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The Protean Image of Plant Life: From Hegel to Lu Xun
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Prism (2024) 21 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 September 2024
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Yiju Abstract This article aims to shed light on the image of plant life attributed to Chinese civilizational stillness in cross-cultural encounters and imaginations in modern times. The author shows how the same image has had different cognitive values and cultural meanings. The article...
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The Reincarnation of Amaryllis: The Image of the Shepherdess in Tang Qi's Early Frontier Sonnet
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Prism (2024) 21 (2): 276–296.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... Her portrayal garners both acclaim and curiosity, particularly concerning her origins. This article aims to explore the roots of this shepherdess imagery, leading to a reevaluation of a seemingly established tradition in Chinese poetry. The shepherdess, often perceived as a solidified poetic image...
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Charles Lim Yi Yong, SEASTATE 1: inside/outside , 2005. Image courtesy of Charles Lim Yi Yong.
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2. Charles Lim Yi Yong, SEASTATE 9: Proclamation Garden, 2019. Image courtesy of National Gallery Singapore.
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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
... and to physical and romantic intimacy through at times carefully considered juxtapositions of texts and images. In addition, it was the first Chinese magazine to be banned on the basis of obscenity legislation introduced during the early Republic. The committee that banned Meiyu was led by Zhou Shuren 周樹人, who...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2. William Martin uses images to visualize the power of air in his 1868 Meteorology . For instance, the top figure is a steam-driven machine ( qi ji 氣機, literarily “qi-powered machine”), with Chinese characters to illustrate different parts. The bottom photo shows the steam-powered loom
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Chapter Two: Lu Xun's Mytho-ecological Refutation of Technocrats
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... recovered images of the ancient world where rural folks lived in intimacy with nature, worshiped supernatural beings, and observed time-honored rituals. Linking the myth of progress and technology to a chorus of “malevolent voices” by a “hypocrite gentry,” Lu Xun urged that we should rid of ourselves...
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Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-ecological Writer
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in critiques of modernity. Similarly, Lu Xun conjured up images of the ancient world where rural folks lived in reciprocity with nature, worshiped supernatural beings, and observed time-honored rituals. Lu Xun linked the myth of progress and technology to a destructive chorus of “malevolent voices...
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Panorama as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that posits an imaginary vantage point. Panorama as method notes the use of scale, recording of the skyline, and mediation of the cityscape. The article asks what material conditions and ideological circumstances allow for the existence of the images at hand and what brings us to identify them as panoramic...
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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
... in the tropics rehearses European colonial (or Han majority) views of the impulsive, sultry native, an image that is contrasted with Republican Chinese primness. The bourgeois woman awakening to Chinese ethnonationalism and rejecting sensuality in favor of patriotism makes her an ancestor to the sexless heroines...
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Chapter Nine: Artificial Intelligence, Affective Labor, and Death in Life
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and genetic reconstruction of humanoids undermines the human self-image and blurs the boundaries between human and machine. The creation of AI humanoids cancels out as well as foregrounds the essential needs of human emotional reciprocity and the ritual of working through the trauma of sickness and death...
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Chapter Six: Dignity and Misery of Labor
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., amid new alienations, past pride and solidarity. Chinese documentary films have proven an effective medium in critiquing ecological rifts and disasters, staging a stringent critique against eco-destructive economic trends. Against a visual landscape dominated by billboards, glamorous stars, and images...
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China's Battler Poetry, Zheng Xiaoqiong, and Hypertranslatability
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Maghiel Van Crevel Abstract China's battler poetry ( dagong shige 打工詩歌), also known in English as migrant worker poetry, projects images of China as the workshop of the world in the age of global capitalism. The recent product of a world-renowned tradition in which poetry has been a social practice...
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Intersections, Interactions, Integrations: Chronological Entanglement of a Chinese Poem
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
...? What does this poem translate? What's behind the choice of the source text? A metaphor underscoring our exploration is that of the “skein of yarn” (Calvino) or of the spinning of a “thread” (Wittgenstein)—that is, an image reporting on relational theories of literature, history, and translation...
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Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves : Evocative Translocality, Fantastic Orientalism, Nameless Labor
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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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The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in Post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
... rule in Manchukuo. Moreover, this colonial experience was in fact highlighted to make it play an important role in the creation and fortification of a Korean-Chinese identity. The Korean-Chinese stories from this period focus exclusively on the local to conjure an image of community. Local problems...
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Greenwashing, Simulated Green, and Beyond: Yi-fu Tuan and His Embodied Simulation of Habitats
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 103–115.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Xinmin Liu Abstract As a critical term, greenwashing refers derogatorily to the “perfect” images of green and lush scenery presented by corporate-led publicity campaigns to promote their environment-friendly postures while they continue their toxic and harmful business operations. This critique...
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Stills from rē•spin featuring Amazon Halo band promotional video. In the to...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 March 2022
Figure 1. Stills from rē•spin featuring Amazon Halo band promotional video. In the top image, actress Halle Berry performs a yoga pose in front of the ocean; in the bottom image, she meditates while burning/inhaling incense.
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The word SPRING written using square-word calligraphy as a method. Calligra...
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Figure 2. The word SPRING written using square-word calligraphy as a method. Calligraphy by Zhang Rui. Author's image.
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 6. Charles Lim Yi Yong, SEASTATE 9: Pulau (exhibition photograph, 2021). Image courtesy of Charles Lim Yi Yong and STPI.
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