Prism 16.1

Foreword to the Inaugural Prism Issue
ZONG-QI CAI
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Can a Revolutionary be Happy? The Debate on Happiness in 1960s China
WENDY LARSON
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Of Lice and Men: A Parasitic Reading of Jia Pingwa’s The Lantern Bearer
CARLOS ROJAS
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Dangerous Fiction and Obscene Images: Textual-Visual Interplay in the Banned Magazine Eyebrow Talk, and Lu Xun’s Role as Censor
LIYING SUN AND MICHEL HOCKX
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The Ocular Turn, Misty Poetry, and a Postrevolutionary Imagination: Re-reading “The Answer” by Bei Dao
XIAOBING TANG
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Misfit: Xu Lizhi and Battlers Poetry (Dagong shige)
MAGHIEL VAN CREVEL
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Nature and Critique of Modernity in Shen Congwen: An Eco-Critical Reading
BAN WANG
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Utopian Dream and Dark Consciousness: Chinese Literature at the Millennial Turn
DAVID DER-WEI WANG
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Names Deeply Chiseled: Greco-Roman Motifs in Yang Mu’s Poetry
MICHELLE YEH
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Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves: Evocative Translocality, Fantastic Orientalism, Nameless Labor
YINGJIN ZHANG
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Book Reviews

Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China, by Tie Xiao. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. 286 pp.
Reviewed by Yu Zhang
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Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China, by Ellen Widmer. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2016. 329 pp.
Reviewed by Chun-Ting Chang
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Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959, by Mingwei Song. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 379 pp.
Reviewed by Shannon M. Cannella
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A Passage to China: Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan, by Chien-hsin Tsai. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 356 pp.
Reviewed by Clara Iwasaki
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