Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 21 Search Results for
Soviet Union
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Prism (2024) 21 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Zhen Zhang Abstract Toward the end of the 1950s, China and the Soviet Union were heading down two different paths, ultimately leading to the disastrous Sino-Soviet split. The Sino-Soviet film coproduction Wind from the East (Feng cong dongfang lai 風從東方來, 1959), a film to celebrate the ten-year...
Journal Article
Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 Orientalism Orient Edward Said China Soviet Union In 1978 Edward Said, a Palestinian American scholar teaching at Columbia University, published his provocative book Orientalism and commenced an era of self-reflection about cultural representations...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 117–138.
Published: 01 March 2023
... However, this came to a halt in the late 1950s when there was a falling-out between China and the Soviet Union, culminating in a total standstill during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). The situation was reversed after Deng Xiaoping launched “Reform and Opening-Up” and ushered in the New Era...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
... performance writing or conceptual poetics in the Soviet Union and the Anglophone world today? Or do I give each chapter equal weight, perhaps feigning expertise and risking intimidation of Chinese literature specialists not caught up on Caribbean culture or Soviet samizdat? One of the implications of Edmond's...
Journal Article
Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... others have followed up with further critiques of the complicity of psychoanalysis with capitalism and the general tendency within the culture of capitalism to valorize happiness, a parallel deconstruction of happiness under socialism—especially in relation to the Soviet Union—has taken place. 6...
Journal Article
Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... point for defenders of traditional Chinese culture as much as a lightning rod for criticism by Westernization advocates. In the 1950s, thanks to the Cold War division of Eastern and Western blocs and China's alliance with the Soviet Union, the East gradually evolved into a broad geopolitical concept...
Journal Article
Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... refers to the period of “non-hostile belligerence” between the capitalist Western bloc and the communist Eastern bloc from the period of the Truman Doctrine of 1941 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. East Asia was involved, but only as the “hot” battleground for a series of proxy wars between...
Journal Article
Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., arguing that the concept (and its corresponding methodologies) should be expanded to include not only tensions within Asia itself, but also phenomena following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Although all of the preceding essays focus on topics relating to Chinese society and culture...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Xian and Yang Mu. Yeh argues that the scarcity of Russia in poetry in Taiwan is due to the geopolitical tension across the Taiwan Strait; that is, the Soviet Union was seen as an enemy by the Nationalist regime in Taiwan. However, by meticulously reading selected poems, Yeh shows that when Russia does...
Journal Article
Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
... heavily, if not entirely, relied on a particular foreign “ism” introduced from the Soviet Union. Moreover, in the new era after the 1980s, Chinese writers and critics have suffered from anxiety of belatedness and, in search of modernism, are eager to borrow new isms, ideas, and theories from the West...
Journal Article
Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
... dynamics of this period. “Relationality” here pertains to Malaya/Malaysia's relationship not just with the major players in the Cold War (i.e., the US, the Soviet Union, and China), but also with fellow new states in Southeast Asia, specifically Indonesia and the Philippines. As the above discussion shows...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of mass mobilization termed as “revolutions” may itself be conservative, as evinced by the dominant art practices under Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. We may envision a kind of avant-garde classicism that rejects relentless progressivism and “revolutions” as another status quo. While we do...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
... between their experiences traveling through rural China in the Cultural Revolution and Kerouac's and Aksyonov's accounts of similarly disaffected youths traveling across, respectively, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The translated texts offered new models for writing, while...
Journal Article
Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... from the Soviet Union, such as the theory of class, theory of reflection, theory of typicality, socialist realism, and the combination of revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism. Later, in the Cultural Revolution, the single theme of literature was to clamor for omnipotence and the lofty...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... colonial context, Ai Wu's access to Anglophone newspapers and literature expanded, exposing him to the works of the Soviet socialist realist author Maxim Gorky in English translation. 37 The Soviet Union was the dominant literary model for the League of Left-Wing Writers, but unlike most of its...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of death and disease. 9 During his two visits to the Soviet Union, Qu Qiubai 瞿秋白 (1899–1935), leader of the nascent Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was most impressed by Soviet efforts to create writing systems for those ethnic groups who lacked them. Assisted by his fellow Chinese sojourners and some...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... bind the ethnically disparate populations administered by the Qing dynasty through the creation of an ethnonationalist “Chinese nation” ( Zhonghua minzu 中華民族) to Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山 (1866–1925) advocacy of the principle of “Five Races under One Union” ( wuzu gonghe 五族共和) at the founding of the Republic...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... One Union,” the earnest Mongols trusted and supported it. Unexpectedly, the KMT government then treated Mongolia as a foreign area, resorting to extreme political trickery for two decades: “Under the tyranny of the warlords and local officials, our chairman De struggled for the autonomy, which appeals...
Journal Article
Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and Soviet models of modernization. Although medicine is a biochemical process subject to the scientific criteria of truth, the films show that politics always intervenes and inheres at its core. When a mobilized population strives to adjust and regulate biomedical relations between humans and nonhuman...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... level of the Soviet Union and other developed countries within ten years. 13 In the upsurge of interest in science following this call, the translation and creation of science fiction literature flourished. Moreover, the Great Leap Forward Campaign, beginning in 1958, readvocated Lenin's 1920 promise...
1
