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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Zhaokun Xin Abstract Li Yu's two huaben stories, “A Male Mencius's Mother Raises Her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times” and “House of Gathered Refinements,” stand out from the writer's brief yet highly novel dabbling in the genre thanks to their similar concern with male same-sex desire...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Fourth forebears and his left-wing literary contemporaries, especially with its social realist expressions of gendered frontier primitivism, interethnic romantic desire, and international leftist solidarity. Ai Wu's southbound transborder itinerary and “street education”—marked by a repetition...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 298–325.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in contention with others who might view or read her otherwise. The article ends by reflecting on the resonances between Sophia's textual flirtations and the story's depictions of erotic desire, suggesting that the idea of promiscuity emerges as a figure for the practice of intertextuality during the May Fourth...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... understanding of the dynamic textual spaces that harbor same-sex intimacies, erotic desires, and clandestine longings in vernacular traditions. Narratives of male intimacy, camaraderie, and homosexual love in Cheng's text facilitate the construction of queer subjectivities through character focalization...
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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 (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... brings vibrancy to the civilized, the center is drawn to the periphery, and the rural and urban are alternately desired and dismissed. In the end, these rural women's songs erase hierarchical notions of center and periphery and bring together alternative worldviews and visions of progress as only songs...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Under capitalism, artificial intelligence creates a neoliberal performative subject, and the all-encompassing digital networks polarize society, manufacture consumer desire, and exert total control of the human mind and body. By denying death and humanly disturbing emotional qualities, artificial...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the natural environment. Technical advances—artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, biochemical technologies, and cyborg construction—aggravate metabolic rifts in the human-nature relations, threatening human bodies, regional culture, and local traditions. Driven by profit motives and the desire...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., “copying and mimetic desire are not signs of non-Western derivativeness but qualities shared equally by non-Western and Western modernism” (11). If mimetic desire is a quality shared equally by literary culture in English and Russian as well as in Chinese, I would be doing a disservice to his book to focus...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... into Chinese produced a key epistemological rearrangement in the social significance and cultural meaning of Chinese same-sex desire and relations.” 28 In other words, the introduction of the discourse of homosexuality into China fundamentally transformed the modes of same-sex arrangements in China. 29...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and appears only twice in Confucius's Analects . Although Confucius (551–479 BCE) does talk about a broad array of specific feelings like le 樂 (joy), ai 哀 (sorrow), nu 怒 (anger), yu 欲 (desire), and you 憂 (worry), 6 he does not subsume these feelings under qing . When using the word qing , he...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 March 2020
... with passion and sex? 7 As the work of many scholars has shown, throughout various periods of Chinese history filial piety touches and gives voice and shape to a whole protean gamut of emotions; love and desire, especially when illegitimate and transgressive, are almost invariably included in this semantic...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Mass , 16 . 48 Gray. Black Mass , 19 . On Marxism and utopianism, see also von Boeckmann, “Marxism, Morality, and the Politics of Desire.” 49 Liu, “Huangpi shu' yu 1968–1973 nian Beijing dixia shige yanjiu.” See also Larson, “Socialist Bildungsroman.” 50 Bei, Shibai zhi...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., the cinematic attempt to direct our attention to the past, and the postnostalgic mode of revealing how nostalgia, both as the object of desire and the process of desiring, works via the tropes of displacement and reenactment. The star performances of both Maggie Cheung and Zhao Tao further confirm Julien's...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
... identifies a lyrical vision with the power to bring forth primeval energy and imagination inhibited by modern civilization. Rather than subordinate “the subject of passion to the rhetoric of hard-core realism,” 9 the lyrical vision allows hidden passions, desire, and vitality to burst through the regular...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
... are positioned and thereby to narrativize the subject's own identity. Another work that uses a journal format to explore issues of desire and mortality is Chu T'ien-wen's 1994 novel Notes of a Desolate Man . However, unlike Chiu's novel, which focuses on female same-sex desire, has a distinct...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and imagination inhibited by modern civilization. Rather than subordinate “the subject of passion to the rhetoric of hard-core realism,” 8 the lyrical vision allows hidden passions, desire, and vitality to burst through the established moral codes and social norms imposed by modern transformations...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and human-nature relations. Ecotopia refers to the construction of a desirable place based on the ecological ideal of reconciliation and humans and nature. The Mars Republic of the novel appears to be an ecotopia: it is designed and built through advanced technologies that allow humans to adapt to nature...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., arguably other white women or aspirationally white women (like the ones framing St. Denis in the left-hand part of fig. 4 ), to adopt otherness in order to feel desirable. The kind of promotional authority St. Denis wielded in the early twentieth century was and arguably still is the power of celebrity...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... inquisitiveness, and a nationalist desire to include the non-Han in a polyethnic and unitary Chinese nationhood. For Shen, the native son, borderland peoples like the Miao further embody an aesthetically uplifting and spiritually inspiring moral rejuvenation for China. In constructing the Miao borderland...
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