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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Hsiao-Hung Chang; Carlos Rojas Abstract By taking the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan as a point of departure, this paper attempts to differentiate a “bloc asia” as a virtual aggregate from an “Area Asia” as a concrete geo-historical region in order to theorize the possibility...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the question of what area studies is today. Might it be that, intellectually if not institutionally, the critique of boundaries and celebration of heterogeneity is the only thing that still holds it together? Beyond Imperial Aesthetics denounces a division of labor between Asia and Europe...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... These girls appear as part of the scenery, natural, alluring, elusive, mysterious, ambivalent. Southeast Asia in “Elegy” is thus the abode of a tribe of dusky and noble girl savages, close to nature, instinctive, charming. The elusiveness is as crucial as the exoticism. Perhaps if the narrator ever achieved...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2. Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) getting hold of the insulting “Sick Men of Asia” banner in Fist of Fury 精武門.
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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 (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 (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in the new millennium. The essay aims to denaturalize the idea of infectious disease by reframing it as an assemblage of multiple histories of American geopower and biopower from the Cold War to the War on Terror. In particular, Asia and Asian bodies have been targeted by US discourses of infection...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Li Wen Jessica Tan Abstract This article examines Wei Beihua's modernist works, which have receded into the shadows of Sinophone Malayan (Mahua) literary history, in relation to Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, to excavate a neglected route of transculturation at the height of Southeast Asia's...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of other trajectories of connectivity and relationality and produce alternative configurations of literary assemblage? How does the delineated space of Chinese literature engage with the unevenness and differentiation of Asia and the world? This method manifests as a constructionist engagement with Chinese...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
... flourished in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. According to the records of the Hong Kong Film Archive, from 1949 to 1968 there were ninety-three film adaptations of radio novels and dramas. Besides drawing the historical contours of the radio-film network in the postwar colonial city, this article studies two...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and, importantly, among audiences back in Hong Kong, amplified political resistance against both the United States and the United Kingdom. An examination of Gu's writings, including his correspondence, poems, and 2012 faux memoir Jiu jian 舊箋 (Old Letters), in relation to Kuan-hsing Chen's model of “Asia as method...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., the compartmentalized relationship between the nation's four official languages, the marginality of literary spaces and challenges to maintaining literature as a profession, and Southeast Asia's relative obscurity as a world literary center (with Singapore as a small but important connective hub). Taking Yeng Pway...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... with the ocean as a condition of being on a terraqueous globe. The oceanic epistemologies in Sinophone literatures from littoral East and Southeast Asia allow us to rethink fundamental questions of being, identity, and history. They build upon, but methodologically move beyond, the critical apparatus offered...
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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...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
... group all engage with questions of mapping, including not only the assignation of geopolitical borders but also processes of conceptual categorization and differentiation—and particularly how we may understand the categories of China and Asia themselves. The first group of essays attend...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... See Wong, “Zouxiang shijie,” 3 . 5 Wolters, “Southeast Asia,” 16 . References Chow Tse-Tsung 周策縱 . “ Zongjieci ” 總結辭 [Closing Remarks]. In Dongnanya huawen wenxue 東南亞華文文學 [Chinese Literature in Southeast Asia], edited by Wong Yoon Wah and Horst Pastoors , 359 – 62...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the Japanese occupation of Singapore and “escaped into the jungle” 逃入‘大芭’at the end of the Asia-Pacific War. Is this man a stand-in for the Communist guerrilla fighters against whom the British colonial government in Malaya waged a war from 1948 to 1962? We do not know for sure. But he behaves like...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of National Taiwan University. 3 I contend that Sinophone studies cannot move forward without a renewed and more expansive engagement with Nanyang or Sinophone Southeast Asia, not only because it boasts the largest Chinese-speaking population outside of mainland China (as many as 34 million as of 2019...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Figure 2. Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) getting hold of the insulting “Sick Men of Asia” banner in Fist of Fury 精武門. ...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., such as Amerasia Journal or Verge: Studies in Global Asias , 46 that have brought needed attention to these issues. In the introduction to the relevant special issue of Verge , for instance, coeditors Andrea Bachner and Pedro Erber refer to the joint study of Asia and Latin America as a “polyfield...
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