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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 264–276.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., in new Western terms, as decadent, immoral, and disgraceful. The study analyzes indigenous terms such as mojing 磨鏡 (mirror rubbing) and nanfeng 男風 (male wind) and compares them with their replacements, for example, tongxing'ai 同性愛 and tongxinglian 同性戀 (homosexuality), to illuminate the differences...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Carlos Rojas Abstract Taking as its starting point Michel Foucault's use of the biological species metaphor in his claim that, in nineteenth-century Europe, “the homosexual was now a new species,” this article considers the sudden explosion of homoerotic activities and cultural representations...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jie Lu Abstract A reading of the cinematic representation of the global city in Chinese “new urban films” and in rural-migrant films leads this article to focus on the plurality and dialogism among different chronotopes produced collectively across these films. The article argues that the global...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 1. A flying Hong Kong Junk selling Thai food in New York in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997).
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Published: 01 October 2019
figure 10 . Yang Yongliang: From The New World (Laizi xindalu), 2014. Look closer and rubble reveals itself amid the timeless peaks and rivers.
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in Co-opting the International Writing Program during the Cold War: Gu Cangwu, the Baodiao Movement, and Minjian Activism
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Published: 01 March 2020
figure 2 . Headline on the morning after the July 7, 1971, demonstration. Note the newspaper's use of the Japanese word Senkaku to describe the islands, indicating support for the position of the United States and Japan. South China Morning Post , “Senkaku Rally Leads to Violence,” July 8, 197...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3. On the left, Ruth St. Denis in Yogi (1908); on the right, in Incense (1916). Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... (played by Maggie Cheung) and memories of Old and New Shanghai (both enacted by Zhao Tao), his screen images and sounds enter a constant circulation and form an intriguing multidirectional dialogue across a variety of media and genres: cinema, art photography, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and star...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Xiaofei Tian Abstract What is the politics of form in the changing political climate? How does the writing of old-style poetry ( jiuti shi ) and new-style or modern vernacular poetry ( xin shi ) fare in digital times? As the internet, computers, smartphones, and Chinese internet poetry continue...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Liu Zaifu; Yijiao Guo Abstract In this speech, Liu Zaifu thoroughly discusses the history of the May Fourth movement and the New Culture movement in the whole last century and the circumstances of humanity in China. In his explanation, May Fourth could be conceptualized through three different...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in postcolonial theoretical studies, as a new form of discourse to go beyond dualistic categories such as the colonizer/colonized opposition, it has much broader cultural meanings in the modern Chinese context. One of the prominent Chinese intellectuals, Zhang Dongsun, intentionally created a critical interface...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Kenny K. K. Ng Abstract This article examines the promises and predicaments of May Fourth writers in their experimental writing of the “long novel” ( changpian xiaoshuo 長篇小說) as a Chinese brand of the modern epic. May Fourth intellectuals showed a conscious effort to institute a new brand...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Zhuoyi Wang Abstract Planetarianism, proposed by Masao Miyoshi for literature and literary studies, calls for a new sense and organization of human totality truly inclusive of all and against neoliberal division, exclusion, repression, and egocentric consumption. Ironically, it is also the global...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
... literature recuperates previously excluded expressions of Chineseness and begins writing a new branch of Chinese literary history. As case in point, the author analyzes the Spanish-language Chinese literature of Chinese Peruvian American writer Siu Kam Wen, specifically, his first collection of short stories...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and undergirds a new direction of literary production and reception. Mapping out qing' s long and complex lexical-conceptual history over the millennia is crucial to the study of Chinese literary thought, premodern and modern alike. In undertaking such a historicized macro study, this article consistently...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Surface classicism lends itself to critiques of superficiality and inauthenticity, but this article demonstrates that its ubiquity in contemporary culture also creates new networks of relationality among remediations of classical poetics and imagery. Ultimately, the mediation of both liveness...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of presenting an argument about the “revolutionary” transformation of classical poetry and poetics, this article shows how mediated poetic visions, fraught with complexity and tension, were a contested arena of conventional rhetoric and new travel experiences. It accordingly explores the underexamined terrain...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 395–416.
Published: 01 September 2023
... into a game's mechanics, procedure, representation, playing experience, and more. Skin, the author argues, is a yet-theorized differentiator that anchors “Chineseness” in the world of video gaming. It is a new site in a digital age in which the theoretical problem of Chineseness manifests different kinds...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 417–441.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Michelle Yeh Abstract This article begins with an overview of the rise of internet drama, or web drama, in China in the past fifteen years. The new platform boasts several advantages, which accounts for its rapid development. Web drama has become so popular that it is replacing television drama...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Frances Weightman Abstract The authorial preface to works of fiction provides a unique space for exploration of authorial self-fashioning and author-reader mediation. This article argues that, when works of fiction are translated and new prefaces written for a new readership, these prefaces can...
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