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Color Disappearance: Medial Storytelling and Signification in Chinese Realist Film
The present article focuses on Chinese realist cinema produced between 2014 and 2025 to examine the functions of color in film narrative and meaning making in the digital media era. Whilst the aesthetic dimension of color has been the focus of much existing scholarship, its potential as an independent narrative system has received insufficient attention. Adopting a media-narrative perspective and drawing upon literature review and case study methodologies, this study investigates how color—through the coding of cool and warm tones, the construction of metaphorical symbols, and the application of digital technologies—facilitates emotional resonance and thematic depth in the film. The findings demonstrate that, within the context of Chinese realist cinema, using grey-yellow palettes to depict grassroots adversity and high-saturation reds to symbolize conflict serves to underscore the narrative function of color as a cultural code. This approach perpetuates indigenous aesthetic traditions and expands the dimensions of realist expression. The study posits that color and realist cinema form a symbiotic relationship; rather than diminishing its narrative capabilities, digital technology has further amplified the expressive potential of color.
The Development of the Olympic Games Based on TOPSIS-EWM and LSTM Models
Facing the declining interest in hosting the Olympic Games, this study proposes two innovative solutions and develops evaluation models to assess their feasibility. The first solution suggests replacing the traditional format with four smaller, seasonal events. Analysis identifies Canada as most suitable for winter, Great Britain for summer, and China and Spain for spring and autumn editions. The second solution recommends establishing two permanent host sites. Evaluation of candidate countries—China, France, and Canada—through predictive modeling shows China with the strongest potential for long-term hosting. Further research forecasts the multidimensional impact on host cities and outlines strategic implementation steps. The findings are summarized in a policy memorandum submitted to the International Olympic Committee to support the sustainable future of the Games.
An Exploration of the Cultural Connotations of Grape Patterns in Tang Dynasty Auspicious Beast Mirrors
Grapes, also known as Putaos and Putao, have various species. Grapes were introduced into China during the Han Dynasty from the Western Regions. They are an imported plant brought back by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions and were widely cultivated during the Northern Dynasties, becoming a raw material for winemaking. As decorative motifs, they were also extensively reintroduced. This paper first traces the origins of grape patterns and provides an overview of their development. Based on a review of the historical and cultural background of their emergence, it analyzes in detail the various applications and specific meanings symbolized by grape patterns in the Tang Dynasty; secondly, it studies the style of Tang Dynasty auspicious beast grape mirrors, interpreting the cultural significance behind them; finally, it summarizes the influence of Tang Dynasty auspicious beast grape mirrors on later decorative patterns.
Constructing Pulse Diagnosis: Western Medicine and the Transformation of Chinese Pulse Knowledge in Modern
Pulse diagnosis, a hallmark diagnostic method of traditional Chinese medicine, took its modern conceptual form during the fusion with Western medicine in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This article explores how Western doctors and Western-trained Chinese physicians redefined the core meaning of pulse diagnosis during this period of medical transformation. Early Western observers were curious about TCM pulse diagnosis and compared it with pre-modern European medical traditions. However, with the rise of modern anatomy and experimental medicine, missionary doctors gradually regarded it as an “unscientific” method. By the early 20th century, Western-trained Chinese physicians adopted a pragmatic approach, critiquing the fundamental theories of TCM while reinterpreting pulse diagnosis using modern physiology and medical instruments. This article argues that the modern understanding of pulse diagnosis was influenced not only by scientific scrutiny but also by factors such as shifts in medical authority, cross-cultural medical exchange, and institutional power.
Effects of Multimodal AI on Emotional Engagement and Cognitive Strategies in Speech Training
This study, framed within sociocultural theory, investigates the impact of multimodal AI-assisted speech training on foreign language learners' emotional engagement and cognitive strategies. This research employed a mixed-methods approach to analyze the emotional experiences and cognitive regulation mechanisms for Chinese university students in an AI-assisted speech training environment. Results reveal that learners exhibit moderate-to-high enjoyment and moderate-to-low anxiety in this environment. Foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety are significantly negatively correlated. No significant linear relationship was found between the frequency of AI use and emotional experience. Qualitative analysis indicates that learners actively and critically integrate AI feedback, demonstrating considerable cognitive strategizing and agency. The study identifies limitations of AI in providing emotional support and simulating authentic pressure, especially its difficulty in replacing the emotional interaction and contextual creation functions of human teachers. The results unveil the double-edged sword effect of AI in speech training, underscore the necessity of constructing a human-machine collaborative teaching ecosystem, and provide empirical evidence for the design and integration of intelligent pedagogical tools.
