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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
... for the Summer Heat , 86 ; translation modified. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 private public desire male homoeroticism Living across the dynastic transition from the Ming (1368–1644) to the Qing (1644–1912), the prolific writer Li Yu 李漁 (1610–1680) bore witness to an age when...
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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 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... writings about the great world community. Kang regarded nature as the foundation for culture and civilization, valorized the public principles of common goods and equality over private property, and linked women to a vital, regenerative nature. Kang heralded the eco-socialist notions of public economy...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 289–292.
Published: 01 March 2021
... othered and unowned in collective memory. Chapter 2 shifts the focus from national discourses to a more private and intimate realm: individual's recollections of the Cultural Revolution through family portraits and photo-forms. Wrestling with the notions of privacy and memory, however, Hillenbrand...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and creativity worthy of a productive human being. In Karl Marx's analysis, private property makes people one-sided because it exists as capital and commodity. In commodity exchange, the structure of feeling is very much truncated, confined to a one-dimensional sphere of existence. The life based on private...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the Mars Republic, the pernicious remnants linger on. Various factions have been hoarding information, erecting walls for partisan politics and private possession. Against that, the builders design the Central Archive not only based on practical necessity but also with the goal of achieving political unity...
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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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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to catalyze genuine change is far from assured. Building on a long tradition in imperial China of commoners submitting memorials to the emperor, 6 in this modern petition system private citizens use a semiofficial appeal process to lodge complaints about the police, the courts, the government, and even...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2020
... (Unofficial History of Beijing), especially asserting that “Xingyuan's ‘ghost house’ represents an alternative type of private, familial space that accommodates a new mode of enlightenment subjectivity and sociality in modern Chinese cities” (90), he is engaging brilliantly in what I would call spatial...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a private and attentive individual reader, in contrast to the communal and responsive listening public that aurally oriented poetry seeks to engage. Driving the often passionate defenses of Misty poetry in the early 1980s was the understanding that such poetry would hasten a necessary cultural...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by private property, class exploitative forms of material necessity or scarcity, and the imperative for endless profit and accumulation. Ecological utopianism “hinges on a new social union of producers and communities with the conditions of production.” 27 This ideal represents a collective appropriation...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2021
... represent a process of redressing state governance by removing the forces of the yin and regaining the balance of yin and yang . The private lives of the leading heroes, including Lingyun, Yishao, Yishao's father Zhang Jing, and Lord Mu, all signify a return to heteronormative marriages. And yet...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... spending, and forcing large-scale privatizations of the public sphere.” 20 They pounce on the disaster zones and engage in “reconstruction” by selling off public assets and plundering natural resources for profits while the victims are still suffering. Disasters offer chances for capital investment...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... ordering symbolically represented by the spatial borders of this hotel-cum–private club by taking over its ownership from the British aristocrat Lord Rupert Calthorpe-Cavendish-Gore. Felicity thus stages an act that pits non-Western modernity against its supposedly older and more authentic Western...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... written elsewhere about the use of maquettes in China's contemporary mediascape. Scale models at urban planning exhibition halls have signaled the government's ability to produce new cityscapes almost instantaneously. Even private projects, such as the Ping An Finance Center 平安國際金融中心 in Shenzhen (China's...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2019
... places that products made in China flow to. The poem addresses the plight of the migrant workers explicitly and directly, without the ambiguity, private symbolism, or defamiliarization that are associated with poetry in other settings (including the Chinese avant-garde). Toward the end, the poem becomes...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the broad label of his return to Chinese classical traditions. Third, Lu Xun's engagement with the Buddhist scriptures remained private within his circle of friends. Publicly, Lu Xun was generally critical of religious identity, especially when it conveys dogma and orthodoxy. While maintaining a critical...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to regulate the rash economic development and protect the environment. The environmental collapse tells a story of “economic development run amok” along with the unfettered market and privatization. 1 Other observers stress the increasingly crucial role that China is playing in protecting the environment...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Driven by the impulse to maintain social and political security at all costs, authorities have built nationwide and global digital infrastructures that surveil and monitor every individual. AI technologies and big-data algorithms collect personal data from individual consumers and keep tabs on private...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 264–276.
Published: 01 October 2020
... for entertainers. There were three kinds: official youling , those who belonged to government; private youling , those who were owned by a family; and public youling , those who offered service to the population at large. Several important differences distinguish a youling from a prostitute: a youling had...
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