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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 177–200.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and invalidate the cross-cultural, experiential knowledge at the heart of China studies. By making scholarly betweenness legible and visible, the work of scholar-poets takes steps toward an interimperial style in both poetry and criticism, a meeting place in language that can accept in migration from many...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the early twentieth century, as well as Chinese American scholar-poets' positionality in the interimperial spaces in which China is theorized not as a clear-cut nation-state. Rather than imagining one single center, the special issue posits a polycentric world. “How and where China is mapped in world...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 138–169.
Published: 01 March 2021
... scholars and translators quoted above. In this translation I emphasize the poet's personability, even at the expense of some cultural detail. One could make the case that “body” is worth preserving for shen 身 in the line I translate as “and the shadow's just going through the motions,” in light of Li...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
....” One might add that this amphibianism also defines relationships that operate in another direction, between the poet as ethnographer, on the one hand, and scholars such as Jaguścik, Sun, and Zhou, on the other. Thus, for battler poetry and especially for Zheng Xiaoqiong, Sun's article is an eye...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
...). Qianqian (“shallow-shallow”) is named after Jia Qianqian 賈淺淺 (b. 1979), poet and scholar who is the daughter of the famous writer Jia Pingwa 賈平凹 (b. 1952). All the poets are widely ridiculed for their “non-poetic” poems and have received a strong backlash online. 11 For a depiction...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... To quote the scholar Shang Yanliu 商衍鎏 (1875–1963), “Gazing at the entire globe that connects across ninety thousand li ” 放眼環球九萬通, the poet commands a vision of “broadening the heart and mind to view the universe” 更拓心胸觀宇宙. 36 The image of the moon, heavily tinted with popular religion and folk...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
... that the Weniad expresses “an epic experience” of the early Chinese people. 8 The trajectory of Yang Mu's academic and literary career makes clear the poet's deep immersion in, and expert knowledge of, both Chinese and world literature, in particular, European literature. Scholars have often commented...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 341–366.
Published: 01 September 2023
... dissemination and algorithmic preselection? Have we been vigilant enough in preserving underestimated voices, so as to leave enough heuristic opportunities for future readers to rewrite history? Scholars of classicist internet poetry, just like their poets, are thus confronted with the impossible task...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 310–313.
Published: 01 March 2021
... main chapters, that the continued appeal and vitality of Jian'an 建安 (196–220) and the Three Kingdoms 三國 (220–265) in Chinese history was due as much to the pivotal role the two periods played in initiating new changes as to the enthusiasm and efforts of numerous writers and scholars in later periods...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 204–219.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., some late Qing scholars began to theorize literary creation in terms of how it could help reverse the course of China's rapidly accelerating decline. To many, literary creation could effect this salvation only if driven by new kinds of powerful emotion. Among proponents of this new thinking about...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
... not be the best defense against rhyme as doggerel. But while Sullivan is right that rhyme is not now dominant in English-language poetics, among songwriters, at least, “rhyme is as secure on its throne as it ever was,” as poet and scholar Anthony Madrid points out. 37 And in song, Shana Redmond writes...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as “the most famous young poet of Indonesia's poetry scene” 印尼詩壇上名聲最響亮的青年詩人. 10 While scholars have contrasting views regarding the accuracy of this account, the veracity of this meeting is perhaps less important than the symbolic significance it holds for our understanding of Mahua literature and its...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 96–121.
Published: 01 December 2023
...) and published after his return to Japan. Specifically, “Lun Wen Yi” consists of writings by two leading Tang poet-critics, Wang Changling and Jiaoran 皎然 (720?–798?). The first half—which also appears in the Shige 詩格 (The Norm of Poetry)—comprises Wang Changling's theoretical discussion on poetry. The second...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
... supercrip (invoking the terminology preferred by disability studies scholars). Indeed, the utility of Yu's narrative stems from her identity as disabled as well as her identity as a poet. I use the term inspirational to intentionally foreground what disability studies scholars call “inspirational porn...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 117–138.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to geopolitical reasons. This article begins with an overview of the introduction of Russian literature into Taiwan in the twentieth century. Then it focuses on the Russian imaginary in modern Chinese poetry in Taiwan as represented by two major poets: Ya Xian and Yang Mu. Rather than an influence study...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 179–203.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the nature of literature as the “patterning of emotions” ( qingwen 情文). In discussing literary creation, however, Lu and Liu treat qing only as an inducive factor for writing and as raw material for the formation of conception-images ( yixiang 意象). Although many scholars consider the lyrical tradition...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Mark Bender Abstract Since the 1980s ethnic minority poets writing in the borderlands of Southwest China and Northeast India emerged on the world stage from within currents of dramatic environmental, political, economic, and demographic change, cresting in momentum by the 2010s. Within...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to dazzle and instill ekplexis (shock) in their audience. The third type, the fu poets of his own kind, are scholar-observers whose works should bear being investigated ( kao 考) and “checked against the facts of the matter” ( jiao 校). As I argue above, to this list may be added the fu poetics of Mei...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... By pointing to such echoes in the poem's wording, the scholars go against the grain of the poets' and translators' desire: they restore the allusiveness and historicity of meanings that seventy years of English translation had been refining down to a perfect solitary vividness of word and scene. The poets...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 March 2024
... close friend, renowned scholar of English literature Wang Zuoliang 王佐良 (1916–1995). 1 Critics have noted the life-changing impact of this experience on Mu Dan as a poet and a person, but few have paid enough attention to the specific role that nature played in the poet's life-and-death encounters...
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