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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Robin Visser Abstract This article primarily considers the possibility of translating between Indigenous and settler modes of ecological thought and praxis. The former often manifest analogously to quantum field theory, where, as Indigene Linda Yarrowin states, “it's all connected,” while...
FIGURES
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the Chinese writer's recovery of the mythical and ecological images from the past in the critique of modernity. Confronted with the fetishism of progress and technology in China's early modernization, Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Here, the article rethinks Ba Ren's legacy within a Mahua corpus, and Zeng Huading's fiction within a cross-straits history of labor. This ecological reading of their works also highlights their critique of Mahua's peripheralization within a world economy and global literature. Mahua literature Ba...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of this hypocrite gentry and retain mytho-ecological beliefs. Examining Lu Xun's stories from Old Tales Retold , t his chapter explores the Chinese writer's recovery of the mythical and ecological images from the past in his critique of technocratic modernity. Confronted with the myth of progress, technological...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 ecological dystopia Chinese science fiction The environmental issue has been a pervasive theme in science fiction. Anxiety about climate change, energy depletion, and environmental degradation has given rise to a new genre...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Environmental writers have sought to retrieve ecological wisdom from traditional Chinese thought to critique anthropocentrism, but the rediscoveries remain a disembodied discourse and ignore the relationships among humans: the political, social, and economic structures and power...
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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 (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Robin Visser Abstract In “China as Method,” Mizoguchi Yūzō argues that “a world that takes China as method would be a world in which China is a constitutive element.” Similarly, a world that takes ecology as method is a world in which humans are a constitutive element, one of “the ten thousand...
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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 (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Yuanyuan Hua; Yunfan Zhang Abstract Slow violence, or the gradual ecological devastation that goes unnoticed, is not always discernible to our perceptions. It is the indifference toward environmental degradation and the suffering experienced by marginalized communities that contributes...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Sensitive to modernity's estrangement of human bonds to nature and the rural lifeworld, Shen Congwen affirms an ecological understanding of writing and life. The writing self sinks its roots into nature and enmeshes with nonhuman worlds. Animistic language immerses bodily...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 2019
... on a set of parasitic or supplementary relationships as they relate to an interrelated set of sociopolitical, ecological, and literary concerns. Through this attention to parasitic relationships, the article uses Jia Pingwa's works to pursue a critical reassessment of the relationship between individual...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... evinces a biological perspective and affirms an ecological understanding of life in which the writing self must trace its roots to and reciprocate with other organisms and all-encompassing nature. The animistic language of Shen's writing delves into the ecological and bodily foundation of beauty and arts...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-garde smog art counterpart. What has undergirded smog life is a collective ecological unconsciousness—the premodern “mist” consciousness—that is suppressed in “smog modernity,” of which scientific discourse pertaining to topics such as toxic smog ( mai ) has become the predominant way of conceptualizing...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ban Wang Abstract Touting the technological fix for environmental crises overlooks the role of society, history, culture, production, and geography. Anthropocene , presuming all civilizations as ecologically destructive, ignores the historical, social, and cultural differences in human-nature...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... nihilistic contrary to what Nietzsche predicted and most modern scholars of nihilism profess. To the contrary, it has become more antinihilistic and nihilphobic. From an ecological standpoint, nihilism is not and should not be a curse word. In fact, learning how to die requires nihility and nihilism. Only...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
... relief efforts fail to lead to salvation, the authors demonstrate the complexity in socialist China of “ecoethnic politics”: politics of ethnic, national, and class relations mediated through ecological changes and reshaping of nature. Nature is thus shown as an ecoideological tapestry into which gender...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 103–115.
Published: 01 March 2024
... hegemony” of sight and vision in the Western model of technoscience and its questionable impact on China's effort to modernize by virtue of technological triumphalism. In examining the cultural ethos and modalities toward the color green to promote ecological awareness, the author focuses mainly...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that the film captures a somewhat ambiguous Sino-Soviet bond under threat, oscillating between a nostalgic communist internationalism, on the one hand, and, on the other, a rising and subtle Chinese nationalism. The ecological crises, flooding in particular, serve as an unpronounced and unspecified threat...
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