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Practice and Dilemmas of Junior Doctors in the Construction of Therapeutic Landscapes in Pediatric Hematology: From the Perspective of Emotional Labor
Therapeutic landscapes are dynamic systems co-constructed by physical environments, social landscapes, and symbolic landscapes, which play a critical role in patient recovery and professional experiences of medical staff within medical spaces. As a special medical field with high emotional load and high social attention, the construction of therapeutic landscapes in the Department of Pediatric Hematology relies not only on the professional guidance and decision-making coordination of senior physicians such as chief physicians and attending physicians, but also on the frontline participation and daily practice of junior doctors including interns and residents. Based on the therapeutic landscape theory of health geography and emotional labor theory of sociology, this study takes the Department of Pediatric Hematology as the research setting, adopts methods of participant observation, in-depth interviews, and grounded theory coding, and systematically analyzes the specific participation modes of junior doctors (interns and residents) in activating physical spaces, maintaining social relationships, and practicing symbolic interactions. It further reveals the dilemmas they face under factors including emotional labor pressure, institutional constraints, hierarchical power restrictions, and uncertain professional identity, and then proposes optimization paths from four dimensions: spatial support, institutional guarantee, emotional empowerment, and capacity building. The study finds that junior doctors are the daily producers and stable maintainers of therapeutic landscapes in the Department of Pediatric Hematology. Their deep-acting emotional labor helps create a warm and trusting therapeutic atmosphere, while surface acting and defensive tendencies weaken therapeutic effects. The participation dilemmas of junior doctors are essentially the combined result of structural pressure, identity tension, and unequal spatial power. Strengthening the participation of junior doctors in constructing therapeutic landscapes has important practical significance for improving doctor-patient relationships, enhancing the warmth of medical services, and promoting the physical and mental health of medical staff.
A Study on Cultural Differences in Chinese and English Proverbs
Proverbs are the crystallization of language and an important carrier of culture. Because of the differences in geography, religion, philosophy, customs and values, there are significant differences between Chinese and English proverbs. These differences are inevitably related to the development history of the two cultures, the differences in social structure, and the differences in religious and philosophical traditions. This paper systematically sorts out the differences between the two languages, analyzes the reasons for the differences, and explores how to promote the development of cross-cultural communication and improve translation practice and English learning. In the study, it is found that Chinese proverbs emphasize collectivism, modesty and righteousness, while English proverbs emphasize individualism, confidence and practicality. The fundamental reason for the differences between the two is that the two cultures have been developing in different directions. Understanding the differences between the two languages can avoid cultural misunderstandings and enhance cross-cultural communication ability.
Planning Long-term Strategies and Taking Fundamental Measures: A Practical Study of the Communist Party of China’s Thought on “Long-term Construction of Xizang” in Ganzi
“Long-term development of Xizang” is an important principle by which the Communist Party of China guides work in ethnic minority areas and is one of the core contents of the Party’s governance strategy in the new era. From the abandonment of the “three-year replacement” plan for troops entering Xizang and the establishment of the idea of “taking root in the plateau and making it home” to the systematic proposal of the important principles of “governing the region by law, enriching the people and developing the region, building Xizang in the long term, uniting the people and laying a solid foundation”, the idea of “building Xizang in the long term” has undergone an evolution process from practical exploration to theoretical elevation and from specific work guidelines to strategic core. Ganzi Prefecture, the first prefecture-level autonomous prefecture for ethnic minorities in the People’s Republic of China, is an important field of practice for the idea of “building Xizang for a long time”. Based on a review of the theoretical content of the idea of “building Xizang for a long time”, this paper systematically analyzes the practical achievements and experiences and inspirations of the implementation of the idea of “building Xizang for a long time” in areas such as economic development, poverty alleviation, infrastructure construction, ethnic unity and progress, ecological civilization construction, and counterpart support in Ganzi Prefecture. To provide references for a deeper understanding of the Party’s governance strategy and for promoting long-term stability and high-quality development in ethnic minority areas.
