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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... despotism. However, the Japanese supported the Mongols' desire for “self-determination” merely to use it as a vehicle for their colonial designs. Through a close reading of several texts that appeared in Sinophone magazines published in Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolia during the war, this article...
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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 (2019) 16 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Clara Iwasaki A Passage to China: Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan Chien-Hsin Tsai Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2017 . 356 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 A Passage to China by Chien-Hsin Tsai focuses on the literary...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Brian Bernards Abstract Following his 1925–1931 overland trek across southwestern China to colonial Burma, Ai Wu's 1935 Travels in the South (the author's canonical collection of autobiographical travelogue fiction) represents a Sinophonic detouring of the key literary impulses of the author's May...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 438–453.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., while simultaneously using Indigenous peoples to reflect on the way in which overlapping colonial legacies have shaped the region's sociopolitical structures. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Zhang Guixing Elephant Herd Monkey Cup “semi-wild” Indigenous...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Classified as a colonial novel and published in 1906, science fiction Iceberg and Snow Ocean is one of the very earliest depictions of global climate change in modern Chinese literature. Photo by the author.
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., this time not in the name of imperialism, but communism. Although such stories reflect themes that one finds in Chinese literature from that period, stories written by Korean-Chinese authors are distinct because they do not shy away from depicting their shared historical experiences under Japanese colonial...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (The Poem of the Park) narrates everyday life at the parks of the colonial metropole, including the opportunities these urban spaces provide for illicit encounters between men and women. Pantoen tjapgome (The Quatrain of the Lantern Festival) describes the festivities of an important holiday...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... is rewritten into a contemporary idiom of colonialism versus self-determination. After developing the concept of Cold War as method, the second part of the essay offers a concrete example through a critical reading of Swordsman II , a 1992 martial arts film adapted from Jin Yong's 1967 novel. While the film...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
... as disclosed in Kuan-Hsing Chen's Asia as Method —one adopts an “Asian studies in Asia” approach with an inter-referencing system; the other foregrounds a dynamic process of turning and hybridizing that occurs between Western colonial powers and local structures—to warp up the similar differentiation of Area...
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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 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of colonial intimacies, ornamentalism, and techno-orientalism, this article relies on the figure of the visor-wearing ajumma , a Korean word referencing a middle-aged woman. As a transnational and transhistorical framework emerging from the messy interstitial spaces between theory and reality, the concept...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., the article locates its formation in inter-imperial nodes of trafficked labor and art production, as well as a global system of colonial plantations. The article revisits Zeng Huading's 曾華丁 (1906–1942) short story (1928) and Ba Ren's 巴人 (1901–1972) historical drama (1949) about the myth of five Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in the tropics rehearses European colonial (or Han majority) views of the impulsive, sultry native, an image that is contrasted with Republican Chinese primness. The bourgeois woman awakening to Chinese ethnonationalism and rejecting sensuality in favor of patriotism makes her an ancestor to the sexless heroines...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that allows their authors to critique (neo)colonial violence, the irruption of modernity, and especially the rigors of land-based and supposedly stable epistemologies. Against these, Rapongan and Ng posit what I call oceanic epistemologies, that is, systems and methods of knowledge drawn from and intertwined...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
... logic. The author argues that Wu's novel succeeds in this endeavor by depicting local and global processes of settler-colonial decolonization and indicting epistemologies of “radioactive racism” that view Pacific islands as “empty” of life, logics that rationalized US Cold War nuclear tests...
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in The Logic of the Void: Translation, Indigeneity, and Islands in Taiwanese Ecological Fiction
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Stills from Karrabing Film Collective, The Jealous One , 2017, film, color, 29 min. The top right and left stills represent settler colonial Newtonian void aesthetics and material governance of land rights; the bottom right and left images embody Indigenous QFT aesthetics
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... as “Central Plains syndrome.” During the colonial period, Hong Kong was viewed as a transitory space that was considered inferior according to the “centralizing, anti-imperialist, state-building discourse” of mainland China. Fu, “Between Nationalism and Colonialism,” 248 . For examples of southbound writers...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., environmental critiques from developing countries in the global South point to European imperialism and colonialism, as well the countries’ own hasty and damaging agendas of modernization and development. The humanist critique situates itself at the intersection of diverse perspectives and knowledge, bringing...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
... : Infolink , 2016 . Law Wing-sang . Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2009 . Law Wing-sang . “ Northbound Colonialism: A Politics of Post-PC Hong Kong .” positions 8 , no. 1 ( 2000 ): 201 – 33 . Leung, Yuk...
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