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Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Yu Xiuhua's Poetry as Performance and Its Cross-Cultural Translatability
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Hangping Xu Abstract This article advances a critical account of Chinese internet poetry as performative speech acts by focusing on the rise of Yu Xiuhua as a “crip” figure. Then, discussing Yu's poetry as world literature via translation, it posits a performative framework of translation...
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Surface Classicism: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Remediation in Digitally Enhanced Chinese Performance
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Tarryn Li-Min Chun Abstract This article examines digital classicism in contemporary Chinese performance through the case study of an excerpt of the dance-drama Zhici qinglü 只此青綠 (Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting) performed at the 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. It argues...
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The Geopolitical Aesthetics: The Migrant Workers, Performance, and Globalization in Jia Zhangke's Film The World (2004)
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... engages with Jia's film Shijie 世界 (The World; 2004) and examines the portrayal of the migrant workers and their performances in the World Park in Beijing, China. Focusing on political economy and social class, he suggests that The World renders visible the dialectic of mobility and immobility...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 5. Formosa performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and choreographed by Lin Hwai-min. Photographs courtesy Chou Tung-yen/Very Mainstream Studio (left) and Hsu Ping (right).
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in Surface Classicism: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Remediation in Digitally Enhanced Chinese Performance
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1. Opening vignette of Zhici qinglü excerpt performed at the 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Screenshot from 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala livestream/recording. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlUvIV50Ww .
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 5. Kunqu actor Shen Yili (right) performs Peony Pavilion in The Interrupted Dream : Chinois Dream at Château de Versailles , 2019. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron.
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“Queering” the Nation?: Gendered Chineseness, Cross-Dressing, and the Reception of Love Eterne in Taiwan
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Po performs the male character Liang Shanbo, Zhu's lover. In addition to the “queer” imagination generated by Ling's cross-dressing performance, the author considers how the feminine tone of Love Eterne allowed the Taiwanese audience to escape from masculine war preparations. Although the Kuomintang...
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Chapter Nine: Artificial Intelligence, Affective Labor, and Death in Life
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Under capitalism, artificial intelligence creates a neoliberal performative subject, and the all-encompassing digital networks polarize society, manufacture consumer desire, and exert total control of the human mind and body. By denying death and humanly disturbing emotional qualities, artificial...
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Orientalism and Wellness in the United States
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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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Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and “Sinophone” as a topos through which to discover the pluriverse of China. Being “Chinese” in cyberspace, therefore, entails a constant and dynamic process of remembering, performing, (re)imagining, and (re)negotiating one's cultural identities. [email protected] [email protected]...
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China in the Skin: In Search of a Chinese Video Game
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 395–416.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that affords storytelling in video games: skin ( pifu 皮膚). Neither a playable character per se nor a player's avatar, skin constitutes a special digital milieu where China stories are told, debated, and their “goodness” performed. It traverses various composing strata of video games and distributes narrative...
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Writing the Heart Sutra Online
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 487–502.
Published: 01 September 2023
... environment of the platform Kuaishou (快手). It analyzes how the affordances of the social media platform allow for various forms of affective engagement with the classicist text. This article suggests that the specific modalities underpinning Heart Sutra writings are informed by the nostalgic desire to perform...
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Xiqu 2.0: Expanded Chinese Opera in Digital Times
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 265–296.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Figure 5. Kunqu actor Shen Yili (right) performs Peony Pavilion in The Interrupted Dream : Chinois Dream at Château de Versailles , 2019. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron. ...
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Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves : Evocative Translocality, Fantastic Orientalism, Nameless Labor
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... performance. In addition to evaluating new concepts and new techniques at work in the cross-fertilization of cinema and other visual media in the new millennium, this article complicates Julien's celebrated political poetics by highlighting his problematic reception by ethnic Chinese spectators...
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The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang's Ke'erqin Qi caoyuan (The Korchin Banner Plains) as Borderland Writing
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and treats the novel as a performative form of “territory-making” that purposefully recreates a Han-centered modern nation from its geographical margin by carefully reorganizing a web of intricate and competing multiethnic and multinational relations in the grassland. In particular, as a self-identified...
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Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the region often respond to these radical environmental and cultural shifts with imagery of the environment delivered in very personal terms. Poets not only assume individual voices but also take on metonymic personae, speaking for concerns of their own groups via print, live performance, and digital formats...
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Figure 1. Stills from rē•spin featuring Amazon Halo band promotional video. In the top image, actress Halle Berry performs a yoga pose in front of the ocean; in the bottom image, she meditates while burning/inhaling incense.
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Urban Life in Two 1920s Sino-Malay Poems
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Lombard . The Chinese of Jakarta: Temples and Communal Life . Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme , 1980 . Stenberg, Josh . Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2019 . Tjiong Soen Liang . Pantoen...
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The Digital Classicism of the Cantonese Opera Film White Snake
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2023
... worlds can be traced back to the early decades of the twentieth century, if not earlier, when Cantonese opera rose to be among the three leading performance genres used to render the White Snake legends on Shanghai stages, together with Peking opera ( jingju 京劇) and tanci 彈詞 storytelling. 7...
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Acoustically Embodied: Film Adaptations of Radio Storytelling in 1950s Hong Kong
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the heroine's true feelings of having been wronged by her beloved and how sorrowful her child would be upon learning about her death. 28 These emotions, realized in metaphors and allusions of the sentimental lyrics, are usually performed or sung to live music in the radio dramatization or film adaptation...
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