文史哲论丛 Literature, History and Philosophy ISSN Print: 3079-5400 ISSN Online: 3079-5419
An examination of the naming and tracing of the origins of the Pre-Qin Confucian school and its differentiation
This article, starting from textual exegesis and textual criticism, traces the entire process of "Confucian" evolving from an ancient occupational title to a school name, clarifying the historical context of the establishment of the Confucian name and the generation of its thoughts. Relying on oracle bone inscriptions, pre-Qin classics, and research results of later scholars, it traces the original occupational attributes of Confucianism, explores the academic foundation of the birth of Confucianism in the cultural environment of ritual and music in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and also reviews the development of the eight schools of Confucianism after the death of Confucius, analyzing the academic characteristics and current status of literature preservation of each school. The research shows that there were Confucianists engaged in the profession of ritual education first, who were transformed into the school name of Confucianism through the ideological transformation by Confucius. The differentiation of Confucianism in the pre-Qin period is an inevitable result of differentiated ideological interpretation.
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The Methodological Absence of "Sensibility" in the Art Definition Debate: Weitz, Danto, and Dickie
The mid-to-late twentieth-century Anglo-American analytic aesthetics debate over whether art can be defined is typically narrated as a paradigm shift from anti-essentialism (Weitz) to neo-essentialism (Danto, Dickie). This paper argues that this standard narrative obscures a deeper structure shared by all three parties: an unthematized methodological presupposition of systematically excluding sensible experience from the theoretical framework of art definition. Weitz's conceptual analysis method operationally suspends sensible experience; Danto, despite taking "perceptual indiscernibility" as his starting point, surreptitiously narrows sensibility to perceptible appearance properties, thereby excluding the temporal, bodily, and atmospheric dimensions of perception; Dickie openly replaces sensible experience with institutional relations. These three modes of exclusion—suspension, narrowing, and substitution—form a progressively deepening trajectory. Tracing this trajectory reveals a boundary effect inherent to analytic methodology: what a method illuminates and what it necessarily obscures are two sides of the same coin.
War Metaphors in the External Translation of Chinese Political Texts: A Case Study of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Volume IV)
Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Volume IV), a crystallization of the scientific theories of the Party and the State, features an extensive use of war metaphors. Grounded in Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this study reveals that the war metaphors within the text encompass ontological domains such as strategies, struggles, achievements, and talents. In translation practice, two primary strategies are predominantly employed: retaining the original vehicle and omitting the original vehicle. These strategies effectively convey the connotations of the source text while accommodating the cognitive habits of target-language readers. This research offers valuable references for handling war metaphors in the international translation of Chinese political texts, thereby facilitating the dissemination of China's voice and contributing to the establishment of a positive national image.
Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Volume IV)
A Study on the Bridge Imagery in Lu You's Jian Lake Poems and Its Role in Cultural Tourism Development — A Case Study of Painted Bridge and Willow Bridge
In his advanced age, Southern Song poet Lu You withdrew from official life and lived at Sanshan near Jian Lake for over forty years, creating a large body of local poems in which the real-life Painted Bridge and Liu Bridge evolve from mere geographical landmarks into multi-layered core motifs: Painted Bridge embodies public sightseeing and historical reflection while Willow Bridge records seasonal scenes and personal existential thoughts, jointly forming an imagistic system balancing the collective and the individual, grandeur and daily life. Based on Jiannan Poetry Manu-scripts (Jiannan Shigao), this paper adopts textual exegesis and poetic research combined with historical evidence to explore the construction, artistic features and spiritual implications of the two bridge images, as well as their value in shaping Jian Lake’s regional literature, and puts for-ward targeted approaches to revitalize such classical imagery amid the modern inheritance of Song-dynasty culture and cultural tourism development. This study reveals that, breaking away from generalized traditional bridge tropes, Lu You rooted his creation in authentic local landscapes and infused the bridges with patriotism, hometown affection and reflections on life and time, es-tablishing a distinctive imagery paradigm that mirrors the rural ethos of Southern Song literati and providing solid theoretical and practical support for the preservation of Jian Lake’s cultural herit-age and the development of local cultural industries.
