Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences
Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences is a monthly online, international, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to publish empirical, academic, theoretical and review research articles that contribute to the practice in humanities, social sciences, and related topics. All articles published are rigorously and fast reviewed meeting the Journal Quality standards.
Analysis of Influencing Factors in University Admissions Between Mainland China and Hong Kong in the Post-Pandemic Era
In the post pandemic era, the global study abroad market has undergone significant changes, and the uncertainty of traditional overseas study has increased. Mainland and Hong Kong universities, with their unique advantages, have become the core choice for students' further education. In this context, the direction of educational resource flow, policy adjustments, and changes in the employment market all have an impact on the choice of further education. This article identifies five core influencing factors: policy support and enrollment mechanisms, educational resources and training models, economic costs and cost-effectiveness, employment prospects and regional integration, and social environment and adaptability. Research has found that the internationalization policies of Hong Kong universities, the advantages of local resources in mainland universities, and the trend of integrated development in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area are key factors influencing the choice of further education. Different families and students exhibit differentiated preferences due to differences in economic conditions, academic planning, and career aspirations. This article clarifies the impact logic of various factors by reviewing authoritative policy documents, enrollment data, and employment reports, providing reference for students and parents' decisions on further education, as well as ideas for optimizing the allocation of higher education resources in both regions.
In the post-pandemic era, factors influencing higher education choices for students in mainland China and Hong Kong universities.
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An Empirical Analysis of the Inverted-U Shape Relationship Between Globalization and Environmental Degradation: Based on Environmental Kuznets Curve
This study aims to fill the gaps in existing research on the relationship between environmental degradation and globalization by analyzing panel data collected from 130 countries between 1996 and 2021. Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework, the analysis explores whether globalization initially causes environmental harm but turns to improve it after a certain threshold. Both baseline results and robustness checks indicate a significant inverted U-shaped relationship. However, by examining regional heterogeneity, this study finds differences in coefficients and significance levels across continents. This study further examines the moderating role of human capital and finds out that higher levels of education and skills enhance a country's ability to benefit from globalization, thereby altering the turning point and slope of the curve. This study also offers useful policy implications for stakeholders, demonstrating that the environmental effects of globalization are not automatic but conditional.
Globalization, Environmental Degradation, Weighted Entropy Method, Human Capital, EKC Hypothesis.
Exploring the Integration Path of New Media Art and Interdisciplinary Design from the Perspective of Visual Culture
In the era of media dominated by visual culture, the characteristics of new media art with technology as the carrier and visual expression as the core naturally fit with the interdisciplinary nature of design. Visual culture not only reshapes the audience's perception and aesthetic logic, but also promotes the deep interweaving of new media art and design, technology, humanities and other disciplines, becoming an important driving force for breaking disciplinary barriers and promoting innovative practices. This article takes visual culture as a theoretical perspective, based on the interdisciplinary nature of new media art and the development needs of interdisciplinary design. Through literature research, interdisciplinary research, and industry practice, it explores the practical reasons, core contradictions, and practical paths for the integration of the two. Research has found that the integration of the two requires a visual cultural aesthetic consensus as the basis, building a triple mechanism of technological collaboration, aesthetic collaboration, and disciplinary collaboration, and improving the guarantee system through educational reform, industry collaboration, and policy support. This integration not only expands the boundaries and application scenarios of new media art expression, but also injects cultural connotations and innovative vitality into interdisciplinary design, ultimately promoting the high-quality development of the design industry and the diversified upgrading of cultural dissemination. The purpose of this study is to provide theoretical references for the integration of the two in practice, and to provide reference ideas for academic research and industry applications in related fields.
Visual culture, new media art, interdisciplinary design, integration path, design innovation.