Legal Clinic Education and Legal Consultation from the Perspective of Problem Awareness
“Adhering to problem oriented” is one of the “six commitments” mentioned in the report submitted to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Problems are the starting point of discourse today, and proposing solutions remains the fundamental task of theoretical research. As legal workers dedicated to the people, we adhere to this in helping clients with their legal consultations. Legal consultation is the start of legal services. Legal consultation can be compared to a medical diagnosis—it involves “looking”, “listening”, “palpating”, “noting”, “selecting”, “answering”, much like a doctor checking a patient’s condition. And then it does an analysis of Legal clinics and Consulting according to President’s problem awareness.
Disclosing and Disappearing: The Relationship between Self-disclosure and Intentions to Ghost
Two studies conducted here to test the relationship between the level of self-disclosure and ghosting intentions. Ghosting, the act of terminating a relationship by abruptly cutting off all communication. Although ghosting has become a common dissolution strategy across digital communication environments, little is known about how personality is relate to intention to ghost and the likelihood of engaging in ghosting behavior. The present research focuses on self-disclosure, a interpersonal process that reflects how openly individuals share personal information. We also examines how disclosure level contribute to ghosting behaviors and frequency. Study’s participants focus on emerging adults. Across both studies, self-disclosure can be seen as a predictor for ghosting intentions. However the association between ghosting behavior was unsure, there was a mix result.
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Non-Verbal Symbol Communication: A New Path for International Communication of Culture in the Era of Mobile Social Videos: A Semiotic Interpretation of Ziqi Li’s Videos on YouTube
The representation modes, meaning production, and communication effects of cultural symbols vary with changes in communication forms. Due to inherent limitations, verbal symbols have led to dilemmas such as the loss of cultural connotations and the absence of audience’s sense of context co-presence in the international communication of culture. In the era of video communication based on mobile social media, the international communication of culture presents a new landscape, where the efficacy of non-verbal symbols is increasingly prominent. Transcending the constraints of physical time and space with their direct sensory impacts, strong metaphorical and symbolic nature, non-verbal symbols construct a space-oriented contextual field and a time-oriented narrative flow for both communicators and recipients by breaking through language barriers. This process prompts audiences from heterogeneous cultures to shift their attitudes to a specific culture from initial sensory arousal to cognitive restructuring and emotional resonance, ultimately achieving psychological identification and behavioral change.
Digital Empowerment in the Construction of a Dialogue Support Mechanism for Left-Behind Children
In the process of advancing rural revitalization and common prosperity strategies, the development of a care and service system for rural left-behind children is a crucial livelihood project (All-China Women's Federation, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Education. Opinions on Strengthening the Care and Protection of Rural Left-Behind Children, 2021). Addressing current challenges in supporting left-behind children—including fragmented information, poor supply-demand matching, insufficient companionship services, and low digitalization—this study takes Wencheng in Wenzhou and Xianju in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province as research pilot sites. Using field research, system design, case analysis, and other methods, it constructs the Travel with Digital Children digital map platform and dialogue support mechanism for left-behind children. Findings indicate that the digital platform effectively improves the accuracy of support and social participation, enhances the psychological well-being and growth environment of left-behind children (Chen & Zhang, 2019), and provides a replicable and scalable practical path for the digital transformation of care services for left-behind children in 26 mountainous counties and similar regions (Li & Wang, 2023).
Yungang’s Silk Road Spirit and Its Enlightenment for the Joint Construction of the Belt and Road Initiative
The ancient Silk Road witnesses economic and cultural exchanges in human history and has important significance. Datong, as the starting point of the Silk Road that connects the Han Dynasty in the earlier period and ushers in the Sui and Tang dynasties in the later period, has the Yungang Grottoes as the most powerful historical evidence left behind. The Silk Road Spirit represented by “peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual reference, and mutual benefit and win-win results” has laid the ideological foundation for today’s the Belt and Road Initiative. Under the background of the ancient Silk Road, this paper introduces the connotation of the Silk Road in Yungang and analyzes the great significance of the Belt and Road Initiative. Then, the author elaborates on the relationship between the Silk Road Spirit of the Yungang Grottoes and the construction of the Belt and Road. On this basis, the paper puts forward the enlightenment of the Silk Road Spirit for jointly building the Belt and Road, aiming to provide theoretical and practical references for the construction of the Belt and Road.
