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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 138–169.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Lucas Klein Abstract Examining how contemporary poets raised in China are looking at classical Chinese poetry from the Tang—in particular, the poetry and the figure of Li Bai 李白 (701–762)—this article questions the epistemological divide, common to scholarship, between premodern and modern Chinese...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Michelle Yeh Abstract This article provides the first comprehensive study of the use of ancient Greek and Roman allusions and motifs in the poetry of Yang Mu. By focusing on representative works from Yang's oeuvre, the study sheds light on how the poet's appropriations of Greco-Roman materials...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Xiaobing Tang Abstract “The Answer,” a poem by Bei Dao first published in 1978, marks the emergence of a defiant voice in contemporary Chinese poetry and asserts skepticism as the political stance of a young generation in post–Cultural Revolution China. It also heralds a historic transition from...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2023
... piece of poetry translation. Not until 1948 was Qian able to publish this commentary in Philobiblion: A Quarterly Review of Chinese Publications , an English-language periodical supported by the National Central University Library in Nanking 南京國立中央大學圖書館, of which he was the editor in chief. 1...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Maghiel Van Crevel Abstract China's battler poetry ( dagong shige 打工詩歌), also known in English as migrant worker poetry, projects images of China as the workshop of the world in the age of global capitalism. The recent product of a world-renowned tradition in which poetry has been a social practice...
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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 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., place, and time but is a fundamental aspect of contemporary literature. It exemplifies the falsity of the opposition between the local and global, between national literatures and literature that circulates in translation, between Chinese poetry and the world. Fully recognizing the role of translation...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Lucas Klein Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media . Jacob Edmond . NEW YORK : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2019 . 360 PP. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 The dream of universalism dies when it comes up against the institutional demand to specialize...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Yunte Huang; Hangping Xu Abstract This article, introduction to the special issue, lays out the theoretical groundwork for reading Chinese poetry. Situating critical discussions of Chinese poetry within the larger discourse of world literature, the introduction examines key concepts and concerns...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Haun Saussy Abstract Readers of Chinese poetry in English translation have long been accustomed to seeing Wang Wei's quatrain “Lu zhai” as a microcosm of the Chinese poetic tradition. Thematically, it is also a world in miniature, including an “empty mountain,” “human voices,” and “returning...
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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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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 177–200.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Nick Admussen Abstract This article attempts to conceptualize and encourage an already extant conceptual turn right now taking place in China studies: a turn toward poetry composition, in which transcultural critical scholars also compose their own original poetry. The reason for the phenomenon...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 341–366.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Zhiyi Yang Abstract This article examines the interface, power structure, and media technology of the digital platforms that have enabled the production and dissemination of Chinese internet classicist poetry, born in the late 1990s, as well as the impact that technological evolution bears on its...
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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 (2019) 16 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Maghiel van Crevel Abstract Battlers poetry ( dagong shige 打工詩歌), a genre whose name has mostly been rendered in English as “migrant worker poetry” to date, presents an important development in Chinese literature since the 2000s. Written by members of a new precariat that plays a key role...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shengqing Wu Abstract Focusing on two sets of classical-style poems describing the experience of climbing up the Eiffel Tower and gazing upon the moon in exploratory overseas voyages, this contribution explores the visual imagination of the world ( shijie ) found in late Qing poetry. Instead...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 240–243.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Paul Manfredi [email protected] The Condition of Music: Anglophone Influences in the Poetry of Shao Xunmei . Tian Jin . Wilmington, DE : Vernon , 2021 . 176 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Tian Jin's book is about Shao Xunmei 邵洵美 (1906–69), a poet who...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Lucas Klein Abstract How are the migration of people and of poetry, through literary translation and translational literature, linked or alike? What can the poetry of migration teach about the translation of form in poetry? What is the role of the text in understanding the politics of poetry...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Mutual awareness of these cross-border poetries is slowly emerging, revealing that themes of poems from within these border areas are often parallel, with common concerns, though local characteristics. Cultural shifts and accommodation to new or revised modes of living and reactions to increasingly...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the collection, this article illustrates how classical Chinese xiangyan poetry was evolving in the global context at the turn of the twentieth century. Although Zhou was not a poet engaging in the genre itself, through critical intervention, he connected Chinese xiangyan poetry to the global discourse of love...
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