Practice and Exploration of Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection from an Anthropological Perspective
As a living carrier of human civilization, the protection of intangible cultural heritage (hereinafter referred to as "ICH") essentially involves the safeguarding of cultural diversity and human subjectivity. Traditional ICH protection models often focus on the formalized process of "application, archiving, and performance," which tends to overlook the agency of inheritors and the cultural context of ICH, leading to the predicament of "protective extinction" for some ICH. Based on the holistic cultural perspective of anthropology, the theory of active participation and living transmission, this paper analyzes issues such as misaligned agency, contextual detachment, and transmission gaps in current practices, exploring the application pathways of anthropological methods (e.g., participatory action research and ethnographic writing) in ICH protection. The study finds that an anthropological perspective can shift ICH protection from "objectified preservation" to "subjective activation," achieving the living continuity of ICH by respecting the cultural discourse rights of inheritors, restoring the life context of ICH, and establishing a diversified collaborative transmission mechanism. The conclusions of this paper can provide theoretical references for ICH protection practices, facilitating the dual transformation of cultural and social value for ICH in contemporary society.
Anthropological Perspective, Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection, Living Heritage, Cultural Subjectivity, Practical Pathways.
The commercial transformation of urban cultural and artistic spaces in the process of gentrification
Against the backdrop of China's urbanization moving towards high-quality development, gentrification, as an important path of urban renewal, is driving the transformation of old industrial areas, historical districts, and other spaces that carry urban memories into cultural and artistic spaces that combine artistic attributes and consumer functions. Commercialization is precisely the core driving force supporting the implementation of this transformation. This article focuses on the driving logic, practical difficulties, and optimization paths of the commercialization transformation of cultural and artistic spaces in the process of gentrification through literature review and typical case analysis. Research has found that the "directional force" guided by policies, the "driving force" of capital inflows, and the "traction force" of middle-class consumption have jointly promoted transformation, but problems such as dilution of cultural authenticity and weakening of spatial publicness have also emerged in the process; The "micro renovation" of Yongqingfang in Guangzhou and the "resident participatory operation" of Xiaohezhi Street in Hangzhou provide feasible examples for balancing commercial value and cultural protection. The full text of the case studies and data are sourced from official government reports, academic research, and authoritative media public information, which are authentic and traceable, in order to provide practical references for the sustainable development of urban cultural spaces.
Gentlemanization, urban cultural and artistic space, commercial transformation, cultural authenticity, and spatial governance.
Difficulties and Countermeasures in Defining Criminal Subjects in Criminal Law in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
With the development of artificial intelligence constantly intervening in various aspects of social life, numerous legal issues arising from it urgently need to be resolved. Issues such as whether artificial intelligence has the qualification as a criminal subject in the field of criminal law have become increasingly controversial. The article reflects on the dilemma of artificial intelligence as a criminal subject, such as the lack of corresponding legal personality, uncertainty of subjective elements, and the lag of criminal law; Through typical examples such as autonomous driving, smart healthcare, and finance, demonstrate the shortcomings of current criminal law in terms of artificial intelligence accountability; Proposed the establishment of a responsibility system centered on "people", combining the absorption of legal agency ideas, exploration of innovative responsibility methods, and enrichment of pre-existing norms to form a diversified responsibility system. At the same time, it is necessary to establish legislative innovation and institutional improvement under artificial intelligence technology while adhering to the basic principles of criminal law.
Artificial Intelligence; Criminal Subject; Adaptability of criminal Law; Attribution System; Legal Innovation.
The Intertwining of Theory and Practice: Power, Agency, and Negotiation in Gender Identity within Post-Closet Culture
This study explores the dynamic evolution between sex, gender, and gender performance under individual agency and the social power system. Through case studies as well as the theoretical analysis and application of Michel Foucault’s power/knowledge, Judith Butler’s gender performativity, and James Joseph Dean’s post-closet culture, this research investigates the gender performance practices of both the LGBTQ+ community and heterosexuals in the context of post-closet culture. By analyzing transgender individuals’ medical experiences, drag performances, gender norms in the workplace, and changes in heterosexual masculinity, this study demonstrates that the power system is not rigid but a fluid field open to continuous negotiation. The analysis results show that individual agency in sex, gender, and gender performance not only facilitates negotiation with the social power system but also innovatively applies theories in practice, expanding the practical fields and application methods of these theories. However, this study also has limitations, including a Western-centric bias, the lag in case application in the digital era, and constraints in the intersectionality perspective. Based on case and theoretical analyses, this study concludes that individual agency is a crucial driving force for advancing gender diversity and social inclusiveness. These findings can provide us with an understanding of gender practices that is cross-class, non-dualistic, and interconnected.
