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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Xiaolu Ma Abstract Since Edward Said published his seminal study on Orientalism, the notion of the Orient has been heavily discussed and hotly debated in both the Eastern and Western worlds. While early studies of Orientalism mainly underline Western fantasies of an exotic East as the West's “other...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and by reckoning with the specter of orientalism that refuses to go away despite his previously audacious repudiation of stereotypes and clichés and his professed engagement with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Julien once proclaimed, “That's exactly what I'm interested in: making images that cannot...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... encompassing all countries in the Middle East and Asia, with China placed first at its center (in Soviet discourse about the Orient) and later outside it as evidenced by the exclusion of China from nascent Eastern studies programs and departments in China. Finally, the proliferation of Said's Orientalist...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Rumya S. Putcha Abstract This article explores how consumer practices tether Orientalism to wellness. Relying on ethnographic research, the author uncovers how racialization and racialized expressions of gender are produced by and through performative and discursive practices of wellness...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and biosecurity as frontiers of bioterrorism and the diseased other. A contemporary example of this bio-orientalism can be seen around the 2003 SARS epidemic, in which global discourses projected the source of contagion onto Asia and Asians. Pandemic as method can thus serve as a theoretical pathway for examining...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the dichotomy between the former's target-oriented poetics and the latter's source-oriented translations and also offer a stronger migration into English for the poetry of these migrants. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 translation form poetry modern classical...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of colonial intimacies, ornamentalism, and techno-orientalism, this article relies on the figure of the visor-wearing ajumma , a Korean word referencing a middle-aged woman. As a transnational and transhistorical framework emerging from the messy interstitial spaces between theory and reality, the concept...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in their titles. Zhou Shoujuan's (1895–1968) Xiangyan conghua (Miscellaneous Talks on the Fragrant and Bedazzling, 1914) was well situated in this literary trend. What really sets Zhou's collection off from other similarly titled publications, however, is its global orientation. It makes a perfect case...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
... The Interrupted Dream , launched in 2018. The latter links Tang's oneiric imaginary to the postcolonial critique of orientalism through references to seventeenth-century chinoiserie at the court of Louis XIV. Updated for livestreaming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the series served as a virtual channel...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 300–303.
Published: 01 March 2021
... adaptation of Western knowledge at the turn of the century on its head. Rather than focusing on the East's reception of Western democracy, modernity, and science, Du's study highlights the West's adaptation of Oriental mysticism after World War I. Du's reading of Gu Hongming adds nuance to the often...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in Beijing. 1 Zhang stresses that his objections are categorically different from the usual complaints against the application of “Western theory” to “Chinese reality” that used to issue from “some backwater quarters of sinology beclouded by the influence of Orientalism.” 2 Rather, he takes issue...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... misogyny tropes of illness colorblind gaze techno-Orientalism In an attempt to curb the outbreak of the disease now known as COVID-19, the Chinese government ordered a lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, two days before the Chinese New Year, and the World Health Organization declared...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... traditions and superstitions. But the tension between political religiosity and enlightenment reason can hardly be overcome through a normative program of cultural modernization. Although the ethos of the post-Mao literary and intellectual culture was ostensibly secular in orientation, its literary...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
... (the “Great Within”) that demonstrate the differences created by ambiguous cultural identity or alterity, Orientalism, and cosmopolitanism but also limitations of local knowledge and experience; finally, chapter 5, “A Displaced City and Postmemory: Relocating Beijing in Sinophone Writing,” examines Beijing...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... biomedical and academic matter, Luo values the political participation of the peasantry in maintaining the biological body and body politic. Dr. Liu's arrogance and elitism epitomize a technocratic orientation in China's modernization and in the medical system. Seeing development as a technoscientific...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... media's balancing act between profit (market-oriented content creation) and propaganda (promoting national culture). The classical Chinese class Lee took in school represents the Malaysian government's concession to the demands of local Chinese communities, which see the veneration of their ancestral...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 104–126.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the global BL culture has been generally considered a female-oriented fan culture by its practitioners, scholars, and the public, BL's increasing interweaving with homosexuality and sexual minorities in China requires scholars to reread and redefine BL practice in its Chinese context. 4 Part of a global...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Wayback Machine ( web.archive.org/ ). 3 The dance-drama opened in August 2021 and was coproduced by the Palace Museum (Gugong bowuyuan 故宮博物院), the China Oriental Performing Arts Group (Zhongguo dongfang yanyi jituan youxian gongsi 中國東方演藝集團有限公司), and People's Daily Online (Renminwang gufen youxian...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ordinary people in China should live in the present moment of environmental precarity, it also gestures toward the more important issue of cultural struggle between the techno-oriented modern way of thinking and the premodern aesthetico-metaphysical one. This article asks the following questions...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the genre.” 37 This global circulation of Chinese speculative fiction has brought attention to Chinese-oriented works. The 2023 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) will be held, for the first time, in China, in the city of Chengdu, a foremost industrial hub, including electronics and high...
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