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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 221–235.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 translation voice Lu Xun Yan Lianke subaltern A translation issues from the original—not so much from its life as from its afterlife. —Walter Benjamin At first glance, the English title of Leo Ou-fan Lee's 李歐梵 1987 study of Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
... is such that the argument may hold for material in other languages as well. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lingnan University 2023 battler poetry migrant worker poetry translation subalternity Zheng Xiaoqiong life You all don't know but my name is now hidden in a work ID...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2019
... move me to raise the awkward question again and to add another. Do we read Xu's poetry just because he killed himself—and perhaps, in a vector that is not at play for Haizi, just because he was a migrant worker and his story perfectly captures the suffering of the subaltern? Copyright © 2019...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... Two middle-aged, corpulent officials arrive with a huge entourage and an array of armed guards. As they inquire about food shortage in disaster areas, the answer from the cultural and scientific elite is “things are okay.” The flying chariot delivers food every few weeks. Although the subalterns feed...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
....” The flying chariot delivers food every few weeks. Although the subalterns feed on leaves and weeds, one expert, schooled on Shennong bencao 神農本草 (Materia Medica of Emperor Shennon), talks glibly like a nutritionist about the health benefits of weed eating: vitamin W in elm leaves and iodine in seaweed...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
...-called discovery of landscape in Chinese literature from this era, including the literature written by Korean-Chinese writers, further relied on the emergence of the perspective of the subaltern, or laboring people. This is clearly visible in the opening passage of Ryŏm Horyŏl's “Sogol Pass” (Sogollyŏng...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
... for fantasy reflects their sense of powerlessness in confronting their problems in daily life. As compared to those implausibly happy endings in main melody films exemplified by Nongmingong 農民工 (Rural-Migrant Workers, dir. Chen Jun, 2008), this magical ending is not less convincing. See Sun, Subaltern...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the welfare state was just a spatiotemporal blip has gained broad currency as scholars have begun to argue that the precarian is essentially the new subaltern: a broad category encompassing all those whom power excludes and betrays, and whose existence long predates the coining of the term. Yet...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... worker” ( dianying mingong 電影民工). 18 (In fact, both migrant work and cinema concern movement and labor.) This preference also resonates with Jia's long-standing interest in representing the subaltern class against the backdrop of China's economic reforms and opening up. Comparable to Hegel's theory...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . 12 Sun, Subaltern China , 11 . 13 Joniak-Lüthi, Han , 105 . See also Heberer, China and Its National Minorities ; Thierry, “Empire and Minority in China.” 14 Wu, Reinventing Chinese Tradition , 15 . See also Wang, “He Shang,” 28 . 15 Anagnost, National Past-Times...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... with the process of intellectual identification that takes place across empires. The special issue concludes with two articles, respectively by Maghiel van Crevel and Hangping Xu, that examine two contemporary Chinese poets on the periphery or subaltern poets: the migrant worker poet Zheng Xiaoqiong and the poet...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the dangers lurking behind the immigrant workers' double handicap of their subaltern race and gender, voiced in remarks by Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney overseeing the cases of four Korean victims: “Four women in my county woke up and they went to work. And they did not come home...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the Luo clan and the abject yet digitally savvy subalterns. His apps enable them to connect and unite to confront their oppressors. Mimi, the waste girl who “turns into a posthuman after much suffering,” takes over as the leader of the popular revolt. 23 In the moment of her rape and death, she...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... status and the ever-present possibility of a sudden plummet downward,” and how this fear of collapsed social distinctions may shape Chinese artists' and viewers' “cruel or disdainful gaze” toward contemporary subalterns such as waste pickers. 18 Winn et al., Koneman's Color Atlas , 2 . 17...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Six's unreflective arrogance toward the subaltern suggests the film's inability to critically engage with the divided realities in contemporary China and unmasks its collage of social headlines as mere fetishization. As for the second line of cultural memory, Mr. Six evokes the dayuan narratives...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... reannexation and the end of human rights and democracy instead of the end of British colonial rule. Similarly a binary vocabulary of domination and resistance, theorized in classic subaltern studies, cannot explain the difference between Taiwanese and Korean responses to Japanese imperialism. While...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
....” In New Story of the Stone , by controlling air pollution, the Chinese not only have created a congenial environment but also have inverted their discursively subaltern position from the barbarian to the civilized. The ability to control air pollution depicted in the novel enables the Chinese to redefine...
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