Gender performativity, post-closet culture, individual agency, power dynamics, intersectionality.
The Integration Path of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xuanfu and Taoist Health Preservation Theory from the Perspective of Traditional Culture
The Xuanfu theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the health preservation philosophy of Taoism are both important components of Chinese traditional culture, rooted in the cultural core of "unity of heaven and man" and "gasification popularity", and have a natural theoretical compatibility. Traditional Chinese Medicine Xuanfu focuses on the core of "promoting circulation and opening and closing", covering the multidimensional pathways of human body shape, qi, and spirit and intention; Taoist health preservation adheres to the principles of "Dao follows nature" and "dual cultivation of life and soul", pursuing harmony between form and spirit. This article starts from the foundation of traditional culture, sorts out the evolution and core connotation of the Xuanfu theory of traditional Chinese medicine, explains the core and practical methods of Taoist health preservation thought, analyzes the theoretical convergence points of the two in "Qi theory", "holistic view" and "form and spirit view", explores the three-dimensional integration path of "theoretical interpretation", "method complementarity" and "carrier integration", and reveals its practical value for contemporary health preservation and the significance of traditional cultural inheritance. Research has shown that the integration of the two is a return to the integrity of traditional culture and an innovative direction for the traditional Chinese medicine health preservation system, which can provide ideas for modern health management that combine cultural heritage and practical effectiveness.
Traditional culture, traditional Chinese medicine Xuanfu, Taoist health preservation, integrated path, unity of form and spirit.
Research on the communication path and consumer identity of the concept of sustainable development in social e-commerce platform
Driven by the "double carbon" goal and the upgrading of green consumption, social e-commerce, as a new consumption scenario, has become an important carrier for the dissemination of the concept of sustainable development. Based on the theory of sustainable development, the theory of communication path and the principle of consumer behavior, this paper uses the methods of literature research and case analysis to explore the communication status, core path and key factors affecting consumer identity of the concept of sustainable development in social e-commerce platform, and puts forward optimization strategies. The study found that the current social e-commerce achieved concept penetration through content dissemination, social fission and other paths, but there were problems such as information fragmentation and imperfect trust mechanism; Consumer identity is affected by their environmental awareness, authenticity of platform information, product sustainability and other factors. The research provides practical reference for social e-commerce to optimize the communication mode, enhance consumers' green identity, and help build a sustainable consumption ecology.
Social e-commerce, sustainable development concept, communication path, consumer identity, green consumption.
Hong Kong local media’s coverage of the “Biliteracy and Trilingualism” policy based on text analysis
This study focuses on the discourse tensions arising from the “Biliteracy and Trilingualism” policy implemented after Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997. The study draws on a self-constructed corpus from 1997 to 2025, comprising 42 valid news texts from LexisNexis. Through text analysis, combined with word frequency and co-occurrence analysis using the KH Coder tool, this study explores the differences in how different discourse actors construct this policy. The study uses high-frequency words such as ‘promote’ and core indicator words such as ‘English, Cantonese, and Mandarin’ as entry points to analyze the local multi-platforms’ understanding of language policy. By visualizing the semantic associations of keywords through co-occurrence network diagrams, the study reveals the functional positioning of the three languages and the power game behind them. This study aims to clarify how different local discourse entities in Hong Kong (official, media, and multiple platforms) construct the “Biliteracy and Trilingualism” policy in order to provide empirical evidence for language governance in multilingual regions and offer a new analytical paradigm for related research.
Biliteracy and Trilingualism, text analysis, educational context, language identity.
The Rituals of Exorcising Evil Spirits and Welcoming Good Fortune in Tujia Nuo Opera and Their Social Functions
Drawing on first-hand data from field surveys conducted in Tujia-inhabited areas such as Enshi, Hubei, this paper systematically deconstructs the practical processes and symbolic systems of exorcism and auspiciousness rituals within Nuo opera. The study focuses on elucidating the roles these rituals play in providing psychological comfort, fostering community cohesion, and facilitating cultural transmission within Tujia society. The findings offer theoretical insights and a practical paradigm for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage among ethnic minorities.
