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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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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Classified as a colonial novel and published in 1906, science fiction Iceberg and Snow Ocean is one of the very earliest depictions of global climate change in modern Chinese literature. Photo by the author.
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Géraldine Fiss In chapter 7, “Beginning of the Beginning: The Wedge Chapter,” Yeh posits the wedge as “the place where the integration of the modern political novel into the Chinese cultural universe was negotiated” (347). It signifies both a use and transformation of a traditional form...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 438–453.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Carlos Rojas Abstract This article borrows Juno Salazar Parreñas's concept of the “semi-wild” as an entry point into an analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Zhang Guixing's novels Elephant Herd (1998) and Monkey Cup (2000). Set in Sarawak, both works feature a relatively simple plotline interwoven...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
... me sketch how three of post-Fukushima Japan's most interesting works of literature take them up. There is a moment in two of the most beautifully translated post-Fukushima novels that resonates with an anecdote from Michael Pollan's 2018 book How to Change Your Mind . Pollan describes Iraq...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jie Guo Abstract Reading the Taiwanese author Wu Jiwen's 1996 novel Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader (Shijimo shaonian’ai duben), this essay considers the age-old figure of the male dan and the critical role it played in the emerging gay scene in the Sinophone world at the turn of the twenty-first...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Miya Qiong Xie Abstract This article reconsiders the established modern Chinese writer Duanmu Hongliang and his first and most influential work, The Korchin Banner Plains (completed in 1933 and published in 1939), from a borderland perspective. The novel is set in western Manchuria, a multiethnic...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ban Wang Abstract Crossing the binary of utopia and dystopia, this article reads Hao Jingfang's (1984–) novel Vagabonds as a critical ecotopia. I explore configurations of social worlds and eschew the politics of purity by highlighting the complexities of building a utopia while navigating...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Bozhou Men Abstract First appearing in 1892 as a serialized novel, Han Bangqing's Haishanghua liezhuan 海上花列傳 (The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai) demonstrates the problematic of an “atypical” novel and the challenges it poses to the notion of the Chinese literary “modern.” This article examines...
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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 (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Melissa A. Hosek Abstract This article reads Liu Cixin's award-winning Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (2007, in English 2014) as a work of climate fiction. By analyzing the novel's portrayal of ecological crisis, dystopian outlook, and inexplicable dream sequences...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Hazel Shu Chen Abstract In 1950s and early 1960s Hong Kong, radio permeated in everyday life as a major source of entertainment and information. It subsequently gave rise to a peculiar genre in Cantonese cinema, film adaptations of “airwave novels” ( tiankong xiaoshuo dianying 天空小說電影), which...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the historical diversity of the Singapore Chinese community. Through examining Singaporean Chinese writer Chia Joo Ming's novel Exile or Pursuit (2015), this article reinterprets the novel's gallery of characters and depictions of interpersonal relations to elicit fading memories of socioeconomic divides...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Levi S. Gibbs Abstract This article looks at three contemporary novels where songs sung by rural women from the border region of northern Shaanxi Province evoke cultural and temporal hybridities, fusing social continuity with the threat and promise of change. The novels alternately portray untamed...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Next is an analysis of Taiwanese novelist Wu Ming-yi's attempt to engage these cosmologies in his acclaimed “ecocosmopolitan” novel The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011), assessing the viability of “patchy Anthropocene” as a means of translating, or making visible, ecologies occluded by Newtonian void...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Carlos Rojas Abstract Taking Jia Pingwa's 2013 novel Daideng 帶燈 (The Lantern Bearer) as its focal point, this article considers a series of allusions to insects in this and other works. The article takes these references to insects in Jia's literary publications as a starting point for reflecting...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Zhaokun Xin Abstract Li Yu's two huaben stories, “A Male Mencius's Mother Raises Her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times” and “House of Gathered Refinements,” stand out from the writer's brief yet highly novel dabbling in the genre thanks to their similar concern with male same-sex desire...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Chen Qiufan's sci-fi novel Waste Tide attests to the dual alienation of nature and humans. Global capitalism, geopolitical conflict, the scramble for natural resources, and rash development have destroyed the rural community, ruined the health of local populations, and eroded...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of environmental injustice, is a social problem inherent in capitalism. Furthermore, this article adopts a global perspective by exploring the manifestations of indifference serving as alienation presented in the novel. By delving into the fictional exploration of ecological and sociological relationships found...
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