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Ecological Utopia and Dystopia in Chinese Science Fiction
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ban Wang Abstract Crossing the binary of utopia and dystopia, this article reads Hao Jingfang's (1984–) novel Vagabonds as a critical ecotopia. I explore configurations of social worlds and eschew the politics of purity by highlighting the complexities of building a utopia while navigating...
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Chapter Eight: Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia in Chen Qiufan
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
...) Under the accelerated progress of technology like AI and genetic engineering, such millennial foundations are being eroded and human society is degenerating into a posthuman, amoral dystopia: But modern technology has damaged the foundation. Technology addicts indulging in overdoses of dopamine have...
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Ecology, (Post)Humanism, and Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
... wenxue de fangfa,” 86 ; Liu and Li, “Lun Liu Cixin Santi ji dui AC Clarke de jeshou,” 140. 6 Cao, “Multiple Bodies of The Three-Body Problem ,” 184 . 7 Damrosch, “What Is World Literature?,” 9 . 8 In popular conversation, this text is often characterized simply as a dystopia...
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Utopian Dream and Dark Consciousness: Chinese Literature at the Millennial Turn
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in our time as ever. With the anomalous and polymorphous mediation of fiction, we find ourselves imagining dystopia and heterotopia in the hope of a future in which such an imagination would scarcely be needed. And yet at any fold of time we may come to realize that, without the imagination of darkness...
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Chapter Ten: Critical Ecotopia in Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and the balance between society and nature. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 ecotopia dystopia Cold War self-realization freedom Utopia can serve the negative purpose of making us aware of our mental and ideological imprisonment . . . the best Utopias...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... leadership by a few major countries are necessary in any concerted effort to combat planetary catastrophes. Melissa A. Hosek examines Liu Cixin's 劉慈欣 (1963–) Santi 三體 (The Three-Body Problem) in terms of environmental and political dystopia. The novel weaves a connection between natural ecology...
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Chapter Six: Dignity and Misery of Labor
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
... break, communication, or social life. Living in a dormitory resembling a labor camp, roommates do not get to see each other during the twenty-four-hour shifts. Vibrating with jarring electronic sounds, the whole factory seems to be a huge device swallowing up workers, body and soul. This dystopia...
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Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 285–288.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of names). By reading these three texts, along with Liang's Xin Zhongguo weilai ji , in conversation with one another, Andolfatto demonstrates the mutability of utopia and dystopia as two sides of the same coin, depending on one's perspective as colonizer or colonized. Chapters 4 and 5 further...
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Index
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
... , 19. See also Book of the Great Community . Debord, Guy, 119, 127 deep ecology, 3, 26, 76 Dickens, Peter, 3, 7 Dispossessed, The (Le Guin), 165 Dong Zhongshu, 18 dystopia, 37, 107, 113, 135, 147, 149–50, 165, 167–68, 179, 185 Eagleton, Terry, 1, 29, 57, 83, 87...
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Epilogue
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... with nature for building a livable home, technological hegemony and dystopia seem to have obliterated that possibility. Yet it is precisely because of this frustration over the shrunken horizon that we should receive a wakeup call and find these unfilled aspirations newly relevant. Speaking about artworks...
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Indifference as Alienation in Chen Qiufan's Science Fiction Waste Tide
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Award, for his Three-Body Problem in 2015, and gain international recognition. 5 Hua, “Dual Alienation in Waste Tide ,” 671 . 6 Bhatia and Chen, “‘With Every Future We Wish to Create.’” 7 Wang, “Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia,” 140 . 8 Chen...
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Avant-Garde Anachronism: Dream of the Red Chamber in the Forty-Ninth Century
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... jingyingwenhua de shiluo” ; McGrath, Postsocialist Modernity ; Rojas, “Authorial Afterlives and Apocrypha.” 3 For more on the emergence of “new historical novels” in 1990s China, see Kinkley, Visions of Dystopia . 4 Hockx, Internet Literature in China , 21 . 5 Ibid., 72. 6...
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Future Emotions and Senses: Chen Qiufan's Science Fiction of the Anthropocene
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of technological dystopia where humans and cyborgs coexist but in distinctive, unequal, hierarchical systems. While we continue to celebrate biotechnological advancement in the early twenty-first-century present, Chen's speculative tales warn us of possible consequences in the near future, if we continued to push...
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Introduction
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Contemporary science fiction sounds the alarm by depicting dystopias of posthuman conditions. Sci-fi works proffer penetrating commentaries on technologically induced social and environmental catastrophes amid the triumphant crazes of endless growth, prosperity, and power. Chapter 7 examines Han Song's 韓松...
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Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-ecological Writer
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way.” 5 The technoscientific utopia turned overnight into the ruins of dystopia. To counter this new myth, Benjamin resorted...
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Chapter Two: Lu Xun's Mytho-ecological Refutation of Technocrats
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., society directs a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way.” 8 The technoscientific utopia turned overnight into the ruins of dystopia. To counter this new myth...
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Cold War as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... formations, we open ourselves to a much broader range of interpretative possibilities and analytic tools, which allow us to ask more nuanced questions about affect, embodiment, belongingness, identity, and dystopia in a divided Asia. Even if we accept the more empirical, commonsense definition...
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Theory and Practice of the Long Novel: Mao Dun's Ziye 子夜 ( Midnight ) and Representational Problems between Fiction, Locality, and Modernity
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... will immediately turn the promised utopian land of a modernized country into a hallucinatory vision, and his brave new world into a dystopia of wanton sex and consumption. Is Wu Sunfu's dream of a modern nation as illusory as his wife's romantic reverie of love? Would it turn into a nightmare as horrifying as his...
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