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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jie Lu Abstract A reading of the cinematic representation of the global city in Chinese “new urban films” and in rural-migrant films leads this article to focus on the plurality and dialogism among different chronotopes produced collectively across these films. The article argues that the global...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 86–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Astrid Møller-Olsen Abstract What if, in the encounter between the subject and the city, it is the buildings, the streets, the rooms that are moving and the human beings who are at a standstill? Inspired by the efforts of literary scholars and human geographers to apply a unified understanding...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the discourse stresses Hong Kong's exceptional status, reflecting a general anxiety that Hong Kong could be replaced by or even become just another Chinese city. This anxiety for the future is evident in an ecocritical turn, manifested in both the social realm (popular movements and organic communities...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Calvin Hui Abstract This article focuses on contemporary Chinese film director Jia Zhangke 賈樟柯 (b. 1970–) and his engagement with what critical/cultural theorist Fredric Jameson (b. 1934- ) calls geopolitical aesthetics or cognitive mapping. Through the county-level city ( xiancheng 縣城) perspective...
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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 (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
... sensations, pleasure, and feelings in organic environs, connecting humans to the millennial entwinement of the archaic ways of living with the soil, landscape, and the earth. Targeting the modern city's erosion of rural simplicity, authenticity, and vitality, Shen's ecological writing evinces a deep...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Tom G. Hoogervorst Abstract Batavia, the capital of the former Netherlands Indies, was home to a popular Chinese-run printing industry that published works in the Malay vernacular. Two 1920s Sino-Malay poems reveal firsthand accounts of the city's vibrant sociocultural landscape. Sair park...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 March 2024
...-day urban landscapes. Exploring how fluidity and receptivity to transitivity, both literal and figurative—to currents of air, water, and life itself—might facilitate growth of an urbane sensibility that is less obtrusive and, ergo, less environmentally corrosive in cities of the future. roddys...
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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 (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... vision and street-level immersion. Once the methodological uses of panorama have been established, we can turn our attention back to the artifacts at hand and ask how urban experience has been fashioned by the changing relationship between the human gaze and built environment. Chinese cities have...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that set out to probe and expand the existing methods for analyzing literary space-time by examining the fictional time-spaces that live behind, around, and through real cities. By virtue of a shared spatiotemporal focus on urban scenarios (the collective prism through which we cast our individual rays...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... . Zhang, Yingjin . The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1996 . Zhao Jiabi 趙家璧 . “ Cong hengduan xiaoshuo tandao Dusi Pasuosi ” 從橫斷小說談到杜司‧帕索斯 [ From the Crosscutting Novel to Dos Passos ]. Zuojia...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of Chinese Symbolism , 185 . 54 CDT, Decoding the Chinese Internet , 41 . 55 Luo, “Divided City,” 589 . For a further discussion of enclosure as a narrative element that can be found both in the Western SF canon as well as in modern Chinese realism, particularly in Lu Xun's writings...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... a character in the novel, while the actual characters remain vague, suggesting the deprivation of human agency in the rise of Shanghai and the sense that the city's inhabitants have been transformed into shadows. The shift of focus to external conditions is telling. It powerfully conveys the effects of global...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 255–259.
Published: 01 March 2022
... it, instead, from the perspective of the city-to-countryside move or, to be specific, “intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth crossing the increasing gap between the city and the countryside” (1). Zhang treats the practice of “going to the countryside...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... with one another. Set at the beginning of the 1980s on the eve of China's massive urban migration, the novel challenges the notion that China's future lies in the cities. The novel's protagonist, Gao Jialin 高加林, alternately idealizes and then rejects visions of urban modernity and rural tradition...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Mars find a recent avatar in Elon Musk's recent Space X project to build “a self-sustaining city on Mars.” 1 Such fantasies, be it in aerospace projects or in science fiction, are an illusionary endeavor to evade intractable malaises of Earth. The faith in a new frontier through advanced...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
... : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2006 . Visser, Robin . Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Wang, Hongjian . Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-five-hundred-year-long interstellar voyage. During the exodus, the people of Earth move to subterranean cities, survive all sorts of disasters on the surface, and finally escape from the solar system. At this point, however, people begin to suspect that the solar explosion has just been a hoax...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
... his newfound political engagement. He joined in demonstrations in cities across the United States, such as Chicago and Washington, DC; published accounts of his experiences; and advocated for similar demonstrations back in Hong Kong. Upon his return home, Gu wrote increasingly socially engaged poetry...
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