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The Feminist Criticism and Value of the Female Figure Hermina in Der Steppenwolf
Authors: Zhu Qiangyi
Published: June 2023

After the World War II, the novel Der Steppenwolf makes Hermann Hesses works go viral. Der Steppenwolf has a profound influence around the world. Till now, the research related to Hesses works is quite fruitful. However, theres still inadequacy when discussing about female images in Hesses works. This paper is mainly based on a feminist interpretation of Jungian Psychology. Through textual analysis, this paper makes feminist criticism toward the female character Hermina of the book Der Steppenwolf. This paper at the same time, discusses the feminist value of Hermina, thus to have a more vivid interpretation of the figure Hermina. The female character Hermina presents females being confined under the masculine discourse, and its position as the other in Der Steppenwolf. On the other side, the character Hermina also realizes the breakthrough against the opposition between traditional binary gender, and shows the complexity of gender.
An Analysis on the Influence of the Description of Gender Impression in Classic Western Fairy Tales on Children's Gender Cognition from the Perspective of Feminism
Authors: Wu Murui
Published: June 2023

Feminism is a theoretical system that has gradually been flourishing in recent years. In the study of fairy tales, many scholars have analyzed the nature of the representation of some classic fairy tales on the hegemonic system of male discourse from the perspective of feminism. However, there is still a lack of unified explanation of the impact of children's readers on the formation of gender cognition. Therefore, this paper will use the implicit personality theory, summarize the cultural motif of western classic fairy tales, analyze the text of classic fairy tales, and analyze the impact of the description of gender impression in western classic fairy tales on children's gender cognition from the feminist perspective. The research shows that western classic fairy tales present a tendency to "filling in implicit personality", imposing ideal identities on females, and intensifying the formation of male gaze. All of them are not the embodiment of the solidification of the patriarchal system, which not only aggravates the formation of gender stereotypes, but also suppresses children's opportunities to explore their own possibilities. On the whole, they show a tendency to dwarfing and disciplining females.
The Application of the Functional Equivalence Theory in Prose Translation- Taking the Sight of Fathers Back Translated by Zhang Peiji as an Example
Authors: Chen YanYing
Published: June 2023

Eugene Nida makes the Functional Equivalence Theory claim, an American famous linguist, and translator, which emphasizes that the goal of translation is to translate a message into the target language as accurately and organically as feasible. In order for the intended readers to respond and feel the same as the original readers, it heavily emphasized the informational and formal comparability. Chinese prose, a flexible kind of narrative fiction that reveals the actual feelings of the author, is one of the most significant genres in Chinese literature. Therefore, prose translation should not be underestimated and should be fully integrated with the Functional Equivalence Theory to better serve the information included in the source language, as well as the formal features of the language and the target readers' reading background. This paper examines the functional equivalence theory's application to the translation of contemporary Chinese prose by using a famous passage from The Sight of Father's Back to compare and contrast the source text and target text.
A Comparative Study of Tea Culture in Chinese English Translation: Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition
Authors: Pan Xinyue
Published: June 2023

Tea culture is very vital in the Chinese geographical and economic setting. Apart from being a high-selling brand, Chinese tea culture is inseparably associated with Chinese culture which is almost as old as tea cultivation history in China. As Chinese tea is sold all over the world, especially in western countries, the tea terminology becomes more significant in the age of globalization and international tea export. However, as the Chinese language is very much distinct from English including grammatical, syntactic, and semantic aspects, the translation of Chinese tea terminology into English has always been a challenge that hampers the tea export and consequentially, the Chinese tea culture. It has been found that with the use of some identified translation norms, translation strategies, and translation ethics, the Chinese tea culture may be globalized through the tea export from China. The paper has dealt with the inherent and external pedagogical issues found in the translation of Chinese-English translation of Chinese tea terminology and how these impact the tea culture and tea trade in China.
An Overview of Ku Hungming's Translation Thought -- A Case Study of the Ideas Embodied in the Translation of Analects of Confucius
Authors: Wu Chunxiao
Published: June 2023

Analects of Confucius, a classic work of Confucius, is the most direct manifestation of Chinese civilization and is highly sought after and widely circulated even today. In the process, the interpretation of Confucius's ideas in it, the translation has also become an important study. A good translation can better interpret Analects of Confucius. In the midst of the cultural storm in Europe at that time, Ku Hungming took on the cultural mission of spreading Chinese culture and translated the Confucian classic Analects of Confucius into English for the first time, alone and completely. Ku Hungming's conservative ideas were mainly influenced by Western Romantic thinkers such as Carlyle, Ruskin, and Arnold[1]. And thus the translation of Analects of Confucius is heavily influenced by Western Romantic ideas. There are many similarities between Western Romantic thought and Confucianism, and Ku Hungming completes the entire translation with such an ideological background. Therefore, this paper will focus on the ideological background of translation, including social and cultural backgrounds, that Ku Hungming wants to reflect in the translation of Analects of Confucius.
The Poetic Beauty of Wang Zengqi's Novels through the Perspective of Receiving the Precepts
Authors: Qiu Huiqun
Published: June 2023

