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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... it possible for the convenient co-optation of the small reservoir of their work into the literary taxonomy of Chinese literature. Inevitably, this co-optation engenders the rhetoric of Chinese literature as an inclusive and diverse category despite the structure of tokenism couched in a politics of inclusion...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 385–408.
Published: 01 October 2021
... literatures and the politics of resistance to language hegemony. By demonstrating the Tibetan language's capacity for literary creation, the story effectively resists the hegemony it depicts, even while it suggests that the Tibetan literary text itself is in the process of being fundamentally redefined by its...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
...—that hits the village during the Cultural Revolution and the subsequent relief efforts. We examine how natural disaster is woven into the texture of social organisms, appropriated by political powers, and maneuvered for building a modern Chinese nation. This politicization of the natural disaster echoes...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of sin” ( zuigan wenxue 罪感文學), the author shows how religious ethics became a crucial medium for them to reflect on the theologico-political aspects of Chinese revolutionary culture. In particular, Li's cultures of pleasure were grounded in the May Fourth aesthetic discourse that highlighted...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Géraldine Fiss In chapter 7, “Beginning of the Beginning: The Wedge Chapter,” Yeh posits the wedge as “the place where the integration of the modern political novel into the Chinese cultural universe was negotiated” (347). It signifies both a use and transformation of a traditional form...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Paola Iovene [email protected] Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia . Edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2019 . 308 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 This inspiring...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., coedited a newsletter produced in the IWP offices, participated in political demonstrations, and published correspondence in Hong Kong in support of the Baodiao movement. The author argues that Gu's activities co-opted a Cold War institution to promote collective political action among the Chinese diaspora...
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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 (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
...,” or “politicization of politics.” Literature, as Lu Xun would have it, engages one not only with social and political virtues versus evils, or utopia versus dystopia, but also with the “stratagem of unnamable entities” ( wuwu zhizhen 無物之陣)—the amorphous existence of nothingness. For Lu Xun, revolutionary zeal...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of politicized , however, is misleading and negative. By focusing on division rather than unity, the term is a travesty of the normative notion of politics grounded in acts of a government in sync with a rallied population to protect public safety, health, and commonweal. Instead of division and conflict among...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Ngon's fleeting scene of Speakers' Corner (a flash platform of “gestural politics”) as a point of departure, this article charts a short history of Sinophone flash and its relationship to literary community building in Singapore through integrative readings of representative works by Jun Yinglü, Ai Yu...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Environmental writers have sought to retrieve ecological wisdom from traditional Chinese thought to critique anthropocentrism, but the rediscoveries remain a disembodied discourse and ignore the relationships among humans: the political, social, and economic structures and power...
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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 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Laikwan Pang; Chun-Kit Ko Abstract This essay argues that the two main types of contemporary Chinese scripts, complicated characters ( fantizi 繁體字) and simplified characters ( jiantizi 簡體字), are sites of heavy cultural and political contestation. The two script systems witness the internal...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... groups of concepts: the cultural May Fourth and the political May Fourth, the New Culture movement and the New Literature movement, and the masculine May Fourth and the feminine May Fourth. Liu regards the May Fourth spirit as a complete failure, in terms of six symbolic signs: (1) the mass spiritual...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jianmei Liu Abstract This article contributes to the study of the cultural politics of Thirdspace in modern China, which exerted a far-reaching influence on Chinese intellectual history, literature, and culture. Although the term the third space was coined by Homi K. Bhabha, the leading figure...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is institutionalized as power relations in the cultural and political life, take the form of political marginalization of minority groups, and cause emotional distress and physical harm within and beyond the fictional universe. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 anti-Asian racism...
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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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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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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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