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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 3. Motion capture technology in the 2016 version of Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind , starring kunqu actor Shi Xiaomei (right) in the role of Liu Mengmei. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron.
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 10. Multiplying red frames allude to facial recognition technology in Two or Three Things about Interrupted Dream , 2021. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron.
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Writing in the Digital Sand: Technological Transformation and Classicist Poetry Writing in China's Fluid Cyberspace
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 341–366.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Zhiyi Yang Abstract This article examines the interface, power structure, and media technology of the digital platforms that have enabled the production and dissemination of Chinese internet classicist poetry, born in the late 1990s, as well as the impact that technological evolution bears on its...
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Figure 11. A reference to recognition technologies and the chair as a material signifier of authority in Two or Three Things about Interrupted Dream , 2021. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron.
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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
... of Western culture. If we say that, in a global context, the westernization movement revealed that China's weapons and technologies were not as good as others' and the Wuxu Reform revealed that China's systems were not as good as others', then the May Fourth movement revealed that China's culture...
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Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-ecological Writer
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...
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Gaming Sinographs beyond the Ludic: Word Game and the Digital Sinophone
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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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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
... through finding mutual enhancements of spiritualism and technologism. By examining the interplay between modernity and tradition, technology and superstition, and by reinventing the spirit of Chinese native-soil and hometown writing, Chen Qiufan's short stories of psychoterratic emotions and senses urge...
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Chapter Two: Lu Xun's Mytho-ecological Refutation of Technocrats
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... recovered images of the ancient world where rural folks lived in intimacy with nature, worshiped supernatural beings, and observed time-honored rituals. Linking the myth of progress and technology to a chorus of “malevolent voices” by a “hypocrite gentry,” Lu Xun urged that we should rid of ourselves...
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Chapter Eight: Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia in Chen Qiufan
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the natural environment. Technical advances—artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, biochemical technologies, and cyborg construction—aggravate metabolic rifts in the human-nature relations, threatening human bodies, regional culture, and local traditions. Driven by profit motives and the desire...
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Introduction
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Taking issue with Anthropocene , deep ecology, and technological determinism, the introduction lays out this work's framework composed of the Marxist ecological notions of metabolic rift, the romantic legacy, and the Frankfurt School's critical ecology. Under capitalism...
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Surface Classicism: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Remediation in Digitally Enhanced Chinese Performance
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that the mobilization of digital performance technologies in Zhici qinglü and other contemporary large-scale performance in the PRC generates what might be termed “surface classicism”—an engagement with the past that sublimates elements of classical art and literature into the realm of digitally enhanced visuality...
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Greenwashing, Simulated Green, and Beyond: Yi-fu Tuan and His Embodied Simulation of Habitats
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 103–115.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of greenwashing compares the terms greening and greenwashing , followed by a critique of “simulated green” and Yi-fu Tuan's 段義孚 (1930–2022) approach to simulated habitats. It explores the ambiguous role of technological determinism in China's modernization drive and seeks to dissect the nature of the “telescopic...
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Ecological Utopia and Dystopia in Chinese Science Fiction
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
... entangled complicity and ambiguity between utopia and dystopia. The Mars Republic in the novel represents an ecotopia built through advanced technologies, where Martians adapt to the arid environment in contrast with the environmentally degraded earth. The novel portrays encounters, shocks, and mutual...
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Life outside the Dome: The Possibility of Aerophilia in the Anthropocene
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of technological modernity, today's air-pollution-induced smog life is in actuality an invitation to explore other cognitive possibilities for air beyond the scientific. The hidden ecological consciousness and its discourse help subvert the cyberization of life and the legitimacy of an exclusive scientific...
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Acoustically Embodied: Film Adaptations of Radio Storytelling in 1950s Hong Kong
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
... exemplary radio stories-turned-films, Niehai chihun 孽海痴魂 (A Devoted Soul; 1949) and Cimu lei 慈母淚 (A Mother's Tears; 1953), and scrutinizes their transmedial/transnational adaptation trajectories to shed light on intermedia aesthetic criticisms. This article describes how film technology reconstituted...
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Chapter Ten: Critical Ecotopia in Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...
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The Digital Classicism of the Cantonese Opera Film White Snake
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2023
... opera film as continuing the tradition of experimenting with the White Snake theme, using the genres of local opera and opera film, and special and visual effects enabled by the newest technology. It then moves to a close reading of a series of danmu , anonymous live comments on the Cantonese opera film...
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The Thrill of Becoming: Writing Poetry in Digital Times
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to evolve, how do these ongoing manifestations and technological transformations impact the landscape of poetry writing, and how do researchers answer these new challenges? This essay sketches the trajectory of change of modern old-style poetry and new-style poetry in response to the changing times...
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Avant-Garde Anachronism: Dream of the Red Chamber in the Forty-Ninth Century
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... also enacts a meta-reflection on the existential condition of literature in cyberspace, where digital technologies make it possible for literary productions to take alternative forms, to roam around, and to dissolve when the exigency of socio-historical circumstances necessitates. The digital world...
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