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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... milieu. Both are intended to reorient the post–Cold War confrontational narrative toward broader horizons of the human condition and beyond. It is to test the feasibility of these discourses that I have undertaken the Sinophone Nanyang Reader project. The Reader has two dimensions. First...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Josh Stenberg Abstract Hei Ying 黑嬰 (1915–1992) wrote prolifically about the “southern isles,” where he—a Hakka from Sumatra—was born. Written for a sophisticated urban readership in China that was curious about the exotic and erotic Nanyang, Hei Ying's 1930s fiction foregrounds questions of Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and Indonesia respectively, was one Nanyang connection, but these writers have been discussed separately within Mahua and Yinhua 印華 (Indonesian Chinese) contexts. Ba Ren, in particular, is studied as a leftist writer who contributed artistically to the Indonesian and Chinese revolutions in the 1940s and 1950s...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
... shizi” should not be regarded as the first Mahua modernist poetry. See Wen, “Yu Chen Yingde tan ‘di yi shou xiandaishi’,” 255-9 ; Tang Eng Teik, “Cong Mahua wentan di yi shou xiandai shi tanqi,” 348 . 5 Ng, “Zhanhou xiandai,” 68 . 6 Wong and Huang, “Youyu de Nanyang qundao,” 134...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... schools and Nanyang University.” 4 Evident in Huang's definition is a comparison to the yingxiaosheng 英校生, those Singaporean Chinese who were educated in English (hereafter “the English-educated”). Akin to topolectal group differences among Singaporean Chinese, this bifurcation into opposing...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
...-leaning literary critic, his dismissal of popular literature is not surprising but troubling. Many of the same arguments had already emerged before the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, in the context of a discussion of the popularization of Nanyang literature. Influenced by the May Fourth Movement, most...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 394–410.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and reformists. It was a typical Nanyang city that hosted the ethnic Chinese. After conquering Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese military launched the “Sook Ching” 肅清, a massive inspection operation that was conducted in Singapore and various states in the Malay Peninsula, during which Penang was given...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., historian of the Chinese overseas, has dubbed “the heart of Nanyang”— in order to contemplate its representational significance for wider Southeast Asia. 1 In Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua's award-winning film A Land Imagined , the character Wang Bicheng, a mainland Chinese migrant worker, takes...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... includes interactions with Burmese Indians and Sino-Burmese or expatriate/sojourning Chinese communities in the Nanyang 南洋, or “South Seas.” The preface foreshadows multiple episodes wherein Ai Wu willfully or inadvertently trespasses onto unfamiliar cultural grounds whose interpersonal codes and customs...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Returned to Malaya) as an example. Intending to come to terms with the history of the Malayan communist movement, Ng's story comes from a collection of short stories titled Nanyang Renmin Gongheguo beiwanglu 南洋人民共和國備忘錄 (Memorabilia of the Nanyang People's Republic). Significantly the story constructs...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . Casarino, Cesare . Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2002 . Chiu, Kuei-fen . “ The Production...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Asian Chinese literature examines processes of world making found in Chinese literature from throughout Southeast Asia or the “South Seas” (Nanyang 南洋) region. This introduction begins, however, by looking at how Singapore, Southeast Asia's smallest and most ethnically Chinese nation-state, has been...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., from Inner Mongolia to Tibet, and from Nanyang 南洋 (Southeast Asia) to Nanmei 南美 (Latin America). It reflects on the recent, interdisciplinary growth in understanding the characteristics of borders and frontiers, including migration and settlement, cultural hybridity, and transnationalism. It also...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., institutions of higher education like Nanyang University, which the government forcibly closed in 1980—under a bilingual, English-first education policy implemented in 1966 following independence cannot be discounted. From its founding in 1956 through the 1970s, Nanyang University not only cultivated its own...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 117–138.
Published: 01 March 2023
... birthplace, then, is that they are both “northland.” A native of Nanyang in Henan Province, Ya Xian moved to Taiwan in 1949 as a serviceman in the Nationalist military. The stark contrast between Henan, of continental climate with cold winters, and subtropical Taiwan must have required quite a bit...