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Reading the Ancient Bridge Imagery of Shaoxing Water Country in Li Ciming’s Poems — Based on Liu Bridge, Xie Gong Bridge, Ban Bridge and West Cross-Lake Bridge
Shaoxing is reputed as the "Capital City of Bridges". Ancient bridges serve not only as transportation facilities of the water town, but also as classic poetic imagery nurtured by Yue culture. Li Ciming, a literatus in the late Qing Dynasty, spent half his life wandering for official duties while being deeply attached to his hometown. He left more than forty poems themed on ancient bridges in his poetry collections. Taking four iconic ancient bridges including Liu Bridge, Xie Gong Bridge, Ban Bridge and West Cross-Lake Bridge as research objects, this paper adopts close reading of texts, mutual verification of literature and history, and culture-tourism integration as research methods. Combined with local chronicles and ancient architectural documents, it analyzes the connotation of bridge imagery from four perspectives: loyalty and integrity, historical vicissitudes, ordinary civic life and homesickness. This paper further explores the artistic techniques of imagery construction, including spatial empathy, contrast between past and present, imagery superposition and emotional expression. The poems also reproduce the architectural features and folk customs of Shaoxing water town in the late Qing Dynasty, and interpret literati’s spiritual predicament and local cultural atmosphere of that era. The research reveals that the four bridges respectively embody the loyalty tradition of Yue region, the rise and fall of noble families, fishermen’s daily life and wanderers’ nostalgia. This study expands the research on Li Ciming’s native soil imagery, enriches the research system of Jiangnan water town poetry, and provides documentary support for the revitalization of intangible cultural heritage of Shaoxing ancient bridges and the development of local cultural tourism.
Social Features of the Late Qing Dynasty
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism
Ten Wen or a Hundred: A Fan’s Journey — Alternative Interpretation of the Inscribed Fan Bridge
During the Yonghe era of the Eastern Jin Dynasty at Jishan Mountain in Shaoxing, a transaction involving a bamboo fan gave rise to a renowned bridge known as the Fan Inscription Bridge. For decades, academic research on this bridge has primarily focused on Wang Xizhi's calligraphic artistry and personal character, neglecting the central object of the transaction—the hexagonal bamboo fan. Using the Fan Inscription Bridge as a spatial anchor and applying material cultural history theory, this study shifts its focus from the "fan inscriber" to the "object of inscription." Through textual research and craft tracing, it reconstructs the manufacturing techniques of ordinary fans during the Eastern Jin period; employs economic and sociological analysis to reveal the value formation mechanisms behind the transition from "ten patterns" to "hundred patterns"; and utilizes iconographic studies to examine the morphological evolution of fans in ancient paintings. Additionally, field investigations explore the spatial accumulation and contemporary revitalization of fan culture around the bridge. This work proposes a new interpretive framework for this cultural landmark: a site where an ordinary bamboo fan underwent a transformative journey from commonplace to sacred significance.
From Unidirectional Dissemination to Multidimensional Interaction: Strategies for Short Video Communication of Duan Inkstone Culture under Cross-Border Integration
Under the international public opinion landscape characterized by a "strong West, weak East," the cross-border dissemination of Chinese intangible cultural heritage (ICH) faces dual challenges of cognitive barriers and discourse deficiency. As the most representative cultural symbol of Zhaoqing, the Duan Inkstone carries a 1,300-year cultural lineage and craftsmanship spirit; yet, it has long remained marginalized overseas due to limited awareness. Grounded in the perspective of digital media transformation, this study moves beyond the macro-narrative framework of traditional external propaganda and focuses on emerging communication channels such as short videos, cross-border e-commerce, and social media to systematically explore the breakthrough paths for the global outreach of Duan Inkstone culture. The paper advocates using visual storytelling to bridge language divides, algorithmic recommendation to achieve precise audience targeting, and interactive experiences to foster emotional connections, aiming to transform the Duan Inkstone from a static "cultural specimen" into a dynamic "traffic IP." Beyond analyzing the root causes of the failure of traditional communication models, the study proposes differentiated operation strategies and commercial closed-loops tailored to the characteristics of overseas platforms. It provides theoretical references and practical paradigms for the Duan Inkstone culture and similar ICH projects to break through cross-cultural communication bottlenecks and evolve from a "local specialty" to a "globally shared symbol."
