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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Lucas Klein Abstract How are the migration of people and of poetry, through literary translation and translational literature, linked or alike? What can the poetry of migration teach about the translation of form in poetry? What is the role of the text in understanding the politics of poetry...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... a definitive role in shaping the dynamics and critical terms of Chinese literature and culture as a whole. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 border boundary Sinophone Cold War form At the center of Kevin Kwan's (1973−) novel Crazy Rich Asians , which inspired the Hollywood hit film...
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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 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... This article further investigates how such medium self-reflexivity in the form of voice-overs destabilized the Manichean structure of melodrama as an established genre in Cantonese cinema, thus making space for forms of female agency amidst contending ideologies in early Cold War. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan...
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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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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 177–200.
Published: 01 March 2023
...-gendered form of labor through which subjects negotiate the “everyday ethical challenge” of survival under multiple imperial structures. The construction and positioning of transimperial subjects in the creative work of China scholars resists forms of imperial power that serve to marginalize, erase...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... also enacts a meta-reflection on the existential condition of literature in cyberspace, where digital technologies make it possible for literary productions to take alternative forms, to roam around, and to dissolve when the exigency of socio-historical circumstances necessitates. The digital world...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Alexa Alice Joubin Abstract The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 487–502.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Laura Vermeeren Abstract Online calligraphic handwriting has taken on various creative forms: from WeChat handwriting communities to digital teaching apps and downloadable calligraphic fonts. This article proposes to consider online calligraphy practice a means to connect to an imagined past...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... (played by Maggie Cheung) and memories of Old and New Shanghai (both enacted by Zhao Tao), his screen images and sounds enter a constant circulation and form an intriguing multidirectional dialogue across a variety of media and genres: cinema, art photography, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and star...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Belinda Kong Abstract This essay deploys the concept of pandemic as a set of discursive relations rather than a neutral description of a natural phenomenon, arguing that pandemic discourse is a product of layered histories of power that in turn reproduces myriad forms of imperial and racial power...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
... , the paper takes it to demonstrate how out of the old clan patriarchy in East Asia there may emerge new “homophobic” forms that rely not on a proscription of specific sex practices but rather on defending the integrity of the family surname and patrilineage. Yet its potentiality as a rollback against a Euro...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the block ( bankuai 板塊) structure, the interplay of real and fictional, and the intertextual and transmedial references, Jia explores the possibilities of representational forms and aspires to map and scan the otherwise unrepresentable totality that is global capitalism in China. In this essay, the author...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... air. The author reads this suppressed mist ( wu ) or qi consciousness as a form of resistance against the current scientific-corrective discourse and scientism. If we situate smog life in the context of how traditional Chinese culture has been systematically marginalized in the imperialization...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth is an important case for illustrating what complex forms the idea of planetarianism may take in a concrete ideological and creative context. The author argues that the film's future imagination bears laudable potential to promote a turn from exclusionist...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and assumes a sober voice as he calls for ethnic equality. Simultaneously lyrical and political, Shen's ethnically themed works are significant for forming new scholarly understandings of both May Fourth literature and the broader discourse of ethnicity, which underpins the very notion of Chineseness...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and treats the novel as a performative form of “territory-making” that purposefully recreates a Han-centered modern nation from its geographical margin by carefully reorganizing a web of intricate and competing multiethnic and multinational relations in the grassland. In particular, as a self-identified...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... a description of the author's own coming into being as a racialized, gendered subject in the act of teaching about the Atlanta shootings in Hong Kong, the focus is on a highly particular account of how grief and vulnerability might offer forms of political solidarity that are not defined by roles as distinct...
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