{"title":"On the Game Between People and the State in Crisis: A Case Study of Jacquinot Safe Zone in Shanghai (1937-1940)","authors":"L. Yuhong, Liu Tingxuan","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.018","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the theory of transnational initiative networks, this paper attempts to explore the mechanism and process of the game between people and countries in crisis situations. Different from the original “initiative network”, the establishment of the “Jacquinot safe zone” during the Anti-Japanese War not only symbolized a way of interaction between human security and national security but also highlighted the political framework of the game between “people” and the state. RaoJiaju (Robert Jacquinot de Besange) on the one hand, strengthened his reputation and legitimacy through exchanges with the International Red Cross. On the other hand, he negotiated with authorities in China, Japan and Western countries, forming a strategy of “soft checks and balances” against the country. Rao Jiaju’s Religious identity and his friendship with authorities are “pressure levers” in the game with the country, requiring the country in a state of war to recognize the “security zone”. Finally, after the establishment of the “security zone” in Shanghai, Rao Jiaju obtained the power of issues, and gradually extended this model to Hankou and other places.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115283162","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":"Linguistic Approach to Literary Work: Functional Discourse Analysis of The Enormous Radio by John Cheever","authors":"Zhong Jie","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.016","url":null,"abstract":"The Enormous Radio by the master story writer John Cheever has won wide acclaim since its publication. Instead of dwelling on the narrative or the development of motif, the present paper will take a linguistic approach to the interpretation of the story, aiming at shedding new light in the stylistic features of the story and facilitating discourse analysis in the process of literary translation.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128983052","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":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Views on Literature and Her Creative Practice","authors":"Shi Pingping","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.005.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.005.p","url":null,"abstract":"Famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie believes that the role of literature is to instruct and delight. Her realist literary creation focuses on Nigeria’s post-colonial cultural and political reconstruction, as well as race, gender and class in a cross-cultural context, which reflects her Igbo, Nigerian and African “sensibility” and a certain cosmopolitan stance. The present article comprehensively investigates Adichie’s views on literature, creative practice and the dissemination and acceptance of her works to achieve an in-depth understanding of the writer.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121522797","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":"China-US Relations: Nancy Pelosi Causes “a Crisis like a Goal Against Her Own Camp”","authors":"Y. Diallo","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0204.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125619441","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":"An Empirical Study of College English Smart Teaching Driven by Intelligent Technology","authors":"Gong Wen","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.019.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.019.p","url":null,"abstract":"With the continuous integration of artificial intelligence technology and foreign language education, the entire educational ecology, including traditional foreign language education concepts, education models, management structures and governance systems, is undergoing profound changes. This study uses the Rain Classroom Smart Teaching Platform for online-and-offline foreign language teaching, providing a virtual intelligent learning environment for learners. This pedagogy supports the construction of a learning community through the establishment of an online learning space, which seamlessly connects different learning scenarios and forms a multi-way interactive relationship between teachers and students. The questionnaire survey showed that students were more satisfied with this hybrid smart teaching module (88. 78) and were significantly more motivated to learn English (87. 6). The results of the pre- and post-tests conducted before and after the teaching experiment showed a significant increase in students’ scores ( p<. 05), confirming the effectiveness of the teaching model. This study has implications for the practice of EFL teaching in higher education.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122496462","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":"Translation Strategies of the Titles of Ancient Chinese Books: A Case Study of The Brush Talks from the Dream Brook","authors":"Gao Wanwan","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.007.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.007.p","url":null,"abstract":"Ancient Chinese books envelope Chinese culture and wisdom, and the titles of them serve as a window for readers to have a glimpse of their essence. A good title provides information like the topic or theme of a book along with aesthetic reading experience. In cross-culture exchanges, to intrigue the interest of readers or give a clue of the ancient books as to what they are looking for, the good translation of titles of ancient Chinese books finds its significance in this respect. This paper focuses on the translation strategies of the titles of ancient Chinese books from Chinese to English. The paper figures out the definition of ancient Chinese books from the perspective of history before it goes further to explore the classification and features of their titles. Given that the case studies are based on the examples from the complete English version of The Brush Talks from the Dream Brook by Wang Hong, this paper briefly introduces the book and its author, followed by the translation principles and strategies of the titles of ancient Chinese books. Semantic and communicative translation strategies are to be discussed with specific translation methods respectively. It is hoped that this paper could help readers realize the importance of title translation and provides some suggestions on the translation strategies of titles of ancient Chinese books in order to be accepted by target readers.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129321828","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":"Ecological Crises in A House for Mr. Biswas from the Perspective of Postcolonial Ecocriticism","authors":"Zhang Qicai","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.003.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.003.p","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas from the perspective of postcolonial ecocriticism and points out the manifestations of and reasons for the destruction of the ecosystem in Trinidad. Both nature and humans in Trinidad are suffering which can be mainly attributed to the colonial presence of such colonist countries as America and Britain.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126660099","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":"Critical Reading of Walden from the Perspective of Chinese and Western Cultures","authors":"Lu Yanhui, Liu Fangming","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.009.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.009.p","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese traditional thoughts have a great influence on Western literature and American Transcendentalism. Given Sino-western culture differences and Thoreau’s language limitations, by making a comparative analysis of Confucianism-Taoism implied in the essay and Thoreau’s transcendentalism, this paper aims to understand and interpret objectively and realistically elements of Chinese traditional culture in Walden so as to further think about how to maintain the cultural consciousness and cultural confidence of Chinese traditional culture. To start with the interpretation of the writing background of Walden and the author's personal identities, critical reading of Walden from different perspectives of Chinese and Western cultures is of great significance for the interpretation of the essence of Chinese and Western cultures, which contributes to guiding positive world views, outlooks on life and values, and better appreciating Chinese traditional culture and transcendentalism involved in Walden.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133379106","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":"Research on the Inheritance, Protection and Innovation of Zhuang Dao from the Perspective of Cultural Memory","authors":"Chen Bing, Liang Xiaoyan","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.013.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.013.p","url":null,"abstract":"Guangxi Zhuang Dao is one of the representative elements of Zhuang culture, and its forging skill is famous for its unique texture patterns. Through direct dialogue and in-depth discussion with the representative inheritor of Zhuang Dao, this paper analyzes Zhuang Dao culture from the perspective of cultural memory. Based on this, the paper analyzes the inheritance and development process of Zhuang Dao and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to promote the inheritance, protection and innovation of Zhuang Dao from the three aspects of inheritor, government and society, so as to preserve the cultural memory of Zhuang Dao better.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128548130","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":"Illusion Painting and TV People: On the Generative Principle of the Virtual World of TV People","authors":"Guan Bingbing, Yang Bingjing","doi":"10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.010.p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2022.0203.010.p","url":null,"abstract":"Haruki Murakami's short story, TV People, reveals the reality that people cannot stand up to the lure of TV media, and are completely dominated by the media in their thinking and actions. Many previous studies argued that the virtual world in the novel is an “imaginary real world” based on the computer network, but such an explanation would make certain plots in the novel unreasonable. Since the novel is full of elements of “illusion painting”, the principle of the illusion painting can be used to reasonably explain the plots in the novel on the one hand. On the other hand, the virtual state generated by the illusion painting principle is more in line with the situation when Murakami Haruki wrote the novel.","PeriodicalId":166253,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133418199","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}