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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...
View articletitled, Hybrid Subjects, Fluid Bonds: Envisioning the Early Modern <span class="search-highlight">Queer</span> in Phoenixes Flying Together
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen Abstract This article explores how gendered Chineseness is represented, circulated, and received in Huangmei musical films for audiences in martial-law Taiwan. Focusing on Love Eterne (1963), the analysis examines how theatrical impersonations in the film provided a “queer...
View articletitled, “<span class="search-highlight">Queering</span>” the Nation?: Gendered Chineseness, Cross-Dressing, and the Reception of Love Eterne in Taiwan
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in Greater China beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article focuses in particular on four literary works dating from around 1994 that examine queer individuals in relation modern institutional structures associated with disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Patricia Sieber The two essays “The Death of His Husband: Contesting Desires in Li Yu's 李漁 (1610–1680) Two Huaben Stories on Male Homoeroticism,” by Zhaokun Xin (hereafter “Two Huaben Stories”), and “Hybrid Subjects, Fluid Bonds: Envisioning the Early Modern Queer in Two Phoenixes Flying...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and present, local and global converge, the author uses it to explore the larger question of how to approach the queer Sinophone. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Wu Jiwen male dan polygamy queer Sinophone The point of departure for this essay is a curious phenomenon in the 1980s...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Grace En-Yi Ting Abstract This article draws on Judith Butler's theories of violence and grief in order to outline a self-reflexive narrative of teaching and speaking about the Atlanta shootings of March 2021 as a queer and feminist studies scholar of Japanese studies in Hong Kong. The article...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 104–126.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Perfectly Queer , Alexander Doty reminds us that the term queer “mark[s] a flexible space for the expression of all aspects of non (anti-, contra-) straight cultural production and reception. As such, this cultural ‘queer space’ recognizes the possibility that various and fluctuating queer positions might...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... has generally been analyzed for its representation of (queer) sexuality, the essay shows that it is the Cultural Revolution and its Cold War legacies that explain the emergence of its main character. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 Cold War Jin Yong martial arts cinema Cultural...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of sympathetic literary presentations of queer individuals' self-awakening. Analyzing four famous novellas by writers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China, Rojas identifies a common trait in their texts: a persistent juxtaposing of story with journal passages, of first-person with third-person narration...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
... a queer-feminist, experimental approach to translation that embraces and even celebrates radical failure, discomfort, and disruption. Her rationale for this approach derives first from her theorization of the translator and the reader as active, visible agents interpolating into the meaning-making process...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 177–200.
Published: 01 March 2023
...” theoretical prose, and the work of its origins is effaced. Poet-scholar Jenn Nunes has taken a rare set of steps toward stylistic dynamism and transgeneric simultaneity in her article on Yu Xiuhua 余秀華, titled “Sitting with Discomfort: A Queer-Feminist Approach to Translating Yu Xiuhua.” In it, she...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 264–276.
Published: 01 October 2020
... (Longyang weeps over fish), duanxiu 斷袖 (cutting a sleeve), mojing 磨鏡 (mirror rubbing), and nanfeng 男風 (male wind) gave way to tongzhi 同志 (comrade), lala 拉拉 (lesbian), nantong 男同 (male comrade), nütong 女同 (female comrade), ku'er 酷兒 (queer), or simply gay . Old fashions of the male-male...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... specializes in speculative fiction and queer fiction—would be inclined to take the risk. At first glance, the Filipino Chinese consciousness in Lauriat seems to be evinced by the Filipino Chinese personae in the stories, the sporadic use of ethnic historical events in the narrative (e.g...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
... anarchist movements from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with contemporary leftist queer discourse of sexual minority or multitude in Taiwan. However, the question was how to foreground even more prominently the historical and discursive implications of the cancellation of the surname...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ): 427 – 60 . Scranton, Roy . Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. San Francisco : City Lights , 2015 . Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You .” In Novel Gazing: Queer Readings...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of a game's mechanics without reference to its narrative content and vice versa. Second-wave videogame scholarship participates in the broader conversation over representation (in particular, how often and in what ways women, racial minorities, and queer sexuality are represented). This is a first step...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown . London : Routledge , 2016 . yoshimi . “Zhege shijie meiyou zhongzu, meiyou kouyin, zhiyou jieji” 這個世界沒有種族，沒有口音，只有階級 [ There Are No Races or Accents but Only Classes in This World ]. Douban dianying 豆瓣電影 [ Douban Movies ], March 21 , 2015...
View articletitled, Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves : Evocative Translocality, Fantastic Orientalism, Nameless Labor
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 298–325.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the breadth of mind, ability, and talent of a man but was born a woman” 嗚呼!芸一女流,具男子之襟懷才識. 79 Yun's reading thus prefigures her other gender-queering behaviors: later she will cross-dress as a man in an outing with her husband, and she initiates amorous relationships with courtesans for the ostensible...
