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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
...-century China found themselves lured by the call of the nation and the state. They realized that the individual could hardly be defined as an identifiable self but was invariably engaged in moral, political, and historical responsibilities. In the New Era of the 1980s, many thinkers ruminated...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...). [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 ecotopia dystopia Cold War self-realization freedom Utopia can serve the negative purpose of making us aware of our mental and ideological imprisonment . . . the best Utopias are those that fail most comprehensively...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 March 2019
... depersonalization and individuation and regards the merging of individuals into the collective as “the mutually constitutive relationship between self-realization and self-disavowal” (16). This book aims at “excavating and categorizing the early twentieth-century crowd discourse” (5) and follows a chronological...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 197–200.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Song; 1957) marks a further movement toward interiority and away from national concerns. Known for its lyrical depiction of personal awareness and emotion, this novel of education, romance, and self-realization became a best seller in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. Following the discussion of Ni...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
... secular, 14, 44–45, 55–56, 76, 122, 186 self-realization, 106, 167–68, 170–71, 174–75 sentient ecology, 4–5, 12, 27, 57. See also qi . Shapiro, Judith, 75–76, 85n17 socialism, 31, 76, 78, 108, 186 substantive rationality, 5, 14, 20, 44, 185–86 superstition, 11, 14, 35–36, 38, 40, 42–45...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
... embody the history of the members of the post-1990s generation who were born into a globalized age of consumption and material progress. For many, aspirations, ambitions, or anxieties revolve around reaching financial independence, self-realization, and freedom of choice. Such ambitions, in turn, require...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
... happiness. This valorization of labor stands in the long tradition of labor in modern China. Socialist thinkers have long aspired to a collective of unalienated and self-directed labor as the medium for self-realization. In the 1920s Li Dazhao 李大釗 (1889–1927) and Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 (1868–1940) proclaimed...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 220–234.
Published: 01 December 2023
... inherited from Kant, turning it into a movement from objective to subjective that could then be used to explain human history as a continual and necessary progression of Spirit toward freedom and self-realization. Schelling shifted attention away in a different direction from Kant's transcendental...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and then fades from the story. Whether he will realize his “Shanghai dream” like Shanqing or become another Puzhai remains a mystery. Wu Songqiao 吳松橋 arrives in the city earlier than Puzhai and Xiaocun and has already become a clerk in the foreign-funded Fidelity Company before the novel begins. It is not until...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and animals.” 2 “Inherently anthropocentric in its customary focus on a personal development, family, the social and the political,” the classical novel is singularly obsessed with the human self, society, and history. 3 The central protagonist figures less as a cosmopolitan citizen than as a member...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... perpetuated by capitalism's self-reproduction. The preoccupation with time and nostalgia also characterizes the cultural reminiscences of post-socialist China. The Cultural Revolution (1967–76) dominated the mainstream discourses in its aftermath, and with the Open Door policy of the 1980s, a sense...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and genetic reconstruction of humanoids undermines the human self-image and blurs the boundaries between human and machine. The creation of AI humanoids cancels out as well as foregrounds the essential needs of human emotional reciprocity and the ritual of working through the trauma of sickness and death...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... you will fight to realize communism. These two perspectives both seem to be logical. In the end, what is the correct way to think about them? 44 It is difficult for some students to accept the logic of self-sacrifice, Hu explains. They feel it is reasonable for people to work and live...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... not give up. In the free environment abroad, I once again called for the spirit of the May Fourth enlightenment and once again strove for the return of humanity and individuality. If the focus of the first struggle was return, my second struggle was more about exile. I realized that there is no flow...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 204–219.
Published: 01 December 2023
... way of writing to the legendary swordsmanship of the Women of Yue, seeing both as evidence of inborn artistic genius. In the opinion of Wei Yuan, Gong's uninhibited style of self-expression demonstrates not only his artistic genius but also his defiance of literary and social conventions. “His...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the first transition considered here occurred in the late 1970s, with a recognition of the role of the land (nature and the nonhuman world) in shaping the self and the city. This is the focus of Wu Xubin's 吳煦斌 (1949–) stories, which were published in the early days of Hong Kong's urbanization. These can...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... anniversary of the June Fourth democracy movement, as well as Liu's self-exile; the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (1949); and most important, the centennial of the May Fourth movement (1919). Juxtaposed against one another, these dates compel us to reflect...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
... delineation of the look, Sartre analyzes intercorporeal relations through the privileged act of looking, emphasizing that taking the Other's viewpoint gives rise to reflective self-consciousness. Qian Zhongshu takes inspiration here from the perceptual confrontation with the other, but without subscribing...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 122–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
... tells us how, as a result of sustained immersion in classics for years, he now writes vigorously, as if spurred by a vast, flood-like torrent, and with great abandon. In section 5, we finally realize that Han is actually adopting Mencius's notion of flood-like lifebreath to characterize the source...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... an illusory search for a dream without historical grounding. Communist revolution, by contrast, represents a project that is to be realized in accordance with a preordained timetable. Western Marxists from Ernst Bloch to Fredric Jameson tend to ascribe a positive value to utopia and treat revolution...
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