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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 183–198.
Published: 01 March 2020
... took advantage of the peripheries of both Western and Chinese cultures to discover the location of the “third zone” from which to return to the original self and the pure heart influenced by Zen Buddhism. In his third life journey, he completely identified with a cosmopolitan status, which enabled him...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... wanwu 一生二,二生三,三生萬物). It means that all richness and infinity come from the three. I regarded the three as the third area that is in opposition to the dichotomy. I realized that this area is boundless, and it is beyond language to describe how vast it is. Therefore, I chose this third zone ( disan...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
...), Liu values the philosophy of “three” in Taoism. From this inspiration, he advocates a “third zone” ( disan kongjian 第三空間), emerging from and existing between two opposite poles. 15 By introducing the term into the literary realm, he intends to propose a great liberation of literary expression...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... reside and environmentally pleasant conditions and modern amenities prevail. Life is good, comfortable, and facilitated by high-tech robots. Second Space seems to be a middle passage for social mobility. Third Space at the bottom is the garbage dump for the other two spaces, and waste workers...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
... reoriented by a communion with “cesium ground.” Let's look first at her foil, Sendō. The novel makes him the mouthpiece for a solid biopolitical critique of Japan's Fukushima recovery policy. He keeps abandoned cattle alive to protest the bare life to which the exclusion zone's human population has now...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Zong-qi Cai Speaking from my own experience, I can vouch for the enormous benefits of exploring different theoretical orientations and professional positionings at different phases of one's career. If we could leave the comfort zone of our usual theoretical and professional positions, I believe...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., a territorial gateway, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, a “state of exception,” and an imaginary portal. In eleven essays, this issue explores the intersection of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland, from the Northeast to the Southwest...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 260–297.
Published: 01 October 2019
... experiences of uncertainty, disposability, and vulnerability as artistic themes. Rather, they are places in which precarity can be felt as an atmospheric trepidation, as a force that can change our social point of origin, and thus as a zone of mounting interclass conflict. In The Mushroom at the End...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of knowledge as de facto frames of reference. The challenge, according to Chen, is “multiplying the objects of identification and constructing alternative frames of reference” 2 —constructing a new practice of thought whereby Asia and the third world can constitute primary conceptual frameworks for their own...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., however, with a population of nearly six million and a per capita GDP (adjusted for purchasing power parity) of nearly US$100,000, it also has the second-highest population density and the third-highest per capita GDP of any sovereign state 2 —meaning that it has both the means and the motivation...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
... fierce in the development zone beyond the factory the lychee trees are felled the machines around her are shaking . . . she kneads her eyes red and swollen then takes her self and sticks it in between the products flowing by woman worker: youth fixed in a seat I noted above...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that led to “repeated mutual adaptations of countless groups and individuals across plastic intermediate zones.” 20 Within this milieu, the potential “threat” of ethnic others becomes submerged, persisting in transmuted forms in the background of stories of rural northern Shaanxi Han, problematizing...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
... memory or the materiality of technological or cultural forms. The so-called shatter zones—“strategic inter-imperial zones, again and again vied over for their resources and their geographic location”—provide a particularly rich reserve of these memories and cultural forms. 14 Third, Doyle suggests...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
... with the Barbarous World. Whereas Liang Qichao launches his search for the perfect future order with the narrative device of a future perfect tense, Wu situates his ideal kingdom in the fold of multiple time zones. I argue that the two narrative strategies indicate the bifurcated developments of modern Chinese...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... into Chinese should be regarded as “a poetic exploration of the rhizomatic, subterranean, nomadic, and unconscious zones of language.” 5 Indeed, Pound's poetic practice “points us in the direction of a world literature that is inherently translational and multilingual.” 6 Covering a fascinating archive...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... conglomerates, he wandered the vast interiors of third world countries like a hungry hunter” (171). From the Amazon rainforests to the prairies of Mozambique, from the slums of southern India to the waters of Southeast Asia, Brandle acts like a con artist, selling lovely futures to local governments...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
...”) and logia (-λογια, “branch of study”), 19 mesology seeks to highlight the contact zones between nature and culture of any given space and investigate the formations arising therefrom. In this study, I venture to highlight the Chinese equivalent to mesology, fengtu 風土. Fengtu is a compound phrase...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... . . . Connect Histories .” Journal of Asian Studies 74 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 43 – 67 . Dirlik, Arif . “ How the Grinch Hijacked Radicalism: Further Thoughts on the Postcolonial .” Postcolonial Studies 2 , no. 2 ( 1999 ): 149 – 63 . Dirlik, Arif . “ The Postcolonial Aura: Third World...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
... already surpassed with the worldwide collapse of communism in 1991? Is it not an obsolete term—like its conceptual byproduct, the so-called third world, which has been replaced by analytic categories such as the Global South, center/periphery, and the multitude? Is it useful to think about the Cold War...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of “bare life,” see Trevor Parfitt's “Are the Third World Poor Homines Sacri ?” 46 Davis, “Planet of Slums,” 19 . 47 Krstic, Slums on Screen , 141 . 48 Ibid., 143. 16 Ibid. 15 Ibid. 14 Stam, Porton, and Goldsmith, Keywords , 226 . 13 Chinese film...
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