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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shirley O. Lua Abstract This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning movement were included in the anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology (2012), edited by Charles A. Tan...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
...-language Singaporean flash fiction to English-language Philippine speculative fiction, and from 1920s poems composed in a Batavian-Hokkien creole to midcentury Chinese-language elegies memorializing the deaths of dozens of teachers and students in Penang, in what is now Malaysia. Several articles focus...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...-starring-in-every-movie-ever-made-a-diversity-hashtag-is-born.html . Roh, David S. , Betsy Huang , and Greta A. Niu . “ Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction .” In Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media , edited by David S. Roh , Betsy Huang...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... literature, classical Chinese and Sino-Malay poetry, flash fiction, Philippine-Chinese speculative fiction). Together, the contributions demonstrate the diverse ways in which adopting a multiscalar Southeast Asian perspective can reorient us, those who study the regional literary formation, toward new routes...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Atlanta Asian Spa Shootings Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know .” Heavy.com . https://heavy.com/news/robert-aaron-long/ (accessed March 28 , 2022 ). Roh, David , Betsy Huang , and Greta Niu , eds. Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of fictional genre to enlighten the reading public. Yet their “education of the novel” was far from complete, as New Literature writers found fictional expressions primarily in the form of the short story, with strong undertones of individualism, subjective lyricism, and elitism. By focusing on Mao Dun's 茅盾...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 201–204.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Chun-Ting Chang Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China Ellen Widmer Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 329 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 In this book examining the transition from traditional...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 86–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of space and time to the study of the (fictional) city, this article employs an analysis centered on the figure of the elevator to explore how literary narratives can help expand our understanding of space-time as an intuitive and quotidian fact of existence. In a comparative study of Taiwanese author Wu...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 236–259.
Published: 01 October 2019
...—such as art or fiction or storytelling —might profitably be substituted in its place. We might distill the criteria for defining the hoax to: the intention to deceive; the presumption that the target is unaware of the attempt to deceive; and the staging of a drama to effect the deception...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Bodies, and Sexuality in East Asia,” with essays by Ikuo Shinjo, Rey Chow, and Chang-Min Yu, turns to the corporeal aspects of fiction and cinema emerging from sites scarred by colonization and war. The third, “Disjunctive Alignments: Critical Aesthetics and Social Movements in East Asia,” offers...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 251–254.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., “Xiao Hong's depiction of reading the works of American leftist writers reveals the imaginative potential of proletarian fiction. The effect of this phenomenon is to create a shared readership among the marginalized” (39). Significantly, Iwasaki's own analysis illustrates how productive an attentive...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
.../state, and, most important, a speculative art of the immemorial and unthinkable, best manifests the politics and poetics of borderland studies in the Chinese/Sinophone context. Literature serves as the venue in which encounters and entanglements—for good or ill—happen. As demonstrated by these eleven...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 2019
...) of other organisms is viral in origin, leading some microbiologists to speculate that many of the critical evolutionary advances that have generated the current diversity of the world's organisms are the result of a steady accretion of viral infections that, over time, leave their mark on the host...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... definition, the cyborg is “a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” 20 Based on human-prosthesis interface through the use of genetic, biological, and digital technologies, the cyborg is a mode of capitalist production “decoupled from organic...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
... speculations about shijie . More interesting, viewing and understanding the earth from a higher place or from the Other's perspective subscribes to a time-honored rhetorical device and poetic persona, working to strike intimate, sympathetic reverberations with the earth and the moon, extraterrestrial...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to the laws of the genre. Instead of contemplating cautiously reforming the fu in conformity with his critique and his own wishes, he simply abandons it and turns to esoteric speculations in the vein of Zhou yi 周易 (Zhou Changes). Knechtges and Swanson have identified an important question, not only...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
...: Theory, Culture, Ethnicity, Reading . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . 1998 . Chung, Ling . “ Perspective and Spatiality in the Fiction of Three Hong Kong Women Writers .” In Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals , edited by Michael S. Duke , 217 – 35 . Armonk, NY...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Chinese earthquake). Although Smith insisted that our “active principles” dictate that we should sacrifice one's own interests in favor of the greater interests of others, his speculation that one might indeed remain blithely oblivious in the face of millions of Chinese deaths proved to be oddly...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... “technologies of orthography” pivoting on the Sinograph across three modalities of Sinophone expression: Taiwanese concrete poetry, transnational Chinese text-based art, and ludic mediatizations of the written script. It then speculates on the social psychological meaning of the spectacularized Sinograph...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of neoliberalism's politics of life, which entrenches ideas of speculative preemption and catastrophe risk so as to disable a counterpolitics. What we can further emphasize is the real geography that underlies the post-9/11 biosecurity imagination. Despite rather postmodern descriptions of Al-Qaeda as a fluid...
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