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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 5. The helmet that confers on the player the power to split sinographs into their components, one of three “sagely artifacts” ( shengqi 聖器) wielded by the player. Note the glow surrounding each filled-in white box.
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 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. “Longtuzhu” 龍吐珠 (Cledodendrum) was written in the 1980s by the Sarawak-based author Liang Fang (1953–). Like “The Dayak...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
...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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... 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...
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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 (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 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. In 2013 Yang Mu published his fourteenth, and latest, book...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
... 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...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
... 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...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...” 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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
... 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...
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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 (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., 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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 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...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... for power, the advanced technologies are accelerating the alienation of humans from their bodies, from one another, and from nature. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 colonialism metabolic rift biopiracy class posthumanity Large-scale industry...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
...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...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 177–200.
Published: 01 March 2023
...-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...
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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): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... novelist invokes the radical belief in the power of wen 文 (letters) to intervene in sociopolitical crises. It is a belief that aligns with the avant-garde's core spirit of coming to the rescue of a society through aesthetic means. In deconstructing the temporality and materiality of literary texts, Chen...
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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 (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... at the turn of the twentieth century, who were in thrall to technology and science and obsessed with the pursuit of wealth and power. In Lu Xun's stories, the knowledge elite in modern China rub shoulders with bureaucrats and literati of the imperial dynasties. By indulging cynically in empty talk...
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