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Globalizing Chinese Sensual-Sentimental Lyricism: Zhou Shoujuan's Xiangyan conghua (Miscellaneous Talks on the Fragrant and Bedazzling)
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... for illustrating how Chinese writers like Zhou took pains to embrace the world of Romanticism beyond China through traditional Chinese sensual and sentimental lyricism. Through an examination of Zhou's selection and discussion of the poems and stories, as well as the paratextual materials included...
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Ecology as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of Inner Mongolia. Mandumai 滿都麥, one of the People's Republic of China's earliest post-Mao eco-writers, romanticizes indigeneity in his Mongolian-language stories (read in this article in Mandarin translation). Mongolian-Han Sinophone writer Guo Xuebo 郭雪波 juxtaposes “grassland logic” against “agrarian...
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Shen Congwen's Idealized Ethnic: Borderland, Ethnicity, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master
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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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Mu Dan's Encounter with Nature: The Phantasmic, the Metaphysical, and the Lyrical
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 March 2024
...,” and for the “sophisticated and transcendental philosophy” embedded in it—that is, “a death in human history is a rebirth in nature's history.” 2 Tang's compassionate reading has, to a great extent, romanticized Mu Dan's treatment of nature in his poetry and reduced the complexity of the poet's meditations on nature...
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Introduction
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... “is the species-specific activity that defines us and its outcome is the economy, the polity, our culture, religious, and the way we inhabit our bodies.” 7 Thinkers of deep ecology look back to the past to mine insights and wisdom from romanticism, preindustrial economies, regionalism, and communitarianism...
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Chapter 10: Literary Creation: Chinese versus Western Theories from a Comparative Perspective
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 220–234.
Published: 01 December 2023
... enters into a more complex, mediated relationship to creativity: because it isn't part of the initial creative act, language lacks primacy, but on the other hand, without it realization or expression is impossible, hence the complex discourse on language in Romanticism, much of it involving the relation...
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Index
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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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Rethinking “Subjectivity” in Literature: Liu Zaifu's Theoretical Construction and Cultural Reflection
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
... revolutionary subjects and romantic roles be excluded? To put it another way, when Liu repudiated the homogeneous, sublime literary figures created in a revolutionary utopia, he instead invented an artistic utopia in which subjects were also romanticized as being endowed with purity, self-determination...
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Epilogue
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in artworks.” 12 Although modern tourism and market logic have destroyed medieval romanticism and archaic aura, we can still derive some pleasure that survives the intellectual suspicion of “romantic myth” or “superstition.” The pleasure stems from a recognition of the lingering aesthetic aura suggestive...
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Ethnic Loyalty versus Spring Fancy: Gender and Southeast Asia in Hei Ying's Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to their complicity in colonial imperialism—fallen from social propriety into sheer materialism. Part of a wider romanticism about “returnee men,” Nanyang men trouble dichotomies and trajectories by providing a third space where Chinese are as much implicated in colonialism as they are its victims, drawing some...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., these ten terms seem to constitute a unique Chinese taxonomy of male-male sexuality, characterized by an unquestionable dominance of one party over the other. This taxonomy is basically morally neutral in the sense that it implies no censure of either party. In fact, their intimacies were often romanticized...
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The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., persisting in transmuted forms in the background of stories of rural northern Shaanxi Han, problematizing romanticized notions of a rural proletariat and “going to the countryside.” 21 As “peripheral” areas, northern Shaanxi and other border regions are often portrayed as “ambiguous spaces where cultural...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... universalist discourse of Enlightenment romanticism, on the other. Zhou and other sensualists translated foreign texts and adopted new motifs, themes, and neologisms, all rendered in classical Chinese, as a way of asserting a sense of local agency while pursuing a cosmopolitan and transcultural hybrid project...
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Future Emotions and Senses: Chen Qiufan's Science Fiction of the Anthropocene
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the romanticized, symbolic past of pristine natural landscapes and the urban present transformed and corrupted by modernization. In Chen's “Do You Hear the Fungi Sing?,” however, the native land of Baenl is far more than just a romanticized natural space of nostalgic longing. It is a world of interconnectedness...
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References
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 235–243.
Published: 01 December 2023
... In Cai, Chin ese Literary Mind, 101 26. Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. London: Methuen, 1920. Engell, James. The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Fan, Xiangyong annot. Luoyang qielan ji jiaozhu (Annotated and Collated Record...
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Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... romanticize their aerophilic bias, it should be said that smog life practitioners are often seen wearing masks to protect themselves from the toxic air: a token of compromise resulting from aerophilic-aerophobic negotiation. Here we can frame smog life as the antithesis of avant-garde smog art. Indeed...
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Sinophonic Detours in Colonial Burma: Ai Wu's Transborder Counterpoetics of Trespass
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... into the terrain of colonial discourse in mainland Southeast Asia, but it also captures how Travels in the South transgresses the generic boundaries between social realist fiction and autobiographical travelogue while rerouting romanticized or exoticized poetic lyricism of the non-Chinese “primitive” woman...
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Unfinished Revolutions: Wei Beihua, Chairil Anwar, and the Limits of Realism of Postwar Mahua Literature
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
... with each artist's view of the city and in the way those feelings are expressed. 23 Unsurprisingly, Anwar's writings are highly idiosyncratic and often imbued with varying degrees of expressionism and romanticism. His short life and anecdotes of his intense personality further enhanced...
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Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... paragraph is deduced from the desire to understand and participate in each other's cultural practices, such as weddings and funerals, and to embrace each other's cultures, such as food. My point here is not to romanticize the scene and this village in Xinjiang as some sort of utopia of multiethnicism...
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Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... deriving from or inspired by China's traditions that enjoy the prestige and veneration as being “classical.” Classicism is a nineteenth-century coinage originally used to describe a cultural war happening in France and later in Germany between, on the one hand, Romanticism, which emphasizes...
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