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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
...Ban Wang Abstract Crossing the binary of utopia and dystopia, this article reads Hao Jingfang's (1984–) novel Vagabonds as a critical ecotopia. I explore configurations of social worlds and eschew the politics of purity by highlighting the complexities of building a utopia while navigating...
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Utopian Dream and Dark Consciousness: Chinese Literature at the Millennial Turn
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 136–156.
Published: 01 March 2019
...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era...
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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
... on this-worldly pleasure and otherworldly sin have merged in exorcising the myth of Mao's revolutionary utopia. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 Li Zehou Liu Zaifu religion transcendence aesthetics The unfolding of the 1980s New Enlightenment is often narrated as a rationalization process...
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Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 285–288.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., and ultimately unsustainable. For Andolfatto, quoting Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science Fiction , utopia is “the verbal construction of a particular quasi-human community where sociopolitical institutions, norms, and individual relationships are organized according to a more perfect principle than...
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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
..., and the balance between society and nature. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 ecotopia dystopia Cold War self-realization freedom Utopia can serve the negative purpose of making us aware of our mental and ideological imprisonment . . . the best Utopias...
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Reinventing “Nature”: A Study of Ecotopian and Cultural Imaginaries in Hong Kong Literature
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to different moments in Hong Kong history. The author finds that the ecocritical turn in Hong Kong literature has opened a new space for Hong Kong's postcolonial identity. The connections between utopias and the natural world, the reflections offered by nature at various historical turning points...
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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
.... Literary scholars complicate this by reading for elements of utopia. For more, see Thieret, “Society and Utopia in Liu Cixin,” 34–36 ; Moran, “Perverse Utopianism of Willed Human Extinction,” 122–35 ; Song, “Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem ,” 107–25 ; and Li, “Political Imagination in Liu Cixin's...
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 March 2022
... continuity over rupture. Although an account of Mao's China guided with this integrative approach may seem teleological to some, Utopian Ruins points to a perpetual tendency throughout the socialist period: first, utopia is both means and ends; second, the predominance of utopia directly leads to a denial...
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Introduction: Chronotopia: Urban Space and Time in Twenty-First-Century Sinophone Film and Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2022
... . “ Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias ,” translated by Jay Miskowiec . Diacritics 16 , no. 1 ( 1986 ): 22 – 27 . Geroch, Robert . General Relativity from A to B . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1978 . Gomel, Elana . Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible...
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Can a Revolutionary Be Happy?: The Debate on Happiness in 1960s China
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... In the edited volume Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style , authors trace a simplified, standardized version of happiness promoted by the state and embraced by individuals. In the positive emotions encouraged through literature, art, film, advertising, and daily life practices such as cooking, the volume...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... fiction and the environment. In the story, a global ice age descends on and endangers China, compelling the Chinese to search for a milder climate and to create a utopia for themselves as well as colonized races. Offering both a nationalist solution and a critique of Western imperialism and colonialism...
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Introduction
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
... also enhance the noncoercive livability of queer and other lives in the Chinese-speaking world and elsewhere. 1 On “heuristic device,” see Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern ; my thanks to Li Guo for bringing this book to my attention. On “aesthetic force,” see Muñoz, Cruising Utopia ; my...
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Take the Elevator to Tomorrow: Mobile Space and Lingering Time in Contemporary Urban Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 86–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in relation to certain ends (transport, transit, commerce, leisure),” 22 such as airports and supermarkets, “Mute Doors” describes a world where such non-places have colonized even the most intimate spheres of urban life. The fundamental notion that non-place is “the opposite of utopia: it exists...
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Index
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Problem , The (Liu), vii, 152 Tu Weiming, 27, 47 Tucker, Mary Evelyn, 17–18, 34n1 utopia, 37, 83, 106, 164–65, 167–68, 175, 180n3 Vagabonds (Hao), 13–14, 159, 164, 166, 170, 179. See also Liulang canqiong . virtue, 4, 17–18, 21–22, 51, 63, 74n61, 95 von Liebig, Justus, 6...
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The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in Post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
... it a utopia in progress, often by eulogizing the lives of farmers. This was done with the aim of solidifying an imagined Manchukuo nationality. This project came to a sudden end, however, when the imperial system collapsed in August 1945. It was now communism that would soon take root throughout the region...
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Chapter Four: We Are the Dragon King
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... cultural and natural. While interconnected with yet dependent on nonhuman worlds, the human species applies transformative labor to nature to meet the basic needs as well as to coevolve with nonhuman realms. In his critique of the capitalist production and projection of ecological utopia, Walter...
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Rethinking “Subjectivity” in Literature: Liu Zaifu's Theoretical Construction and Cultural Reflection
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 March 2020
... revolutionary subjects and romantic roles be excluded? To put it another way, when Liu repudiated the homogeneous, sublime literary figures created in a revolutionary utopia, he instead invented an artistic utopia in which subjects were also romanticized as being endowed with purity, self-determination...
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Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 255–259.
Published: 01 March 2022
... themselves wholeheartedly to transforming wasteland into “the socialist industrial utopia” (186). As Zhang sees it, emotion has a special role in these cinematic representations: train compartments as well as construction sites are all presented as spaces where “quotidian sentiments such as camaraderie...
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Panorama as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... for official urban policy. (In parallel, artists created flawed displays to criticize the notion of readymade utopia. 29 ) The models are often placed below the visitors or literally under their feet, recalling the models' provenance in aerial photography and celebrating the planners' control over urban...
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Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
... pollution depicted in the novel enables the Chinese to redefine their linguistic practice, openly labeling the West as barbarian. In doing so, an invented utopia of clean air in New Story of the Stone establishes an episteme of otherness and reframes a narrative of Chinese civilizational superiority...
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