Wang Zengqi is a writer living in both the modern and contemporary eras. He was a premature and late bloomer, having been published in the 1940s but not becoming famous until the early 1980s. He published his novel Receiving The Precepts, sparking a literary sensation and providing a breath of fresh air to the befuddled literary scene of the time. Receiving The Precepts is a relatively short novel in which a vast amount of folk traditions components are presented. Using the novel Receiving The Precepts as its point of focus, this work concentrates on the lyrical elegance present in Wang Zengqi's literary works. It is addressed from three different angles. The novel's fundamentally poetic characters are highlighted by its versification and prose-cultural dramatic structure, to name the first. The second is the emphasis on how characters are portrayed and how their prose-cultural writing style is produced. The article also conducts a textual analysis while focusing on the way the novel employs folk vernacular. To properly appreciate Receiving The Precepts' pure folkloric beauty, it is necessary to examine its three key aspects, structure, character development, and language features. Through his construction of the world of vernacular customs and the secularization of rural folklore, Wang Zengqi creates a world of vernacular folklore with multiple aesthetic values. By re-examining the relations between the urban and the rural, he regards rural folklore from the perspective of folk culture and writes about the spontaneous life of folk characters, constructing a rural world with multiple aesthetic values.
Study of Bai Juyi's Tea Poems
Authors: Chen Yifang
Published: June 2023

Bai Juyi was the first poet of the Tang Dynasty to introduce tea in his poems in large quantities, making tea and wine of equal importance in the poetry world. Tea witnessed the twists and turns of Bai Juyi's life, the ups and downs of his career, and the transformation of his state of mind and played an extremely vital role in Bai Juyi's life. Bai Juyi created more than sixty tea poems, which can be roughly divided into three categories: worrying about the country and the people, lamenting his career, and meeting friends with tea. His tea poems have not only various genres, which synthesized almost all kinds of forms of the Tang Dynasty and brought to higher development and great success but also are rich in the creation of artistic conception and rhythmic beauty. In addition, through Bai Juyi's tea poems, philosophy can also be clearly explored, like Confucianism's 'the middle' and 'harmony' ideas, Buddhism's thought of 'tea and Zen' and 'forgetting the gains and losses', Taoism's 'natural inaction' and 'happy to know life' view about life. Besides, through the study of his poetry, it is noticeable that Bai Juyi specialized in myriads of genres, often created unique moods through the use of special imagery in his tea poems, and focused on the rhyme end of the verse and the standard unity of the format to enhance the sense of poetry rhyme.
The Tragedy of Fate in Oedipus the King
Authors: Zhang Yuzhu
Published: June 2023

Among the tragedies of ancient Greece, Oedipus Rex is a work well worth exploring in depth. The study of the problem of fate and tragedy in work has been a topic of interest so far. This article focuses on the tragic destiny of Oedipus, manifested in two different forms: the "oracle" and the "eye". The oracle drives the development of the story, leading Oedipus towards a predetermined end and suggesting his ultimate fate, while the eye leads people to experience the world of light and darkness, perceive the deafening impact of fate, and grasp the essence of things with the 'eyes of the heart'. In the end, Oedipus' struggle with destiny is a failure, and he goes round and round in an unavoidable course of destiny that has already been ordained. Although the tragedy is predetermined and fate is dominated by an irresistible mysterious force, the freedom and will of the human being are not to be ignored, and human dignity is as important as fate. This sublime understanding of the tragedy of destiny renews the ancient Greeks' inherent perception of the fixed nature of fate and deepens the connotation of ancient Greek tragedy and the sublimation of its spirit.
A Study of Native Chinese Speakers Learning Indo-european Languages: The Case of English and Russian
Authors: Jiang Keqing
Published: June 2023

