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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... other ethnic minorities, focusing on four approaches to forging counter-discourses used in the literary representation of minorities: binary opposition, rhetorical questions, paradoxical statements, and bystander narration. The discussion of each narrative strategy is supported by examples from works...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... triumphal tone, Malayan communist fiction is instead characterized by its focus on failure, specifically the Malayan Communist Party's ultimate failure to carry out a revolution. In “Counter-discourse: Strategies of Representing Ethnic Minorities in Sinophone Malaysian Literature,” Boon Eng Khor uses...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
... at the same time permitting processes of counter-actualization to subvert any determined form of Asian culture. In short, this is precisely what he would call method. During the subsequent development of the Asia as method discourse, however, the possibility of using method as a creative force...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
.../Sinitic culture will thin out and eventually evaporate. Be that as it may, Shih's observation is underlain by her embrace of the postcolonial method of creolization and her anti-China agenda. Jing Tsu, meanwhile, has offered a counter-discourse of “Sinophone governance.” 29 That is, insofar as language...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
... ]. Shehui kexue yanjiu 社會科學研究 [ Social Science Research ], no. 6 ( 1999 ): 125 – 31 . Chen, Xiaomei . Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-discourse in Post-Mao China , edited by Jinhua Dai , 2nd ed., rev. and exp. ed. Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . Chengde minzu shizhuan...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the dichotomies in the discourse of memory: elites versus grassroots, official versus unofficial, public versus. private, and collective versus individual. The dismissal of binarism is built on the fluidity even between the two extremes of power. With the case of the police files of Nie Gannu, Li demonstrates how...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... into five thematic clusters. The first cluster, “Reading Ecocritically,” begins with Ban Wang's ecocritical rereading of Lu Xun's 魯迅 (1881–1936) rereading of the earliest Chinese cosmological myths to counter the discourse of progress and technoscientific rationality prevalent in the early twentieth century...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... gentry dominated public discourse, fetishized science and technology, and sought power, prestige, and profit by trashing Chinese “superstition.” Lu Xun hurled critique at this elite by claiming that it was urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocritical gentry; ‘superstition’ may remain” (weishi dangqu...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of enlightenment, progress, and rationality, the hypocrite gentry dominated public discourse, fetishized science and technology, and sought power, prestige, and profit by trashing Chinese “superstition.” Lu Xun hurled a critique at this elite by claiming that it was urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocrite...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... practices and therefore sources of diseases and social ills. Racists have always associated racialized differences with a language of illness and inferiority, though that language has been used within China to counter oppressions as well. As Carlos Rojas shows, “discussions of disease have been used...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a “lullaby” ( L , 97), alluding to the way that Jialin, although a grown man, is being metaphorically nurtured like a newborn baby by the land and traditions of those who have come before him. This rearing, however, runs counter to the civilizing discourse of urban Han modernity. Although Jialin describes...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that these analyses of critical ecology contribute to the debate on world literature. Ecocritical discourse has the potential to go beyond and challenge the world-renowned humanist tradition, which has anthropocentric, nationalistic, and Eurocentric underpinnings. Take the example of the classical realist novel...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... by the discourse of the national dream.” 5 David Wang suggests the science fiction fever in the 2010s “represents a shake-up of the realist canon . . . establishing both a new political agenda and a new national myth”; it “fabulate[s] the dystopian vision of China, thereby countering the optimistic official...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and assumes a sober voice as he calls for ethnic equality. Simultaneously lyrical and political, Shen's ethnically themed works are significant for forming new scholarly understandings of both May Fourth literature and the broader discourse of ethnicity, which underpins the very notion of Chineseness...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
... socialist subject, she rebels against the interpolation. Her discursive control of her personal narrative is significant, because when disabled persons like Yu “move from passive, silenced objects of discourse to active producers of knowledge about the social, political, and phenomenological understanding...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shuang Shen Abstract This article addresses the neglect toward popular literary networks with Hong Kong in the Cold War period by influential Mahua scholars. Aiming to make way for a more robust discourse of cultural politics in tandem with a regional conceptualization of Sinophone cultural...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in postcolonial theoretical studies, as a new form of discourse to go beyond dualistic categories such as the colonizer/colonized opposition, it has much broader cultural meanings in the modern Chinese context. One of the prominent Chinese intellectuals, Zhang Dongsun, intentionally created a critical interface...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of theoretical approaches—feminist studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, Sinophone studies, to name the most obvious. Taken together, these essays explore how queer formations intersect with heteronormative institutions and discourses in new and unexpected ways. One of the common...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the groundwork for his theoretical injunction of Asia as method. For Mizoguchi, on the other hand, “China as method” amounts to a deliberate strategy for countering Japanese sinology's habitual way of thinking that “took the world as the goal and reckoned China's degree of progress (or disparity) using the world...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 157–178.
Published: 01 December 2023
...) and was introduced into critical discourse by Wang Changling to describe tranquil, transcendent contemplation at the initial phase of creation (see §§79–85). Yi as an artistic conception: In literary criticism, this means bringing forth a mental image of a projected work; in calligraphy criticism, envisioning...
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