Tujia Nuo opera; exorcism ritual; auspiciousness ritual; social function; field research.
Research on Vocal Teaching Design and Interdisciplinary Integration Based on Project-based Learning
Traditional vocal teaching often faces the problem of a disconnect between skill training and literacy cultivation. This article takes project-based learning (PBL) as the core method and combines the clear requirements of "interdisciplinary learning" in the "Compulsory Education Art Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition)" to explore innovative paths for vocal teaching. By analyzing the adaptability characteristics of PBL and vocal teaching, constructing specific dimensions for interdisciplinary integration, designing a teaching process of "problem driven practice exploration achievement display", while sorting out practical difficulties such as teachers' lack of interdisciplinary literacy and time schedule conflicts, and proposing targeted optimization strategies. The entire content is based on public teaching cases in primary and secondary schools, practical vocal courses in universities, and policy documents, without any fictional elements. It aims to provide practical reference solutions for frontline vocal teaching reform and help students improve their vocal skills and comprehensive literacy simultaneously.
Project-based Learning, vocal teaching, interdisciplinary integration, instructional design, core competencies.
Blue Ocean Strategy of Dynamic Vacuum in the eVTOL Industry
This paper explores the application of vacuum technology as a blue ocean strategy within the emerging electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) industry. The research begins by outlining the broad applications of vacuum science in traditional industrial sectors. It then focuses on the prospects and challenges of eVTOL aircraft, identified as a high-potential future market. The core analysis demonstrates how vacuum pumps are critical in key eVTOL manufacturing and testing processes, including the curing of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites for lightweighting, simulation testing of battery thermal management systems (BTMS), and optimization of hydrogen fuel cell systems under low-pressure conditions. By applying the Blue Ocean Strategy framework—including the ERRC (Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create) Grid and the Six Paths Framework—the study argues that the eVTOL sector represents an uncontested market space for vacuum technology. The conclusion emphasizes that vacuum science, by enabling lightweight material production and system validation, is poised to be a key enabler for urban air mobility, especially within China's policy-supported low-altitude economy landscape. (Approximately 150 words)
Vacuum, eVTOL, blue ocean strategy, composite curing, lightweight materials.
An Bataillean Analysis of Lady Macbeth's Dynamics of Power, Desire and Death
In Macbeth, as one of the most crucial Shakespearean women characters, Lady Macbeth incarnates a dramatic personality heatedly controversial for her desire and pursuit of power. She is often regarded as a representative of the absolute evil force, the whistle blower of the devil, and the "pillow talk" to instigate Macbeth's killing villainies. From the perspective of a female subject, this essay integrates French philosopher Bataille's philosophical arguments on death, desire, violence and sovereignty as a unifying theoretical framework, against which, her course of life that evolves from a desire for material power to inner conflicts and to the terminus of death is inspected with an aim to illuminate her hidden motives and explore the dynamic escalation of her power and desire. By so doing, this essay seeks to frame up a new means of interpretation to address William Shakespeare's classic characterizations.
William Shakespeare; Macbeth; Lady Macbeth; Bataille.
The Wings of Faith: How Bird Reverence Sustains Shamanism Across Cultures
Shamanism is an ancient spiritual tradition rooted in the belief that certain individuals can communicate with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness. Shamanism emphasizes harmony with nature, and birds often serve as symbolic guides between earthly and spiritual realms. This paper explores Shamanism's defining traits, such as adaptivity and inclusivity, that contribute to its widespread practice. The paper argues that its avian reverence may be one key reason for its global persistence. Through the lens of avian reverence, we can see how Shamanism's tolerance for geographic diversity, flexibility for cultural adaptation, and the psychological relief it provides to Shamans allow it to be accepted and practiced worldwide. Moreover, this study examines how bird symbolism reflects humanity's enduring desire for transcendence and balance between material and spiritual worlds. By linking ecological consciousness, mythic imagination, and ritual practice, Shamanism demonstrates a holistic worldview that continues to inspire contemporary spiritual and cultural expression.
Faith and Transcendence; Moral Agency; Language and Narrative; Emotional; Transformation; Philosophy of Religion; Spiritual Psychology.
