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Why Does a Failed Revolution Also Need Fiction?: On the Mahua Genre of Failed Revolutionary Historical Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 411–427.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Ng Kim Chew; Po-Hsi Chen Abstract The historical relationship between the categories of Malayan Communist fiction and People's Republic of China revolutionary historical fiction remains to be clarified, just as the Malayan Communist revolution was covertly, but undeniably, connected to the Chinese...
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Spatiotemporal Explorations: Narrating Social Inequalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker Abstract This article examines sociopolitical commentary in contemporary Chinese science fiction literature written by authors of the post-1980s generation. With a close reading of Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing, 2014) and Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆...
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Take the Elevator to Tomorrow: Mobile Space and Lingering Time in Contemporary Urban Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 86–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of space and time to the study of the (fictional) city, this article employs an analysis centered on the figure of the elevator to explore how literary narratives can help expand our understanding of space-time as an intuitive and quotidian fact of existence. In a comparative study of Taiwanese author Wu...
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Dangerous Fiction and Obscene Images: Textual-Visual Interplay in the Banned Magazine Meiyu and Lu Xun's Role as Censor
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... guanggao wei zhongxin” 民初小說期刊《眉語》刊行情況考述――以《申報》廣告為中心 [ An Inquiry into the Publishing Circumstances of the Early Republican Fiction Journal Eyebrow Talk : Focusing on Advertisements in Shenbao ]. Xueshu luntan 學術論壇 [ Academic Forum ], no. 228 ( 2015 ): 101 – 6 . Hockx, Michel . Questions...
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Introduction: Chronotopia: Urban Space and Time in Twenty-First-Century Sinophone Film and Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on a day-to-day basis. In fiction, however, the implications of relativity and warped spacetime can be introduced into quotidian scenarios to form a textual link between the seemingly diverse chronotopes of universe and living room. Here space can become not just theoretically but perceivably mutable...
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Ethnic Loyalty versus Spring Fancy: Gender and Southeast Asia in Hei Ying's Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Josh Stenberg Abstract Hei Ying 黑嬰 (1915–1992) wrote prolifically about the “southern isles,” where he—a Hakka from Sumatra—was born. Written for a sophisticated urban readership in China that was curious about the exotic and erotic Nanyang, Hei Ying's 1930s fiction foregrounds questions of Chinese...
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Iridescent Corners: Sinophone Flash Fiction in Singapore
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Brian Bernards Abstract Starting in the 1970s, flash fiction developed into an outsized literary practice relative to other Sinophone forms in Singapore. Flash fiction's smallness and brevity cohere with the fast pace of urban Singaporean life and transformation of its cityscape...
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Recreating the World in Twenty-First-Century Philippine Chinese Speculative Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shirley O. Lua Abstract This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning movement were included in the anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology (2012), edited by Charles A. Tan...
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Authorial Self-Fashioning in a Global Era: Authorial Prefaces to Translated Editions of Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Frances Weightman Abstract The authorial preface to works of fiction provides a unique space for exploration of authorial self-fashioning and author-reader mediation. This article argues that, when works of fiction are translated and new prefaces written for a new readership, these prefaces can...
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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
... 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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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
...Cara Healey Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910 . Lorenzo Andolfatto . BOSTON : BRILL , 2019 . 238 PP. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Lorenzo Andolfatto's Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End...
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Unsavory Characters: Sino-Tibetan Language Politics in the Fiction of Tsering Döndrup
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 385–408.
Published: 01 October 2021
... experiments to their logical conclusion: a condition of forced bilingualism, in which the author demands of his readers fluency in Chinese in order to access his Tibetan language fiction. This critique of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic crisis puts the author's work into conversation with global postcolonial...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Classified as a colonial novel and published in 1906, science fiction Iceberg and Snow Ocean is one of the very earliest depictions of global climate change in modern Chinese literature. Photo by the author.
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The Logic of the Void: Translation, Indigeneity, and Islands in Taiwanese Ecological Fiction
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and professor specializing in ecoliterature, with extensive knowledge of entomology, biology, and ecology. He first became renowned with his works on butterflies, including Midie zhi 迷蝶誌 (The Book of Lost Butterflies, 2000) and Die dao 蝶道 (The Tao of Butterflies, 2003). Later he began writing fiction...
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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
...Kiu-Wai Chu Abstract This article focuses on Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆 (1981–) short stories to examine the changing environmental messages they convey over the decade 2012–2022. Borrowing environmental philosopher Glenn A. Albrecht's concepts of psychoterratic emotions...
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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
..., this article argues that Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆 (1981–) Huangchao 荒潮 (Waste Tide) serves as an exceptional ecological narrative within Chinese science fiction, shedding light on how indifference leads to the invisibility of environmental degradation and the struggles of marginalized groups. Moreover, it reveals...
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Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 1. Classified as a colonial novel and published in 1906, science fiction Iceberg and Snow Ocean is one of the very earliest depictions of global climate change in modern Chinese literature. Photo by the author. ...
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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
.... [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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Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 201–204.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Chun-Ting Chang Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China Ellen Widmer Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 329 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 In this book examining the transition from traditional...
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Homosexualizing “Boys Love” in China: Reflexivity, Genre Transformation, and Cultural Interaction
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 104–126.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Xi Tian Abstract Originating in Japan, “boys love” (BL) manga and fiction that focus on romantic or homoerotic male-male relationships are considered by most of their writers, readers, and scholars to be primarily by women and for women and are purposely differentiated from gay fiction and manga...
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