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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract The romantic and ecological legacy of Homo faber sheds light on Han Song's Regenerated Bricks . In that novella the victims of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, guided by an architect, produce bricks by using debris, straw, and corpses. Regenerating lives and hopes of the victims...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a creative-critical nexus by thinking it through the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, arguing that the Sinograph as a grotesque figure embodies contradictory impulses immanent in the regeneration of Chinese culture by fracturing it from within. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in ways that allowed land and water to regenerate by developing relatively low-impact agricultural systems.” Preindustrial farming often served as “an agent of ecological diversification,” replacing the relative homogeneous primeval forest ecosystems with a mosaic of diverse ecozones. The fate...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 310–313.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., or darkened, side” (78) inherent in the historical periods and their cultural imaginaries, giving room to both chaos and regeneration, deadly nostalgia and profound originality, military heroism and the “acute sense of mortality” (12), galloping ambitions and languid lamentation, literary panache and sobering...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
... rationality, 5, 10, 14, 20, 22, 28, 35–36, 38–39, 44, 52, 63, 97, 122, 173, 181, 185–86 Regenerated Bricks (Han), 13, 119–20, 133 rending shengtian, 11 romanticism, 3, 10, 14, 29, 36, 57, 185 Ruskin, John, 121 Schwartz, Benjamin, 26 science fiction, vii, 13, 49, 152–53, 164...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of military conflict. However, nature is also depicted as a horizon of emerging life forms and landscapes, promising rebirth and regeneration. While war and conflict may appear to be recent human-made occurrences, Mu Dan suggests that they are deeply rooted in the primordial and violent aspects of the natural...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... creation myths for a modern regeneration of China. Insofar as the oldest “superstitious” beliefs in the human-nature bond have not been harnessed and enervated by subsequent established philosophies and religions, they still retain man's primordial creative energy—comparable to the mara spirit or even...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of humanity co-existing in harmony with nature” (308). More than a dwelling, the glass houses are the “entire miniature enclosed ecosystems” that “produced energy, regenerated air, circulated water, cultivated living organisms, and broke down waste” (583). They are “flowers blooming from the sand” (307...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ecosystems” that “produced energy, regenerated air, circulated water, cultivated living organisms, and broke down waste” (583). They are “flowers blooming from the sand” (307). The Sunlight System, designed and managed by an atelier of civic engineers, satisfies Mars City's energy needs by harnessing solar...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and conviviality between humans and nonhumans. Rather than social norms, artificial conventions, fashions, and the mainstream literary language as topics, Shen Congwen's work delves into vibrant nature in its restless potential for regeneration and ceaseless renewal. Nature emerges as the primal source...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and testify to the intimacy and conviviality between humans and nonhumans. Rather than espousing social norms, artificial conventions, fashions, and mainstream literary language, Shen's work delves into vibrant nature in its restless potential for regeneration and ceaseless renewal. Nature emerges...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the origins of life forms and landscapes on earth, seeded from the sky in a progression of creation and destruction, that resulted in the present landscapes and lifeforms of southern Sichuan. 26 A key passage tells of life regenerating on earth after a catastrophic era of warming caused by too many suns...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that everything is predestined in this world, humans should be pious and submissive, and a better world will be created after old things are gone. The wildfire is heavenly empowered and yet projected by people's hearts, echoing Marxian thoughts on religions. It simultaneously destroys and regenerates. Notably...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... moment for the protagonist, who stands in the great tension between degeneration and regeneration. But the moment looks less like the eve of a revolution since its possibility seems so remote and indeterminate. The remark illuminates the theme of temptation that Mao Dun expresses so sensationally...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... yongshi 再生勇士 (Regeneration Warrior; 1995, dir. Zhang Jianya 張建亞 and Li Guomin 李國民). The artistic and production quality of these films is unsurprisingly low, and their science fiction elements suffer particularly due to the still-withered science fiction literature of the time. 22 In the mid-1990s...
