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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 alienation artistic work regeneration fetishism disaster capitalism Artistic observation can attain an almost mystical depth. The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
... , translated by Laurence Thompson . London : Routledge , 2011 . Kinkley, Jeffrey C. The Odyssey of Shen Congwen . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1987 . Klein, Naomi . The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism . New York : Metropolitan Books , 2007 . Klein...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Huaji Xu; Haomin Gong Abstract This article discusses Celestial Fire , volume 2 of Alai's Epic of Ji Village , which depicts a major natural disaster—a wildfire—that hits the village during the Cultural Revolution and the subsequent relief efforts. This article examines how the natural disaster...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... repackages virtuous substance and heroic deeds into trappings of cultural capital for visual display and mass consumption. On returning to the capital city, Yu begins to lose touch and is quickly folded back into the ritualistic routines of courtly life, finding a privileged spot in the ranks of hypocrites...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Taking issue with Anthropocene , deep ecology, and technological determinism, the introduction lays out this work's framework composed of the Marxist ecological notions of metabolic rift, the romantic legacy, and the Frankfurt School's critical ecology. Under capitalism...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... into trappings of cultural capital for visual display and mass consumption. On returning to the capital city, Yu begins to lose touch and is being folded back quickly into the ritualistic routines of courtly life, finding a privileged spot in the ranks of hypocrites and bureaucrats. “Though he dressed simply...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., amid new alienations, past pride and solidarity. Chinese documentary films have proven an effective medium in critiquing ecological rifts and disasters, staging a stringent critique against eco-destructive economic trends. Against a visual landscape dominated by billboards, glamorous stars, and images...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and planetary calamities involving species extinctions, nuclear disasters, and the COVID-19 pandemic—can no longer be easily distinguished as strictly natural or unnatural/human-induced in nature. The disintegration of boundaries between natural and unnatural disasters also reflects our present age of many...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by a supercomputer and biochemical network. Experiencing the event of 9/11 and the disasters of hurricane floods, Tang bears witness to rampant parochialism and tribalism, social polarities, yawning gaps between rich and poor, and total breakdown of AI and digital networks. With nationalist pride mixed...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that the all-too-human power relations in economy, hierarchy, and oppression are the real culprits for environmental disasters. Humanity's domination of nature is necessarily linked to the domination of other humans and of inner human nature. This perspective illuminates Kang Youwei's ecological visions in his...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... for elementary schools in China. See https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/749149820243833332.html (accessed December 2, 2022). 16 Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution , 8. 15 Ibid. 14 Ibid. 13 Burkett, Marx and Nature , 257. 12 Marx, Capital , 3:102. 11 Marx...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... new relationships among ourselves and with the planet or perish in the environmental devastation wrought by our continuous consumption, exploitation, division, and conflict. Imagining a totalizing environmental disaster and a global unity fighting for the survival of humanity and Earth, the 2019...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
... a venue to reconsider late Qing China's problem-ridden present and functions as an important lens through which to imagine its future. Iceberg and Snow Ocean manifests this intimate relationship between natural disasters and social problems. Published in 1906 against the backdrop of China's political...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., to demonstrate the impossibilities of cross-racial relational analyses with respect to death and the social conditions of dying. In “Blackness and the Pitfalls of Anthropocene Ethics,” Axelle Karera interrogates discourses of disaster and crisis in relation to perceptions of ecological disaster. Karera...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... these borderlands of the Eastern Himalayas, burgeoning populations, propelled by sociopolitical agendas, ecological disasters, and other factors, stress borders and resources in areas increasingly open to exploitation by regional and international corporations and governments. Minority poetic voices throughout...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of society and politics on Mars in relation to the capitalism and colonialism of the earth. The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells describes Martians as technologically superior aliens who descend on the earth and overwhelm British imperialism and colonialism. The invading Martians are in fact British...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... or a harbinger of disaster ( S , 54), highlighting the double-edged sword of regional transgression—the positive and negative potentials of change. The ambiguous effects of her influence as an outsider are highlighted in scenes where Simeizi sings northern Shaanxi folk songs to her husband. While her husband...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... S. K . In Search of Chinese Democracy: Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929–1949 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . Fung, Edmund S. K . “ Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy in Republican China: The Political Thought of Zhang Dongsun .” Modern China 28 , no. 4...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., “the immortal capital of the realm of desire” 欲界之仙都, these sequences can be and, indeed, were read as vicarious guides to the pleasures they describe. And it was this particular tradition of zhuzhici , as well as the broader literature of pleasure quarters of which Banqiao zaji is the most representative...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
...’ Roll Scene .” Unpublished manuscript. China Daily . “ China's ‘Smog Art’ Movement .” March 12 , 2012 . www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/art/2014-03/12/content_17340479.htm . Choy, Timothy . “ Air's Substantiations .” In Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global...
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