Language proximity can have different degrees of influence on trilingual acquisition. For example, Japanese has a strong influence on Chinese, while English has a strong influence on Russian. This study used interviews and corpus analysis to examine learners with different levels of English as a second foreign language and Russian as a third foreign language. It was found that when native Chinese speakers learn a language belonging to the Indo-European family, the influence of English on Russian learning is greater than that of native Chinese, and the specific influence of English will be different at different stages. Based on the study some suggestions are also made for trilingual teaching. Considering that the majority of Chinese language learners today have a certain level of proficiency of English, it is significant to conduct the research of L3 learners who is native Chinese and whose L2 is English. Through interviewing the subjects and analysing their compositions, the researchers find that English as L2 both facilitates and hinders L3 acquisition. In particular, intermediate L3 learners are most likely to be influenced by L2, and conversely, advanced L3 learners are rarely influenced by their L2 English. L3 acquisition is more likely to be influenced by L2 when L3 and L2 are in a closer linguistic distance than L3 and L1. This study contributes to multilingual acquisition research and provides effective suggestions for multilingual teaching strategy.
A Study of the Effects of Language Transfer on Refusal Strategies for Second Language Acquisition among Chinese English Major Students
Authors: Xu Yue
Published: June 2023

Many EFL learners have strong linguistic competence, but lack sufficient pragmatic competence, including the use of politeness strategies. The study aims to explore the effects of language transfer on refusal strategies for Chinese L2 learners with higher English proficiency. To test the common claim that refusal strategies transfer strongly from L1 to L2 and are highly influenced by sociocultural factors, online questionnaires were conducted among 22 female students majoring in English at Shenzhen University. The results indicated a limited effect of L1 on L2 for subjects with high English proficiency and showed that the transfer of refusal strategies may be influenced by the memory connections between knowledge input and transferring subjects in L2 learning, in addition to the sociocultural factors. The result suggests teachers create a more authentic communication environment to encourage students to innovatively create a variety of expressions and strategies based on what they have learned and according to different scenarios.
The Influence of Facial Features on the Attractiveness of Game Faces
Authors: Kang Dan , Li Duanwen , Liu Yuchen
Published: June 2023

The study of the psychology of facial attractiveness emerged in the 1970s. Facial attractiveness plays an important role in important social decisions as well as in daily life. In this research, 30 university student participants (15 female and 15 male) were selected for this study to compare the effects of facial feature relationships (eye spacing and eyebrow spacing) on the face attractiveness of game characters by scoring on a psychological scale. The results showed that among the nine combinations of eye spacing and eyebrow spacing, the combination of medium eye spacing and medium eyebrow-eye interval has the greatest face attractiveness; face attractiveness varies significantly by eye spacing type, with medium eye spacing having the highest face attractiveness; and eye spacing type has an interactive effect with gender.
Exploring Localization Translation Strategy under Cultural Compatibility Principle
Authors: Jiang Shuyue
Published: June 2023

In the context of globalization, multiculturalism is intertwined, and the importance of localization services is increasing. This paper observes the development of localization, analyzes different types of texts by referring to localized translation practices, and seeks localized translation strategies from the perspective of cultural compatibility. Results find that 1) the goal of localization is to integrate and expand into the target market, thus domestication should be the main translation strategy. 2) Given that source language products have many linguistic symbols that contain cultural connotations, the strategy of foreignization is also essential. Therefore, the contribution of this paper inspires translators wisely combine the translation strategies that of domestication and foreignization when translate, considering user's psychological acceptance and aesthetic orientation.
The Influence of the French New Wave Movement on Contemporary World Art Film Creation
Authors: Zhu Yifan
Published: June 2023

The French New Wave is one of the three major aesthetic movements in the world film history. The "New Wave" films shocked the world, causing the "New Wave" film movements in America, Europe, Asia and other countries to emerge one after another, triggering a worldwide film aesthetic revolution. The French "New Wave" has a profound impact on modern films. This paper focuses on grasping the emergence, development, prosperity and decline of the French "New Wave" film aesthetics, paying attention to live broadcast and process documentaries, analyzing the artistic skills of the New Wave film to shape characters, effectively summarizing the influence of the French New Wave movement on contemporary world artistic film creation, so as to find out some rules of film development and provide a necessary reference system for contemporary world film art creation, And explore the development direction of Chinese film in the future.
Do Language Learning Apps Really Work?
Authors: Zhang Zidi
Published: June 2023

With the rapid development of the mobile application market and the growing size of the foreign language learning population, learning a new language with an app can be said to be one of the most popular language-learning trends of the 21st century. At the same time, contemporary language learning applications sell themselves as innovations, in many ways that are just a return to Skinner's teaching machines as introduced in the 1950s. Technology is the 21st century, but the theories of learning are firmly 20th century. App designers must catch up to 21st-century theories of learning if they genuinely want to introduce ground-breaking tools. This work mainly analyzes why we will not make as much progress as we expected if we continue to pair 21st-century technologies with outmoded perspectives on learning and what are the up-to-date theories that will help make fundamental transformations in language learning applications.
Analyzing Azorns Influence on the Writers of the Beijing Literary School and Its Reasons
Authors: Jiang Jing
Published: June 2023

