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A Family Romance: Specters of Incest in Eileen Chang's “Xinjing”

Paola Zamperini
Prism (2020) 17 (1): 1–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8163785
Published: 01 March 2020
... episodes. See Ding, Shanghai wangshi . Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 Eileen Chang incest sexuality modern Chinese literature late imperial culture “I will not give you up: and you cannot give me up!” 我不放棄你,你是不會放棄我的!, 1 Xu Xiaohan yells threateningly at her beloved...
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The Male Dan at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Wu Jiwen's Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader

Jie Guo
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922201
Published: 01 March 2021
... sense of same-sex desires and arrangements. Indeed, why has there been a collective fascination with the male dan ? I hold that this has to do not merely with the high visibility of the figure in late imperial literary and theatrical culture. More important, although the image of the male dan...
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Introduction

Patricia Sieber
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922169
Published: 01 March 2021
... Revolution . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . Ko, Dorothy . Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1994 . Li, Xiaorong . Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China: Transforming the Inner...
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Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction

Cheng Li
Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-11206904
Published: 01 March 2024
... on the surface, but is probably imperial at its core. These narratives of the air in late Qing continue to resonate in contemporary Chinese literature and culture. As Mingwei Song suggests, a new wave of Chinese science fiction in the twenty-first century picks up themes of the late Qing in a changing...
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Hybrid Subjects, Fluid Bonds: Envisioning the Early Modern Queer in Phoenixes Flying Together

Li Guo
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922185
Published: 01 March 2021
... that constituted the hybrid reading cultures and kaleidoscopic reading aesthetics at the end of China's transmuting nineteenth century. Nonnormative, aberrant sexualities in the textual representations bear much resonance with late imperial erotica and could suggest a much understudied early modern feminine...
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Popular Literature in the Inter-imperial Space of Hong Kong and Singapore/Malaya

Shuang Shen
Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966657
Published: 01 September 2022
... with inter-imperial positionality in his romantic fictions. Writing popular literature back into literary history is not just a question of genre, since its omission reveals a particular way of conceptualizing cultural politics. Eminent Singapore literary historian Fang Xiu 方修 acknowledged in 1959...
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Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia

Paola Iovene
Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9646053
Published: 01 March 2022
...Paola Iovene [email protected] Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia . Edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2019 . 308 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 This inspiring...
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The Death of His Husband: Contesting Desires in Li Yu's (1610–1680) Two Huaben Stories on Male Homoeroticism

Zhaokun Xin
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922177
Published: 01 March 2021
..., Matthew H. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2000 . Song Geng 宋耕 . The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2004 . Stevenson, Mark , and Cuncun Wu . “ Quilts...
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Inter-imperial, Ecological Interpretations of the “Five Coolies” Myth in Penang and Medan

Nicholas Y. H. Wong
Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966667
Published: 01 September 2022
... of literature without considering material forms such as interrupted supply chains, tightened labor control, and migrant surveillance, which phenomena might consolidate new imperial forces of capitalist overaccumulation. If literary historians have linked geopolitical shifts with literary-cultural...
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Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography

Charles A. Laughlin
Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8163904
Published: 01 March 2020
... the material infrastructures, human conditions, mental images, political regimes, cultural identities, and literary imaginations from the late Imperial and Republican periods to the Cold War era and after” (2). If the author seems unable to say enough in stating his objectives, it is characteristic of his...
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Asia as Counter-method

Hsiao-Hung Chang, Carlos Rojas
Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-7978563
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and anti-imperial position, from a transposition of a global same-sex marriage perspective into a local East Asian historical perspective or a matrix perspective, from using the specificities of East Asian culture to challenge the cultural specific ideals of universalism and progress that are promoted...
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“The Orient” versus Dongfang : The Reconceptualization of the East in Modern China

Xiaolu Ma
Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8690436
Published: 01 October 2020
... in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and his colleagues organized the “Workshop on Oriental Literature for College Teachers Nationwide” and inaugurated a new era of study on oriental literature and culture in China. If the study of oriental literature and culture in the Western world derives from an inside...
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The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang's Ke'erqin Qi caoyuan (The Korchin Banner Plains) as Borderland Writing

Miya Qiong Xie
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290631
Published: 01 October 2021
... ): 603 – 46 . Elliott, Mark C . The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2001 . Fu Hu 伏琥 . “ Wenzi dixia de xuelei gushi: Fang lao zuojia Duanmu Hongliang ” 文字底下的血淚故事:訪老作家端木蕻良 [ Stories of Blood and Tears...
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Hoax as Method

Christopher Rea
Prism (2019) 16 (2): 236–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-7978491
Published: 01 October 2019
... in Chinese literary culture include the Ming-Qing transition, the late Qing to early Republican period, the Mao era (which I'll skip for now), and the post-Mao era. Swindling and other forms of elaborate deception are major themes in the works of Feng Menglong 馮夢龍 (1574−1646), Ling Mengchu 凌濛初 (1580−1644...
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Shen Congwen's Idealized Ethnic: Borderland, Ethnicity, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master

Yanshuo Zhang
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290639
Published: 01 October 2021
... than being a piece of pristine cultural heaven, the Miao regions of Huan were marked by constant interethnic cultural contact and ethnic tensions from late imperial to modern China. Shen was not oblivious to the troubling history of the region. Born into an ethnically hybrid family with Miao...
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A Passage to China: Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan

Clara Iwasaki
Prism (2019) 16 (1): 205–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-7480397
Published: 01 March 2019
.... The author's ease in moving between classical and modern literature is commendable. Scholars of late imperial literature and Taiwanese literature will find this volume of particular interest. The book expands on an issue raised by David Der-wei Wang in “Post-loyalism” (in Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai...
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“Queering” the Nation?: Gendered Chineseness, Cross-Dressing, and the Reception of Love Eterne in Taiwan

Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 49–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922193
Published: 01 March 2021
... , the terms are not in quotation marks. 6 Warner, Trouble with Normal. 7 The notion of Confucian family romance was primarily raised by Sieber in her commentary of the panel “‘Queer Renditions’: From Late Imperial to Contemporary Sinophone” at the Association for Asian Studies 2019...
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The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi

Levi S. Gibbs
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290647
Published: 01 October 2021
... . “ Science ‘Goes Native’ in India .” Representations , no. 40 ( 1992 ): 153 – 78 . Qian, Kun . Imperial-Time-Order: Literature, Intellectual History, and China's Road to Empire . Leiden : Brill , 2016 . Schein, Louisa . Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural...
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Sinophonic Detours in Colonial Burma: Ai Wu's Transborder Counterpoetics of Trespass

Brian Bernards
Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290680
Published: 01 October 2021
... newspaper scene and becoming much more familiar with the local culture and politics. After Ai Wu arrived in Rangoon in late 1927 and experienced the bout of malaria described in the volume's preface, he was taken to a local Buddhist temple and put in the care of a Sino-Burmese monk. The monk encouraged Ai...
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Failures of Diplomatic Intents in Poetry Translation: On Thomas Francis Wade's Chinese Translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's “A Psalm of Life”

Chris Song
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 77–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-10395141
Published: 01 March 2023
..., they also provide space for innovative contextual reading in the textual counter between the original and the translated poem, as well as in the larger context of the cultural, political, and diplomatic clash between two imperial powers, as I discuss on several occasions below. Scholars have criticized...
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