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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... monopolized medical knowledge and expertise. Dr. Liu embodies a medical profession that was increasingly out of touch with the needs of ordinary people and rural populations. In contrast, Luo Shunde implements the mass-line health policy and engages in mass politics. 22 Hailing from a peasant family...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... campaign deploys mass-line health policy by relying on the initiatives, energy, and experience of the masses. The transitional era of reform and opening saw worsening rifts among labor, technology, and the environment. From the early 1980s through the beginning of the twenty-first century, the raging...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... knowledge by learning from the masses. In his “Talks on Yan'an Forum,” Mao Zedong articulated this mass line in terms of “practice.” Evoking a metaphor from his own experience, Mao said that peasants, their legs soiled with cow dung, are in fact cleaner and more reliable than egoistic and arrogant...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 March 2019
... line of narrating the emergence of the crowd as an intellectual discourse among Chinese intelligentsia (chaps. 1 and 2), and the fictional representations of the crowd by modern Chinese writers, most of whom are left-wing writers (chaps. 3–5). Chapter 1 points out that the establishment of psychology...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2021
... queerness not as an identity but as an active aesthetic force. Muñoz rearticulated queerness as “that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.” 8 In line with Muñoz's viewpoint, I sidestep the strictly identity-based view of queer and instead consider...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
...” line from Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket . 23 This act of hate speech for me encapsulates the long history of anti-Asianism/misogyny in this country from the Page Act to the Atlanta shootings. It brings to the surface the continuities in the targeting of Asians as a source of pollution and contagion...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
...: “The title is also part of the novel” 標題也是小說的一部分. 33 The very last line of the story lists more discoveries of the novel's fragments, demonstrating that the novel has yet to disappear completely. Whether its final obliteration will eventually take place and lead to the destruction of the universe remains...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that were tailored specially for their escape, the group form a line and march through the town. Old Fang waves his sword, while the rest of them sing the war resistance song “Liuwang qu” 流亡曲 (The Song of Exile). In contrast to their dramatic act of “resistance,” the town is quietly conquered by six unarmed...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of veridiction and conditions of felicity and infelicity of their respective modes of existence. And think of the ubiquity of such adjectival constructions as Dickensian , Kafkaesque , and Orwellian . It is futile to try to draw a line in the sand between fact and fiction, reality and representation...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as polygamous and (often polysexual) philanderer or as a modern monogamous head of a family line, typically enjoys the sanction of a familist state? And while in light of modern and/or Western conceptions of queerness we may be conditioned to think that queer renditions are necessarily disruptive...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
... my hands are now part of the assembly line, my body signed over to a contract, hair gone from black to grey, what's left is the racket and the rush and the overtime and the wages . . . through the white-hot lamplight I see my tired shadow projected on the machine, slowly shifting, turning...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a manifesto from the emerging Sixth Generation to define themselves against the resourceful Fifth Generation and the establishment, the dual credits in Mr. Six showcase yet another of the former Sixth Generation's attempts to walk a fine line between “commerce and a critical edge,” namely, between...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... [are] the basic revolutionary forces,” and “the intellectuals will accomplish nothing if they fail to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants”; moreover, “the dividing line between revolutionary intellectuals and nonrevolutionary or counter-revolutionary intellectuals is whether or not they are willing...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a great and famous scientist. While his friends criticize his choice as selfish, he believes it to be in line with what the nation needs, introducing the question of whether self-sacrifice will produce the best results from the perspective of the nation. This final problem adds to the overall sense...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Stewart's line to discount its complacency, see Berkelman and Hughes, “Conquest,” 426 ; for an example of a science journalist doing so, see Specter, “Doomsday Strain” and “Risks of Viral Research.” A quick Google Books search for the phrase “close the book on infectious diseases” yields over seventeen...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... famous line: “Labor is blossoming or dancing where / The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.” 23 Through labor, Terry Eagleton writes, “body and world, subject and object should exist in a delicate equipoise, so that our environment is as expressive of human meaning as a language.” 24...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... or mystic, the two-line poem nonetheless has since been widely regarded as a manifesto of the Misty poetry generation. “Dark night has given me dark eyes / I use them to search for light” 黑夜給了我黑色的眼睛/我卻用它尋找光明. Forthright and evocative as it is, the poem is however eerily soundless. Any agitating sound...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
... input advances the game by manipulating the location, appearance, composition, meaning, and syntax of sinographs. A wall might consist of a line of qiang 墻 characters; and the game's main enemy is a dragon, itself made of long 龍 (dragon) characters, that opens its mouth to show ya 牙 (tooth...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Geschichte und verheißungsvollen Tagen ). 27 Li, “Zhongguo xiandangdai,” 5–14 . 26 Ibid., 548. 25 Owen, “Stepping Forward,” 540 . A side note about the poetic line cited in the section title and used as the epigraph for this essay: The line is from a ci lyric, “Taking a Bus” 乘公交車...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
... shifted many forms of public, private, economic, and social life. The narrative surrounding the effects of mass stay-at-home orders, travel bans, and various work stoppages was one of universal impact. We are all in this together, and as such, the motto of the moment became “stay safe”—though what safety...