongguo kehuan zazhi jijianshi.” 24 Particularly symptomatic of this attempt, mainland China and Hong Kong both sent martial arts megaproductions to Academy Awards competition in 2016...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and sociopolitical contexts. In Taiwan, where Sinophone flash fiction perhaps achieved its earliest popularity, its publication has bridged both commercial and literary presses, while in Hong Kong the form is, according to Shouhua Qi, “retiring from popular media to the ivory tower of serious literature.” 10...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... , edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu , 1 – 32 . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i , 1997 . Lu Xun 魯迅 . Zhongguo xiaoshuoshi lue 中國小說史略 [ A Brief History of the Chinese Novel ]. Hong Kong : Xinyi chubanshe , 1970 . McMahon, Keith . Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... businessman, whose role is played by contemporary Chinese film director Wang Xiaoshuai 王小帥 (1966–), in the karaoke bar. The businessman proposes to bring her to see a jewelry exhibition in Hong Kong, but Tao turns him down, noting that she does not have a passport. In another scene, Taisheng has an intimate...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 264–276.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... Hong Kong : Shangwu yinshu guan , 1963 . Sang, Tze-lan . The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2003 . Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky . The Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... environments. Rooftopping selfies combine recent developments in two visual mediums. One is photography: the climbers look for new ways to portray the city. Daniel Cheong, a Hong Kong professional photographer, claims that for him, “the goal is to capture the cityscape. . . . The attraction really has...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... 胡嘉明 and Zhang Jieying 張劼穎 . Feipin shenghuo . Lajichang de jingji, shequn yu kongjian 廢品生活：垃圾場的經濟、社群與空間 [The Life of Waste: Economy, Community and Space at the Dump]. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2016 . Xing Danwen 邢丹文 . “ disCONNEXION : work STATEMENT .” danwen.com...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... suppression or can be met with local criticism in an authoritarian context. Moreover, in the context of Chinese nationalism, the exposure of severe pollution on a global stage tends to be viewed as an unpatriotic act. Timothy Choy, in his ethnographic account of air in Hong Kong, touches on this patriotic...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in this article was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project Number: HKU 17616817). 1 The terms specter and ghost will be used interchangeably in this paper to refer to a nonexistential being that presents itself...
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