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On the Hybridity and Marginal Drift of the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong Cinematic Qipao
As a distinctive cultural symbol shaped by colonial history and film storytelling, qipaos appearing in Hong Kong films carry two core cultural traits: hybrid cultural attributes and floating marginal identity. Taking the costume exhibition A Record of Changing Clothes: Hong Kong Film Cheongsam Costume Exhibition as the core research sample, this paper adopts Homi K. Bhabha’s hybridity theory and Oscar Ho Hing-kay’s marginal drift concept as dual analytical frameworks. It analyzes how qipao silhouettes blended Chinese and Western tailoring logic under colonial governance, alongside how film narratives reshaped and shifted Hong Kong people’s cultural belonging through this costume carrier. The research draws a clear conclusion: the qipaos popular in Hong Kong cannot be simply categorized as pure inheritance of traditional Chinese costume or blind imitation of Western fashion. Instead, they are brand-new hybrid cultural forms born from constant silhouette revisions, cross-border sewing technology integration and symbolic design innovation within the cultural gaps brought by colonial rule. Film creation endows qipaos with powerful narrative and metaphor value, making them a vital medium for Hong Kong communities to negotiate cultural belonging and spread localized oriental aesthetics to global audiences.
Copyright (c) 2026 Qiuhua Yang, Yuxiao Cui, Jianpei Gong http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Harm Minimization Path of British Anti-drug Narrative
British drug policy has long been distinguished by a pragmatic tradition that seeks elastic space between legal prohibition and de facto tolerance, forging a distinctive harm minimization narrative that stands in sharp contrast to the American War on Drugs. This paper examines the evolutionary trajectory of British drug-control narratives—from nineteenth-century opium-trade controversies and the mid-twentieth-century British System of licensed heroin prescribing to the recent decriminalization experiments in Scotland—to reveal how the United Kingdom has managed drug problems as persistent, complex conditions requiring effective management rather than eradication. Through a narrative-analytic lens, the study interrogates three interconnected dimensions: firstly, the decriminalization experiment of the Drug Legs policy and its contested signal effects between public-health and legal-order frameworks; secondly, the technical operations of harm reduction, including methadone maintenance treatment and supervised injection facilities, and their political vulnerability when confronted with visual politics and moral cognition; and thirdly, the gradual substitution of public-health frameworks for criminal-justice paradigms, driven by the HIV/AIDS crisis, evidence accumulation, professional advocacy, and European integration. The analysis demonstrates that while Britain’s harm-minimization pathway offers evidence-based, compassionate alternatives to prohibitionist approaches, it remains structurally fragile because of the irreconcilable tension between public-health objectives and legal-symbolic goals. The 2016 Brexit referendum further triggered a punitive turn, reactivating “drug-war” discourse and underscoring that drug-policy evolution is non-linear. The paper concludes by offering comparative reflections for China’s drug-control narrative, arguing that China can enrich the hierarchical adaptability of its narrative system by absorbing the technical rationality of harm reduction while maintaining its zero-tolerance stance, thereby reconciling humanitarian concern with scientific rigor.
Copyright (c) 2026 Jingzi Han, Xiaoyang Zhang, Bin Wei http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Occupational Safety and Health as the Core of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Resource-Based Perspective
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly recognized as a strategic component of sustainable business management. Nevertheless, its implementation remains largely compliance-driven, with organizations emphasizing policies, certifications, audit documentation, and reporting rather than measurable improvements in workplace conditions. This paper argues that such a documentation-oriented approach inadequately explains how CSR creates value for employees, particularly in occupational safety and health (OSH). Drawing upon international CSR, responsible business conduct, and OSH frameworks, this conceptual study proposes a resource-based framework that reconceptualizes CSR implementation as an organizational capability. The framework identifies six interrelated organizational resources: financial, human, temporal, governance, data, and culture, as the enabling mechanisms through which CSR commitments are translated into workplace justice, employee participation, effective risk management, and sustainable organizational performance. The study further argues that enterprises operating high-risk occupations require substantially greater resource investment because inadequate organizational capacity may directly threaten workers' health, safety, and dignity. By integrating CSR with workplace justice and OSH management, this study extends the current CSR literature beyond compliance-based perspectives and provides a conceptual foundation for embedding social responsibility into everyday workplace governance. The proposed framework offers practical guidance for organizations seeking to strengthen employee well-being, organizational resilience, and long-term sustainability through resource-enabled CSR implementation.