Azorn is a representative writer of the Generation of 1898. His books, once translated into Chinese in the 1920s, aroused the interest and admiration of the writers of the Beijing literary school, and more or less influenced the creations of Wang Zengqi, Bian Zhilin, Lu Fen, He Qifang, Tang Tao, Li Guangtian and others. This paper consists of five sections. The first chapter gives a brief introduction to Azorn and the writers of Beijing Literary School and points out the purpose of this paper. The second chapter takes Wang Zengqi, Bian Zhilin and Lu Fens works as examples to expound the influence of Azorn on the writers of the Beijing Literary School from three aspects: stylistic features, image application and material selection. The third chapter then analyzes the reasons for this effect. In the fourth chapter, the author thinks about the factors that influence the international dissemination of literary works and draws great inspiration in the creation and diffusion of national literatures from this research. The fifth chapter concludes what has been stated above, and emphasizes that the open attitude of the writers of Beijing Literary School toward foreign literature can bring some enlightment to promoting the contemporary national literature creation being more eclectic and inclusive.
Exploring the Multilingual Mastery of Chinese Native Speakers from the Perspective of Language Transfer Theory Take English and German as examples
Authors: Hu Yu
Published: June 2023

Considering that the majority of Chinese language learners today have a certain level of proficiency in English, it is significant to conduct the research to explore the multilingual mastery of Chinese native speakers in the context of English as a second language. This paper explores the effect of native-based language competence on multilingual learners of Chinese by means of a summative scale questionnaire. This paper also explores the concrete language transfer of English as a source language through interviews and a specific analysis of compositions offered by six Chinese-English-German trilingual learners. The final conclusion is that when a native Chinese speaker learns a third language, the source language for language transfer will not be limited to Chinese. English as L2 has an impact on the learning and the use of vocabulary and grammar in L3, as well as on L3 writing, which both facilitates and hinders the learning and the use of L3. The influence of L2 on L3 is the most obvious at the intermediate level of L3 and learners with an advanced level of L3 are rarely affected by English. When L3 is an Indo-European language, it is more likely to be influenced by L2 English than by L1 Chinese.
The Relationship between the Age of Firstly Being Exposed to Second Language and the Language Proficiency among Children in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Take English as an Example
Authors: Zhang Xinyan
Published: June 2023

This paper will take English as an example, evaluating the English proficiency by the grades of their Junior School Entrance Examination and Speech Production Test of 55 students in the same class in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.And finally, discuss the relationship between their ages of firstly being exposed to English and their English proficiency, at the same time, put forward some constructive suggestions for government, schools, and parents in terms of second language learning, helping improve the teaching effectiveness.
Comparing the Impolite Expressions in the A Dream of Red Mansion from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory
Authors: Zhang Ziqian
Published: June 2023

The English versions significantly contributed to the influence of A Dream of Red Mansion. From the perspective of impoliteness, the paper analyses and compares the translation tactics on the impolite expressions between two English versions, The Story of the Stone by David Hawkes and The Dream of Red Mansion by Yang Xianyi. This thesis makes a comparative analysis of the two English versions under the direction of Functional Equivalence Theory.The main finding were: 1) Discuss the pragmatic function of the impolite languages in the novel. 2)The application of functional equivalence theory in novel translation. 3) Analyze the translation preference of both translators. The Yang Xianyi prefer foreignlization translation and Dr. Hawkes prefer localization translation on impolite expressions. This paper contributes to the further research of the language of A Dream of Red Mansion and the translation criticism study of both translators.
The Chinese-English Translation of Four-character Pattern from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory
Authors: Xu Jingyi
Published: June 2023

The four-character pattern is a unique form of Chinese language, whose definition is a word or phrase consisting of four syllables, including four-syllable simple words, compound words, idioms, fixed phrases and free phrases. These words are usually concise, expressive and rich in variations. However, there are no such corresponding expressions in English, which causes a great obstacle to the Chinese-English translation. In translation activities, the translation of idioms is often considered significant, which symbolizes the transmission and expression of culture. However, the four-character patterns in Chinese are simple in form, consisting of only four characters, but they have rich cultural connotations. Because of their complex and diverse structures and hidden meanings, English translations of these are often prone to cause problems such as unclear expressions, missing semantics, and loss of meaning. It is difficult to make simple word-for-word translations based on their literal meanings. Also, the common direct translations have long failed to meet the needs of English translations of idioms, which has become a major problem in translation activities.
A Study of Untranslatability and Strategies in English-American Literary Translation under Bassnetts Theory of Cultural Translation
Authors: Zhu Xinyue
Published: June 2023