Copyright (c) 2026 Xiao Wang, Xiaojun Su
The Impact of Husbands’ Childcare Participation on Women’s Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from CFPS 2020 Data
Against the dual background of boosting fertility and improving people’s livelihood well-being, this study explores how to enhance female subjective well-being by increasing husbands’ childcare participation in the stage of high-quality economic development. Using three waves of data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2016 to 2020, this paper empirically tests the impact of husband’s childcare on female well-being with the ordinary least squares (OLS) model. The results show that: (1) Husband’s childcare participation has a significant positive effect on female subjective well-being; (2) Female family decision-making empowerment plays a partial mediating role in this relationship. Specifically, husband’s childcare promotes female labor participation, changes their relative resource endowment within the family, and thus grants them more family decision-making power, which ultimately improves their well-being.
Trust in AI: A Marx’s Existential Perspective
With the accelerated advancement of globalization and modernization, the issue of trust has gradually become the focus of global social contradictions. In the highly advanced contemporary society, cutting-edge technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) have not only reshaped the way of human existence, but have also become the fundamental force driving social development. The reality of technological existence makes people’s trust in technologies such as AI particularly important. This article aims to explore the construction of trust in AI from the perspective of Marx’s existential theory. First, it points out the importance of trust in the field of AI and emphasizes the impact of technological trust on social development and human well-being. Secondly, the appropriate boundaries of trust in AI are explored, emphasizing the necessity of seeking a balance between technological development and human values. Finally, a realistic approach to building AI trust is proposed.
Confucius' View of Hierarchy from the Perspective of Fen
As a core concept in pre-Qin Confucian thought, fen is both the logical starting point of social order and the spiritual support of ritual and legal institutions. Although Confucius does not directly and systematically elaborate the concept of fen in his recorded statements, the li and zhengming that he advocates are in fact grounded in fen and aim to establish distinctions of rank, honor, responsibility, and role among persons. Starting from the philological meaning and institutional origin of fen, this article examines its forms of expression in the system of the Rites of Zhou and then investigates how fen is embedded in the intellectual construction of Confucius' view of hierarchy. Through the three dimensions of defining fen through li, consolidating fen through ren, and clarifying fen in the application of punishment, the article shows how Confucius internalizes fen as an ethical principle and externalizes it as social order, giving it concrete expression in the human relations between ruler and minister, father and son, elder and younger, and husband and wife. Through a comparative analysis of Xunzi's thought on fen, the article further highlights the tension and extension between the moralized tendency of Confucius' concept of fen and the rationalized turn of Xunzi's thought on fen. Finally, the article attempts to reinterpret the Confucian idea of hierarchy under the modern discourse of equality. It argues that fen is not a tool for suppressing the individual, but a reasonable division of responsibility and role in the construction of an ordered society, and therefore has theoretical value across ancient and modern contexts.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yigang Zhang, Jiabing Liu
Research on a Sustainable Protection Model for Jingdezhen's Cultural Heritage Across the Entire Region
Against the global digital economy and cultural heritage sustainable governance background, cultural heritage protection has shifted from traditional passive salvage conservation to comprehensive, dynamic and sustainable ecological governance worldwide. Jingdezhen, the world-famous porcelain capital with over 2,000 years of ceramic civilization, boasts integrated whole-region cultural heritage covering tangible kiln ruins, ancient architectural clusters, handmade intangible porcelain craftsmanship, porcelain specimen relics and porcelain-related folk customs. These precious heritage resources constitute a complete industrial and cultural chain of ancient Chinese ceramic manufacturing, bearing unique historical, artistic, scientific and social values. For a long time, scattered departmental management, insufficient long-term fiscal input, continuous outflow and aging of inheritor groups, as well as single protection and development paths have seriously restricted the sustainable inheritance and innovative development of Jingdezhen’s all-round cultural heritage. The traditional protection model that overemphasizes physical relic maintenance while ignoring dynamic inheritance and industrial activation has led to the gradual marginalization of folk ceramic craftsmanship and the waste of massive heritage resources. The construction of full-chain digital industrial chain opens up a new sustainable development path for cross-regional integrated heritage protection, realizing the organic integration of cultural preservation, digital innovation and industrial economic circulation. Centered on upstream standardized digital resource archiving, midstream intelligent conservation and immersive content development, downstream cultural creative industrialization and digital cultural tourism operation, this study adopts literature research, field investigation and case empirical analysis, sorts out the practical achievements and prominent drawbacks of Jingdezhen’s existing digital heritage construction represented by the Ancient Ceramic Gene Bank and Taoyangli digital scenic project, and constructs a four-dimensional closed-loop sustainable protection framework integrating whole-domain data integration, refined intelligent protection, industrial value feedback and institutional guarantee from the perspective of digital industrial chain construction. Empirical analysis shows that the industrial closed-loop mode of “heritage digitization – intelligent protection – industrial realization – profit feedback to heritage maintenance” can effectively break the over-reliance of traditional protection on financial appropriation, resolve resource fragmentation and insufficient inheritance problems, and realize the virtuous cycle of heritage protection and industrial development. The research conclusions can provide operable practical references for Jingdezhen’s holistic heritage conservation and deliver replicable digital protection experience for global historical and cultural cities with similar handicraft heritage resources.
