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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ban Wang Abstract Contemporary environmental crises have their origin in the anthropocentric view of humans as separable from and superior to the natural world. Anthropocentrism also marks the realist author of modern Chinese fiction. Departing from that human-centered view, Shen Congwen's work...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... As background, Wu was born in Hong Kong. From her father, who was born in Singapore, Wu inherited a love of nature. She studied biology at the Baptist College from 1969 to 1973 and later taught biology in high school. In 1978 she went to California and studied ecology at San Diego State University. Her in-depth...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... By exploring the sociohistorical context that gives rise to such modern narratives, this article draws links between Han's pioneering experimentations with Haishanghua and the rise of literary naturalism in the West. In this way, the author sheds light on the significance of this atypical novel...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Belinda Kong Abstract This essay deploys the concept of pandemic as a set of discursive relations rather than a neutral description of a natural phenomenon, arguing that pandemic discourse is a product of layered histories of power that in turn reproduces myriad forms of imperial and racial power...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the amorphous nature of the social drives the demand for collective health and safety through the excision of Blackness as a contagion or coercive element. 16 Ibid. 17 Eligon and Burch, “Questions of Bias.” 18 Ibid. 19 Roberts, Fatal Invention , 83 . 20 Ibid., 52. 21...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Chia-Ju Chang Abstract This article uses a non-Western, scientific, and ecocritical perspective to explore the nature-cultural phenomenon of “smog life,” that is, outdoor activities taking place on a smog day, such as hiking, enjoying the fog, or practicing taiji . It presents a sharp contrast...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., called “the destiny of the community of man with nature.” What are the material forces immanent to that destiny? What does it do to our mental health to engage them directly? The three works analyzed answer these questions in creative, powerful ways. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... area of northeastern China that borders Inner Mongolia and was occupied by Japan in the early 1930s. The novel has been read by many as a realistic portrait of the natural and social landscape of the grassland and as an autobiographical account of the author's family history. This article disagrees...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Winnie L. M. Yee Abstract Although the exhaustion and brutal exploitation of nature in the name of progress has been decried in recent decades, post-socialist China continues to use economic gains to justify the destruction of the majority of the populace and their environment. This article focuses...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 October 2020
... theoretical significance of some major qing reconceptualizations. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 qing (emotion) qing (nature) cognitive theory of emotion Chinese literary theory Mao Shi xu 56 Solomon, “Emotion and Choice,” 21, 23 . 57 Ibid., 27. 58 Ibid., 32...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... 情. This microinvestigation of individual texts makes possible a new macronarrative of qing , originating in ideas on the physical nature of things in Confucius's time, evolving through mid-Warring States views of human nature and Han moralistic concepts of emotion, to emerge in the Six Dynasties...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., seeing each as vital to its existence. Indeed the possibility that humans “are such an overwhelming malignant force that Life itself faces planetary extinction has changed the topical foci of the humanities and humanistic social sciences and the quantitative social sciences and natural sciences.” 2...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 183–198.
Published: 01 March 2020
...–). Starting in 1979, Liu Zaifu's study of Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936), which includes three major theoretical books— Lu Xun yu ziran kexue 魯迅與自然科學 (Lu Xun and Natural Science, 1976), Lu Xun meixue sixiang lungao 魯迅美學思想論稿 (On Lu Xun’s Aesthetic Thoughts, 1981), and Lu Xun zhuan 魯迅傳 (The Biography of Lu Xun...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in Contemporary Fiction . Amherst, NY : Cambria , 2022 . Nadeau, Robert . Readings from the New Book on Nature: Physics and Metaphysics in the Modern Novel . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 1981 . Scheen, Lena . Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation . Amsterdam...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... not be a coincidence that yi takes on bifurcated connotations at this juncture. Whereas the yi within the conventional geopolitical mapping of China undertook the new designation in terms of ethnicity, to be contained, assimilated, and eventually naturalized into the Chinese nation, the yi from the world outside...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., spirituality, and intelligence, we could talk only about party nature, class nature, and revolutionary nature in literature and art. In this regard, we did not have any self-reflection until the 1980s. It was only legitimate to talk about class, collectivity, and the masses, whereas it was rebellious...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... into something canonical, as “rubbish becomes a strange vale of soul making and creativity” now that nature is being forced to evacuate the terrain. 8 Euroamerica may apparently have reached “peak stuff”—the notion that consumption has reached its zenith—but as the dumping ground for so much foreign waste...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of different inner voices within the self, the overflowing chaos of the multidimensional subject is revealed and expressed. 22 As Liu Zaifu proclaimed, while Eugene O'Neill is significant in dramatic literature for raising the issues of man and God, man and nature, man and society, and man and others...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... history and literature, in response to this ecology, perform what Fernando Coronil calls counterfetishism —a double move that goes upstream to examine relations of labor and nature behind their product's smooth appearance and exchange, and downstream to extract imaginative mileage out...
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