Literary works are the carrier of a nations history and culture and the embodiment of a nations cultural image. There are significant differences between English and Chinese cultures. In the context of cross-cultural communication, good translation of British and American literary works is helpful to promote cultural exchanges. At present, there have been many academic achievements in the study of English and American literature translation, and some of them have paid attention to differences in cultural backgrounds, but few studies combine with foreign translation theories. On the basis of previous translation research results, this paper will use Bassnetts theory of cultural translation to assess and analyze the translation methods of English and American literature. This article analyzes the importance of translation based on cultural differences in the process of English-American literature to Chinese versions translation and the untranslatability caused by cultural differences. In addition, British and American literature are analyzed from various angles, like mythological and religious vocabulary, living customs and living environment, and differences in thinking by using many practical examples.
A Study on Subtitle Translation of Turning Red from the Perspective of Domestication and Foreignization
Authors: Wang Mengying
Published: June 2023

Translation is the process of changing spoken or written text into another language. It is widely considered that translation is not only a matter of language transmission but also a matter of cultural exchange between the two languages. This feature is especially evident in subtitle translation, which plays an important role in English films. With the development of cultural exchanges in recent years, films from different countries have been screened in different regions as a medium of communication, leading to an increase in demand for subtitle translations. And in the field of subtitle translation, Venutis domestication and foreignization strategies are the dominant methods. Taking the film Turning Red as an example, this article studied different cases with their cultural background and had a thorough analysis of how the strategies are used in each case, including the comparison between different methods. Based on the analysis, this study concluded the similarity and difference between domestication and foreignization and stressed that the two strategies should be combined, in order to transfer information to audiences.
Class, Race, and Humanity: Analysis of Speech and Behaviour based on Dying to Survive and Green Book
Authors: Wang Yatong
Published: June 2023

With the development of cultural and historical processes, supported by technology, more and more media platforms are focusing on the value of people's ontological meaning. Cinema is one of the biggest platforms, with different types of films interpreting what it means to be human. Dying to Survive and Green Book both present different social meanings in their unique words and actions. Two films are classics of intercultural communication, with actors whose words and actions convey themes of class, race, and humanity. This essay firstly compares the words and actions in the film, analysing the content in the texts of Dying to Survive and Green Book films, mainly the differences between the different cultures represented by lines and actions, thus revealing the embodiment of humanity, race, and class. Ultimately, this essay will summarise the factors that influence social class, race, and human nature, despite the fact that as human society and culture continue to improve, there are still a large number of social problems. Film as a medium for the transmission of these different cultures also plays an important role in creating social value.
Research of Crowd in the Films - Take Parasite and Hidden Figure as Example
Authors: Zhu Xinchen
Published: June 2023

To start with, the background of the research is movies with influential cultural elements from Europe, America and Asia. And the theme are the influence, interaction, individual action of the crowd in the film. The research method is mainl,y based on the comparison and examples of the two films. As for the conclusion, crowds play a fundamental and penetrating role in movies, especially in movies that embody cultural elements. The influence of crowds is invisible and amplified to become a key factor.
Exploring Affirmative-negative Question from the Sociolinguistic Perspective
Authors: Liu Suiyuan
Published: June 2023

Affirmative-negative question is special in Chinese interrogative systems, with various syntactic forms, and it is also the key and difficult point in teaching Chinese grammar, but it has research gaps in analyzing affirmative-negative questions from a sociolinguistic perspective. This paper used the questionnaire method, collecting 176 questionnaires to analyze and discuss three points of affirmative-negative questions different forms of acceptance level, target audience and usage errors in sociolinguistic aspect and reached three conclusions. Firstly, people are not accustomed to using VP+(never) in modern social life. They tend to accept the usage of VP+(not)/(not yet)+VP. Secondly, people prefer to use affirmative-negative questions with their peers rather than superiors or teachers since the affirmative-negative question represents an unpolite and questioning attitude to some extent. Thirdly, when distinguishing different types of affirmative-negative questions people may have some confusion and errors, even though they are native Chinese speakers. Thus, this paper proposes some suggestions to help identify the differences clearly for people, including non-native Chinese speakers. This paper plays an inspired role in affirmative-negative questions in sociolinguistic research areas, and it contributes to teaching and learning the Chinese interrogative sentences system.
Childrens Cognitive Development: Early Language Learning
Authors: Guo Yutong
Published: June 2023

Children's cognitive development is an inevitable part in the education of children. This paper discusses the relationship between children's language learning and cognitive development processes by literature review. Language learning consists of two parts, vocabulary learning and grammar learning. Special educational needs about the language acquisition of deaf children are also considered. Language learning is positive to children development of theory of mind and episodic memory. This paper may offer some references for promoting childrens early education.
Effects of Concrete Conceptual Metaphor on Peoples Reasoning
Authors: Zhong Yixin , Lin Jianhan
Published: June 2023