A Study on the Dilemmas and Revitalization Paths of the Leishan Miao Embroidery Cultural and Creative Industry from the Perspective of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Miao embroidery is a national-level intangible cultural heritage and an important carrier of the history, collective memory, and aesthetic philosophy of the Miao people. Under the impact of modernization and marketization, the Leishan Miao embroidery cultural and creative industry faces multiple dilemmas, including a breakdown in intergenerational inheritance, insufficient innovation, and weak market competitiveness. Taking the Leishan Miao embroidery cultural and creative industry in Guizhou as the research object, this study systematically reviews the current state of industrial development through field research, and proposes revitalization paths including a talent cultivation system, a life-oriented innovation strategy, an intellectual property protection framework, and an omnimedia communication matrix, so as to overcome the difficulties in intangible cultural heritage protection and loss, and to promote the inheritance of Miao embroidery techniques, innovation in cultural and creative products, and sustainable market development.
Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance
Research on the Pathways of Digital Empowerment for Urban-Rural Integrated Development in Anhui
The integrated development of urban and rural areas is an inevitable requirement for advancing Chinese modernization, and digital technology provides new pathways to facilitate this integration. As a region where the Yangtze River Delta Integration Strategy and the Central China Revitalization Strategy converge, Anhui Province is in a critical transitional period characterized by continuous improvement in urbanization levels and a steadily narrowing urban-rural income gap. This paper systematically analyzes the pathways of digital empowerment for urban-rural integrated development in Anhui from five aspects: digital infrastructure, digital industry, digital services, digital governance, and digital talent.
Distribution of Different Meanings of the Polysemous Verb 'Ná' in Modern Chinese
The understanding of polysemous words directly affects whether Chinese second language speakers can successfully acquire Chinese, and the acquisition of polysemous words is a topic worthy of in-depth research. On the basis of large-scale corpus, this thesis quantitatively compares the distribution of the meaning of the polysemy verb "take" in the native Chinese language and the interlanguage, so as to clarify the reasons and basis for the errors of Chinese second language speakers in learning the polysemy verb "take". This study can effectively help Chinese second language speakers understand and master the basic usage of the verb "take". Through the investigation of the corpus of Chinese interlanguage, it is found that the presentation rate of the meaning term is 71% when Chinese second language speakers learn the verb "take", and the common meaning term is the meaning of holding and the meaning of moving the object from one side to the other and lifting it by hand. Compared with native Chinese speakers, Chinese second language speakers tend to focus on a few meanings when using the polysemy verb "take", and the frequency distribution of the meaning of "take" is also different. The bias of the polysemy verb "take" is mainly manifested in the error of "taking" when it is used with other words, and the main reasons are the negative transfer of the collocation relationship of the mother tongue and the wrong analogy.
An Investigation into the Obstacles to Implementing the “Abolition of Lijin and Tariff Increase” in the Late Qing Dynasty
The lijin system was a significant tax collection mechanism instituted by the Qing government during the late Qing period. The issue of “abolishing lijin and increasing tariffs” can be traced back to the Sino-British treaty revision negotiations of the 1860s, where, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Hart, the British representative first proposed the rudiments of this scheme. Thereafter, this tax reform underwent a series of negotiations involving the Qing central government, local governments, and the Western powers, ultimately culminating in a consensus enshrined in the Mackay Treaty. However, its implementation encountered considerable obstacles, and the reform ultimately could not be executed during the late Qing period. The lijin system was not completely abolished until the Republican era. Building upon an overview of the background and the process by which the “abolition of lijin and tariff increase” was proposed, this paper will concretely analyze the feasibility of this measure. It will then proceed to examine the numerous problems that invited criticism of the reform, and ultimately investigate why this measure proved so difficult to implement and why the lijin system, which clearly hampered China’s economic development, could not be abolished during the late Qing period.
The Inheritance and Development of “Intangible Cultural Heritage ” : A Case Study of Zhejiang Taizhou Embroidery
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A Study on the Acquisition of the "Ba" Construction
This paper is divided into three parts: a review of studies on the "Ba" construction, difficulties in teaching and learning the "Ba" construction, and the acquisition of the "Ba" construction by international students as well as implications for teaching. It first briefly reviews relevant research on the "Ba" construction, then analyzes the key and difficult points in teaching the "Ba" construction, and finally sorts out the acquisition status of the "Ba" construction among international students and puts forward some teaching suggestions.
