Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966717
Ng Kim Chew, Po-hsi Chen
The historical relationship between the categories of Malayan Communist fiction and People's Republic of China revolutionary historical fiction remains to be clarified, just as the Malayan Communist revolution was covertly, but undeniably, connected to the Chinese Communist Party. This essay attempts to take the PRC's revolutionary historical fiction as a reference point to reinvestigate Malayan Communist fiction, which was characterized as “historical fiction” by left-wing writers. Examples include Jin Zhimang's Hunger, Liu Jun's Wind Blowing in the Woods, and Tuo Ling's The Hoarse Mangrove Forest. The key issue is that the PRC's revolutionary historical fiction is premised on triumphalism, to authenticate the revolution's legitimacy, while Malayan Communists' revolutionary historical fiction hinges instead on the failure of revolution—though it cannot be recognized as such. How do these latter works contemplate and represent revolution? Does fiction have to rationalize the legitimacy of a failed revolution (or one mired in predicaments)? Or does fiction attempt to accomplish something else? These questions may concern the raison d’être of Malayan Chinese literary realism, which takes representing reality as its mission and investigates its underlying paradoxes.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966767
Shirley O. Lua
This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning movement were included in the anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology (2012), edited by Charles A. Tan. These authors find speculative fiction a fruitful genre for combining Western literary techniques and material gleaned from Philippine myth and folklore.
本文考察了当代菲籍华人作家对投机小说的兴趣。这一新兴运动的许多作者都被收录在查尔斯·A·谭(Charles A. Tan)编辑的《劳瑞特:菲中投机小说选集》(2012)中。这些作者发现投机小说是一种富有成效的体裁，它结合了西方文学技巧和从菲律宾神话和民间传说中收集的材料。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966677
N. Volland
This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic region of the western Pacific to understand how thinking with and through the ocean shapes patterns of place-making and identity formation. Scrutinizing stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, the article shows how the ocean figures on several distinct registers: as the locale where these works unfold, as the object toward which their characters' yearnings and reflections are directed, and as a condition of being. Alternatively, the ocean can be read in the metaphorical and allegorical sense, as a device that allows their authors to critique (neo)colonial violence, the irruption of modernity, and especially the rigors of land-based and supposedly stable epistemologies. Against these, Rapongan and Ng posit what I call oceanic epistemologies, that is, systems and methods of knowledge drawn from and intertwined with the ocean as a condition of being on a terraqueous globe. The oceanic epistemologies in Sinophone literatures from littoral East and Southeast Asia allow us to rethink fundamental questions of being, identity, and history. They build upon, but methodologically move beyond, the critical apparatus offered by Sinophone literature.
本文回顾了西太平洋群岛地区的华语文学，以了解与海洋一起思考和通过海洋思考如何塑造地方建构和身份形成的模式。这篇文章仔细研究了Syaman Rapongan和Ng Kim Chew的故事，展示了海洋在几个不同方面的地位:作为这些作品展开的场所，作为人物向往和反思的对象，以及作为存在的条件。另外，海洋也可以从隐喻和寓言的意义上解读，作为一种工具，作者可以借此批判(新)殖民暴力、现代性的破坏，尤其是基于陆地的、被认为是稳定的认识论的严谨性。与此相反，Rapongan和Ng提出了我所谓的海洋认识论，即从海洋中汲取并与海洋交织在一起的知识体系和方法，作为在水陆地球上生存的条件。东亚和东南亚沿岸华语文学的海洋认识论，让我们重新思考存在、身份和历史的基本问题。他们以华语文学提供的批判工具为基础，但在方法论上有所超越。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9646043
P. Manfredi
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9645972
Karen Fang
In the global outpouring during the 2020 racial justice protests and coverage of pandemic-related anti-Asian hate, modest forms of engagement such as reading and viewing lists were often suggested as means of fostering sympathy and understanding. This essay argues that combating contemporary Asian American hate requires a more explicit focus on countering invisibility. This objective, necessitated by the ways in which ethnic Asians have been systematically elided and rendered as foreign throughout US history, should focus exclusively on educating Americans about Chinese Exclusion and other facts of America's systemic racism against ethnic Asians. Such an approach acknowledges the very different modes of racialized surveillance by which Asian Americans have historically been othered.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9646083
Jie Guo
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9645982
R. Putcha
This article explores how consumer practices tether Orientalism to wellness. Relying on ethnographic research, the author uncovers how racialization and racialized expressions of gender are produced by and through performative and discursive practices of wellness. Such practices, which are also sometimes described as mindfulness techniques, encourage participants to understand wellness as a state of mind wherein if a person mirrors the behavior or speech of what qualifies as wellness, then they will also become well themselves. Drawing on methods from critical consumer studies as well as critical race feminist theory, the author argues that contemporary wellness practices expose somatic, rather than literary, forms of Orientalism.
{"title":"Orientalism and Wellness in the United States","authors":"R. Putcha","doi":"10.1215/25783491-9645982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9645982","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how consumer practices tether Orientalism to wellness. Relying on ethnographic research, the author uncovers how racialization and racialized expressions of gender are produced by and through performative and discursive practices of wellness. Such practices, which are also sometimes described as mindfulness techniques, encourage participants to understand wellness as a state of mind wherein if a person mirrors the behavior or speech of what qualifies as wellness, then they will also become well themselves. Drawing on methods from critical consumer studies as well as critical race feminist theory, the author argues that contemporary wellness practices expose somatic, rather than literary, forms of Orientalism.","PeriodicalId":33692,"journal":{"name":"PRISM","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77145955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9646053
P. Iovene
{"title":"Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia","authors":"P. Iovene","doi":"10.1215/25783491-9646053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9646053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33692,"journal":{"name":"PRISM","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76421759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9646073
V. Levan
{"title":"Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Transpacific","authors":"V. Levan","doi":"10.1215/25783491-9646073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9646073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33692,"journal":{"name":"PRISM","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73864001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9645942
Jianmei Liu
This article contributes to the study of the cultural politics of Thirdspace in modern China, which exerted a far-reaching influence on Chinese intellectual history, literature, and culture. Although the term the third space was coined by Homi K. Bhabha, the leading figure in postcolonial theoretical studies, as a new form of discourse to go beyond dualistic categories such as the colonizer/colonized opposition, it has much broader cultural meanings in the modern Chinese context. One of the prominent Chinese intellectuals, Zhang Dongsun, intentionally created a critical interface of Thirdspace through which to ensure a spirit of tolerance, independence of individuals, and freedom of criticism. The article investigates Zhang Dongsun's philosophical system, his political thought and commentary, and his cultural criticism in the Republic of China, discussing the motivations that compelled him to undertake the third route, as he attempted to transcend binary oppositions, which ultimately led to his downfall in the New China. The case of Zhang Dongsun, who exemplifies a group of liberal Chinese intellectuals, not only indicates the predicament of the discourse of Thirdspace in modern China but also adds new insights to our understanding of the divergent spiritual journeys that Chinese intellectuals have taken in response to the national crisis.
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