In this work, the effect of metaphorical language on people's cognition about concrete events will be tested. In order to do so, the study will exploit the difference in metaphor use in describing the extent of a car crash to evaluate the framing effect of the word choice on people's perception of a concrete physical accident. In the experiment, participants will be randomly assigned to read two versions of texts about a car accident with only different metaphor usages to describe the extent of the car's windshield breakage. Then participants will be asked to answer three multiple-choice questions that can reflect participants reasoning towards the severity of the car accident they have read. This study predicts that participants who read the "milder" metaphor version will perceive the car accident less severely than those who read the "severer" metaphor version, which can prove the influence of metaphorical language on people's perception of concrete events.
Withered Rose Petal, a Scent Still on the Early Chinese Popular Song Rose, Rose, I Love You and Others
Authors: Wu Xiaoqing
Published: June 2023

Rose, Rose, I Love You is a very important representative of early Chinese popular music. This paper applies the method of historical research to analyze Rose, Rose, I Love You in a specific historical and cultural context through four dimensions: song background, songwriter, music analysis, and historical evaluation. This paper tries to partly reflect the creation ecology, creation style, and characteristics of early Chinese popular music through the case of Rose, Rose, I Love You.
Research on the Evolution of the Architectural Style of Catholic Church in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Authors: Fang Enze
Published: June 2023

Architects and artists in the Renaissance believed that Gothic architecture was a symbol of Christian theocracy, while ancient Greek and Roman architecture was non Christian. With the impact of humanism and Protestantism on Catholicism during the Renaissance and Reformation, the architectural style of the Catholic Church changed dramatically. From 1500 to 1700, the style of the church also changed from the original Gothic style and the Latin cross to the Greek cross, and even integrated the Baroque style. From the perspective of the time axis, this paper mainly adopts the method of literature analysis, combined with the social background, the evolution of artistic style and other factors, trying to explain and analyze the changes in the architectural style of the Catholic Church during this period. After analyzing the historical trend of Catholicism and the literature at that time, it is not difficult to find that the pursuit of humanism in the Renaissance, the change in the style of the mainstream of art, and the anti-Renaissance movement directly affected the change in the style of the Catholic Church, becoming more secular and popular; this change also reflected the spirit of Florence and other places where the Renaissance originated at that time.
A Fine Forgery: The Yellow Court Classic Revisited
Authors: Shen Qijun
Published: June 2023

Questions arising from the authorship of the Yellow Court Classic have confronted art historians since the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127): who produced it; what is the authentic work of Wang Xizhi (303-361); what are the forgeries? With a focus on the so-called Xin Tai Ping version, once collected by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) and now held by the Gotoh Museum in Tokyo, this paper argues that it is a fine forgery among the multiple versions of the Yellow Court Classic. Through a close reading of the colophons, I attempt to map out the collecting history of the XTP version and why it was prized by connoisseurs over the centuries. I then compare it with the other two versions and Zhou You's (151-230) work, primarily in terms of calligraphic style, to further demonstrate why the XTP version is the best and the closest version to the work of Wang Xizhi.
Exploring the Relationship Between Linguistics Gender and Social Gender
Authors: Yang Yue
Published: June 2023

The diversity of social gender has been growing recently, and gender is the hot social issue that has the public concerned. Language is a communication tool people use every day, and meanwhile, which also subtly influences a persons mind. This paper discusses social gender issues from a linguistic point of view, trying to figure out if there are any relations between them. People use language to express their thoughts about social and gender issues, so it is important to explore the relationship. To explore the relationship, this paper discusses gender bias in language, the possible reason for this phenomenon, and the effect of linguistic gender binary on non-binary gender. There are lots of papers which discuss these related issues that have greatly inspired and provided strong help to the author. There are some findings from the study: 1) Gender bias is more serious in grammatical gender languages; 2) Linguistic gender subtly influences peoples minds by shaping their hobbits and making their cognitive world in a more gender-related way. 3) The linguistic gender binary causes problems for transgender people. It has been discovered that linguistic gender has an adverse effect on social gender equality. This paper may help improve the gender equality situation in society and transgender people's self-expression problems. This paper also provides a way to think about grammatical gender in languages.
An Analysis of Mosuo Writing System in a Sociolinguistics Context
Authors: Liao Jingyi , Liu Yingqi
Published: June 2023

