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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
... Revolutionary Theory .” Cultural Critique 80 ( Winter 2012 ): 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...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to the biosecurity position. At a 1998 CDC-sponsored conference on emerging infectious diseases, for instance, he categorically dismissed the objections of bioterrorism skeptics, and in a report later that year by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, he warned that it would be a “grave...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... 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 with the seasonal changes and environmental conditions. Traditional medicine uses the similar terms of cosmology, such as yin 陰...
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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
... describing what he observes at the tavern and makes little effort to actually help Kong Yiji, even as his circumstances between increasingly dire. 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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
... be listened to. Paradoxically, 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...
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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
... flaunting such taboos. Crooked Hand Baladan, who tumbles into a deep ravine when his rifle backfires while shooting a fox, reflects on his life. He and his hunter friends have all incurred disabilities in the process of greedily killing wolves for their pelts and medicinal innards. When his sixth wife...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... have ingeniously reappropriated discourses of biology, reportage, medicine, and policing—long used to denigrate them as a diseased species—as a means of forging and narrating their queer subjectivities. On a more abstract level, Rojas takes these discursive practices as calculated moves by queer...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 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 of a hierarchy between mind and body. A stagnant society is only a materialistic manifestation of a mind mired in old habits. If the mind can...
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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
... 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
... pigs)” 村長掏出了一把小刀(和父親所用的閹豬刀類似) (119). And a few lines later, 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...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of science and technology for strengthening China and for enlightening Chinese from ignorance, 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...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., 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, and unscientific...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... 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 of Hong Kong in the name of progress. At the end of the story, the narrator raises...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... 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 .” Late Imperial China 11 , no. 1 ( 1990 ): 1...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as “medicine” for the Chinese national spirit. Yet his hopeful decision is also marked by an ambivalent despair at both awakening readers to conditions seemingly beyond their control (his “iron house” metaphor) and using his chosen medium—literature—to effectively deliver the necessary remedy. For both Lu...
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