Metaphors in Chinese Funeral Culture: The Interweaving of Life and Death, Kinship, and Morality
Chinese funeral culture abounds in metaphorical expressions and symbolic practices, such as returning to the great house, serving the dead as if they were living, the five-grade mourning system, and the final verdict on a person’s life. These metaphors are not merely rhetorical devices but deep-seated forms of cultural cognition. From the perspective of cultural metaphor theory, this study analyzes the linguistic expressions and ritual behaviors in Chinese funerals and explores how they reflect Chinese understandings of life and death, kinship, and morality. The findings are as follows. In the dimension of life and death, metaphors such as serving the dead as if they were living and returning to the great house reconfigure death as the migration and settlement of the soul rather than the end of existence. In the dimension of kinship and family, the five-grade mourning system translates blood relationships into a visible, embodied sign system, thereby confirming and reinforcing family ties. In the dimension of morality, metaphors such as cautious attention to the end and continuing reverence for the distant and the final verdict transform funeral rituals into a practical site for moral instruction and social evaluation. At the social level, the funeral reenacts the differential mode of association in ritualized form, facilitating the integration of social relations and the reproduction of social order. Taken together, the metaphorical system in Chinese funeral culture constitutes a deep-seated cultural logic concerning the continuity of life, ethical order, and social integration.
A Study of English Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry from the Perspective of Relevance Theory
As a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, classical Chinese poetry serves as a vital vehicle for promoting traditional Chinese culture internationally. However, linguistic and cultural disparities often lead to a loss of relevance in translation. Framed within relevance theory, this study focuses on the English translation of classical Chinese poetry and explores how translators employ cognitive reconstruction strategies to achieve optimal relevance between the source and target texts. The findings reveal that during the translation process, translators reconstruct relevance at the phonological, lexical, and syntactic levels by identifying communicative intentions, supplementing contextual assumptions, and explicating implicit contextual information, so as to effectively reproduce the communicative functions and convey artistic conception. This study demonstrates the explanatory power of relevance theory in addressing core challenges such as cultural default and aesthetic divergence in the translation of classical Chinese poetry, thereby offering theoretical reference and methodological insights for the cross-cultural dissemination of Chinese culture.
A Pragmatic Analysis of The Politeness Principle In Extreme Contexts
The politeness principle in pragmatics is a core norm that sustains interpersonal communication and ensures social balance via fixed criteria in conventional contexts. Its form and function, however, undergo prominent variations in extreme contexts. Adopting Leech’s six maxims of politeness and Brown & Levinson’s face theory as the analytical framework, this paper selects three extreme communication scenarios from the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem—the initial cross-civilization communication, the power game involving Wallfacers, and the campaign speech of the Swordholder—to examine the variational patterns and operational logic of the politeness principle. The findings indicate that in extreme contexts, the politeness principle departs from superficial etiquette norms and turns into a functional strategy for survival early warning, power balancing, and moral image construction, with its core lying in the dynamic adjustment between face maintenance and communicative goals. This study unveils the contextual adaptability and instrumental nature of the politeness principle, offers empirical support for the research on pragmatic behaviors in unconventional contexts from the perspective of science fiction texts, and also points out the limitation to the universality of the conclusions imposed by fictional settings in science fiction.
In recent years, coffee culture in Shanghai has flourished, yet interpretations of this phenomenon vary widely among scholars and the public. A popular view holds that Shanghai residents' fondness for coffee is essentially a product of workplace exploitation—a manifestation of "working overtime to survive" that drains health and is hardly praiseworthy. This paper attempts to respond to and analyze this view from multiple dimensions including historical tracing, cultural sociology, and health science research. The study finds that the formation of Shanghai's coffee culture has deep historical roots, embodying the spirit of "inclusiveness" inherent in Shanghai-style culture. Reducing coffee consumption simply to a result of workplace exploitation not only overlooks the diverse meanings of coffee as a cultural symbol but also exaggerates the negative health impacts of caffeine. This paper argues that moderate coffee consumption is a natural choice of modern lifestyle, and the key lies in establishing scientific consumption concepts and healthy work ethics, rather than criticizing coffee culture itself.
