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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... articulation” that maintains strategic distance from Sinophone studies while also enriching the field's conceptual repertoire. Specifically, this analytical perspective highlights how literary representations of social class play a significant role, alongside language and ethnicity, in registering...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... also argues that the garbage takeover is part of a sustained practice of appropriation, effacement, even cruelty in the artistic representation of precarity in China. China's wasteworks are art forms born at the tense interface between different class actors, and they disclose fraught fears over where...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... for power, the advanced technologies are accelerating the alienation of humans from their bodies, from one another, and from nature. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 colonialism metabolic rift biopiracy class posthumanity Large-scale industry...
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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 (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., however, were often construed as colonial remnants from the Japanese rule in Manchukuo and, in turn, stressed the perceived existence of class differences inside Korean-Chinese communities. While their literature was an attempt to expunge such traits and unify the Korean-Chinese community...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., or unspeakable traumas. Di qi tian 第七天 (The Seventh Day, 2013) by Yu Hua 余華 (1960–) and Yuese liaoren 月色撩人 (Seductive Moon, 2008) by Wang Anyi 王安憶 (1954–) are analyzed in order to expose the dire effects of the urbanization of post-socialist China on the everyday lives of people of every profession, age, class...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... relations rooted in repressive hierarchy and class and gender oppression. This chapter targets political, social, and productive relations as the crucial areas for diagnosing the ills of ecological degradation. Rather than a question of how humanity as a whole stands against nature, the chapter contends...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract In the post-socialist and market reform era, the power of the market and the developmental imperatives are creating metabolic rifts between humans and nature, between producers and the land. The film The Piano in a Factory tells a story of the working class trying to rekindle...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and hierarchy at the expense of the revolutionary spirit and egalitarian ethos. In Spring Shoots , the conflict between medical bureaucracy and grassroots medicine is rendered as a class struggle. The medical establishment holds authority, power, and resources and remains indifferent to the needs...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of capitalism such as laissez-faire liberalism, materialism, and selfishness; on the other hand, he recognized the socialist utopian idea of equality but strongly objected to the class struggle of Marxism. He believed that guild socialism, which allocates to workers certain democratic rights, was a moderate way...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Tonglin's analysis of the movie “Jiaozi” 餃子 (Dumplings, 2004), directed by Fruit Chan 陳果 (1959–), highlights the similarities and differences in the use of cannibalism. The study concludes that Chan's movie has transformed Lu Xun's original meaning into a “new age class-oriented allegory.” See “Fruit Chan's...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., specifically with the erasure of precarity shouldered by working-class women without US citizenship, living and working in close proximity to the sex industry. Following the Atlanta shootings, in mainstream English-language media, first-person accounts of the experiences of Asian American women largely...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
... – 409 . Lui, Tai-lok . “ Rearguard Politics: Hong Kong's Middle Class .” Developing Economies 41 , no. 2 ( 2003 ): 161 – 83 . Novero, Cecilia . Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . Rojas, Carlos...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... politics of the early Victorian period, its determinations of class and gender,” its mannerism and context of the British Empire. 1 But this exclusive focus on human culture loses sight of the fact that culture itself depends on a deeper and large context: “The biosphere, air, water, plant...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., that revolutionary history is the whole picture of history. I did not see the historical fact of the growth of productivity and neglected the dark side of revolution. Revolution will cause a variety of traumas, including the catastrophic sequelae of hatred. Both Li Zehou and I agreed that class contradictions...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): vii–viii.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Centered in the Bay Area of California, a techno hegemony is eroding the humanist tradition, aggravating environmental crises, ravaging the earth, and alienating humans from themselves. Under the rubric of politics, aesthetics, and ecology, the class provided an opportunity for students and the instructor...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
... actor at the fifty-second Golden Horse Awards. 1 Unlike the middle-class subjects in his light-hearted comedies, Feng's Mr. Six is a former hooligan living among the ranks of Beijing's underclass commoners in a hutong 衚衕 (narrow alleyway) neighborhood where he is respected as the kingpin. Mr. Six's...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., finding that it had a crucial role in the transformation of social exploitation. However, he eventually gave up on the possibility of transforming the working class into revolutionary subjects. 28 The key ideas of this over one-hundred-year-long discussion reappear in the debate in China Youth...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and class consciousness. See Zhong, “ Internationale as Specter,” and J. Lu, “Constructing Agency.” 22 Elsaesser, “In the City but Not Bounded by It,” 27 . 23 Parke, “Migrant Workers,” 238 . 24 According to Parke, “Migrant Workers,” 236 , “human infrastructure” is derived from...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 201–204.
Published: 01 March 2019
... for the three evils. Some plots in the story draw on Zhan's family's experiences, which appear in his parents' poems. Class also plays a role in the novel, in which lower-class women with unbound feet save the gentlewoman protagonist from looming danger by helping her relocate and, in the process, convince...
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