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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...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... means that the island-state overlaps with the Doldrums (also known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone), a low-pressure area in which the trade winds from the northern and southern hemispheres collide, yielding a state of stillness that becalms maritime vessels. This peculiar climate phenomenon...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... wind is that which is changeable and hard to harness, earth represents the principles of stability and productiveness. Earth gives rise to the sense of positionality and thus provides the matrix of topography. While modern scholars from Gaston Bachelard to Martin Heidegger have extracted symbolic...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ) that Jullien has made a cornerstone of his nearly half-century-long efforts to probe the features of East Asian philosophical or broadly cultural practices that set them apart from their Euro-American counterparts. Moreover, in contrast to the tendency of ecocritical thought to dwell mostly on the ecological...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... briefly explains how teaching about this occurrence of anti-Asian violence in East Asia might lead to important discussions of multiple imperialisms within/around Asia, while providing background on the broader potential of Asian American studies for pedagogical contexts within Asia. However, through...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
.../barbarian culture divide frequently projected from the West onto the East. Together, these three works suggest that, by reframing either the weather or climate, late Qing science fiction not only presents a new vision of the natural world but also attempts to reshape the world order into one in which...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and singer/songwriter Jay Chou 周杰倫 (1979–) and famed lyricist Vincent Fang (Fang Wen-shan 方文山; 1969–), are at the center of a Mandopop sensation featuring lyrics deeply saturated with the beauty of classical Chinese poetry, with songs such as “Dongfeng po” 東風破 (East Wind Breaks), “Fa ru xue” 髮如雪 (Hair like...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 310–313.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on the physical “scraping and rinsing” 磨洗 as on the poet's dutifully performing his task of poetic composition. “Suppose the east wind had not given the young Master Zhou a chance” 東風不與周郎便, Du Fu asks in his iconic poem. Readers today, as in Du Fu's time, will come to their own conclusions. “Thus, the Three...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
... illustrated in Kang Youwei's writings. The dust below my eyes alarms, the world is miniature. 眼底塵驚世界微, The vast winds of heaven blow men's clothes about. 天風浩浩吹人衣。 I will drive the air and ride the hydrogen balloon, 便當御氣乘球去, Returning from feasting my eyes on the world across the sea. 飽看環瀛跨...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 這時你凝望窗前的燈 by the window, but I know you are thinking of Rome 但我知道你在思想羅馬 Besides wandering and empire-founding slaughters 除了流浪和建國的殺伐 you should also remember some fine eclogues 你應該也記取一些美好的牧歌 The wind comes from the lofty golden bough 風來自嵯峨的金樹枝 and here is a grove of bitter...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Zhen Zhang's article turns to geopolitics and political ecology to explore how the Sino-Soviet film Feng cong dongfang lai 風從東方來 (Wind from the East) represents natural disasters in the context of the Sino-Soviet split, as well as cooperation during the Cold War era. The film links the political...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... from North-East Hill University in Shillong where she taught literature and folklore for many years. As a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Minnesota in the mid-1980s, she became interested in approaches to Native American oral literature, which she later infused into her fieldwork among the Nagas...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
... “retweeting of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind ” (152), racist discourse intact, Edmond notes that the “same poetics of repetition used by Kamau Brathwaite to combat racial stereotyping and the degradation of the black experience now came to be publicly associated with the exploitation of black lives...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Ren's historical drama set in East Sumatra (1949), both advance a nonnational ecological critique of extractive capitalism. These stories re-create from the migrant laborer's perspective what is scantily available from court testimonies, police interviews, contract signatures, and qiaopi 僑批 (letters...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-locke-to-stay-on-as-us-ambassador . Rogaski, Ruth . “ Air/‘Qi’ Connections and China's Smog Crisis: Notes from the History of Science .” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 8 , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 165 – 94 . Said, Edward W . Culture and Imperialism . New York...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
...; it blends into vegetation, plants, and natural terrains. The novel's protagonist, Cuicui, is evidently a child of nature: “Cuicui grew up under the sun and the wind, which turned her skin black as could be. The azure mountains and green brooks that met her eyes turned them clear and bright as crystal...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 298–325.
Published: 01 October 2020
...), and she feels unable to determine or understand the nature of her own mind. Tellingly, this image of the wind-scattered cloud comes right after the lament, “I really don't know what to make of myself” 我真不知應怎樣才能分析我自己. 13 Thus, Sophia's feeling of lack of agency derives not only from external forces...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
...) are based in East Asia (Taiwan or Hong Kong), though each of them is originally from Southeast Asia (Malaysia and/or Singapore). In addition, three others are both originally from and currently based in the Southeast Asian nations of Singapore (Chan), Malaysia (Khor), and the Philippines (Lua). Finally, one...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to the city. However, rural attempts at hygiene frequently encounter obstacles. When Jialin notices a filthy well from which the villagers continue to drink, he asks, “When would the winds of modern civilization blow through this backward, unenlightened place?” ( L , 132). He decides to get hold of bleach...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... are highly diverse, each having their own agenda. Dynasty Warriors is a game that taps into the repertoire of shared cultural memories in East Asia and created a product that became instantly popular among the global Asian community. The CCTV dramatization of the same romance symbolizes the Chinese state...
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