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{"title":"Visualization analysis of the current status and emerging trends in cross-cultural research on traditional Chinese medicine using CitesPace","authors":"Liu Huan ,&nbsp;Xie Ziwei ,&nbsp;Jiang Junjie ,&nbsp;Wang Jinghui ,&nbsp;Chen Xinyi","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2025.10.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2025.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study aims to investigate the trends and emerging areas of interest in cross-cultural research related to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A comprehensive literature search was conducted across several databases, including CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, SinoMed, PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science. The retrieved articles were manually screened. Bibliometric analysis and visualization techniques were employed using CiteSpace software, with a focus on six key areas: annual publication volume, authorship, institutional contributions, keyword co-occurrence, keyword clustering, and burst terms.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The analysis revealed a generally increasing trend in annual publication volume, with a peak observed in 2020. The network of core authors was found to be relatively dispersed. A significant proportion of the publications originated from universities specializing in TCM. Six distinct keyword clusters were identified, along with 25 burst terms, which were predominantly associated with TCM, cross-cultural studies, and cultural communication. The five most prominent terms in terms of intensity were “TCM,” “Guasha,” “reliability and validity,” “cross-cultural,” and “cultural communication.”</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Present research focal points in this domain encompass the translation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) classics, cultural disparities, and TCM English education. Future investigations should enhance collaboration among research institutions and scholars, concentrating on cross-cultural communication pathways and strategies, the translation of TCM philosophical and cultural concepts, and translation into less commonly taught languages. The objective is to foster innovative practices in cross-cultural TCM research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 39-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transcultural dissemination of Traditional Chinese Medicine through tourism: Pathways, challenges, and innovations","authors":"Taoxing Zhu ,&nbsp;Qingtao Wu ,&nbsp;Amily Guenier","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2025.10.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2025.10.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional Chinese Medicine possesses a millennia-old historical legacy in China, with its cultural ethos profoundly shaping the evolution of medical philosophies both domestically and across neighboring regions. Investigating innovative pathways for advancing TCM's international cultural dissemination through tourism not only expands methodological frameworks for cultural tourism but also enriches TCM's contemporary conceptual dimensions and facilitates its global proliferation. This study first elucidates the core tenets of TCM culture and the imperative for its transcultural propagation, emphasizing its holistic philosophy of “harmony between humanity and nature” (天人合一), syndrome differentiation-based therapeutic principles (辨证施治), and the integrative practice of medicinal nutrition (药食同源). Subsequently, it analyzes the unique advantages of tourism as a vehicle for TCM's cross-cultural transmission on a practical level, the research proposes a multidimensional product development framework encompassing medical tourism, festival tourism, study-abroad tourism, and business tourism. Furthermore, two thematic itineraries are designed based on regional characteristics and TCM-specific principles: a hot spring wellness tourism circuit and a specialized TCM experiential route. These initiatives establish a synergistic dissemination mechanism through resource integration, cultural semiotic decoding, technological innovation, and multi-stakeholder collaboration.</div><div>The findings demonstrate that tourism, as an embodied communication medium, effectively resolves semiotic barriers in transmitting TCM's profound cultural values. This approach provides innovative methodological frameworks and practical paradigms for the international dissemination of traditional medical systems. The study concludes that tourism-mediated strategies not only enhance cross-cultural comprehension of TCM's epistemic foundations but also foster intercultural dialogues that transcend biomedical hegemony, ultimately contributing to the co-construction of global medical pluralism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 66-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spirit as “as-if-presence”: The concept of “Shen” in the Huangdi Neijing and the “becoming” nature of life","authors":"Hao Guilian","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2025.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2025.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of “Shen” (神), often translated as “spirit” or “divinity,” stands as a cornerstone of the life philosophy within the <em>Huangdi Neijing</em> (<em>Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon</em>). Through a combination of textual exegesis and theoretical interpretation, this paper traces the philological origins of “Shen” and explores the process of its philosophical connotations permeating into the medical realm. When examined through the lens of the Confucian ritual principle “sacrifice as if the spirits were present” (“祭神如神在” <em>Analects</em> 3:12), “Shen” reveals itself not as a static substance, but as a dynamic, context-dependent “as-if-presence” (“如在”). The study finds that “Shen” is not only a medical concept that bridges the body and the internal life vitality, its “as-if-present” mode of diagnosis also corresponds to the “becoming” nature of life and makes the metamorphosis of life possible.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 5-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145658614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Author—Anonymous and Distributed","authors":"Dennis Yi Tenen","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study of authorship faces a wilderness of extant forms, alive and open to interpretation. The first of these—anonymous—takes us into the vast archive of texts absent the author function. It includes the myriad of faceless, unsigned texts and those signed by masked authors, whose very function is to remove authorial identity from consideration. The second—collective—contains texts produced in collaboration, across time and space. More than a person, the author in that sense comprises a system, which embodies social and technological components. Against this archive, the presence of a single named author seems to be an anomaly rather than the default it often feigns in literary history.