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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... shape our respective racial histories, both in terms of generational trauma and how the white establishment sees us, but huge gaps still remain with respect to the American public's sense of collective responsibility to Asian Americans. Specifically, while this past year's racial reckoning is possible...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 174–196.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Yingjin Zhang Abstract This article examines ways of seeing China in Isaac Julien's nine-screen film installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010), which represents a migratory aesthetic based on evocative translocality and mobile spectatorship. As Julien reconstructs the legend of compassionate Mazu...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Ecocriticism offers a broader horizon than the concept of world literature. Instead of treating culturally bonded beings and political events of a zeitgeist, ecocriticism sees human history and lifeworlds as only one trajectory among myriad evolutions of species and the earth...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Michael O'Krent Abstract This article rethinks the notion of the Sinophone through digital technology by using the Taiwanese videogame Word Game ( Wenzi youxi , Team9, 2022) as a case study. The digital Sinophone sees Chineseness as an act of positive identification claimed by engaging with digital...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
... as much as an art since antiquity, it speaks to a wide range of readers, in China and elsewhere. This article first offers some reflection on the interlingual translation of battler poetry. Extending the discussion to cultural translation, it then considers how foreign audiences can come to see a single...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Haun Saussy Abstract Readers of Chinese poetry in English translation have long been accustomed to seeing Wang Wei's quatrain “Lu zhai” as a microcosm of the Chinese poetic tradition. Thematically, it is also a world in miniature, including an “empty mountain,” “human voices,” and “returning...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jacob Edmond Abstract The term world literature is often used to name the small subset of literary texts that are translated into many languages and circulate globally. One might see the work of the widely translated, globe-trotting poet Bei Dao 北島 (pen name of Zhao Zhenkai 趙振開) as epitomizing...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
... dian 長生殿 (236–37). For a study of the homoerotic relation between Chen Weisong and Xu Ziyun, and how the actor mediates the homosocial relation of the poet, see Volpp, Worldly Stage , 173–213 . 9 I have adopted Patrick Hanan's translation of the story titles, as well as of the passages from...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., 10–11, 17, 22, 55, 57, 73, 84, 181 artificial intelligence, 13, 135–36, 140, 151. See also AI. artisan, 9, 84, 121–24, 133 barefoot doctor, 12, 15n15, 88, 96–97, 99, 102–4, 125 Baudelaire, Charles, 9, 38 Benjamin, Walter, vii, 4, 8, 35–39, 44, 77, 83, 121–23 biopolitical...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 96–121.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the dynamic yi that, like “swirling smoke, rising . . . higher and higher,” propels the final compositional act toward the birth of a finished text (see §94). By envisioning this seamless fusion, Wang has managed to accomplish what eluded his predecessors Lu Ji and Liu Xie: provide a cogent account...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
... . 59 Jin and Liu, “Cong tianxia wanguo dao shije,” 48, 50 . For the representation of the world ( shijie ) in late Qing fiction, see Yan, Cong “shenti” dao “shijie.” Huang Zunxian and Qiu Fengjia, two leading poets of the “Poetic Revolution,” both substantially adopt such neologisms as diqiu...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 157–178.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of the creative mind while composing, a challenge that thwarted Lu Ji and Liu Xie (see §§50–52). Second, the critics who penned these works, often Ming Archaists and their Qing followers and sympathizers, are critics who place a high value on learning poetic art from the Tang masters. To prepare for discussion...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of 1844 , especially in the section “Estranged Labor.” These notes were not published until 1932. See Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts . For a history of happiness in Marx's work, see Ma, “Shilun Makesi xingfuguan de fazhang guiji.” For a book-length study, see Yu, “Ma Kesi xingfuguan de...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the Apollonian veil to see the current climate reality. However, in the case of the meaning-infused Anthropocene crisis, humanity's encounter with climate reality is such a shock that it instinctually triggers a subliminal defense mechanism: a resort to ideas and meanings to protect us from coming to terms...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2022
... can see a discursive and consumptive formation of “wellness” emerging—a compassionate capitalism—which positions wellness as more than bodily health and agility, as, that is, a consumer behavior that includes rather than precludes emotional well-being. Following this recognition, I interrogate how...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to ritualized asceticism, and from aristocratic (and thus vulgar) display of wealth to a royal celebration of purity and introspection. 2 See Ekström, “Sino-methodological Remark.” 3 Wang X., Shi sanjia yi ji shu , 640 . All translations in this study are mine, unless otherwise indicated. 4...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 140–156.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., these three schools each give a different description of the enlightened Dao. In the Confucian and the Daoist canon, we often see the dynamic transformations of yin and yang in bipolar unity, while in the Buddhist canon, we often see tranquil religious contemplation, with the mirror and the lamp as its most...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 220–234.
Published: 01 December 2023
... progression of Spirit toward freedom and self-realization. Schelling shifted attention away in a different direction from Kant's transcendental epistemology to aesthetics, attempting to close the gap between nature and subjectivity by seeing the subjective as having a formative capacity similar...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Young Son], and “Jinkou yugang” 進口浴缸 [An Imported Bathtub]. bbs.tianya.cn/post-funinfo-1387687-1.shtml (accessed August 11, 2022). Shutong 殊同 . “Jiashen nian qiyue xizhan songke” 甲申年七月西站送客 [Seeing Someone Off at the West Station in the Seventh Month of the Jiashen Year]. bbs.tianya.cn/post-no02...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of absence since the Republican era (1911–1949). Not only did the last two decades of the twentieth century see an explosion of literary and filmic portrayals of male same-sex relations in the larger Chinese-speaking world, but many of these representations turned to “old,” “traditional,” and “premodern...