Mosuo language is an official dialect used by the Mosuo ethnic minority group in Southwest China. It has long been regarded as purely oral without orthography. However, newly found hieroglyphics at an isolated Mosuo village demonstrate significant prospects if develop and promote in all Mosuo society. This paper uses the method of in-depth qualitative interviews of peoples insight towards this orthography and its critical role in social life and in terms of cultural heritage inheritance. This paper reveals that firstly, the 32 symbols Mosuo people use is the origin of the Dongba hieroglyphs; Secondly, Youmi hieroglyphs are a unique orthography that are exclusively used by Mosuo people live in Youmi village; Lastly, Youmi hieroglyphs has significant cultural importance especially in Mosuo religion. This paper also proposes a detailed plan in which the Mosuo hieroglyphs can be popularized and in its greatest effect.
The Research on the Female Features in the Chinese Movie Raise the Red Lantern
Authors: Zhang Aidi
Published: June 2023

Once, in many countries, the status of women was low. Nowadays, as the feminist movement has become a hot topic, more and more people are paying attention to the changes and progress of the status of women in the society. The movie Raise the Red Lantern from Zhang Yimou shows the life of women in the old society of China. This article will take this film as an example to analyze the oppression suffered by women and the awakening of women's consciousness under the feudal social system and then deeply analyze the problems caused by this phenomenon and make some advice to those countries which are trying to improve the social status of women. This article will observe the behaviors and characteristics of those actors in the film, and then find some common characteristics, at last we can compare different features to find the items of the film. The women shown in the film are greatly oppressed by feudalism and patriarchal societies. Therefore, by analyzing this film, this article hopes that all countries in the world could promote equality between men and women and avoid a recurrence of history.
The Uniqueness and Innovation of Shakespeares Sonnets and Their Influence on Society: The Eighteenth Sonnet as an Example
Authors: He Yuanhong
Published: June 2023

Through the study and exploration of the themes, meter, and imagery of Shakespeares sonnets, this paper analyzes the similarities and differences between Shakespeares sonnets and traditional Italian sonnets, as well as the ideological core and main theme of it, focusing on the innovations in meter and imagery and the differences between different schools of thought on the themes of the sonnets. The paper also analyzes Shakespeares multiple identities and past experiences in his poetry in the context of the times. The relevant conclusions are that the themes of the poems favor natural and timeless laws rather than mere adoration. Shakespeares identity as a merchant and his employment relationship deeply influence the imagery and themes. In modern times, Shakespeares works are heavily videoed, which is inextricably linked to the shaping of imagery and the ambiguity of themes.
The Modernity of T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land from the Perspective of Image
Authors: Zhang Qinyuan
Published: June 2023

T.S. Eliot is an excellent symbolist poet whose poems are regarded as epoch-making landmark works in the history of modern Western literature. The long lyric poem "The Waste Land" is Eliot's representative work. It has a variety of styles, draws from a wide variety of sources, and combines some characteristics of symbolism, imagism, and metaphysics. The poet has created many rich images of "Waste Land", most of which are difficult to understand and have complex and profound symbolic meanings. Thus, the poetry reflects the absurdity of reality, reflects on the plight of human civilization, and pursues the road to the redemption of the "Waste Land". This paper first reviews the existing research results on Eliot in the world, briefly describes the theoretical basis of the project, and classifies the image in The Waste Land. Then, the typical artistic techniques in the process of image use are analyzed in detail. After all these, by researching the typical images, the article not merely reveals their symbolic meaning but explores the reflection and criticism of modernity in poetry. Finally, the article traces the source of the modernity criticism presented by the images from social and religious perspectives. The research results are summarized and evaluated in the last section of the article.
An Analysis of the Cultural Differences between China and Japan, Using the Example of Gleaning Shellfish at the Falling Tide and Busy with Crops
Authors: Tian Xiaoyue , Wang Heng , Wang Xuechao
Published: June 2023

The two works, 'Gathering Shells at Falling Tide' and 'Busy with Crops', represent two different cultures and the context of their times. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, traditional Chinese woodblock painting techniques reached their peak, and the carving techniques also influenced Japan, a country separated from China by sea, with a profound impact on the development and evolution of Japanese ukiyo-e. Analyzing their works to find the similarities and differences between the two cultures in the same historical period is conducive to a better understanding and development of their respective cultures.
Analysis of the Changes in the Characteristics of Diplomatic Discourse between China and Cuba (1960-2022)
Authors: Li Shuanglin , Sheng Xinyue
Published: June 2023