How Game Mechanics Fit History Learning Objectives: Taking Situational Simulation and Role-Playing as Examples
Traditional history instruction often falls into the trap of prioritizing memorization over comprehension and conclusions over process. Students often rely on rote memorization to grasp historical facts, struggling to develop core competencies such as a sense of time and space, the ability to interpret history, and a sense of patriotism. This disconnect exists between the three-dimensional history learning objectives of "knowledge, ability, and emotion" outlined in the new curriculum standards. To address this issue, gamified instruction, leveraging its immersive and interactive nature, has gradually entered the history education field. Situational simulation and role-playing are core mechanisms that align with the principles of history learning. This paper uses literature analysis and case studies, drawing on the practical application of middle school history teaching, to explore the logical fit between two game mechanics and historical learning objectives. Simulations, by recreating historical scenes, help students develop a sense of time and space, meeting the "knowledge objective" of mastering historical facts and spatial and temporal perspectives. Role-playing, by assigning students historical roles, encourages them to actively explore their roles' perspectives and behavioral logic, meeting the "ability objective" of cultivating historical material analysis and historical interpretation. The synergistic use of these two mechanics can further guide students to empathize with historical figures and develop a sense of value, meeting the "affective objective" of cultivating historical literacy. The study found that well-designed simulations and role-playing can transform abstract historical knowledge into concrete experiences, addressing the pain point of traditional teaching methods: the disconnect between history and students' lives. Finally, addressing issues such as biased contextualization and unbalanced role participation, an optimization approach of "historical fact calibration, task stratification, and multi-faceted evaluation" is proposed. This approach provides a reference for the application of game mechanics in history teaching and helps cultivate students' core historical literacy.
History learning objectives, game mechanics, situational simulation, role-playing, history teaching, core competencies.
Research on Text Mining Method for Users' Implicit Needs in Recommendation Systems under Few-Sample Conditions
The core value of the recommendation system is to accurately match the supply and demand resources, and the mining of users' implicit needs (unspoken potential preferences and demands) is the key to improving the recommendation quality. The effect of traditional mining methods that rely on massive annotation data is limited due to the few-sample scenarios such as the cold start of new users and the scarcity of data in niche fields. This paper focuses on this pain point, constructs a phased framework of "data preprocessing-feature enhancement-demand recognition-result optimization", designs a text mining scheme by integrating transfer learning, semantic similarity analysis and meta-learning technology, and verifies the effectiveness based on a public few-sample subset of the "Yelp Review Polarity Dataset". Experiments show that the accuracy of this method is 81.7%, the recall is 78.9%, and the F1 value is 80.3%, which is better than the traditional model. The research provides a landing technology path for the mining of implicit needs in few-sample scenarios, which has practical value for improving the accuracy of recommendation of small and medium-sized platforms.
Few-sample Learning, Recommendation Systems, implicit needs, Text Mining, Semantic Analysis.
Research on ESG System of Environmental and Social Governance and Green Development Strategy of Enterprises
In the context of the integration of global "dual carbon" goals and sustainable development concepts, the environmental and social governance (ESG) system has become a core dimension for measuring the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises and a key institutional guarantee for driving their green transformation. This article is based on the actual situation of Chinese enterprises, focusing on the intrinsic relationship between ESG and green development, sorting out the core connotations and requirements of the two, analyzing the current situation and problems of enterprise ESG construction and green transformation, exploring the ESG driving mechanism, and proposing optimization strategies. Research has found that ESG can effectively solve the cost, technology, and cognitive challenges in corporate transformation through environmental constraints guidance, social synergy, and governance system guarantees; The practice of green development in enterprises has also improved the ESG implementation path in reverse. This article aims to provide practical references for enterprises to construct ESG governance frameworks and formulate green development strategies, as well as theoretical support for high-quality and sustainable economic development in China.
ESG system, corporate green development, governance mechanism, strategy optimization, sustainable development.