The Influence of Hollywood Film Culture on Global Film and Television Culture
This paper explores the profound and multi-dimensional influence of Hollywood film culture on the global film and television landscape by analyzing its industrial production model, marketing operations, narrative logic, and value connotations. Hollywood’s influence is not a one-way cultural export, but a construction of a global cinematic power structure through industrial systems, visual technology, and ideological dissemination, which reshapes global film production, distribution, and viewing practices. It exerts its influence mainly through standardized narrative styles, industrialized production and distribution mechanisms, and homogenized aesthetic and technical norms, while embedding core American values such as individualism and heroism into global film culture and even forming cultural and aesthetic hegemony. However, Hollywood culture does not completely replace local cultures; instead, it generates cultural hybridity through interaction and negotiation with regional film cultures. This paper also argues that Hollywood’s homogenization trend poses challenges to the diversity of global film culture, and the protection of cultural diversity is crucial for the sustainable development of the global film ecosystem. The research adopts a theoretical analysis approach, drawing on the research results of scholars in film studies, cultural studies, and economics, and combines typical film cases to demonstrate the interaction between Hollywood film culture and global film and television culture.
The Language of Craft: A Study of the 2024 Suzhou Exhibition as a Communication Event
This paper takes the “language of craft”-the art and craft exchange exhibition between China and Korea in Suzhou in 2024 as the research object, uses the cross-cultural communication theory and the method of exhibition narratology to discuss the exhibition, and analyzes the way of dialogue and the significance of communication. This paper holds that the exhibition is planned in four parts of “the language of heaven, earth, man and craft”, forming a deep dialogue between Chinese and Korean craft culture. Six groups of “dialogue pairs”-dialogue between white porcelain moon jar and Chinese white porcelain aesthetics, dialogue between brass cornerstone and space concept of Ming-style furniture, dialogue between Korean paper and material language of Chinese paper art, dialogue between patchwork and women’s crafts. The dialogue between horse hair craft and the contemporary transformation of traditional Chinese weaving techniques, as well as the dialogue of visual symbols of moire patterns, have been exchanged in an all-round way from technology to culture. The exhibition is no longer a simple exhibition, but through the opening ceremony salon, Korean traditional music experience, non-legacy master studio visits and other activities, the exhibition has changed from “exhibition” to “dialogue”. Therefore, this study holds that the exhibition not only shows the mutual influence and respective development paths of Chinese and Korean crafts in the historical development process, but also finds out the common points of East Asian crafts culture in the context of today’s era-the pursuit of natural harmony, the adherence to the virtues of thrift, and the innovative inheritance of traditional crafts. This form of exhibition is of positive significance for promoting more equal and in-depth international cultural exchanges, and also shows that exhibition is an important way of cross-cultural exchanges.
Design of Rural Age-Friendly Smart Seat Based on Arduino
With the accelerated aging of China’s population, the aging problem in rural areas is particularly prominent, and current rural public facilities lack age-friendly design and intelligent services. To address this issue, this paper proposes a design scheme for a rural age-friendly smart seat based on the Arduino Uno R3 platform. The system combines ergonomic theory in structural design, optimizes seat height, depth, and armrest structure, uses pressure sensors to detect sitting posture, employs temperature and humidity sensors for environmental monitoring, and integrates an OLED display and buzzer to implement prolonged sitting reminders. Interfaces for sit-to-stand assistance and voice interaction are also reserved. The paper analyzes the usage needs of the rural elderly, constructs the system architecture, completes hardware and software logic design, and demonstrates the technical feasibility of core functions such as sitting detection, prolonged sitting reminders, and environmental monitoring. Research shows that the system can stably achieve sitting state recognition and timed reminder functions, with controllable monitoring errors, low power consumption, and simple structure. While ensuring basic intelligent functions, the design reduces system complexity and cost, making it suitable for rural public spaces and home-based elderly care. This study provides a feasible approach for the intelligent design of rural age-friendly public facilities.
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