... in relation to other ethnic minorities. In some cases, we can also observe how Mahua authors employ this counter-discourse structure as a form of resistance against hegemonic state power. 13 Ibid. 14 Ibid. 15 Pan, Zuoye Xingchen , 223–50 . 16 Ibid., 225. 17 Li, “Lazi fu,” 51...

...Belinda Kong Abstract This essay deploys the concept of pandemic as a set of discursive relations rather than a neutral description of a natural phenomenon, arguing that pandemic discourse is a product of layered histories of power that in turn reproduces myriad forms of imperial and racial power...

... that focuses centrally on male same-sex relations, Phoenixes Flying Together offers a vital example of early modern queer literary tradition by illustrating fluid male-male bonds and hybrid ideals of homosexuality. Such textual representations shift Confucian cardinal relations, redefine the power of nanse...

...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...

... 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. ajoubin@gwu.edu Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 anti-Asian racism...

... are a powerful and creative expression of his poetics as a whole. Going beyond the traditional model of influence study, the article proposes a theoretical framework of cross-cultural intertextuality, creative rewriting, and cultural translation. 27 Yang Mu, Collected Poems of Yang Mu , 2:201. 28...

... series throws critical light on Hong Kong's coerced “swallowing” of a China excessive in its material aggrandizement, restoring the power of imagination of possible futures not dictated by Hong Kong's increasing integration with China. Finally, this essay suggests that cannibalism, viewed through...

... as disclosed in Kuan-Hsing Chen's Asia as Method —one adopts an “Asian studies in Asia” approach with an inter-referencing system; the other foregrounds a dynamic process of turning and hybridizing that occurs between Western colonial powers and local structures—to warp up the similar differentiation of Area...

...” by a hypocritical gentry, a technocratic elite that sought power, status, and profit in the name of enlightenment and rationality. He proclaimed that it is urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocrite gentry; ‘superstition’ may remain.” Invoking Benjamin's insight and affinity with Lu Xun, this article explores...

... public similarly suffers from frustration, being unable to keep the objects of desire due to the penetrated characters' efforts to escape from the homoerotic economy. Only successful via the mediation of state power, such eschewal in turn reveals that the homoerotic public is both vulnerable...

... 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...

..., called “the destiny of the community of man with nature.” What are the material forces immanent to that destiny? What does it do to our mental health to engage them directly? The three works analyzed answer these questions in creative, powerful ways. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021...

... embodies contradictory motifs with regard to ethnicity in China: on the one hand, he romanticizes the Miao as moral agents living freely in a timeless society, governed only by divine powers and unruly passions. On the other hand, Shen laments the historical discrimination experienced by the Miao...

...-gendered form of labor through which subjects negotiate the “everyday ethical challenge” of survival under multiple imperial structures. The construction and positioning of transimperial subjects in the creative work of China scholars resists forms of imperial power that serve to marginalize, erase...

...Ban Wang Abstract In the post-socialist and market reform era, the power of the market and the developmental imperatives are creating metabolic rifts between humans and nature, between producers and the land. The film The Piano in a Factory tells a story of the working class trying to rekindle...

... for power, the advanced technologies are accelerating the alienation of humans from their bodies, from one another, and from nature. If this is true, Project Waste Tide looks like a deliberate attempt to run a trial among Silicon Isle natives and waste people. Any random person coming...

... of “malevolent voices” by a “hypocrite gentry”—the technocratic elite who sought power, status, and profit in the name of enlightenment and rationality. He proclaimed that it is urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocrite gentry; ‘superstition’ may remain” ( weishi dangqu, mixin ke chun 偽士當去,迷信可存). 1...

... the ongoing tension between two conflicting agendas: hasty development for wealth and power and curbing overdevelopment. What the commentators have missed is the long-term contradiction in modern China between the search for wealth and power and socialist, all-around development for the benefit of communities...

... that followed domestic demographic and political trends. . . . As a product of U.S. political and cultural power, the discourse of world literature continues to present a view of the world from the U.S. perspective, and the canon of world literature continues to be defined by the particular historical...

... as a “father” and had been publicly executed in a grand spectacle, the question arose: what new social, affective, and political imaginaries would take the place of the puissance paternelle (power of the father) in the new Republic? 2 In Chinese studies, anthropologist Aihwa Ong deployed the notion...