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Unnatural Causes: Racial Taxonomies, Pandemic, and Social Contagion
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Patrice D. Douglass Abstract This essay approaches Blackness as a social contagion to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence. By placing the COVID-19 deaths of Black people who are refused hospital treatment in critical conversation with police murders during...
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Indifference as Alienation in Chen Qiufan's Science Fiction Waste Tide
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to the phenomenon of slow violence becoming “out of sight.” In its refusal to take responsibility, this type of indifference fails to acknowledge or realize the unequal social structures and systems that have become accepted as “natural” or commonplace. Drawing on the perspective of the Frankfurt school...
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The Analogy of Race and Species in Animal Studies
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of considering the lifeworlds, histories, and social and cultural significance of nonhuman animals (emphasizing nonhuman , as these fields assert that humans are one among many animals), animal studies research advances an ethical project via comparisons to racial oppression and violence. Although...
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Grief, Translation, and the “Asian American Woman” in Hong Kong
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Grace En-Yi Ting Abstract This article draws on Judith Butler's theories of violence and grief in order to outline a self-reflexive narrative of teaching and speaking about the Atlanta shootings of March 2021 as a queer and feminist studies scholar of Japanese studies in Hong Kong. The article...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... position. 3 This strange intrusion of professional sports into US-China relations may seem an odd anecdote to begin a discussion of our current era of anti-Asian violence, but it is a telling example of how American tendencies to position China as the antithesis of liberal democracy only expose...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ban Wang Abstract Touting the technological fix for environmental crises overlooks the role of society, history, culture, production, and geography. Anthropocene , presuming all civilizations as ecologically destructive, ignores the historical, social, and cultural differences in human-nature...
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“And This Is What He Did”
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Emma J. Teng Abstract This article asks how the category of “mixed race” can help us think through the recent spate of violence against Asian Americans, culminating in the Atlanta mass shootings of March 2021. It further reflects on a tension within mixed-race studies: whereas mixed-race theory...
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Postornamentality: Ajumma Fabulosity and the Art of Wearing a Visor with Ferocity
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... And yet, in the wake of the 2021 shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, which primarily targeted women of Asian descent, the notion of ornamentalism is rendered nearly irrelevant in the face of ghastly violence against hard-working, nonornamental bodies of Asian/Asian American women. Navigating through the debris...
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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
..., Humankind, and Slow Violence in Chinese Science Fiction. ” Communication and Public 3 , no. 4 ( 2018 ): 270 – 82 . Moore, Jason . Capitalism in Web of Life: Ecology and Accumulation of Capital. London : Verso , 2015 . Nixon, Rob . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor...
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Ecology, (Post)Humanism, and Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
... understanding of the world. Bruno Latour argues that modernity is plagued with a problem of understanding. In We Have Never Been Modern he argues that our so-called modern ways of knowing the world are incongruous with reality: “Our intellectual life is out of kilter. Epistemology, the social sciences...
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Introduction: Ground and Background
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 March 2022
... nationwide debate over violence and structural racism. In the latter incident, a twenty-one-year-old man went to three spas and massage parlors in the Atlanta area, where he shot and killed eight individuals, six of whom were Asian women working at the spas: Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha...
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Latour, Tiananmen, and Glass Slippers; or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Chinese Studies
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... commitments. Longxi Zhang finds it frustrating that instead of confronting the dramatic events and the larger political and social forces that had shaped them in Beijing, Rey Chow concerns herself primarily with their portrayals in Western media, decrying its proclivity to turn turmoil and crises...
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Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 289–292.
Published: 01 March 2021
... their ghosts are denied in pubic discourses. Conceptualizing the photo-form and its indexicality, the book presents an interdisciplinary study of contemporary Chinese culture that involves historical violence, trauma, memories, and their adaptations and remediations. Chapter 1 discusses how public secrecy...
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Introduction: Between the Universal and the Particular
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... studies. Ahuja concludes by considering how three recent works by Black Studies scholars address the relationship between concepts of race and species within Animal Studies and then brings these questions to bear on the critique of racialized police violence at the heart of the recent wave of social...
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Chapter One: Confucianism and Nature: Ecological Motifs in Kang Youwei's Great Community
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Environmental writers have sought to retrieve ecological wisdom from traditional Chinese thought to critique anthropocentrism, but the rediscoveries remain a disembodied discourse and ignore the relationships among humans: the political, social, and economic structures and power...
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The Failure of the May Fourth Movement and My Two Struggles
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... was not labeled a rightist. Up to today, we are allowed to say only that people are the sum of social relations, but not the sum of individual existences. From the 1950s to the 1970s, instead of discussing humanity, individuality, subjectivity, spirituality, and intelligence, we could talk only about party nature...
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Pleasure and Sin: Li Zehou, Liu Zaifu, and the Political-Theological Motif in Post-Mao Cultural Reflections
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that strove to replace the sacred aura of Mao's revolution with secular humanism. While humanist writers created “scar literature” to address human abuses and mass violence conducted in the name of a holy revolution, 1 reformist thinkers came to regard the religious aura of Maoism as remnants of feudal...
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Epilogue
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... accumulation, profit, and growth to the destruction of ecospheres and human communities. Alternatively, eco-socialism sees humans as an organism integral to nature but believes that human production must protect human lives and community from nature's blind forces in order to survive and to thrive. The utopian...
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Fluid Horizons: Oceanic Epistemologies and Sinophone Literature
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that allows their authors to critique (neo)colonial violence, the irruption of modernity, and especially the rigors of land-based and supposedly stable epistemologies. Against these, Rapongan and Ng posit what I call oceanic epistemologies, that is, systems and methods of knowledge drawn from and intertwined...
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Co-opting the International Writing Program during the Cold War: Gu Cangwu, the Baodiao Movement, and Minjian Activism
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
... back in Hong Kong. Upon his return home, Gu wrote increasingly socially engaged poetry during the 1970s, a shift from his earlier, lyric-driven verse, and he composed poems explicitly critical of US foreign policy. He also viewed the Baodiao movement as setting a precedent for future social movements...
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