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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract In the light of biopolitical production, socialist China's medical practice was marked by a heavy reliance on the creativity of the masses and a rejection of the technical bureaucracy. The anti-epidemic campaign exemplified a popular and grassroots medicine for the people...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in Greater China beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article focuses in particular on four literary works dating from around 1994 that examine queer individuals in relation modern institutional structures associated with disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ): 151 – 81 . Chen Wangheng 陳望衡 . “ ‘Huangdi neijing’ zhong de shengming meixue sixiang ” 黃帝內經中的生命美學思想 [The Aesthetics of Life in Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine]. Hunan Social Sciences , no. 1 ( 2021 ): 37 – 43 . Clark, Brett , and John B. Foster . “ Ecological...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... .” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 39 , no. 2 ( 2017 ). doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0140-7 . Berkelman, Ruth L. , and James M. Hughes . “ The Conquest of Infectious Diseases: Who Are We Kidding? ” Annals of Internal Medicine 119 , no. 5 ( 1993 ): 426 – 27 . Braun, Bruce...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that technology arises “under cosmological conditions that are manifested in the relations of humans and their milieus.” 9 Traditional Chinese medicine, for example, is more than a biomedical technique. It heals by achieving harmony and equilibrium, within the body and without, by tuning the biological rhythms...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
... come to shape notions of beauty, wellness, and consumer practices. Joining a larger body of work set in the Global South in the post-9/11 era, the memoir particularly valorized yoga, but also alternative forms of medicine and wellness, as a means by which women, with the financial means to travel...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 221–235.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... A particularly good example of the intertwining of different voices can be found in Lu Xun's story “Yao” 藥 (Medicine)—initially published in 1919 and reprinted as the third story in Nahan . The story describes how the parents of a tubercular boy attempt to cure their son by feeding him a steamed bun soaked...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the final suicide sequence is stripped of any diegetic sounds. Instead, a cheerful, lighthearted, and humorous symphony is played. The first shot shows a bar table, on top of which are a liquor bottle, a glass, and a medicine bottle. The previously discussed medium shot then reveals Pak Yin's face...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the crane to return to the dark regions. 痛君騎鶴歸冥去 A traveler arrived in America on a ship. 有客乘槎赴美來 Tears enveloped the lonely soul as the cuckoo uttered its mournful cry. 淚鎖孤魂悲杜宇 Sorrow has led me to dream of traveling to the Terrace of Yang. 愁牽旅夢到陽台 It is a pity that medicine was wrongly...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... hunter friends have all incurred disabilities in the process of greedily killing wolves for their pelts and medicinal innards. When his sixth wife (the previous five died in childbirth) releases the wolf cubs he was raising to sell, he viciously beats her. She curses him as a “beast” and leaves...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., of the literal with the allegorical, and of scientific discourse with expressive writing. By employing this repertoire of juxtapositions, Rojas argues, these writers show how queer individuals have ingeniously reappropriated discourses of biology, reportage, medicine, and policing—long used to denigrate them...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of new literature fully expresses certain distinctive aspects of Buddhism promoted by Zhang Taiyan. The central concern of Lu Xun's literary path is the transformative link between the mind and the external world. Lu Xun's very choice of abandoning medicine for literature entailed his perception...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and Critical Care Medicine 202 , no. 3 ( June 2020 ): 453 – 55 . Wright, Lawrence . The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid . New York : Knopf , 2021 . Zhang, Jason Shuo , Brian C. Keegan , Qin Lv , and Chenhao Tan . “ A Tale of Two Communities: Characterizing Reddit...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., apparently gave the genre its name. The performers were famed for their knowledge of magic tricks, medicinal plasters ( koyo 膏藥) for curing injuries ( tio-siang 著傷), and combat skills. 46 They started their show with various demonstrations of martial arts, including fighting with a staff ( toeia 槌仔...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., the narrator comments on the smell of the bandage applied to his penis after the procedure: “This smell was similar to that of the traditional medicine used to stop bleeding that my father applied after castrating young pigs” 那股氣味,也和父親閹完小豬後傷口止血所用的土方近似 (119). The narrator, then, leaves little doubt that his...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...). In his early writings, Lu Xun also recognized the potential of science and technology for strengthening China and for enlightening Chinese, removing them from ignorance, superstition, and benightedness. Writing about his early education, for instance, he depicted Chinese medicine as fanciful, irrational...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., superstition, and benightedness. Writing about his early education, for instance, he depicted Chinese medicine as fanciful, irrational, and unscientific. One prescription for his ailing father contained mysterious ingredients, such as twin crickets, aloe roots dug up in winter, and sugar cane three years...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... time and to literature's physical medium: “ Dream of the Red Chamber is a qi -like matter, which roams over the world, converges into words, and then gradually dissolves into all things on Earth again”《紅樓夢》是一種氣一樣的物質,它遊蕩在世間,匯聚成文字,然後又逐漸分解,融入萬物. 31 Qi 氣, as a fundamental concept in Chinese medicine...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., or Aquilaria sinens ) in “(Heng) Kong” links the plant's local use in various Chinese rituals with its later commodification in the global economy. The trees are recklessly felled and stolen to be used in medicines and perfumes. The change in the destiny of agarwood coincides with the reckless development...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... [ Phoenixes Flying Together ]. Beijing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe , 1996 . Chiang, Howard . After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . Crossley, Pamela Kyle . “ Thinking about Ethnicity in Early Modern China...
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