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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Kiu-Wai Chu Abstract This article focuses on Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆 (1981–) short stories to examine the changing environmental messages they convey over the decade 2012–2022. Borrowing environmental philosopher Glenn A. Albrecht's concepts of psychoterratic emotions...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., this article argues that Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆 (1981–) Huangchao 荒潮 (Waste Tide) serves as an exceptional ecological narrative within Chinese science fiction, shedding light on how indifference leads to the invisibility of environmental degradation and the struggles of marginalized groups. Moreover, it reveals...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Cheng Li Abstract By engaging with and bringing together Chinese environmental humanities and science fiction studies, this article argues that the narratives of weather and climate revealed in late Qing science fiction serve as a metonymic vehicle and a medium for addressing China's social...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 ecological dystopia Chinese science fiction The environmental issue has been a pervasive theme in science fiction. Anxiety about climate change, energy depletion, and environmental degradation has given rise to a new genre...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Classified as a colonial novel and published in 1906, science fiction Iceberg and Snow Ocean is one of the very earliest depictions of global climate change in modern Chinese literature. Photo by the author.
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker Abstract This article examines sociopolitical commentary in contemporary Chinese science fiction literature written by authors of the post-1980s generation. With a close reading of Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing, 2014) and Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Melissa A. Hosek Abstract This article reads Liu Cixin's award-winning Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (2007, in English 2014) as a work of climate fiction. By analyzing the novel's portrayal of ecological crisis, dystopian outlook, and inexplicable dream sequences...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... individualism, represented by the Hollywood science fiction model, to inclusive planetarianism. However, the film's persuasiveness is significantly limited by the double-layered restraint imposed on it by the state and the market. This article traces the turn and the restraint to their historical sources...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 285–288.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Cara Healey References Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan , Jr. “ Science Fiction and Empire .” Science Fiction Studies 30 , no. 2 ( 2003 ): 231 – 45 . Kerslake, Patricia . Science Fiction and Empire . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2007 . Rieder, John . Colonialism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2020 . Grusin, Richard , ed. The Nonhuman Turn . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . Heath, Will . “ 5 Groundbreaking Chinese Science Fiction Books .” Books and Bao , February 3 , 2022 . https://booksandbao.com/great-works...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of Difference . Oxford : Blackwell , 1996 . Harvey, David . The Limits to Capital . London : Verso 1999 . Healey, Cara . “ Estranging Realism in Chinese Science Fiction: Hybridity and Environmentalism in Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide .” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 29 , no. 2...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to the scene of the new millennium, observing the dystopian and heterotopian inclinations in fictional practice as opposed to the utopian aspiration in political discourse. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 utopia dystopia dark consciousness enlightenment science fiction Modern Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of a “spectral chronotope,” she reframes haunted narratives as vessels for collective memory. Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker's contribution, “Spatiotemporal Explorations: Narrating Social Inequalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction,” analyzes the fantastic space-time of contemporary Chinese science...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... together literary criticism, science fiction, anthropology, and philosophy in a vibrant disciplinary mix. This humanistic and cultural turn is what the contributions to this special issue aim to achieve. While the contributors are scholars in Chinese studies, their work reflects a transition from...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 86–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and contemporary science fiction from this angle and emphasized the genre's propensity for what she calls “impossible topologies” that can be “layered” as distinct levels in the text or may “collapse” into the same diegetic space-time. 2 While Gomel's fascinating study deals exclusively with sci-fi, I argue...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): vii–viii.
Published: 01 December 2022
... wrote papers that engaged theories of critical ecology to consider contemporary environmental issues in the East and West. Hailing from departments ranging from Asian studies, economics, earth science, anthropology, Modern Thought and Literature, and comparative literature, the students were excited...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Mars find a recent avatar in Elon Musk's recent Space X project to build “a self-sustaining city on Mars.” 1 Such fantasies, be it in aerospace projects or in science fiction, are an illusionary endeavor to evade intractable malaises of Earth. The faith in a new frontier through advanced...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... novella Folding Beijing received a Hugo Award for science fiction in 2016. Unlike Liu, Hao addresses the more intimate realm of the human body and psyche enmeshed with the networks of digital economy, bioengineering, and AI. As a child Hao aspired to be a scientist, and in high school she received...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
...,” both substantially adopt such neologisms as diqiu 地球, quanqiu 全球, dong banqiu 東半球, xi banqiu 西半球, and yazhou 亞洲, among many others. 60 Isaacson, “Science Fiction,” 33–54 ; Pan, “Xingji mihang,” 65–83 . 61 Andrew, “Liu Kuo-sung's Cosmic Landscape,” 60 . 62 This critical...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 221–235.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Translators' Who Reinvented Classic Science Fiction in China .” Gizmodo , April 10 , 2015 . io9.gizmodo.com/the-heroic-translators-who-reinvented-classic-science-1696944844 . Lu Xun 魯迅 . Nahan yu Panghuang 《吶喊》與《徬徨》[ Call to Arms and Wandering ]. Changchun : Jilin daxue chubanshe , 2008...
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