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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 438–453.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., a fascination with the relationship between humans and Sarawak's various “semi-wild” flora and fauna is paralleled by an attention to the relationship between the region's ethnic Chinese and its various Indigenous peoples—and particularly two subgroups of Sarawak's Dayak ethnicity, the “Sea Dayaks” (also known...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of Inner Mongolia. Mandumai 滿都麥, one of the People's Republic of China's earliest post-Mao eco-writers, romanticizes indigeneity in his Mongolian-language stories (read in this article in Mandarin translation). Mongolian-Han Sinophone writer Guo Xuebo 郭雪波 juxtaposes “grassland logic” against “agrarian...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... for the indigenous society: such an order is distinguished from the institutional and moral order for the secular Han Chinese. In The Shaman's Love , for example, the Shaman conducts ritual ceremonies and blesses people with his “beautiful and charming dances,” which fill people's hearts with “happiness and delight...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and the thrills of dressing up, respectively. It relates how the festivities have changed from the 1910s ( tjapgwani 十外年), especially due to the influence of Indigenous people. Reminiscent of Sirenepark, the festival was thronged with pleasure seekers from all classes, ages, and ethnicities ( fig. 2...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in literary works written by Mahua authors. One prominent Mahua author whose works devote considerable attention to Malaysia's Indigenous peoples but who is not covered in detail in Khor's article is Zhang Guixing, and in “Becoming Semi-wild: Colonial Legacies and Interspecies Intimacies in Zhang Guixing's...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... “oceanic literature” ( haiyang wenxue 海洋文學). A member of the Tao people, an ethnic group native to Lanyu 蘭嶼 (Orchid Island), Rapongan is usually classified as a Taiwanese Indigenous author. Categories like this, however, obscure more complex patterns in the making of identity. Not only does Taiwan figure...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... narrative about the social and economic history of Han immigration to the plain and the complicated relationship between the immigrants and the indigenous people. This piece, which follows the novel closely in terms of the protagonist family's background, leaves the readers with the impression that both...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... as the wind/sound/culture that reverberates between the Indigenous and the foreign, a momentum that enacts traffic and communication in both human and transhuman terms. Tu 土is regarded by Chinese people as the foundation of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) in the making...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
...” that amplified hostilities toward the nation's non-Burman minorities (especially Indian and Sino-Burmese, but also indigenous peoples in the upland frontier regions) ( Li, Chinese in Colonial Burma , 2 ). 15 It is this 1963 Beijing-based Writers Publishing House 作家出版社 reprinting from which I am working...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... India, consisting of eight states, is home to over two hundred Indigenous groups (some classified as “tribals”), the majority of which speak Tibeto-Burman languages (Khasi, spoken in Meghalaya, is an example of another family, Austroasiatic). For some of these peoples, mythology and migration legends...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the mainstream, such as those of minorities or Indigenous people. The Philippine movement is spearheaded by an exciting brood of midcareer writers who have appropriated literary techniques and modes of Western (read: Anglo-American) origin. 1 Their subject matter, nevertheless, stems from native earth...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... examines the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. The Chinese equivalents to “borderland” include expressions such as bianjiang 邊疆, bianchui 邊陲, bianjing 邊境, and biandi 邊地, among others, all denoting the highly contested space in which people...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... ecology along national lines inspires my rethinking of Mahua literary history. First, I understand ecology as what Amitav Ghosh calls a “form of emplacement in which the landscape, and its hidden forces” create “commonalities between the people who dwell in it, no matter what their origin.” 10 Minor...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of animalization. Analyzing the use of dogs to control enslaved peoples in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, Boisseron argues that contemporary dog cultures—including those involving the recent use of dogs as weapons against Black and Indigenous activists—are thoroughly marked by the relationships...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... instance of economic globalization, a history that demonstrates, as anthropologists Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson assert, that borders did not “block or obstruct global passages of people, money, or objects” but became “central devices for their articulation.” 2 The family enterprise, which set up...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 264–276.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Liang Shi Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century Chinese sexuality underwent a metamorphosis, resulting in the replacement of a rich indigenous discourse by imported Western theories. This article traces the evolution of a modern subject and episteme emerging from the historical...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract In the light of biopolitical production, socialist China's medical practice was marked by a heavy reliance on the creativity of the masses and a rejection of the technical bureaucracy. The anti-epidemic campaign exemplified a popular and grassroots medicine for the people...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
... indigenized than the male narrator of “Elegy,” loses her virtue as a function of having lost or marred her Chineseness. This pseudocolonial aesthetic is channeled toward the way in which the protagonists in both “Elegy” and “Spring” avert a cardinal sin: the indulgence of eros. Miss Hui's own patriotic...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... when they write about Malaysia's other minority ethnic groups? According to Malaysia's Department of Statistics, in 2020 nearly 70 percent of the nation's population were Bumiputra (including both Malay-Bumiputra and the Indigenous-Bumiputra, who live primarily in the states of Sabah and Sarawak...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
... artists take urban waste and transform it into art, but also the striking absence, in many of the works in question, of the people who live in and around these urban waste dumps and struggle to eke out a living by collecting discarded items and putting them back into circulation. From this point...
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