For more than sixty years since diplomatic ties between China and Cuba, the exchange discourse between the foreign ministries and the press releases and treaties signed also contain discourses that convey to the world the cordial ties between the two nations. Based on five joint statements and documents signed between 1960 to 2022, the study focuses on the Chinese and Cuban diplomatic discourse through textual and paradigmatic analysis and explores the reasons for the changes. The paper takes a positive view of the future of the relations between China and Cuba. The diplomatic ideas and concepts of the Chinese Communist Party have been externalized into Chinese diplomatic practice through cooperation, along with Chinas high-quality and efficient development. In light of the recent modifications to the current worldwide scene, China and Cuba have fully developed in all aspects. The two countries have developed a harmonious and cooperative diplomatic concept based on shared interests. They have proposed a new diplomatic strategy sufficient to build a unique discourse of diplomatic exchanges and cooperation.
Dynamic Art: Chinese Calligraphy
Authors: Wang Yijing
Published: June 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of modern society on the aeathetics of traditional Chinese Calligraphy, and techniques to preserve these aesthetics through designing a curatorial project. From the conducted research, it is evident that modern interpretations of calligraphy have driven away from traditional aesthetic standards. The paper will present an exhibition design that portrays ancient aesthetics through the manipulation of space. The organization of the exihibition relied heavily on Barry Judithss article, Dissenting Spaces, in the book: Thinking about Exhibitions. The significance of such a design is to introduce the Chinese Calligraphy without misinterpretations to the society.
Linguistic Activism and its Origin
Authors: Jeon Jihyun
Published: June 2023

Poetry, as a huge part of the artistic culture in the modern day, has had roles from records of stories and letters of flattery to a form of creative expression. Over the years, poetry gained a larger audience, with social media platforms promoting poets and their messages to society. Activist movements had the help of poems to deliver their voices for social justice, such as performance poetry used by black artists to advocate for their rights artistically. However, linguistic activism is not a newly emerging movement; instead, the idea of raising new ideas to society to cause political or social change existed far before our times. To further explore this connection, this paper will use cases from the past and relate concepts from different eras and will therefore propose a conclusion of the necessity of such a connection between art, innovation, social progression, and politics.
The Argument for Kong Yiji's Characterization
Authors: Chen Jingyi , Qi Zhipeng
Published: June 2023

This paper discusses the external image and internal spirit of Kong Yiji from Lu Xun's works "Kong Yiji". Moreover, why he chose to leave at the end of the day to explore how the author used special literary techniques to create and highlight the characters. Kong Yiji was a victim of the imperial examination system in the Qing Dynasty. He spent his life in the Four Books and the Five Classics and was reduced to begging and refusing to take off his long gown, which symbolized his status as a scholar. Speaking of classical Chinese words, he emphasized several times that he was a scholar, even teased by others, but also pretentious, self-admiration. Feudal culture and feudal education poisoned Kong Yiji and made him develop the bad habits of despising labor and being indolence. Through the exploration and study of words, sentences and paragraphs in the text, from different positions and perspectives, from external to internal, the character characteristics and behavior of the characters before and after the comparison, in-depth analysis of a diversified and complex character image. Kong Yiji was not only an aristocratic and intellectual scholar but also a cowardly and helpless scholar who was poisoned by feudal society. His body not only shined with the light of honest and good human nature but also had a lazy, self-deceiving national bad nature.
Confucianism in the Films of Edward Yang
Authors: Wu Zhuolin
Published: June 2023

As one of the most prestigious directors in the Chinese-speaking world, Edward Yang uses film as a way to construct and convey his own thinking. Like all Chinese literati since the New Culture Movement, Yang repeatedly wanders between modernity and traditional Chinese philosophy, calmly analyzing the existential dilemmas of the urban middle class as a masterful deconstructionist and authoritative critic. Confucianism, as the most deeply rooted traditional thought in Chinese society, has profoundly shaped interpersonal communication and social values in Chinese society. The principles of benevolence, morality, sacrificing life for righteousness, reverence for propriety, and patriarchal thinking have long been the rules of Chinese society and are still the supreme beliefs of some Chinese people. In Edward Yang, one can find both his idealized intellectual Confucianism and his self-deprecation and criticism of Confucianism. This research will analyze three of Yang's representative films, A Brighter Summer Day, A Confucian Confusion, and A One and A Two, and explore Yang's Confucian identity as a film author in the context of his other works, and analyze his thoughts and confusion in the intertwined and contradictory nature of modernity and Confucianism. In these three films, Edward Yang's inner contradiction in his thinking of Confucianism in Chinese society is insightful and inspiring.
The Dynamics and Dialectics in Kandinskys Non-representational Art
Authors: Ni Nan
Published: June 2023

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) has been regarded as one of the pioneers and founders of abstract art. Kandinsky held inspiring and progressive thoughts and largely influenced the artistic movements over the 20th Century. Still, his aesthetics were not delivered clearly, such that it caused criticisms of his intentions and debates over different interpretations. While Kandinsky seems to present a series of dualistic distinctions of concepts, this paper argues that he is ultimately pursuing a dialectical unity and artistic creation of another world through a dynamic relationship and movement between the artist, the artwork, and the spectator. The paper analyzes primarily Kandinsky's published collected writings and letters and relates them to theories of German Idealism to demonstrate how the dilemma of dichotomies could be solved from Kandinskys standpoint.