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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 42–59.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zong-qi Cai 19. See Cai, “Six Dynasties Parallel Prose,” 221–25. 18. Shih, Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons , 11. 17. See the “Heavenly Operations” 天運 chapter of Zhuangzi in ZZJS , 2.491). 16. Ibid., 173–75. 15. Ibid., 107. 14. Owen, Readings...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 96–121.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 For a long time now, the study of Chinese theories of literary creation has needed a fresh look to uncover perspectives and treasures from all periods. The immense prestige of Lu Ji 陸機 (261–303) and Liu...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 122–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Dong et al., Quan Tang wen , 2474–75. 2. Lau, Mencius , 1:57; with modifications. 1. See Pollard, “ Ch'I in Chinese Literary Theory.” Assessing the impact of these theories on later periods, however, reveals a conspicuous difference. The qi -centered theory declined after...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 157–178.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 Of all the theories of literary creation produced during the Ming and Qing, the yi -centered theory is the most significant in volume and coherence. In Ming-Qing poetry criticism we find a staggering...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 140–156.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zong-qi Cai 1. This Hao Jing should not be confused with late Ming scholar Hao Jing 郝敬 (1557–1639), whose works are extensively discussed in chapter 8. 2. Hao Jing, Lingchuan ji , in Siku Quanshu , 1192:215. 3. Owen, Readings in Chinese Literary Thought , 96. 4. I...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 204–219.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zong-qi Cai [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 Like their predecessors, many late Qing critics continued to place emotion at the center of their discussions of literary creation. Their views, however, were now forged in a radically different cultural...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Zong-qi Cai 2. WFJS , 36. 1. Zhou yi zhengyi , in SSJZ , 1:70. All translations are the authors’ own unless otherwise noted. Chinese critics, on the contrary, investigate the entire creative process from the initial transcendent mental activity to literary composition...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Charles A. Laughlin Mapping Modern Beijing: Space, Emotion, Literary Topography . Weijie Song . NEW YORK : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2018 . 306 PP. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 The study of urban literature, or of the city in literature, in the case of China...
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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 (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Sinograph Sinophone studies spectacle fetish carnivalesque This article discusses the ideological implications of reading Sinophone literary art through the lens of the spectacle. The idea of “spectacle” was famously proposed by Guy Debord in relation to the conditions of production in capitalist...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... articulation” that maintains strategic distance from Sinophone studies while also enriching the field's conceptual repertoire. Specifically, this analytical perspective highlights how literary representations of social class play a significant role, alongside language and ethnicity, in registering...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 179–203.
Published: 01 December 2023
...而綺靡 ( WFJS , 99), the import of qing has shifted to indicate the literary-aesthetic nature of poetry and mainly involves an individual's private emotions with no obvious sociopolitical or moral implications. Inheriting Lu's notion that “poetry arises alongside emotions,” Liu Xie then defines...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 220–234.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Chinese thinking about literary creation in this book. By the late Warring States era, the philosophical import of three concepts, yi , xiang , and yan , had evolved into a protocosmological theory in The Commentary on Appended Phrases (§§14–15, 20–22). Subsequently the Wei philosopher Wang Bi would...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Kyle Shernuk Abstract By interrogating the borderlands of the discipline of Chinese literature, this article argues that Chinese literary studies should recognize non-Sinitic-language literatures that engage with issues of Chineseness as proper objects of study. Prevailing frameworks in Chinese...
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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): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jacob Edmond Abstract The term world literature is often used to name the small subset of literary texts that are translated into many languages and circulate globally. One might see the work of the widely translated, globe-trotting poet Bei Dao 北島 (pen name of Zhao Zhenkai 趙振開) as epitomizing...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article investigates the underexamined ethnic motifs of the modern literary master Shen Congwen's 沈從文 fictional creations. In the field of Chinese literary scholarship, Shen is widely recognized as a leading figure of the May Fourth “native soil” literary tradition...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Shuang Shen Abstract The current state of Chinese literary studies is undergoing a process of re(b)ordering where the nation-state is no longer seen as the only acceptable framing for Chinese literature, and existing identificatory markers of Chinese literature—locality, language, ethnicity...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature from antiquity through modern times. It is of profound paradigmatic significance because each major reconceptualization of qing by literary writers and scholars almost invariably signifies...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Brian Bernards Abstract Following his 1925–1931 overland trek across southwestern China to colonial Burma, Ai Wu's 1935 Travels in the South (the author's canonical collection of autobiographical travelogue fiction) represents a Sinophonic detouring of the key literary impulses of the author's May...
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