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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 (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 (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 (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by Sinophone literature. 13 Bernards, Writing the South Seas , 15, 20–24 . 14 Aside from Glissant, Françoise Lionnet's work has influenced both Sinophone Studies and oceanic studies. Glissant and Lionnet in turn both draw on Deleuze and rhizomatic modes of thought, as does Shu-mei Shih. 15...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... making shed light on the methods of literary studies? Admittedly Sinophone literature of some localities register sensitivity toward border dynamics more readily than other locations. For instance, engagement with political and geographical borders is a prominent theme in Sinophone literature from...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Michael O'Krent Abstract This article rethinks the notion of the Sinophone through digital technology by using the Taiwanese videogame Word Game ( Wenzi youxi , Team9, 2022) as a case study. The digital Sinophone sees Chineseness as an act of positive identification claimed by engaging with digital...
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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 (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the Sinitic-language spaces and has rapidly become a fast-growing field of study. The scope of Sinophone studies was first articulated by Shih as “the study of Sinitic-language cultures on the margins of geopolitical nation-states and their hegemonic productions” (emphasis added). 6 It aims to replace...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Diversity in Multiethnic China .” In Leibold and Chen , Minority Education in China , 27 – 44 . Schiaffini, Patricia . “ On the Margins of Tibetanness: Three Decades of Sinophone Tibetan Literature .” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader , edited by Shu-mei Shih , Chien-hsin Tsai...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of theoretical approaches—feminist studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, Sinophone studies, to name the most obvious. Taken together, these essays explore how queer formations intersect with heteronormative institutions and discourses in new and unexpected ways. One of the common...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... . “ ‘In Cold Blood’: Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives .” Representations no. 3 7 (Winter 1992): 151 – 89 . Tee, Kim Tong . “ Sinophone Malaysian Literature: An Overview .” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader , edited by Shu-mei Shih , Chien-hsin Tsai...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and Sinophone studies sheds light on the Taiwanese author Wu Jiwen's mid-1990s creative rewrite of a Qing novel. Rather than as authentic raw material that captures historical truth about Chinese male desire, Chen Sen's original should instead be seen as a product of the late imperial myth-making processes...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and the identity of the current government on Taiwan. The book expands on an issue raised by David Der-wei Wang in “Post-loyalism” (in Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, eds., Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader [New York: Columbia University Press, 2013], 93–116), pointing out the resonance...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Sinograph Sinophone studies spectacle fetish carnivalesque This article discusses the ideological implications of reading Sinophone literary art through the lens of the spectacle. The idea of “spectacle” was famously proposed by Guy Debord in relation to the conditions of production in capitalist...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to the Red Guards, and still others to Sinophone writers in Southeast Asia. Does it make sense to call them all sinologists, especially when the younger generations consciously distance themselves from what they perceive to be an outmoded, even Orientalist way of studying China (recall Zhang's invocation...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
... : Lingzi chuanmei , 2004 . Wong Meng Voon 黃孟文 and Xu Naixiang 徐迺翔 , eds. Xinjiapo huawen wenxue shi chugao 新加坡華文文學史初稿 [A Preliminary History of Sinophone Singaporean Literature]. National University of Singapore, Department of Chinese Studies and Global Publishing , 2002 . Wu Yeow Chong...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... China, though a few studies of minority Sinophone literature in China have been done from a postcolonial perspective. As Shih points out, “The relationship between narrative and empire from literary perspectives within the Qing, and the modern and contemporary consequences and iterations...
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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 (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... by British colonial authorities in Burma for his Sinophone newspaper writings in support of a local anti-imperial movement. Determined not to surrender to a “feudal” marriage system, Ai Wu dreamt of following in the footsteps of the cosmopolitan May Fourth intellectuals whose studies abroad inspired him. 12...
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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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