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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (The Poem of the Park) narrates everyday life at the parks of the colonial metropole, including the opportunities these urban spaces provide for illicit encounters between men and women. Pantoen tjapgome (The Quatrain of the Lantern Festival) describes the festivities of an important holiday...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Hazel Shu Chen Abstract In 1950s and early 1960s Hong Kong, radio permeated in everyday life as a major source of entertainment and information. It subsequently gave rise to a peculiar genre in Cantonese cinema, film adaptations of “airwave novels” ( tiankong xiaoshuo dianying 天空小說電影), which...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with environmentally focused, avant-garde smog art. Although avant-garde smog art is in line with today's scientific correctness by virtue of its strong commitment to activism, I believe that everyday smog life, which is viewed either as “ecoambiguous” or as “smog Ah-Q,” is in effect more subversive than its avant...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 487–502.
Published: 01 September 2023
... life. 11 This assertion implies that our everyday lives might be somehow stretched, even enriched by digital space, but what we do there might be rather like (and just as mundane as) what we do in our everyday lives. Ben Highmore suggests that, “if everyday life, for the most part, goes...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... tu 清明上河圖 (Along the River at Qingming Festival). The scroll became a paragon of portraying everyday life in the city and elicited many copies and adaptations. Probably the best-known modern recasting of Along the River is Zhihui de changhe 智慧的長河 (River of Wisdom), the centerpiece of the China...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
... will under which many Chinese individuals like the protagonist are living and unveils the harsh reality. We can replace “swimming” with “working” and transfer the meaning to humans. The conversation then provides an insight into the everyday life in China that is characterized by hard work until death...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 236–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the soil of everyday life and society—imagination, allegory, mythology, legend, dream, fantasy, magic, and transference are the means through which mythorealism arrives at the real and reality. (162) In sum, this book provides a valuable contribution to the study of cultural memory and of the post...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
... – 110 . New York : Schocken Books , 1969 . Certeau, Michel de . The Practice of Everyday Life , translated by Steven F. Rendall . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1988 . Chan, Stephen Ching-kiu . “ Delay No More: Struggles to Re-imagine Hong Kong (for the Next 30 Years...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
...–) and Yuese liaoren 月色撩人 (Seductive Moon, 2008) by Wang Anyi 王安憶 (1954–) will be used to expose the dire effects of the urbanization of post-socialist China on everyday life. A discussion of nature of spectrality is necessary to provide a context for the examination of specters in urban China in the post...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... effects. Her works delve into AI technology in human-machine interface and explores the blurring of the boundaries between machine and human. The themes of alienation and disintegration of human culture and subjectivity are prominent in her narratives of AI's penetration into everyday life, consciousness...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and romanticized versions of a nostalgic Chineseness may not correspond to a specific historical period and may have never existed in such a form in the first place. Now presented as a treasured “classical Chinese aesthetics” encroached upon by everyday life and needing restoration in contemporary times...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...” in Frankfurt School vocabulary. He works to break down everyday life into fragments and put them back again, flying in the face of holographic technology and immersive headsets for viewers. To him, digitized filmmaking has long lost its “craft” flavor. Davosky and Eko are drawn to the art world of Mars...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of everyday life. Nevertheless, diverging from the lively and energetic atmosphere of the offstage environment in scene A1, the performance onstage looks slightly cold and emotionless. The performers' interactions with one another also appear joyless. The performance seems to have been carefully crafted...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... is beyond dispute. Wang Hui, however, has noted a streak of sympathy and appreciation in Lu Xun's stance toward superstition and religion. In “superstition” Lu Xun sees an enduring metaphysical need and a desire among ordinary Chinese to transcend the limits of everyday life and work. 23...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and appreciation in Lu Xun's stance toward superstition and religion. In “superstition” Lu Xun sees an enduring metaphysical need and a desire among ordinary Chinese to transcend the limits of everyday life and work. 21 This metaphysical need, I argue, also suggests an expression of the ecological sensibility...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... is able to capture the banality of modern everyday life and hence the moment of historical change through the novel's monstrous length, slow pace, and distinctive styles. The sphere of the everyday is conceived as a potentially radical transformation of social life in its specific moment and place...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Salazar Parreñas's work examines “the social construction of commodified intimacies, or more precisely, the intersections of money and intimacy in everyday life by looking at the ways that intimacy as a material, affective, psychological, and embodied state characterizes such labors.” They claim that “one...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
... today might appear to an untrained eye as an ambient example of influencer culture, otherwise marketed by Berry as a wellness must-have, is intimately tethered to a larger story of how race and gender are performed in everyday life in the US context. Through such performances, whiteness as wellness...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 417–441.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., and barks—and, in a few cases, from animals (e.g., musk and ambergris). The use of aromatics can be traced to the Spring and Autumn Period, and the culture thrived in the Tang and Song dynasties. Preserved in various forms—from incense to potpourri—aromatics were widely used in everyday life and on special...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
... quality of flash fiction), Joanne Leow identifies Malay Sketches as a “dissident text” in “both form and content.” She describes how Alfian's use of flash reflects the “cramped spaces of everyday life in Singapore,” especially for the Indigenous minority Malay community. Taken together, the stories...
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