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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Rumya S. Putcha Abstract This article explores how consumer practices tether Orientalism to wellness. Relying on ethnographic research, the author uncovers how racialization and racialized expressions of gender are produced by and through performative and discursive practices of wellness...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and by reckoning with the specter of orientalism that refuses to go away despite his previously audacious repudiation of stereotypes and clichés and his professed engagement with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 Isaac Julien evocative translocality mobile...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... encompassing all countries in the Middle East and Asia, with China placed first at its center (in Soviet discourse about the Orient) and later outside it as evidenced by the exclusion of China from nascent Eastern studies programs and departments in China. Finally, the proliferation of Said's Orientalist...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Xiaolu Ma Abstract Since Edward Said published his seminal study on Orientalism, the notion of the Orient has been heavily discussed and hotly debated in both the Eastern and Western worlds. While early studies of Orientalism mainly underline Western fantasies of an exotic East as the West's “other...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the dichotomy between the former's target-oriented poetics and the latter's source-oriented translations and also offer a stronger migration into English for the poetry of these migrants. 44 Archambeau, Inventions of a Barbarous Age , 42 . 45 Redmond, Anthem , 2 . References Admussen...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and biosecurity as frontiers of bioterrorism and the diseased other. A contemporary example of this bio-orientalism can be seen around the 2003 SARS epidemic, in which global discourses projected the source of contagion onto Asia and Asians. Pandemic as method can thus serve as a theoretical pathway for examining...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in their titles. Zhou Shoujuan's (1895–1968) Xiangyan conghua (Miscellaneous Talks on the Fragrant and Bedazzling, 1914) was well situated in this literary trend. What really sets Zhou's collection off from other similarly titled publications, however, is its global orientation. It makes a perfect case...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
... The Interrupted Dream , launched in 2018. The latter links Tang's oneiric imaginary to the postcolonial critique of orientalism through references to seventeenth-century chinoiserie at the court of Louis XIV. Updated for livestreaming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the series served as a virtual channel...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of colonial intimacies, ornamentalism, and techno-orientalism, this article relies on the figure of the visor-wearing ajumma , a Korean word referencing a middle-aged woman. As a transnational and transhistorical framework emerging from the messy interstitial spaces between theory and reality, the concept...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 300–303.
Published: 01 March 2021
... adaptation of Western knowledge at the turn of the century on its head. Rather than focusing on the East's reception of Western democracy, modernity, and science, Du's study highlights the West's adaptation of Oriental mysticism after World War I. Du's reading of Gu Hongming adds nuance to the often...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in Beijing. 1 Zhang stresses that his objections are categorically different from the usual complaints against the application of “Western theory” to “Chinese reality” that used to issue from “some backwater quarters of sinology beclouded by the influence of Orientalism.” 2 Rather, he takes issue...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... misogyny tropes of illness colorblind gaze techno-Orientalism References Ahmed, Sara . The Promise of Happiness . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Ang, Desmond . “ The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate .” Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Research Working Paper...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... traditions and superstitions. But the tension between political religiosity and enlightenment reason can hardly be overcome through a normative program of cultural modernization. Although the ethos of the post-Mao literary and intellectual culture was ostensibly secular in orientation, its literary...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
... (the “Great Within”) that demonstrate the differences created by ambiguous cultural identity or alterity, Orientalism, and cosmopolitanism but also limitations of local knowledge and experience; finally, chapter 5, “A Displaced City and Postmemory: Relocating Beijing in Sinophone Writing,” examines Beijing...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the people's democracy. Grown out of the long experience of revolution and nation-building in twentieth-century China, the strategy relies on grassroots people as active political subjects and trusts their initiatives for social change. Policy orientations, rather than being designed by the elite and party...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... media's balancing act between profit (market-oriented content creation) and propaganda (promoting national culture). The classical Chinese class Lee took in school represents the Malaysian government's concession to the demands of local Chinese communities, which see the veneration of their ancestral...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Wayback Machine ( web.archive.org/ ). 3 The dance-drama opened in August 2021 and was coproduced by the Palace Museum (Gugong bowuyuan 故宮博物院), the China Oriental Performing Arts Group (Zhongguo dongfang yanyi jituan youxian gongsi 中國東方演藝集團有限公司), and People's Daily Online (Renminwang gufen youxian...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 104–126.
Published: 01 March 2020
... because they deliberately interpret, create, and search for particular ideals in BL texts and culture. Because of the heavy censorship on BL and the particular sensitivity of both the government and the dominant heteronormative culture toward any “perverted” sexuality and sexual orientations, the search...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to be reckoned with from within the science-oriented and new materialist ecocritical framework, which includes concepts such as psychological blockage (e.g., climate fatigue and denial), Lawrence Buell's “toxic discourse,” Timothy Morton's “hyperobjects,” Rob Nixon's “slow violence,” and Timothy Clark's...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and experiences of a minority in contrast to the more hegemonic voices of the Philippine tradition. The Philippine canon—a hybridized cultural model mainly Western (and specifically Anglo-American and Hispanic) in orientation—includes works in both English and Tagalog. It adheres to the mode of social realism...