A Study on the Translation of Philosophical Concepts in The Little Prince Based on Translator Behaviour Criticism— A Case Study of Zhou Kexi’s and Li Jihong’s Versions
This study takes the criticism of translator’s behavior as the theoretical framework and focuses on the two Chinese translations of The Little Prince by Zhou Kexi and Li Jihong, analyzing and comparing the differences in their presentation of philosophical concepts in the original work, and discussing the reasons behind these differences by considering the translators’ distinct growing backgrounds, careers and other factors. Analysis reveals that Zhou’s mathematical background contributes to a calm, precise translation style, with great literary atmosphere and philosophical depth, in contrast, Li’s approach is more straightforward and concise, which is closer to the linguistic habits of contemporary readers. By focusing on the translation strategies of the philosophical concepts in the original work, this research aims to provide a new perspective for the analysis of The Little Prince.
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Narrative Reconstruction of English Communication of Chinese Han Culture in the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative
In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative propelling the in-depth development of cultural exchanges and mutual learning, the international dissemination of Chinese Han culture has moved from the stage of superficial language translation to a new stage of in-depth narrative system construction. As a narrative carrier with high visual recognition in Han culture, the English translation and reconstruction of the cultural narrative of traditional costumes directly determine the actual effect and depth of the cross-cultural communication of Han culture. Taking the cultural narrative of traditional costumes as a specific research sample, this study focuses on the core problems of "narrative aphasia" and "cultural misreading" in the process of English communication of Han culture. By analyzing the practical dilemmas of the current English communication of traditional costume cultural narrative and deconstructing the Han cultural narrative genes contained in traditional costumes, it further puts forward the core concepts of narrative reconstruction adapted to the cross-cultural communication context of the Belt and Road Initiative, and constructs specific practical paths from four dimensions: subject, discourse, scene and modality. Finally, it expounds the practical value and extended significance of narrative reconstruction for the international dissemination of Han culture. The study shows that only by taking Han cultural genes as the core and building a costume cultural narrative system adapted to the English narrative logic and the cultural cognitive habits of countries along the route, can traditional costumes become an important window for countries along the Belt and Road to understand Han culture, and promote the cross-cultural communication upgrade of Han culture from "being recognized" to "being identified".
Cultural Narrative Expression of Traditional Costumes
Pragmatic Identity Construction from the Perspective of Adaptation Theory
The identity of the communicator could get involved in the process of speech acts, and the identity changes with the dynamics of the context during the communication process. The communicator has a dynamic identity, i.e., his or her discursive identity. The article takes the Adaptation Theory as a theoretical framework, and the corpus is selected from the first televised debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to explore what kind of discursive identity Hillary constructed in that debate. Hillary constructs dynamic discursive identities such as politician, presidential candidate, and debater by conforming to physical, psychological, and social contexts. Hillary, as a communicator, consciously chose her words to participate in the debate, highlighting different discursive identities and reflecting different communicative purposes.
The Imperial Cartography in Maugham’s Novel Ah-king
Britain’s 20th-century colonial expansion constructed Southeast Asia as a crucial geographical and cultural Other. Maugham’s collection of short stories, Ah-king, reveals the psychological dislocation and power anxiety of imperial subjects in spatial practices through its depiction of colonizers’ inhabitation, mapping, and loss in foreign lands. Drawing on Robert Tally’s theory of literary cartography, we can examine how architecture, clubs, navigation guides, and travel itineraries became media for colonizers to understand, control, and symbolically reshape Southeast Asia. However, these acts of cartography failed to truly consolidate imperial authority: the guidebooks’ “poetic” qualities masked a desire for conquest, the clubs’ “rituals” maintained a fragile community, and the shift from a “cartographer-based” gaze to an “iterative” experience foreshadowed the complete collapse of the colonial cognitive system. Maugham not only depicts the disorder of colonial space but also reveals spatial countermeasures and resistance to imperial cartography.
