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Unnatural Causes: Racial Taxonomies, Pandemic, and Social Contagion
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the pandemic, this essay argues that a focus on social violence helps clarify how the same racial taxonomies are at play in producing these deadly outcomes. As such, the essay concludes with a broadening of the concept of police power to illustrate how, outside of the private and public political spheres...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a model minority is, of course, fundamentally different from the African American history of slavery and police brutality, but both were race-based systems of discrimination in which US economic growth was facilitated by powerful practices of racial oppression. The legacies of these systemic practices...
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Introduction: Between the Universal and the Particular
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... every nation on earth. 1 Second, in the evening of May 25, a Black man named George Floyd was detained by Minneapolis police on charges of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, and during the ensuing confrontation an officer used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the ground for almost nine minutes...
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Inter-imperial, Ecological Interpretations of the “Five Coolies” Myth in Penang and Medan
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., symbolizing the policing powers over plantation employees that Dutch extraterritoriality reshapes. 49 Poignantly, Ba Ren's play ends with an image of ecological sacrifice, in which diasporic labor secures neither livelihood nor acculturation in the face of extractive capitalism that takes on feudal...
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“And This Is What He Did”
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., or was instead sexually motivated. Infamously, Cherokee Police spokesman Captain Jay Baker offered the explanation that the gunman, Robert Aaron Long, had had “a really bad day.” 1 The obvious point they missed, or perhaps sought to obfuscate, was that sexual violence and racial hatred toward Asians have long...
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The Analogy of Race and Species in Animal Studies
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
... ethics, and ecological feminism. Third, I discuss how three recent Black studies texts interpret the foundational linkage of race and species in animal studies and reorient the field's methods to engage with present-day contexts of police violence and environmental racism that form the backdrop of rising...
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the dichotomies in the discourse of memory: elites versus grassroots, official versus unofficial, public versus. private, and collective versus individual. The dismissal of binarism is built on the fluidity even between the two extremes of power. With the case of the police files of Nie Gannu, Li demonstrates how...
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Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
... neoliberal Asian nation-states [which] has compromised efforts to fully interrogate the triangulation of knowledge, power, and capital within East Asia and between East Asia and the United States,” and of “a type of cultural studies [that] has been used to buttress colonial difference, which then upholds...
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“A New Species”: Gender, Sexuality, and Taxonomic Logics in Sinophone Communities
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
... with various different modern institutional structures in the disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism, and policing/psychiatry, respectively. Although these sets of institutional structures differ in significant respects from the others, they all deploy power through the production...
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Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 289–292.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-forms, as re-versions of her face in original black-and-white photographs, carry the numinous power that transforms online networks into photo-altars, which enable the viewer's spiritual encounter with the unspeakable yet unforgettable past. Continuing the discussion of digital remediations, chapter...
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Ghostly Chronotopes: Spectral Cityscapes in Post-2000 Chinese Literature
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is a powerful challenge to histories and memories. The idea of a frozen moment halts the frenetic speed of progress, haunting the movement perpetuated by capitalism's self-reproduction. The preoccupation with time and nostalgia also characterizes the cultural reminiscences of post-socialist China...
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Postornamentality: Ajumma Fabulosity and the Art of Wearing a Visor with Ferocity
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the shooting, no evidence of illegal acts was found in either spa, according to the Associated Press, police records show that two of the massage parlors had been the sites of ten prostitution arrests, the latest of which took place in 2013. 6 As it is still not entirely clear what precise roles...
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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
... and assuming its narrative power, Lang Wan omits the meticulous detailing of domestic chores included in the English version; as a result, female interiority is compromised and flattened. Further, the English title's suggestion of an outcry cannot be conveyed in the Chinese translation and is instead submerged...
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Reconfiguring the Chronotope: Spatiotemporal Representations and Cultural Imaginations of Beijing in Mr. Six
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
...” rather than reporting him to the police, the director introduces to his audience a virtuous yet stateless hero of jianghu . As opposed to the discourse of the establishment, that of jianghu “defines a public sphere unconnected to the sovereign power of the state, a sphere that is historically related...
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Border as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... mirror the boundaries of this upper-crust family, which are vigilantly policed while they are constantly negotiated from both inside and outside the family. The coming into being of the transnational empire of the Shangs and the Youngs—the two families connected by marriage—was an early instance...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Schelling and Hegel, Wordsworth as neo-Platonist, and others. Notably, the same Romantic idealism, its destructive-creative strain in particular, is explicitly articulated and enshrined in Lu Xun's essay “Moluo shili shuo” 摩羅詩力說 (On the Power of Mara Poetry) and seems also to undergird the unabashed...
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Co-opting the International Writing Program during the Cold War: Gu Cangwu, the Baodiao Movement, and Minjian Activism
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
... practices, the transpacific movement began overseas among the Chinese diaspora and, in the eyes of Gu, led to the right of assembly in Hong Kong. The legacy of this expansion of civil liberties, earned after clashes with police in 1971, remains urgent today, given the 2014 Umbrella movement and the protests...
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Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Goldsmith (1961–)for his reading (in an event co-organized by John Cayley of the Digital Arts program at Brown) of the autopsy report of Michael Brown (“the unarmed black teenager who was shot dead by police on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri” [151]) and against conceptualist Vanessa Place's...
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Theory and Practice of the Long Novel: Mao Dun's Ziye 子夜 ( Midnight ) and Representational Problems between Fiction, Locality, and Modernity
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... for Joyce's Ulysses , I argue, has less to do with the gigantic scale of the work than with a powerful narrative pattern capable of encompassing entirely mundane activities in the transformation process of modernity. Recent criticism of Ulysses has claimed that Joyce attempts to bring the geographical...
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Between the World Ship and the Spaceship: Planetarianism, Hollywood, Nationalism, and the Iceberg-Shaped Story of The Wandering Earth (2019)
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... power. Multiculturalism and diversity, despite their aura of political correctness, are in Miyoshi's eyes a “public policy” favored by transnational corporatism rather than a “subversive program.” 2 This social agenda does empower minorities and oppressed groups to a certain degree, yet it cannot...
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