Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature

19/11/2025

Dear colleagues and friends,

I am pleased to announce the launch of How to Read Chinese Poetry Videos, scheduled to be released every Tuesday beginning on 10pm Nov. 18, 2025 (Hong Kong time) on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mXLb8VTp9fY?si=UIDIzupqPzeEEFpv (or scan the QR code in the poster).

This 55-episode series is a “videolization” of the podcast series broadcast about two years ago. It presents the highlights of the acclaimed book How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Columbia University Press to a broad general audience, covering major poetic genres developed from antiquity to the modern era. A team of leading experts guides listeners to explore the rich heritage of Chinese poetry, poem by poem, genre by genre, and dynasty by dynasty. Each episode provides a deep but pleasurable discussion of one or more famous poems and their cultural milieu. Special efforts will be made to demonstrate how the poems work in the original language to create a fascinating yet untranslatable kind of poetic beauty. Poems are read aloud in English and Mandarin, and for Tang and Song poetry in Cantonese as well, to the background of classical Chinese qin music.

I hope you will find these videos informative and enjoyable. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Zong-qi Cai, Program Host

07/04/2025

【會議預告】
《嶺南學報》學術會議之十二
「數字人文與古代文史研究」學術研討會
The 12th Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies Symposium
"Digital Humanities and Historical Studies"

時間：4.12~13, 2025
地點：嶺南大學劉李婉嫻康樂樓3樓308室(LYH 308, Lingnan University)

08/01/2025

We are pleased to announce the publication of “Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crises,” a special issue of Prism (21:1), edited by Ban Wang and Haomin Gong.

Confronting environmental crises , the contributors of this special issue engage in debating key issues in eco-writing and challenge entrenched ideas about human-nonhuman relations. Deploying multidisciplinary and cross-cultural methodologies for understanding boundaries between humans, the environment, and nature, the authors critique anthropocentrism, articulate East Asian ecological wisdom, and examine ecological responses to climate change in religion, poetry, film, and speculative fiction,

Contributors to this issue include Chia-ju Chang, Haomin Gong, Melissa A. Hosek, Yuanyuan Hua, Cheng Li, Stephen Roddy, Robin Visser, Ban Wang, Huaji Xu, Qiongqiong Ye, Yunfan Zhang, Xinmin Liu, Kiu-wai Chu and Zhen Zhang.

Browse the table of contents at https://read.dukeupress.edu/prism/issue/21/1. Buy this issue at https://dukeupress.edu/eco-writing-in-an-age-of-un-natural-crises.

02/01/2025