A Comparative Study of the Translations of Robinson Crusoe
This study takes the classic plot of Robinson Crusoe waking up and searching for the ship in Robinson Crusoe as the research object, comparatively analyzes the translation performance of two versions (the Red Version and the Green Version), and sorts out five core problems in the translations, namely unnecessary embellishment, redundant characters, exaggerated expression, forced logical connection and over-enhanced expressive effect. Combined with specific example sentences, it analyzes the specific manifestations of each problem. Meanwhile, the paper puts forward translation optimization strategies, emphasizing that translations should adhere to the conciseness and accuracy of the original text and balance the authentic expression of emotions, so as to provide practical references for the precision and standardization of literary translation.
The Integration of Ideological and Political Elements in "Chinese Stories" into the Training of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages Teacher Candidates
Against the backdrop of global shifts in discourse systems, the era of promoting Chinese culture internationally has reached a critical phase. In the field of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, beyond imparting language skills, there is a need to integrate the ideological and political mission of "telling China's stories well and disseminating China's positive voice" into the teaching and learning process. This paper explores specific approaches for cultivating Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages teacher trainees, effectively embedding the ideological and political requirement of "telling China's stories well" into their training, and highlighting the educational orientation of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages in the new era. The focus is on enhancing teacher trainees' cultural confidence and awareness of proactive dissemination, improving their ability to tell "China's stories" and innovate in teaching, strengthening the development of a thematic database on "Chinese Experience and Chinese Language Teaching," and fostering specialized professionals who, while upholding the distinctive characteristics of China's local culture, possess an international perspective and are capable of disseminating "China's stories" overseas.
Teaching Chinese To Speakers Of Other Lan-Guages
Fusion of Tradition and Modernity: The Literary Adaptation of Northeast China's "Chuma Xian" Ballads
This study centers on the portrayal of the Northeast Chinese "Chuma Xian" belief in Ban Yu’s Winter Swimming and Zheng Zhi’s Xian Zheng (translated as Celestial Affliction), focusing on Ban Yu’s creative adaptation of the oral tradition of "Chuma Xian" and the two authors’ differentiated employment of folk beliefs. It explores the paths and values of contemporary literature’s borrowing and transformation of folk traditions. The research finds that as a product of the integration of Shamanistic roots, the "Chuangguan Dong" (Crossing the Pass to the Northeast) immigrant culture, and the geographical environment of Northeast China, the ballads of "Chuma Xian" carry regional collective memories such as ethnic integration and immigration history. By preserving the formulaic structure of the oral tradition, anchoring the core symbols of "Hu, Huang, Chang, Mang, Qingfeng" (the five main spirit lineages in "Chuma Xian" belief), and simplifying ritual procedures, Ban Yu and Zheng Zhi have achieved the literary preservation of regional cultural memory. Meanwhile, the two authors have stripped the original practical functions of "Chuma Xian" (such as curing diseases and dispelling disasters) and transformed it into a literary carrier for spiritual narratives and cultural reflections. Furthermore, combined with the background of the Northeast China’s laid-off wave in the 1990s, the adapted ballads not only reveal the rupture between tradition and modernity, the discontinuity of regional cultural memory, and the spiritual predicament of the people but also reflect Ban Yu’s exploration of a path to reconcile tradition and modernity. This proves that traditional folk culture, through literary adaptation, can become a spiritual resource to alleviate the alienation of modernity.
