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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Melissa A. Hosek Abstract This article reads Liu Cixin's award-winning Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (2007, in English 2014) as a work of climate fiction. By analyzing the novel's portrayal of ecological crisis, dystopian outlook, and inexplicable dream sequences...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... China but also adds new insights to our understanding of the divergent spiritual journeys that Chinese intellectuals have taken in response to the national crisis. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 middle politics the third route Thirdspace cultural interactionism...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and ponders the contradictions and confluences of its narrative and intellectual paradigms. It proposes that we engage with “dark consciousness,” an idea that deals with the polemics of crisis and contingency ingrained in Chinese thought, in light of modern Chinese literary sources. The last part turns...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., this essay contends that it has been necessary for emerging scholarship on race to transcend this analogy in order to confront the persistence of anti-Black racism and contemporary environmental crisis. References Adams, Carol . The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Inquiry...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in Chinese science fiction, this research contributes to the broad discourse surrounding the global ecological and social crisis. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 alienation indifference Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide environmental injustice...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 385–408.
Published: 01 October 2021
... experiments to their logical conclusion: a condition of forced bilingualism, in which the author demands of his readers fluency in Chinese in order to access his Tibetan language fiction. This critique of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic crisis puts the author's work into conversation with global postcolonial...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 394–410.
Published: 01 September 2022
... episode in the history of Penang's intellectual community, manifested in their sense of trauma and reflections on the crisis of Chinese education. After CLHS was reopened during the postwar period, the school set up a committee to commemorate the sacrifices of its teachers and students through memorial...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Sino-American rapprochement. To a large extent the split shapes the course of the Cold War in general and reframes the Second Vietnam War in particular. Many studies have focused on the reasons for the disastrous split and its consequences from historical...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” species on the planet but also has created our own demise, thanks to the self-congratulating projection of the species as exceptional and the measurement of all things. Facing this crisis, humanities scholars have been reflecting on the role played by humanity (particularly with regard to meaning...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that is understood as a communal safehold against invasion. To say this otherwise, the perceived or real threat of disease strengthens the demand for a collective force that can shield the individual from the vulnerability of wading in crisis alone. The biopolitical will to the right for life that undergirds...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the science-oriented and new materialist ecocritical framework, which includes concepts such as psychological blockage (e.g., climate fatigue and denial), Lawrence Buell's “toxic discourse,” Timothy Morton's “hyperobjects,” Rob Nixon's “slow violence,” and Timothy Clark's “representational crisis.” 4...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the public health measures implemented by the Italian government in an attempt to limit to the spread of the virus, however, Long instead takes inspiration from the response of the psychoanalyst Rocco Ronchi, who argues that, when faced with the twin challenges of a devastating crisis like the pandemic...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 86–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
... like watching a movie—like watching oneself in a movie” 不是透明人,我不會講啦,很像在看電影的感覺,很像看到自己在電影裡面的感覺 (53). The elevator functions somewhat similarly to Michel Foucault's concept of crisis heterotopia , a term which covers “privileged or sacred or forbidden places, reserved for individuals who...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
... University of Science and Technology. I'm grateful to Shengqing Wu for offering valuable feedback. 1 See Lin, Crisis of Chinese Consciousness ; and Li, “Qimeng yu jiuwang,” 1–46 . 2 For a discussion of the two paradigms of revolution and enlightenment in modern Chinese literary discourses...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
... by naming four stages of public action during which individuals and collectives negotiate to reconcile their clashing values and ideologies: breach, crisis, redress, and reintegration. First, the symbolic order lurks behind any given situation in which a community constituent violates the rules with respect...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to the skies and avert their gazes from those suffering on the ground,” as Andrew Reszitnyk aptly puts. 4 But Green Party thinker Rudolf Bahro reminds us that technologically induced ecological crises are a matter not of technoscience but of the human: “The ecological crisis is not in the trees; it is in us...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... colorless breast” (12). The success of the brick thrusts the architect into the national and international limelight that showers numerous prizes on him. But the fame “much diminished its creator” (33). He sees a crisis of degeneration brewing, and the spectacle “controlled every element of social movement...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
... a novel literary and intellectual trend toward reconceiving nature and rescuing China from national crisis, a trend this article further probes in two additional science fiction works: Gaoyangshibucaizi's 高陽氏不才子 (1875–1923) Electrical World (Dianshijie 電世界) and Wu Jianren's 吳趼人 (1866–1910) New Story...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
...更令舞台呈現如夢的倒影 做夢及創作的意識和潛意識是逃避跨越假象還是追尋跨越真相 庚子驚夢由劇場過渡錄像 評議庚子年意識和潛意識記錄 69 The gengzi 庚子 year is the thirty-seventh in a sixty-year cycle in the Chinese lunar calendar and is often associated with turbulence, crisis, and calamities. Gengzi years include 1900, the year of the Boxer...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... fiction writers of the post-1980s generation, Chen Qiufan 陳楸帆 (1981–; aka Stanley Chan) has published over a hundred short stories and a full-length novel since the early 2000s. 7 Heavily inspired by the e-waste crisis in Chen's hometown, Guiyu, in Guangdong Province, his cyberpunk novel Waste Tide...
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