Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature
Volume 17, no. 2 (October 2020)
Special Issue: Critical Theory and Chinese Literary Studies
Edited by ZONG-QI CAI
Introduction: Theoretical Orientations and Professional Positionings
ZONG-QI CAI
Reading Eco-Critically: Critical and Literary Traditions Revisited
Old Dreams Retold: Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological Writer
BAN WANG
Reinventing “Nature”: A Study of Ecotopian and Cultural Imaginaries in Hong Kong Literature
WINNIE L. M. YEE
Mapping the Taxonomies of Same-Sex Sexuality: Historical and Critical Studies
Constructing a New Sexual Paradigm: Emergence of a Modern Subject
LIANG SHI
“A New Species”: Gender, Sexuality, and Taxonomic Logics in Sinophone East Asia
CARLOS ROJAS
Exploring Intertextuality: Bakhtinian and Bloomian Readings
Looking, Reading, and Intertextuality in Ding Ling’s “Miss Sophia’s Diary”
KERU CAI
Theory and Practice of the Long Novel: Mao Dun’s Midnight and Representational Problems between Fiction, Locality, and Modernity
KENNY K. K. NG
Inventing Comparative Strategies: Chinese Poetics in Global Perspectives
Metapoetic Readings Around Ekphrasis and Fu 賦
MARTIN SVENSSON EKSTRÖM
A Study of Early Chinese Concepts of Qing 情 and a Dialog with Western Emotion Studies
ZONG-QI CAI
Positioning and Re-Positioning: Institutional and Professional
“The Orient” vs. Dongfang: The Reconceptualization of the East in Modern China
XIAOLU MA
Latour, Tiananmen, and Glass Slippers, Or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Chinese Studies
HAIYAN LEE