The Logic and Path of Rural Revitalization Strategy Empowering Rural Mutual Aid Elderly Care
With the intensification of population aging in China, the issue of rural elderly care has become increasingly severe, and the traditional elderly care model is no longer sufficient to meet the demands. Against this backdrop, rural mutual aid elderly care has emerged as a new model. The implementation of the rural revitalization strategy has provided multiple forms of empowerment for rural mutual aid elderly care, including policies, funds, and talents, making it an important path to solve the rural elderly care dilemma. This article aims to explore how the rural revitalization strategy empowers rural mutual aid elderly care and points out its positive roles in policy support, resource integration, and social mobilization. However, rural mutual aid elderly care still faces problems such as imperfect policy design, insufficient funding, and a lack of professional talents. Therefore, this article proposes optimization paths, including improving the policy system, strengthening publicity and guidance, establishing a diversified fund-raising mechanism, cultivating professional talents, and improving infrastructure, with the aim of achieving the sustainable development of rural mutual aid elderly care and supporting the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
Research on the Path Optimization of Rural Mutual Aid Elderly Care Model in Ethnic Minority Areas of Yunnan Province under the Background of Rural Revitalization
Taking the "1+1+N" mutual-aid pension model in Lushui, Nujiang of Yunnan Province as a case, this paper analyzes its practical logic featuring Party building leadership, neighborhood mutual assistance and diversified services. Relevant practices prove that the model effectively alleviates the elderly care shortage through external resource embedding, yet confronted with deep-seated dilemmas including interrupted endogenous motivation caused by over-reliance on external resources, disconnection between ethnic cultural inheritance and substantive elderly care, as well as imbalance between professional capacity empowerment and community self-governance. Accordingly, this study proposes targeted optimization strategies for structural adjustment and efficiency improvement: establishing a dual-operation mechanism led by Party building and governed by resident autonomy, developing a mixed financing mode combining public welfare points and ethnic handicraft workshops, and constructing a tiered elderly care training plus intelligent empowerment system. The above measures facilitate the transformation from administrative-driven governance to multi-stakeholder co-governance, and provide theoretical references for the sustainable development of mutual-aid pension in ethnic minority regions.
Research on the Blockage Mechanisms and Governance Pathways of Smallholder Farmers’ E-commerce Participation in the Context of Rural Revitalization
In the context of digital technology’s deep integration into agricultural industry chains, e-commerce for tea is viewed as a crucial engine for rural revitalization. However, the prosperity of e-commerce at the macro level has not automatically translated into widespread benefits for small-scale farmers. Instead, a significant digital dual structure has emerged between county-level and village-level entities, as well as between top streamers and ordinary tea farmers. This paper takes Gongong Village in Mengku Town, Shuangjiang County, Yunnan Province, as a case study and, based on field research data, provides an in-depth analysis of the underlying mechanisms driving the marginalization of small-scale farmers in the e-commerce wave. The findings reveal that small-scale farmers face not only a digital infrastructure access gap but also skill gaps resulting from aging, organizational gaps due to atomized production, and traffic gaps caused by platform algorithms. These four types of gaps combined have led to the emergence of a sales gap. Therefore, empowering rural revitalization through e-commerce needs to shift from inclusive growth to inclusive development in order to bridge the digital divide and achieve an organic connection between small-scale farmers and modern agriculture.
