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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., they inadvertently created new narratives that exacerbated existing tensions and divisiveness instead. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Korean-Chinese literature 1950s literature local landscape political agency minority identity Before the Japanese empire collapsed in 1945, a significant...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... other ethnic minorities, focusing on four approaches to forging counter-discourses used in the literary representation of minorities: binary opposition, rhetorical questions, paradoxical statements, and bystander narration. The discussion of each narrative strategy is supported by examples from works...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... explicates the distinctions between Han writers' and Mongol intellectuals' nationalist writings, in order to theorize the dual oppression of the Mongol minority culture under Japanese colonialism and Chinese despotism. Despite the mission of this so-called Mongolian nation-state to write in a Mongolian style...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Mark Bender Abstract Since the 1980s ethnic minority poets writing in the borderlands of Southwest China and Northeast India emerged on the world stage from within currents of dramatic environmental, political, economic, and demographic change, cresting in momentum by the 2010s. Within...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
...E. K. Tan Abstract Published in 2015, Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline tells the story of Fatima, a Uyghur woman's journey to unpack her family history while struggling to understand the status of ethnic minorities in the larger fabric of multiethnic China. The novel concludes...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 104–126.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by both commentators and practitioners. However, BL's increasing interweaving with homosexuality and sexual minorities in China requires scholars to reread and redefine BL practice in its Chinese context. This article discusses some of the recent transformations of the BL genre in China, examines...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is institutionalized as power relations in the cultural and political life, take the form of political marginalization of minority groups, and cause emotional distress and physical harm within and beyond the fictional universe. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 anti-Asian racism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... an analysis of state power to include market forces by examining, for example, literary-intellectual responses to what Marxist geographer David Harvey calls capitalist “spatio-temporal fixes,” which offset economic cycles of boom and bust? 1 Furthermore, how do a minor literature and its histories register...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... was produced from the borderland and how this work exposes the precariousness and contradictions inherent in the grand narrative of modern nationhood. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Northeastern Writers Group Manchu Manchuria autobiography ethnic minority This article reconsiders...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with “how the model-minority discourse cultivates popular perceptions of Asian American women as the least political among Women of Color and provokes questions about the authority of Asian American women to speak as Women of Color.” 11 My time outside of the United States provided me with a nuanced...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of China (ROC) in 1911; and from the Soviet-inspired “ethnic minorities” ( shaoshu minzu 少數民族) system, implemented after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), to the latest promotion of China as a solidarity of “Multinationalities” ( duominzu guojia 多民族國家). Meanwhile, scholars have...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
...-Century China , edited by Ellen Widmer and David Der-wei Wang , 133 – 64 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1993 . Gladney, Dru C . “ Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring Majority/Minority Identities .” Journal of Asian Studies 53 , no. 1 ( 1994 ): 92 – 123...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the nation—a civilized, Confucian, cultural, and technological vanguard. 9 Chinese intellectuals have not only envisioned China's ethnic minorities as below yet moving upward through vertical stages toward the “modern” Han, 10 but have also extended the “backwardness” formerly ascribed to barbarians...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and spiritually inspiring moral rejuvenation for China. In constructing the Miao borderland as “imaginary spatial representations of the geographical and physical aspects of minority regions,” Shen creates an ethnic heterotopia; such a heterotopia is an alternative cultural and spatial locale, which questions...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the violence inherent in agrilogistics. Like Behemoth , Guo's most recent novel, Mengu liya 蒙古里亞 (Mongoliya, 2014), attempts to broach taboo subjects such as the exploitation of pasturelands by ruthless coal mining firms and self-immolation among ethnic minorities to protest policies aimed at acculturation...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in place its own borders that are yet to be critically confronted. It remains a matter of controversy, for instance, whether the term Sinophone literature should be reserved for “the Sinitic-language communities and cultures outside China as well as ethnic minority communities and cultures within China...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 240–243.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to both emulate their influences and establish their own creative voices in a new language and cultural context. To begin, a few of the basic features of the book itself are worth noting. Clearly this was a dissertation reworked as a monograph, and as such it demonstrates minor awkwardnesses...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and rhizomic web of mobilities involves local and global confluences.” 40 Tan's introduction to Lauriat suggests the anthology's intent to question stereotypical portraits of Chineseness, delineate the specificity of the Filipino Chinese experience grounded in minority history, and foreground...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a model minority is, of course, fundamentally different from the African American history of slavery and police brutality, but both were race-based systems of discrimination in which US economic growth was facilitated by powerful practices of racial oppression. The legacies of these systemic practices...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 411–427.
Published: 01 September 2022
... an autobiographical dimension, 26 it only reflects the experience of a small minority of the MCP. Perhaps constrained by He Jin's own empiricism, Exile reveals that the author has no intention to speak for the entire MCP. Ironically, after the failure of the revolution, his failed revolutionary historical...
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