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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... privileged health program skewed in favor of elites and urbanites and divorced from the wellbeing of ordinary people. The medicine of the “barefoot doctor” entails the ecological understanding of the human body in sync with nature and is rooted in affective labor in healing the rifts between humans...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., the stories in, of, and around Mr. Six reiterate the coordination between cultural elites and consumer culture. xueshao@ucdavis.edu shlu@ucdavis.edu Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Mr. Six Guan Hu Feng Xiaogang chronotope Beijing Feng Xiaogang 馮小剛, probably the most...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Boon Eng Khor Abstract Since independence, the ethnic Chinese community in Malaysia has lamented its marginalization by the Malay-Bumiputra elite, a theme that is often reflected in writings by ethnically Chinese Malaysian authors. This article, however, examines how ethnic Chinese authors depict...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... fetishism, and the rise of a technocratic elite, Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions. banwang@stanford.edu Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 enchantment hypocrisy technoscience mythical progress Progress is reverting to regression...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... offices, the elite architect transforms into a “barefoot architect.” On the other hand, the culture market, neoliberal ideology, and digital media quickly turn the brick into a simulacrum and a consumer icon, alienating the brick and the creators from their vital connection with nature and the earth...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...” by a hypocritical gentry, a technocratic elite that sought power, status, and profit in the name of enlightenment and rationality. He proclaimed that it is urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocrite gentry; ‘superstition’ may remain.” Invoking Benjamin's insight and affinity with Lu Xun, this article explores...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of fictional genre to enlighten the reading public. Yet their “education of the novel” was far from complete, as New Literature writers found fictional expressions primarily in the form of the short story, with strong undertones of individualism, subjective lyricism, and elitism. By focusing on Mao Dun's 茅盾...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the Communists might eventually eradicate the local bandits. Later on, although peasants might move to the city to become the new urban elite, the elite singer from Beijing moves to the countryside to become a peasant—a disconcerting echo of the idealistic dreams of rusticated youth. Chen Zhongshi, in turn...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... is reflected in technoscientific fetishism and the rise of technocratic elites. The metabolic rift of capitalist production alienates people from intimate bonds with nature inherent in the embodied practices of labor on nature. For Dickens, human alienation from nature is “not a lack of knowledge per se...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... physically plunge into political actions. From 1913 to 1916, he actively joined public debates through writing many journal articles on the kind of political systems suitable for the new Republic in China. His idea of elite politics ( xianren zhengzhi 賢人政治) that aims to constrain dictatorship...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): vii–viii.
Published: 01 December 2022
... about the readings and eager to learn ecocriticism. Since that first seminar, I have taught similar courses over the years with varied titles and themes. Students and I have explored issues of technology, technocratic elites, and technological fetishism, particularly as they are portrayed in science...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... an English-educated elite that best served metropolitan interests. Although Chinese education in Singapore dates back to the early nineteenth century, Chinese-educated and English-educated became recognizable social labels only in the wake of the 1956 All Party Report on Chinese Education . The report...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the heroes from accomplishing tasks. Such a binary opposition divides human beings into the almighty saviors on one side and the useless crowd on the other. The latter is so disorganized that even a global disaster cannot unite them for a common cause. This opposition seemingly justifies a few elites...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 March 2022
... insignificant they seem to be—can contribute to memory formation and memorialization. Li blurs the dichotomies in the discourse of memory: elites versus grassroots, official versus unofficial, public versus. private, and collective versus individual. The dismissal of binarism is built on the fluidity even...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and political formations. A Passage to China opens with the historic 1907 meeting between Qing reformer and exile Liang Qichao 梁啟超 (1873–1927) and Taiwanese businessman Lin Xiantang 林獻堂 (1881–1956). Lin sought advice on how the Taiwanese elite should face the Japanese colonizers. Tsai uses this event...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 289–292.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with public secrecy. The portrait of Bian Zhongyun 卞仲耘 (1916–1966), a former vice-principal of an elite girl's middle school and a victim of the Red Guard violence in 1966, was once an unmentionable secret hidden in her surviving husband's bookcase. Since the millennium, however, the portrait has emerged...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in the publication of chuanqi plays and colloquial stories. 6 Such popular reading matter augmented the audience's awareness of various reading publics' presence and thus exerted considerable influence on both the elite's and commoners' conception of the gong - si dynamics. 7 As Wai-yee Li points out...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... others, Sinicized minority intellectuals were educated to identify themselves as Chinese literati, while some minority elites even discriminated against the masses of their own ethnic groups. Under the despotism of KMT-Han culture, these Mongol elites experienced a phenomenon similar...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 300–303.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., “The Rise of a Spokesman from the East,” presents Gu as a successful cultural informant in the West whose philosophy was well received among European cultural elites as a possible solution to their cultural crisis after WWI. Able to reconcile his national identity and cosmopolitan worldviews, Gu forged...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... directly refers to the title of Zheng's cover. 25 Despite the emerging elite interest in nudes, these images were far from uncontroversial throughout the 1910s, especially in contexts where they might be shown to wider audiences, such as at exhibitions. 26 The decision to feature nudity in Meiyu...
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