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 54-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Digital bodies: Exploring the human future between art and technology -A world without human creativity?”","authors":"Maicol Borghetti,&nbsp;Antonino Bove","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 49-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interview with Stelarc on digital intimacy","authors":"Nicola Liberati,&nbsp;Stelarc","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interview with Stelarc on digital intimacy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 2-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technology, intimacy and motherhood","authors":"Susi Ferrarello","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the challenges faced by women in maintaining intimacy before and after pregnancy, including Female Sexual Dysfunction (FMA), Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD), and psycho-physical issues during the fourth trimester. A comprehensive overview is provided on how both direct and indirect technology can either facilitate or hinder the recovery of intimacy in this context. Specifically, the role of ultrasound technology is examined, highlighting its positive impact on FMA while acknowledging its potential negative effects when technicians lack training in perinatal mental health. The potential of Mobile Health (Mhealth) and its tools, such as wearables, econsultations, and Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET), in reaching women in underserved areas is discussed. However, concerns are raised regarding the risk of poor quality information dissemination and the potential for self-medicating attempts or inadequate preventive care associated with these technologies. Additionally, the significance of phone apps and online forums in women's lives is reviewed, with cautionary notes regarding the lack of information concerning the healing process of the fourth trimester, the risk of data breaches, and the dissemination of low-quality information. This analysis underscores the importance of considering the potential benefits and risks of technology in supporting women's intimate health before and after pregnancy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 41-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Posthumanism in ecofeminist literature: Transgressions in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun","authors":"Jan Gresil S. Kahambing ,&nbsp;Virgilio A. Rivas","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.10.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper establishes a critical place of conversation between an ecofeminist type of contravening patriarchal and masculine-centered discourse and posthumanist attempts to problematize boundary-setting systems assembled around the conceit of speciesism and human privilege. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel <em>Klara and the Sun</em> (2021) supplies this conversational groundwork centered around the novel's main protagonist, Klara, an Artificial Friend (AF). The literary presence of Klara is designed to infract a conventional social space (dominated by humans), technically eroding the human/non-human and nature/culture duality. Such erosion implies a transgression, portrayed in posthuman studies as a transcendence of the human and in ecofeminist studies as a deconstruction of the often-oppressive essentialist relationships of women and the environment. Transgression is the boundary-crossing mediation among actants. The novel permits us to see multivalent frames, each thematizing a posthuman future in terms of gender differences, the posthuman/human intricate gravitation towards loneliness, and, most of all, love. Through the examination of this work, an interrogation of the technological trajectory of the near future also suggests repositioning the role of posthumans concerning their environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 33-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143354045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inter-mediality in Digital Media Environment","authors":"Massimo Fusillo ,&nbsp;Mirko Lino","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a medium literature has always been characterized by a strong virtual dimension: the capacity to evoke alternative worlds, an imaginary universe which may clash with the real one, or even deconstruct the opposition between real and fictional. Postmodern fiction has stressed and expanded the inter-medial aspect of literature, showing a true obsession with visual media and extra-literary codes. Sometimes it goes well beyond infinite, playful rewriting and becomes a true inter-medial phenomenon, a significant synergy between media and the arts, strongly linked to narrative strategies and symbolic values, as in the so-called maximalist novel. The digital revolution has already changed, and is still changing, the classical notions of author, text, public and intellectual property. Instead of defending the purity of a lost tradition, literature must now face the complex and multisensory logic of contemporary mediality, based on acceleration, simultaneity, and hyper-mediation. If literature is comparable to a medium, then, according to Derrida, the postmodern tendency to narrate the de-centration of the book might allow us to consider it as technology. Starting from this premise, the paper will endeavor to illustrate how the material supports of literature, i.e. the book and the printed page, are technological forms involved in a continuous process of computerization. We shall be analyzing <em>The GRAMMATRON</em> and <em>Remix the Book</em>, two projects by Mark Amerika, using examples showing how inter-mediality becomes a theoretical concept to express the complexity of aesthetical experiences in contemporary media contents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 58-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring digital intimacy: Philosophical perspectives on the intersection of technology and human connection","authors":"Nicola Liberati","doi":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techum.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100956,"journal":{"name":"New Techno-Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"Page 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143302767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}