Copyright (c) 2026 Do Thi Lan Chi, Dao Bang Giang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Display Strategies and Reception of Zhang Daqian’s Works in Europe and North America (1950–1980): A Case Study of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris
This research centers on Zhang Daqian’s landmark solo exhibition held at Paris’s Musée Cernuschi in 1956. It tracks how Chinese ink-wash paintings were displayed and received across European and American art circles between the 1950s and 1980s, against the backdrop of Western modernist artistic movements. Multiple types of primary materials support this analysis, covering museum archives, mainstream media reviews, auction transaction records and peer-reviewed art criticism. The paper sorts out how Zhang adopted targeted cross-cultural curatorial tactics to build his unique international artistic identity, as well as viable developmental paths for non-Western art within the post-war global art system. Evidence from the case study proves that Zhang successfully established himself as a core representative of Eastern artistic traditions. His mature splashed-color painting method carries forward the material craft of Song-dynasty blue-green landscapes, while echoing the spontaneous creative logic favored by Western Abstract Expressionist creators. This fusion granted traditional ink-wash art an unprecedented visual language. Beyond its archival value, this work expands people’s understanding of classical Chinese painting and offers solid references for analyzing similar cross-cultural artistic communication phenomena.
Copyright (c) 2026 Zhijiao Feng, Ting Yang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Media Dissemination Path and Countermeasures of Yutong Culture in Tiktok Short Videos
"Yutong" is a concept integrating ethnic groups, culture, and region, embodying rich cultural heritages such as language, clothing, folk songs, and embroidery. This study investigates the current status of Yutong culture's dissemination on short video platforms. The research finds that multiple stakeholders have jointly constructed the cultural landscape of the Yutong ethnic group from auditory and visual perspectives. However, due to issues such as overly homogenized content, uneven production levels, and limited dissemination scope, the effectiveness of cultural dissemination is limited. Based on this, this paper proposes innovative paths such as systematic content planning, professional production enhancement, and collaborative dissemination mechanism construction, providing countermeasures and suggestions for the media dissemination of Yutong culture in Ganzi.
Copyright (c) 2026 Shanshan Li http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Implicit Emotional Exploitation from the Perspective of Filial Piety: An Autoethnographic Study of Diffuse Family Boundaries
Under the constraints of intergenerational filial piety, the collapse of the boundaries of the family of origin can easily contribute to long-term implicit emotional exploitation. This relationship is maintained by traditional family ethical ties. It causes continuous psychological depletion and is characterized by concealment and long-term psychological damage. This study adopts an autoethnographic research method, taking the researcher’s mother’s complete life course as a single analytic case, and integrates existing empirical literature from structural family systems theory, developmental psychology, and stress physiology. It analyzes the generative logic and typical behavioral manifestations of implicit emotional exploitation in unbalanced family triangulation systems from four dimensional boundaries—physical, emotional, responsibility, and property. Furthermore, it discusses the chaotic phenomenon of pseudo-psychology that misuses psychological concepts and arbitrarily labels personalities through short videos and generative AI content, explicating the empirical research norms for personality assessment and family relationship evaluation. The study finds that long-term one-sided sacrificial discipline reshapes individual cognitive schemas. In conjunction with existing stress physiology literature, it can be deduced that sustained chronic psychological stress elevates the baseline levels of stress hormones. If an individual also has pre-existing constitutional organic health issues, the combination of the two significantly increases the risk of physical health impairment. Undifferentiated filial piety binding, double standards in the distribution of rights and responsibilities, neglect of needs and reverse moral attribution, value-detached emotional distancing, and violation of private property boundaries together constitute the complete behavioral chain of implicit emotional exploitation. Based on the three dimensions of cognition, behavior, and emotion, this study proposes practical intervention pathways for constructing family boundaries, providing theoretical references and practical plans for addressing indigenous unbalanced family relationships and intervening in intergenerational emotional trauma.
Copyright (c) 2026 Li Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Farmers’ Awareness of Digital Transformation and Its Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Vietnam
Digital transformation is creating new opportunities for improving agricultural productivity, resource efficiency, market access, and resilience. However, these benefits depend not only on technological availability but also on farmers’ capacity to understand and engage with digital technologies. This study examines farmers’ awareness of digital transformation in Vietnam and explores its implications for sustainable agricultural development. Drawing on published empirical studies, systematic reviews, and relevant policy and institutional reports, the study synthesizes evidence on farmers’ awareness and understanding, differences across farmer groups, and the factors associated with these differences. The findings indicate that digital awareness remains uneven, with more advanced technologies generally less well understood than familiar or established applications. Education, digital skills, Internet access and proficiency, participation in training, exposure to pilot models, and production conditions emerge as important factors associated with differences in awareness. These disparities have broader implications for sustainable agriculture, as unequal digital capabilities may limit farmers’ opportunities to benefit from improvements in production efficiency, resource management, market access, and environmentally responsible practices. The study argues that farmers’ awareness should be viewed as an enabling condition rather than a direct determinant of sustainable agricultural outcomes. It concludes that agricultural digitalization in Vietnam requires a farmer-centered approach that combines technological investment with differentiated digital training, practical demonstration, technical support, and inclusive access. Such an approach is essential to ensure that digital transformation contributes to economically viable, environmentally sustainable, and socially inclusive agricultural development.
Copyright (c) 2026 Mai Thi Tinh http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0