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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... despotism. However, the Japanese supported the Mongols' desire for “self-determination” merely to use it as a vehicle for their colonial designs. Through a close reading of several texts that appeared in Sinophone magazines published in Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolia during the war, this article...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the PRC's ethnic minority policy to examine the implications of the protagonist's cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical border-crossing as she comes to terms with ethnic amalgamation as a necessary mode of survival. This allows the novel to be read as a symptom of Padi Guli's status as a Sinophone Uyghur...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to further this engagement with literary space-time from the rich and varied perspective of twenty-first-century Sinophone film and fiction, whose compressed and intense urbanity lends a new, sharp edge to the study of space and time in literature. The playful title “Chronotopia,” couples Bakhtin's term...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Brian Bernards Abstract Starting in the 1970s, flash fiction developed into an outsized literary practice relative to other Sinophone forms in Singapore. Flash fiction's smallness and brevity cohere with the fast pace of urban Singaporean life and transformation of its cityscape...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Nicolai Volland Abstract This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic region of the western Pacific to understand how thinking with and through the ocean shapes patterns of place-making and identity formation. Scrutinizing stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, the article...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by writers from different eras, regions, genders, and generations. These modes of counter-discourse foreground minority voices and create a meaningful dialogue between the Sinophone community and other ethnic groups. Through these counter-discursive explorations, Mahua authors portray the Chinese in Malaysia...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This essay seeks to reconsider the current paradigm of Sinophone studies, which is largely based on theories from postcolonialism to empire critique. While Sinophone studies derives its critical thrust from confronting China as a hegemonic force, some approaches have...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
... practice in Sinophone communities in the last decades of the twentieth century. At the same time, by attending to the role played by these various sets of institutional structures in shaping new queer subjectivities, each of these four works simultaneously emphasizes the subject's ability to intervene...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Brian Bernards Abstract Following his 1925–1931 overland trek across southwestern China to colonial Burma, Ai Wu's 1935 Travels in the South (the author's canonical collection of autobiographical travelogue fiction) represents a Sinophonic detouring of the key literary impulses of the author's May...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... lost its valence and transformed into yi . “Bordering” the Chineseness of China has been a far more mercurial experience than what would have been expected by dogmatic historians. The recent emergence of Sinophone studies has shed significant light on Chinese borderland studies, particularly...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... divisiveness manifested itself in the aesthetic realm as well when the distinction between modernism and socialist realism, both simplistically defined, was made to accord with geopolitical divisions grafted on to the geography of Sinophone literary sphere. In this context, Ng's adaptive transformation...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jie Guo Abstract Reading the Taiwanese author Wu Jiwen's 1996 novel Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader (Shijimo shaonian’ai duben), this essay considers the age-old figure of the male dan and the critical role it played in the emerging gay scene in the Sinophone world at the turn of the twenty-first...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and Sinophone literary studies range from an implicit aversion to non-Sinitic-language texts to their explicit exclusion. The consequence, however, is that texts that would otherwise be considered works of Chinese literature based on their content and/or combinations of other factors are condemned...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... “technologies of orthography” pivoting on the Sinograph across three modalities of Sinophone expression: Taiwanese concrete poetry, transnational Chinese text-based art, and ludic mediatizations of the written script. It then speculates on the social psychological meaning of the spectacularized Sinograph...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Carlos Rojas Abstract Opening with a discussion of Singaporean artist Charles Lim Yi Yong's multiyear art project SEASTATE (2005–), this introduction uses Singapore's recent land reclamation efforts to reflect on more general processes of world building in Sinophone Southeast Asia. More...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Cheow Thia Chan Abstract Recent studies on Singapore Chinese literature have employed analytical lenses such as the Sinophone and postloyalism, which are exogenous to the historical and everyday experiences in the region that produced the texts. This article proposes using the lens of the Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shuang Shen Abstract This article addresses the neglect toward popular literary networks with Hong Kong in the Cold War period by influential Mahua scholars. Aiming to make way for a more robust discourse of cultural politics in tandem with a regional conceptualization of Sinophone cultural...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
... entire book to Beijing, a much needed development, and he also expands the scope beyond canonic works of the Republican period to include sinophone perspectives from Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as images created by foreign or transcultural figures such as Lin Yutang 林語堂 (1895–1976), Princess Der Ling 裕...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... World Literature , 3 . 4 Ibid., 16. 5 Huang, Chinese Whispers , 77 . 6 Ibid., 80. 7 Shih, “Concept of the Sinophone,” 716 . 8 Zhang, “Mapping Chinese Literature,” 9 . 9 Owen, “Stepping Forward,” 541 . 10 Owen, “Anxiety of Global Influence,” 31...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... different optics by treating the process as either one of absorption of foreign influence, or one engaged in adaptation to new cultural contexts. The articles gather emergent analytical parameters (gender, social class, minority ethnic groups); fresh conceptual conjunctures (the Sinophone and the xenophone...
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