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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Cross-connections among nature, culture, war, and humans.
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 394–410.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Ko Chia-Cian; Sun Pingyu Abstract As a Chinese-medium educational institution, Chung Ling High School (CLHS) in Penang enjoyed an illustrious reputation in the Malayan era. During the fall of Penang in World War II, the deaths of eight teachers and forty-six students from CLHS marked a painful...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 408–431.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Petrus Liu Abstract This essay proposes a reconceptualization of the Cold War as a critical methodology for the study of contemporary Chinese-language cultures and literatures. Arguing that the Cold War is not over but simply transformed, the author redefines it as an enduring “problematic...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2020
...James Shea Abstract This article examines the Hong Kong writer Gu Cangwu 古蒼梧 (1945–) and his grassroots activism during the Cold War, namely, his appropriation of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (IWP). At the IWP from 1970 to 1971, Gu grew critical of US foreign policy...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shuang Shen Abstract This article addresses the neglect toward popular literary networks with Hong Kong in the Cold War period by influential Mahua scholars. Aiming to make way for a more robust discourse of cultural politics in tandem with a regional conceptualization of Sinophone cultural...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Jianing Tuo Abstract The Mengjiang 蒙疆 puppet regime was established in Inner Mongolia by Japanese colonizers, in collaboration with the Mongolian Prince Demchugdongrub, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Mengjiang regime tried to revive Mongolian culture in the name of resisting Chinese...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 368–389.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in the new millennium. The essay aims to denaturalize the idea of infectious disease by reframing it as an assemblage of multiple histories of American geopower and biopower from the Cold War to the War on Terror. In particular, Asia and Asian bodies have been targeted by US discourses of infection...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 114–137.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... This article further investigates how such medium self-reflexivity in the form of voice-overs destabilized the Manichean structure of melodrama as an established genre in Cantonese cinema, thus making space for forms of female agency amidst contending ideologies in early Cold War. References Brooks...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Po performs the male character Liang Shanbo, Zhu's lover. In addition to the “queer” imagination generated by Ling's cross-dressing performance, the author considers how the feminine tone of Love Eterne allowed the Taiwanese audience to escape from masculine war preparations. Although the Kuomintang...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Rather than a war against nature, a genuine production is premised on the humanization of nature by producing use values while changing human inner nature. Socialist production strives to achieve an ecologically sound economy whereby labor on nature is in sync with the realization...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 1. Cross-connections among nature, culture, war, and humans. ...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
... logic. The author argues that Wu's novel succeeds in this endeavor by depicting local and global processes of settler-colonial decolonization and indicting epistemologies of “radioactive racism” that view Pacific islands as “empty” of life, logics that rationalized US Cold War nuclear tests...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... a definitive role in shaping the dynamics and critical terms of Chinese literature and culture as a whole. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 border boundary Sinophone Cold War form At the center of Kevin Kwan's (1973−) novel Crazy Rich Asians , which inspired the Hollywood hit film...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 212–215.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Modernity with a Cold War Face (2013) and David Wang's The Lyrical in Epic Time (2015). Taken together, these books will help readers gain greater understanding of the complex literary and cultural responses to the Cold War antagonism in mid-twentieth-century China from various different perspectives...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 215–223.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as tropes in the American popular imagination in the post-World War II era, through the experiences of the US occupation of Japan and the Korean and Vietnam wars. How these tropes become intertwined is illustrated by the scene in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) where a Vietnamese prostitute...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 transnational ecocinemas Sino-Soviet split Wind from the East Sino-Soviet coproduction socialist ecology The Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s and early 1960s was one of the major events in the Cold War, comparable to the erection of the Berlin...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... thinker and reformer as China transitioned from the Qing dynasty to the modern world. With his associate Liang Qichao and others, Kang initiated the Hundred Days Reform in 1895 after China's debacle in the first Sino-Japanese War. The failure of the reform sent Kang into exile in Japan and the West...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
... a “politics of sense”—a way of managing the perception of the environment, of others, and of oneself. Being governed means having one's senses regimented—it means being made to perceive in certain ways. “Imperialism” refers to Japanese imperialism and to the US post–World War II production of local nation...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... wars.” 1 Most humanists today have correctly pointed out that our Anthropocene crisis is a crisis that calls into question the meanings, values, and forms of consciousness that the modern world relies on. Today, the most prevalent solutions to the Anthropocene crisis of meaning are based...
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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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