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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Charles A. Laughlin Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography . Weijie Song . NEW YORK : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2018 . 306 PP. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 The study of urban literature, or of the city in literature, in the case of China...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
...-spaces of Beijing. Revolving around generational conflicts against the grain of a globalized and gentrified Beijing, Mr. Six creates a strong nostalgic appeal and laments the withering of mores from the past. The film not only attends to the physiognomic remapping of contemporary Beijing but also...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker Abstract This article examines sociopolitical commentary in contemporary Chinese science fiction literature written by authors of the post-1980s generation. With a close reading of Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing, 2014) and Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... logic” in his desert fiction series, illustrating how agrilogistics dominates the ecological imagination of the ethnically diverse desert-dwellers. Finally, the article analyzes the best-selling Wolf Totem by Beijing-based sent-down youth Jiang Rong 姜戎. Despite attributing desertification to Han...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 264–276.
Published: 01 October 2020
... transformation in the area of same-sex relations and delineates the perspectives and values that clashed in the encounter of cultures. A key text the author examines is an official decree of 1912 that outlawed xianggong houses in Beijing, signifying the death of the custom of xianggong , which it condemned...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... engages with Jia's film Shijie 世界 (The World; 2004) and examines the portrayal of the migrant workers and their performances in the World Park in Beijing, China. Focusing on political economy and social class, he suggests that The World renders visible the dialectic of mobility and immobility...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 235–243.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., with an Investigation of Its Meanings). Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1992. GZJZ Li Xiangfeng annot. Guangzi jiaozhu (Guangzi, with Collations and Annotations). Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2004. GZZQJ Gong Zizhen Gong Zizhen Quanji (Complete Works of Gong Zizhen). Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1975. LXQJ Lu Xun Lu Xun...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
...figure 1 . Old Beijing Animated. ...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Yuanpei meixue wenlun 蔡元培美學文論 [Essays on Aesthetics by Cai Yuanpei]. Beijing : Beijing University Press , 1983 . Callicott, J. Baird , and Roger Ames , eds. Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought . Albany : SUNY Press , 1989 . Campbell, Colin . “ From ‘Unity of Life’ to the Critique...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
... literature. This categorization formed the foundation for departmental divisions within Chinese colleges throughout the second half of the twentieth century. 48 In 1959, the Beijing shifan daxue zhongwen xi waiguo wenxue jiaoyanzu 北京師範大學中文系外國文學教研組 (Division of Foreign Literature, Department of Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., “Reconfiguring the Chronotope: Spatiotemporal Representations and Cultural Imaginations Beijing in Mr. Six ,” Xuesong Shao and Sheldon Lu focus on the chronotope of “Old Beijing” ( lao Beijing 老北京) and its quintessential incarnation in the hutong 胡同 (alleys). Through their detailed and contextual analysis...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and an elite Beijing singer in the early People's Republic who becomes a northern Shaanxi peasant after the Cultural Revolution—each form gendered symbols of place, resonating with Michael Woods's “land-as-woman” metaphor, which draws parallels between beautiful landscapes and female bodies. 27 If we...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and women hopeful in difficult times, in mimeographic print rather than circulated as a manuscript. Jintian would go on to publish five more of Shi Zhi's poems, all but one written in 1968, including the much cherished “This Is Beijing at 4:08” 這是四點零八分的北京 (Zhe shi sidian ling bafen de Beijing...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 March 2024
...), founding director of the new Department of Directing of the Beijing Dianying Xueyuan 北京電影學院 (Beijing Film Academy) in 1956, and Soviet Director of Merits Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (1898–1981). The initiative to make a coproduction between Chinese and Soviet colleagues came from the Soviet side, with the goal...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... will be called into question later in the essay—Duanmu was born to a landlord family in reduced circumstances in the grassland of western Manchuria. When Duanmu was sixteen, his family sent him to Tianjin in China proper to attend high school. He then went to Beijing for college, majoring in history at Qinghua...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a postapocalyptic scene of China and the world; whereas Chan Koon-chung's (1952−) 陳冠中 Shengshi 盛世 (The Fat Years; 2009) imagines a China immersed in the jubilant mood of amnesia, Ma Jian's 馬建 (1952−) Rouzhitu 肉之土 (Beijing Coma; 2010−) envisions a China as monstrous and mystical as the world of Shanhai jing 山海...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in Beijing. 1 Zhang stresses that his objections are categorically different from the usual complaints against the application of “Western theory” to “Chinese reality” that used to issue from “some backwater quarters of sinology beclouded by the influence of Orientalism.” 2 Rather, he takes issue...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Brace Jovanovich , 1973 . Ba Jin 巴金 . Suixiang lu 隨想錄 [ Random Reflections ]. Beijing : Renmin wenxue , 1983 . Breckman, Warren . Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 . “ Meiyu...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to a single language with regional dialects but rather as an umbrella term referring to a set of interrelated languages. As Zev Handel observes, “Speakers of Hong Kong Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Beijing Mandarin cannot understand each other. Linguists therefore speak of Chinese not as a single...
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