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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jie Lu Abstract A reading of the cinematic representation of the global city in Chinese “new urban films” and in rural-migrant films leads this article to focus on the plurality and dialogism among different chronotopes produced collectively across these films. The article argues that the global...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the representational problems between fiction, locality, and modernity? For Mao Dun and his May Fourth contemporaries, modernity at large was expressed in a teleological mode of time and progress, both in the rhetoric of modernity and in fiction writing. The article reflects on Mao Dun's creative and ideological...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Xuesong Shao; Sheldon Lu Abstract This article adopts Mikhail Bakhtin's conception of the chronotope to analyze the 2015 film Laopaoer 老炮兒 (Mr. Six), directed by Guan Hu 管虎 and starring Feng Xiaogang 馮小剛, exploring its representation and reconfiguration of the real as well as the imagined time...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... other ethnic minorities, focusing on four approaches to forging counter-discourses used in the literary representation of minorities: binary opposition, rhetorical questions, paradoxical statements, and bystander narration. The discussion of each narrative strategy is supported by examples from works...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... articulation” that maintains strategic distance from Sinophone studies while also enriching the field's conceptual repertoire. Specifically, this analytical perspective highlights how literary representations of social class play a significant role, alongside language and ethnicity, in registering...
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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. I am most grateful to Carlos Rojas and the two anonymous reviewers for their critical reading...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Winnie L. M. Yee Abstract The often-heated debates concerning Hong Kong's literary representations all take as a premise that Hong Kong has an urban identity, defined by its mythic transformation from a fishing village to a metropolis. On the return of the sovereignty to mainland China in 1997...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Carlos Rojas Abstract Taking as its starting point Michel Foucault's use of the biological species metaphor in his claim that, in nineteenth-century Europe, “the homosexual was now a new species,” this article considers the sudden explosion of homoerotic activities and cultural representations...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of rhetorical strategies but with different emphases. A reading of one in light of the others reveals new information about Chinese and Western theories of representation and metaphoricity. For example, Homer makes his audience alternate between belief and disbelief in the scenes engraved on Achilles's shield...
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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 (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the block ( bankuai 板塊) structure, the interplay of real and fictional, and the intertextual and transmedial references, Jia explores the possibilities of representational forms and aspires to map and scan the otherwise unrepresentable totality that is global capitalism in China. In this essay, the author...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the oral and spoken in audiovisual space, in particular the embodiment and representation of the radio acoustic. The voice-over, indicative of the radio unconscious in the film, registers the existence of a consciousness already programmed by radio sounds that reconfigures the economy of filmic diegesis...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and racial hatred toward Asians have long been intertwined. Recent anti-Asian hate crimes surface the continuities in the targeting of Asians as a source of pollution and contagion, and in representations of Asian women as a source of sexual “temptation” that must be restricted, prohibited, or eliminated...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as the processes and cultural standards involved in its banning. This is followed by a close analysis of aspects of the contents of Meiyu , especially the interaction between texts and images in the representation of nudity, intimacy, and coupledom. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 7 Ibid...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... also argues that the garbage takeover is part of a sustained practice of appropriation, effacement, even cruelty in the artistic representation of precarity in China. China's wasteworks are art forms born at the tense interface between different class actors, and they disclose fraught fears over where...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 March 2019
... with the collective but at the same time keep their own reflective and critical thinking. Xiao's main objective is to “call attention to how writers, philosophers, psychologists, and political theorists searched for and often invented vocabularies, explanations, and modes of representation that might render...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 255–259.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the revolutionary base in the 1940s. Based on real-life marriage disputes in the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region, these texts serve as windows into a rich plethora of intertwined questions: law, human sentiment, representation, propaganda, cultural production, media, communication, community, and subject formation...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
... paradigms, and mapping regimes, respectively. In the first group, four essays examine processes by which social realities are figuratively translated into cultural representations—and just as discussions of linguistic translation focus not only on what is able to be translated but also on what is left...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... condemnation of Chow's account for Western media may have struck a sympathetic chord in many at the time, Lee seems bothered by his essentialist claim of the so-called Chinese reality and the intimation of his ability to adjudicate on the representation of such reality. To Lee, Chow's representations...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 236–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of history, memory, trauma, and representation of the Mao era, such as Xiaobin Yang's The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction (2002), Yomi Braester's Witness against History (2003), Rong Cai's The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature (2004), Ban Wang's...
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