Challenges and responses to legal protection of intellectual property in the era of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence technology reshapes the knowledge production model, but poses challenges to the traditional intellectual property legal system: generative AI blurs the boundaries of creative subjects, training data capture triggers copyright disputes, patent examination standards are difficult to adapt to AI assisted inventions, and data rights ownership and circulation rules need to be clarified. This article analyzes the legal challenges of AI in the fields of copyright, patents, and data rights, based on real cases such as OpenAI copyright litigation and copyright disputes over AI cultural and creative images in China, as well as legislative and judicial practices in various countries. The study proposes that it is necessary to adhere to the principle of "people-oriented, technology for good", and to construct an intellectual property protection ecosystem that is suitable for the development of AI through multiple paths such as legislative refinement, precise judicial policies, technology enabled governance, industry self-discipline and coordination, and international rule docking. This will provide practical references for solving legal application problems and promote the coordinated development of intellectual property systems and new technologies.
Artificial intelligence, intellectual property, copyright protection, patent examination, data rights, legal response.
Nature and Specific Determination of Substituted Performance Agreements
Article 27 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the General Provisions of Contracts in the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, which came into effect in December 2023, explicitly stipulates the consensual nature of substituted performance agreements. To conduct a specific analysis of the underlying reasons for this stipulation, it is essential to proceed from the legislative purpose and the intrinsic nature of contracts themselves. Specifically, the parties to a substituted performance agreement do not stand in an unequal relationship with respect to the distribution of interests; therefore, such agreements should not be characterized as real contracts. Concerning the legal nature of substituted performance agreements, the theory of debt modification contracts should be adopted to preserve the identity of the original debt relationship. Furthermore, under the premise of acknowledging their consensual nature, it has become practically unnecessary to distinguish between substituted performance and novation in judicial practice.
Substituted performance; Consensual contract; Real contract; Novation.
The Usage Mode and Optimization Path of Urban Public Space in the Time Dimension
development, the quality and adaptability of urban public spaces have increasingly become the core indicators for measuring livability. Urban public space is the core carrier of residents' daily activities, and its usage status shows significant differences over time. This article takes the time dimension as the core perspective, combined with time elements such as residents' daily schedules, seasonal changes, and urban functional cycles, to analyze the differences in the usage characteristics and patterns of urban public spaces at different times, and to analyze the problems of supply-demand mismatch and resource waste caused by neglecting the time dimension in current public space planning. Based on real urban development practices, it proposes a public space optimization path that adapts to time patterns, providing practical references for improving the efficiency of urban public space utilization and enhancing residents' sense of gain.
Time dimension, urban public space, usage patterns, spatiotemporal coupling, optimization path.
Interpretation and Teaching Application of Russian Modernist Texts from the Perspective of decolonization
Russian modernist literature was an important branch of the European literary revolution from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and its creation has always been deeply intertwined with the historical process of Russian colonial expansion. This article uses decolonization theory as the core analytical tool, citing classic theoretical frameworks such as Said’s Orientalism and Spivak’s Subaltern Studies. It focuses on representative texts of writers such as Andrei Bely, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Nikolai Gumilev, analyzing the core narrative characteristics of implicit deconstruction of colonial discourse and conscious reconstruction of local cultural identity. Based on the teaching practice of Russian majors in multiple domestic universities, this study explores the specific path of integrating the perspective of decolonization interpretation into the classroom, including practical strategies such as restoring colonial historical context, supplementing texts of marginal writers, and training critical thinking, in order to provide a feasible reference for enhancing the cultural depth and practical care of literature teaching. Research has found that the anti-center and anti-hegemonic spirit that runs through Russian modernist literature naturally aligns with the core demands of decolonization theory, and its teaching transformation can effectively help students construct a multicultural cognitive framework.
Decolonization, Russian modernism, text interpretation, teaching application, cultural identity.