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The Research on the Creation of the Overseas Image of the CPC by the Communica-tion of China Defence League Newsletter during the Anti-Japanese War
During the Anti Japanese War, influenced by the international communication pattern and ideological prejudice, international public opinion had significant cognitive bias towards the image of the CPC (hereinafter referred to as the "CPC"). China Defense League and its official publication, "China Defence League Newsletter" (hereinafter referred to as "Newsletter"), is a key medium for correcting cognitive biases and constructing a positive overseas image of the Communist Party of China, using English Chinese bilingual multimodal texts as carriers. This study takes multimodal discourse analysis theory as the core, combined with cross-cultural communication theory, to systematically analyze the image construction path of "Newsletter": through the coordination of multiple modalities such as vision, language, and behavior, three core images of the Communist Party of China, namely "Anti Japanese War Pioneer", "Livelihood Public Servant", and "International Collaborator", are constructed. The effectiveness verification shows that "Newsletter" broke through the Kuomintang's information blockade and promoted the international community's perception of the image of the Communist Party of China from "mystification" and "demonization" to "concretization" and "positivity". The study not only restored the communication value of "Newsletter", but also provided a historical mirror for the communication that the CPC is the mainstay of the key to the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
Cultural relic protection of laboratory pottery —Take the restoration of pottery unearthed at Dongshunda site as an example
This study examines the restoration process of Dongshunba pottery artifacts, establishing standardized protocols for laboratory conservation. The paper provides comprehensive guidance on pre-restoration documentation, pottery cleaning and disassembly techniques, component reassembly methods, and polishing procedures. Addressing challenges like severe ceramic powdering and complex deformation, it proposes innovative solutions including customized adhesives and precision mold fabrication. Through summarizing practical experiences and identified limitations, the research underscores the critical importance of preserving cultural relics' authenticity while outlining future directions for advancing laboratory conservation technologies.
Analyzing the Textual Form and Literary Enlightenment of Keats’s On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer is one of the classic masterpieces of John Keats, which is born from Keats’s ardent pursuit and exploration of literature and carries a rich cultural and emotional flavor. Based on the stylistic perspective, this study digs into the literary enlighten-ment embedded in this poem from the perspectives of poetic style, vocabulary, rhetorical devic-es and images. It is found that the rhythmic combination of the Italian sonnet echoes Keats’s emotional vein, the change of vocabulary reflects his psychological changes, the interweaving of various rhetorical devices strengthens the artistic effect, and the transformation of celestial and geographic images reflects the path of his literary exploration. At the same time, the poet Keats also uses this poem to celebrate the charm of classic literature, the desire to explore knowledge and the unknown, and the role of great literature in the spiritual world of the individual.
A Research on the Ecological Thought in Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode in the Perspective of Marxist Ecology
This research aims to explore the ecological thought in Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode and ana-lyze it under the perspective of Marxist ecology. Through the interpretation of natural imagery and the excavation of ecological thought in the poem, it reveals its intrinsic connection with the Marxist ecology, further enriches our understanding of ecological thought in Romantic literature, and provides literary support and theoretical reference for the construction of contemporary ecological civilization.
A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and English Imagist Poetry from a Spatial Perspective
The poems of Bai Pu and William Carlos Williams are classical works of Imagist poetry. The former is full of the charm of Chinese classical Imagist aesthetics, while the latter actively assim-ilates the art of Chinese classical poetry and integrates painting techniques into his poetic crea-tions. Based on the perspective of space, this paper takes Bai Pu’s Tianjingsha·Autumn and Wil-liams’ The Red Wheelbarrow as examples to compare Chinese and English Imagist poetry from the three levels of physical, psychological and cultural spaces, revealing the similarities and dif-ferences in their creative techniques and cultural connotations, thereby facilitating a profound comprehension of their artistic value and cultural significance.
Research on the spatial distribution and protection of inta ngible cultural heritage in henan province
The rich intangible cultural heritage of Henan Province is a testament to the long-standing Central Plains civilization and historical culture. The purpose is to examine intangible cultural heritage from the perspectives of geographical distribution, the activation and utilization of intangible cultural heritage, and the interactive relationship between intangible cultural heritage and the natural and humanistic environment, which is more conducive to a deeper understanding of its spatial distribution characteristics. Methods: By using the data of the number of intangible cultural heritages in each city of Henan Province and the distribution points in cities, and with the aid of ArcGIS kernel density analysis, location entropy, Moran index, mathematical statistics and other methods, the spatial pattern and influencing factors of intangible cultural heritages in Henan Province were studied. The research results show that the intangible cultural heritage projects in Henan Province are distributed in clusters geographically, forming a distribution feature that radiates and decreases successively from the city centers where each population lives to the surrounding areas. The main factors influencing the spatial distribution of intangible cultural heritage include: ①humanistic environment factors, ②geographical environment factors, ③regional economic development level, and ④local policy support. Conclusion: Exploring the spatial distribution pattern of intangible cultural heritage is conducive to promoting the protection of intangible cultural heritage in today's society and has certain significance for promoting the construction of national cultural brands.