From “Capital Space” to “People’s Space”: Theoretical Reconstruction and the New Civilization Paradigm in Modern People-Centered Cities
China’s urbanization is moving towards a new stage of intensive development focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of existing urban stocks. This article systematically explains the evolutionary logic and theoretical connotations of “modern people-centered cities” based on the Marxist theory of urban-rural relations and traditional Chinese city-building wisdom. This concept aims to transcend urban alienation dominated by capital logic and establish the ontological status of “the people”. The study constructs a four-dimensional theoretical framework covering value ontology, development dynamics, functional systems theory and evaluation epistemology, and proposes four practical pathways: returning spatial justice, transitioning development momentum for intensive growth, reshaping functional systems, and enhancing governance efficiency. Ultimately, this research aims to offer Chinese insights into global urban governance.
An Analysis of the Evolution and Influencing Factors of Finland’s Immigration Policy
Since the late 1970s, a large influx of immigrants and asylum seekers has profoundly transformed Finland’s population structure and social governance paradigm, leading to a historic shift in Finland’s role from a traditional source of migrants to a modern recipient of immigrants. Looking back over its more than 100-year evolution, Finland’s immigration integration policy has undergone a process of institutional change, from “endogenous forced assimilation” in the early years of its founding, to “multicultural exploration” in the post-Cold War era, to “structural integration” within the welfare system framework in the early 21st century, and finally to the current “instrumental contraction” characterized by populism and security. This policy trajectory of upheaval and shift is not purely an evolution of administrative techniques, but rather a result of multiple intertwined causal mechanisms, including geopolitical defensive psychology, macroeconomic cycle fluctuations, the inherent exclusive tensions of a universal welfare state, and the polarization of party politics. This article, from a historical institutionalist perspective, systematically reviews the evolution of Finland’s immigration policy since independence and deconstructs its underlying multidimensional dynamics, aiming to reveal the governance dilemmas and historical challenges faced by modern welfare states in the face of national identity, the aging population crisis, and the impact of globalization.
Construction and Social Effects of Iceland’s Immigration and Nationality Policy from 1944 to 1993
Iceland achieved full independence in 1944 and took charge of the immigration office. Because the island is far from the mainland and most people share the same ethnicity, coupled with the need for national unity in Iceland, a closed policy of ethnic immigration was imposed from 1944 to 1993. In the Cold War, Iceland’s immigration system was based on nationality law, and the main features were a kinship-based naturalisation system, compulsory Icelandicisation of names and prohibition of dual citizenship. The three systems worked together to form a management system with different ethnic areas, shared culture and the nation; they solved problems of entry, assimilation and identity. This paper will study the period from 1944 to 1993 using a historical institutionalist approach and will take into account the social changes and regional development of Iceland after the war. It is systematically introduced how the immigration policy was formed at that time and what dual historical effects it had on Iceland. Research shows that at this time, conservative policies were institutional arrangements taken by Iceland to protect its ethnic group and strengthen the basis of national identity amid unstable sovereignty, culture and economy. This system helped maintain social stability and cultural independence at the beginning of the founding of the country, but it also had problems such as a rigid population structure and a lack of human resources; therefore, policy adjustments were made after the 1990s.
Research on the Digital Transformation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Industry Chain: A Case Study of Sichuan Opera
Against the background of China’s cultural development strategy and the rapid diffusion of “Internet Plus” technologies, the safeguarding and transmission of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) have entered a stage of digitalization. Sichuan Opera, one of the most representative traditional opera genres in southwest China, has encountered development bottlenecks in its traditional industry chain, including an aging and shrinking audience, a shortage of talent, spatially and temporally constrained dissemination, and weak commercial monetization. Taking the Sichuan Opera industry chain as its object, this paper conducts a qualitative single-case study based on policy documents, publicly available industry materials, and the existing literature. It first maps the constituent elements of the industry chain, then diagnoses the problems of the traditional chain, and explores pathways of digital transformation along three dimensions: e-commerce platform construction, cross-industry integration, and the application of new media technology. The study finds that “Internet Plus” can remove the spatial and temporal limitations on the dissemination of Sichuan Opera and reactivate the value of the industry chain; at the same time, the transformation process itself faces challenges of high technology costs, a shortage of interdisciplinary talent, and tension between cultural inheritance and commercial development. Accordingly, the paper proposes strategies covering policy support, talent cultivation, technology and user-experience optimization, and cultural supervision, in order to promote the sustainable development of the Sichuan Opera industry chain. The findings also provide a reference for the digital transformation of other traditional opera genres.