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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 212–215.
Published: 01 March 2020
... been treated with more brevity. In addition, for the convenience of the reader, the book should have included appendices with lists of the literary newspapers and journals discussed in the book. Despite these minor faults, The End of Liberalism as a Literary Ideal is a very valuable addition...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... argues that ethnicity is an important motif that runs throughout the early Shen Congwen's literary oeuvre, particularly in the Miao-themed stories that he crafted in the 1920s and 1930s. Shen idealizes non-Han peoples, particularly the Miao in southern China's borderland, as the ultimate source of moral...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that focuses centrally on male same-sex relations, Phoenixes Flying Together offers a vital example of early modern queer literary tradition by illustrating fluid male-male bonds and hybrid ideals of homosexuality. Such textual representations shift Confucian cardinal relations, redefine the power of nanse...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... therefore constitutes the most ideal site to host literature's omni-presence and omni-absence—two concepts that form the dialectical kernel of Chen Chuncheng's neo-avant-gardism. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 Chen Chuncheng Dream of the Red Chamber avant...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., Ai Wu similarly inscribes his literary mission as one of national redemption but in a way that conforms to the leftist internationalist ideals of the League of Left-Wing Writers, which Ai Wu joined after he was forcibly repatriated to China by British colonial authorities in 1931. Ai Wu's Sinophone...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., this article identifies an overarching environmental theme complexly entangled in politics and idealism. While signaling a definite shift away from anthropocentrism, the narrative nonetheless reasserts humanist and anthropocentric assumptions. As such, the novel speaks to the inseverable connections between...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 March 2020
... are nothing but mind), bushi 佈施 (the bodhisattva ideal of sacrificial giving), and kong 空 (emptiness as boundless potentiality), greatly influenced Lu Xun's aesthetics. Ultimately, this article shows how revolution, the dominant mode of secularism, is theistically conditioned. The Buddhist notion of emptiness...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 204–219.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., 其面目也完。益陽湯鵬, 海秋其字,有詩三千餘篇,芟而存之二千餘篇,評者無慮數十家, 最後屬龔鞏祚一言, 鞏祚亦一言而已, 曰:完。何以謂之完也? 海秋心迹盡在是 ,所欲言者在是, 所不欲言而卒不能不言在是, 所不欲言而竟不言, 於所不言求其言亦在是。要不肯撏撦他人之言以為己言。任舉一篇, 無論識與不識, 曰:此湯益陽之詩。( GZZQJ , 241) Gong Zizhen's ideal of literature, poetry in particular, consists in a complete expression of oneself. For him, Tang...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... was delighted to see not only a rich diversity of approaches but also an ideal mix of prominent, midcareer, and early-career participants. Working with these colleagues during and after the conference was a most gratifying experience as it enabled me to learn more about various critical approaches. I would like...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
...” the West's ideals of universal equality so as to help realize the unrealized potentiality contained within those ideals themselves, Chang suggests that contemporary debates over same-sex marriage in Taiwan offer a similar opportunity to reassess not only the Western ideals of universal equality on which...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of alienation is further reinforced by the form of poetic drama, which creates two characters, Jungle and Human, formally separating humans from nature. This separation dismantles the presumed oneness between humans and nature, an ideal(ized) relationship that characterizes traditional Chinese aesthetics...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by a profound this-worldly ethic categorically different from the transcendence of Judeo-Christian religion. 2 Most important, aesthetic education ( meiyu 美育)—the cultivation of proper feelings, sentiments, and desires—played a fundamental role in formulating a Confucian ideal humanity in the realm...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” this new mode creates worlds that raise “awareness of the limitations of the utopian tradition while remaining committed to the ideal of a better world.” 5 Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia (1975) expresses a counterculture vision of the 1960s through the diary of William Weston, a journalist who visits...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... was not confined to new-idealism versus neo-materialism. Indeed, he rejected almost all famous dichotomies in philosophy such as subject vs. object, mind vs. body, monism vs. pluralism, good vs. evil, determinism vs. freedom of will, rationalism vs. empiricism, transcendentalism vs. immanentism, and so on.” 67...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 197–200.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of revolutionary idealism, even though her individual will comes into conflict with the Communist Party's conformist demands. The Chinese Bildungsroman finds a more philosophical expression in the novels of Ba Jin, whose wide-ranging work with anarchist theorists provides the intellectual anchor for the novels...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and blending to fit the wedge for this new purpose. Chapter 6, “In Search of New Heroes,” reveals that during the late Qing new heroic figures were called on to personify new ideas and ideals advocated by local reformers. Liang Qichao, for instance, believed that Western heroes could provide direct...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the Manchukuo ideal of racial harmony. An's story above, however, claims that the city is “an abundant anti-utopian space” and is therefore in direct opposition to the farming villages that are the only genuine sites of production for the nation. 7 Such anti-urbanism can also be found in the Manchukuo Korean...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... male-male relations at the turn of the twentieth century, when egalitarian monogamous conjugality had been established as the one and only ideal, not just in Taiwan or the rest of the Chinese-speaking world but also globally. Ironically, premised on heteronormativity, this new system excluded...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 298–325.
Published: 01 October 2020
... is one indication of this fickleness). 16 The mirror stage for Jacques Lacan marks the moment when the self is recognized as an object, alienated as an other, generating an “Ideal-I” that will never be more than asymptotic to the individual as she actually develops; but Sophia here cannot even...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... mode creates worlds that raise “awareness of the limitations of the utopian tradition while remaining committed to the ideal of a better world.” 2 Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia (1975), for example, articulates a counterculture vision of the 1960s through the diary of William Weston, a journalist...
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