Strangers in Their Hometown: Linguistic Alienation and Cultural Translation in Chinese Diasporic Women’s Writing
In the wave of globalization, scattered writing has become an important way for cross-cultural dissemination of Chinese literature. Chinese female scattered authors with dual gender and cultural identities often face unique language and cultural challenges in their creations. This article takes the works of writers such as Yan Geling, Tang Tingting, and Celeste Ng as case studies, based on Homi Baba's "Third Space" theory and combined with Ng ũ g ĩ wa Thiong'o's core discourse on colonial language oppression, to clarify the dual problem of "language alienation" as the weakening of meaning in the mother tongue and the lack of cultural foundation in the second language. It clarifies that "cultural translation" is a creative practice of symbol reconstruction and narrative adjustment, and then focuses on the interactive relationship between the two to explore the process of Chinese female refugees coping with language fragmentation and cultural dislocation in cross contexts, completing cultural meaning transformation and identity dynamic reconstruction through writing. Research has found that language estrangement is not only reflected in the "lack of meaning in words" at the expression level, but also leads to uncertainty in identity cognition. Cultural translation can build a dialogue bridge between different cultures through the concretization of cultural symbols and the adjustment of narrative methods. This type of writing can not only alleviate the anxiety caused by language estrangement, provide fresh text samples for Chinese culture to go global, but also provide a new perspective for understanding the reconstruction of dispersed female identity.
Diasporic Writing, Linguistic Alienation, Cultural Translation, Identity Construction.
Theoretical Frameworks and Research Methodologies in Sports Humanities and Sociology: A Graduate Student Perspective
Where the Paths of Sport and Society Cross: A Graduate’s ViewWhat draws so many of us into the world of sports humanities and sociology? For me, it began with the raw emotion of competition, but soon unfolded into something far richer—a complex tapestry of culture, power, and social structure. This field occupies a unique space. It demands the rigor of science yet breathes with the insight of the humanities; it is grounded in theory but constantly tested in the arena of real life. Let’s begin by examining a few classic lenses through which we view sport. Functionalism sees it as a cog in the social machine, conflict theory lays bare the struggles over resources both on and off the field, and symbolic interactionism tunes into the meanings flowing through every cheer and gesture. Each perspective casts its own light—no single beam reveals the whole picture, but together, they bring the scene into clearer focus. Then comes the toolkit. Numbers tell one story, but the voices captured through interviews and fieldwork often carry the weight of lived experience. The most compelling research, I’ve found, strikes a balance: it respects the broad trends while honoring the grain of individual narratives. Look around today, and the conversations have moved well beyond final scores. We’re tracing the economic threads of the sports industry, wrestling with ethics in competition, revisiting cultural shifts through sports history, and weighing the role of athletics in education. In a way, sport mirrors society itself—every pass, every rivalry, every team huddle seems to rehearse the larger dramas of human relationship. So where do we go from here? The discipline is still young, still shaping its identity. How do we build theoretical frameworks that are both open and distinct? How do we craft methods that capture not just the data, but the dynamism and feeling of sport itself? The answers won’t be found in textbooks alone—they’re waiting in the next stadium visit, the next athlete’s story, the next hands-on encounter. The road ahead is long, but even now, the view is worth it.
Sports Sociology; Sports Humanities; Social Theory; Sport-Society Interface.
Overview of English Translation Studies on The Analects of Confucius
As a cornerstone of Confucianism, The Analects of Confucius encapsulates profound political, ethical, and educational insights, profoundly influencing subsequent generations. This paper delves into the English translation of The Analects of Confucius, examining its translation history, strategies, and cultural exchange impacts. The paper begins with a concise introduction to the book and its author, followed by a historical overview of its English translations, analyzing the evolution from early missionary attempts to contemporary scholars' diverse explorations. It then selects representative translations by James Legge, Thomson, Ku Hung-ming, and Roger T. Ames, comparing their approaches to translating words, sentences, and rhetorical devices. Regarding translation strategies, the paper discusses the blend of literal and free translations, the handling of culturally loaded words, and evaluates their fidelity to the original ideas. Ultimately, the paper analyzes and summarizes the positive contributions of the English translation of the book to Sino-Western cultural exchanges and the dissemination of Confucian thought.
The Analects of Confucius, History of English Translation, Translation Strategies.
Research on the Practical Path of Empowering the Governance of Culture and Tourism by Urban Cultural Soft Infrastructure
Using 144 ceramic-themed wayfinding systems in Jingdezhen as a case study, this research combines soft infrastructure theory with cultural tourism governance practices to explore specific pathways for empowering cultural tourism governance through the cultural core of Jingdezhen's ceramic heritage. The study reveals that the city's wayfinding system achieves coordinated improvements in four key areas—cultural preservation, service optimization, industrial synergy, and collaborative governance—through core measures including cultural symbol translation, innovative craft integration, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Its innovative value lies in integrating Jingdezhen's ceramic cultural symbols into urban signage systems, breaking the spatial limitations of traditional museums and bringing ceramic artworks out of exhibition halls to merge with urban wayfinding. This transformation elevates wayfinding facilities from single-function markers to "tangible urban cultural textures" that combine functionality with artistic value. The approach not only revitalizes the contemporary vitality of intangible cultural heritage techniques but also provides theoretical support and practical models for refined governance of cultural tourism in distinctive cultural cities.
Wayfinding system; Jingdezhen ceramic culture; cultural soft infrastructure; cultural tourism governance.
Change Blindness: A Review of Perception, Attention, and Memory in Visual Processing
Change blindness refers to the failure to detect significant changes in a visual scene when they coincide with a global visual transient, such as a saccade or a brief blank screen. This phenomenon highlights critical limitations in the healthy human perceptual system and underscores the distinction between sensation and perception. This review synthesizes current literature on change blindness, examining its underlying mechanisms in relation to perception, attention, memory, and top-down processing. We explore how visual representations are formed, maintained, and compared across disruptions, emphasizing the roles of working memory and attentional allocation. Additionally, the relationship between change blindness and inattentional blindness is discussed, with a focus on how attention modulates conscious perception. Findings from seminal studies, including those using gaze-contingent displays and dynamic stimuli, are integrated to illustrate how change blindness informs broader theories of visual cognition. The review concludes that change blindness is not merely a perceptual failure but a window into high-level cognitive processes, offering significant implications for understanding the architecture of visual awareness.
Change blindness, visual perception, attention, memory, mental representation
On Administrative Procuratorial from the Perspective of Compliance
China's procuratorial power, which operates independently from administrative and judicial authorities, fulfills the legal oversight function. Within the framework of the corporate compliance system for enterprises involved in cases, the focus of administrative procuratorial work extends beyond legal supervision over administrative litigation. Instead, it increasingly emphasizes proactive oversight of administrative power, which is predominantly manifested in the process of administrative law enforcement. The core role of administrative procuratorial oversight in corporate compliance for implicated enterprises lies in supervising administrative law enforcement actions, facilitating the substantive resolution of administrative disputes, and effectively promoting the lawful and efficient implementation of the corporate compliance system.
Administrative Procuratorial Oversight; Corporate Compliance; Administrative Law Enforcement; Administrative Disputes.
Risk-Based Regulation of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) has transformed the operational mechanisms of traditional artificial intelligence, and advances in AI technology have rendered conventional regulatory rules increasingly inadequate to address the technological development of Generative AI. Regulatory frameworks therefore need to be optimized and expanded on the basis of actual legal risks, as a response to both technological progress and practical regulatory demands. The sound and orderly development of Generative AI depends upon the safeguards provided by regulatory rules. In light of the technical characteristics of Generative AI, regulation should be grounded in an analysis of its operational mechanisms and legal risks.
Generative Artificial Intelligence, Technological Regulation, Legal Liability.
Differences in Family Concepts in Contemporary Children's Films
As an important carrier of popular culture, children's films are not only entertainment products, but also transmitters of social concepts and values. This article takes contemporary Chinese and foreign children's films such as "Ne Zha: The Birth of the Demon Child", "Life Events", "Coco", and "Spider Man: Parallel Universe" as analysis samples, and deeply explores the differences in the presentation of Chinese and Western family concepts in images from three dimensions: family structure, parent-child relationships, and the tension between individuals and families. Research has found that Chinese children's films tend to depict a family lineage characterized by a "vertical axis", emphasizing intergenerational responsibility, sacrifice, and integration, and the self realization of children needs to be achieved through family identity; Western children's films, on the other hand, focus on the family unit centered around the "horizontal axis", advocating for equal dialogue and individual separation between parents and children. Self realization is often achieved through an independent journey away from home. This difference is rooted in the deep cultural logic of collectivism and individualism. However, in the context of globalization, Chinese and Western children's films have also shown a new trend of mutual reference and integration, jointly depicting the pursuit of eternal human emotions - love and understanding.
Children's movies; Family values; Cultural differences between China and the West; collectivism.