{"title":"A Study on the Space Images of “The Chinese Gold Murders”","authors":"Zhengyang Liu","doi":"10.61173/mcqb3n81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/mcqb3n81","url":null,"abstract":"As one of the works in A Judge Dee Mystery written by Robert Van Gulik, The Chinese Gold Murders contains many space images with multi-cultural elements to be researched. In Chinese Professor Cao Shunqing’s theory, Imagology of Comparative Literature in The Variation of Comparative Literature, Ideology and Utopia are two cross-cultural literary concepts that can be used to illustrate them. So, combining the texts and the theory, it is obvious to see changes and constants in space images. They both reflect the relationship between Chinese original space images and the method of how the author and his domestic literary culture handle them. The reason why they happen is misreading, which originates from the differences between Eastern and Western literary traditions. However, Utopia in this work does show some new inspirations compared to Cao’s elucidation, which can be seen as a supplement. Ideology and Utopia can serve as the basis and reminder for further advancement of Imagology of Comparative Literature.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"362 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141380813","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":"The “Minor Characters” in Lu Xun’s Vernacular Literature—Set “Call to Arms” as an example","authors":"Churui Liu, Li Yang","doi":"10.61173/0ez9mh31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/0ez9mh31","url":null,"abstract":"With the emergence of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, realist literature gradually developed, and new ideas began to flourish. Lu Xun introduced these ideas into his vernacular literature. Vernacular literature has many kinds and sayings. Mr. Lu Xun’s concept and attitude toward vernacular literature criticize the influence of past native traditional pedantic ideas, which are shackles that prevent people from progressing. This article will analyze the typical minor characters in “Call to Arms” through textual analysis, descriptive research, and other inquiry methods. Based on the descriptions of typical minor characters, this study will present a series of survival scenarios of common people and expose the oppression they tolerate from traditional thinking and powerful people. Additionally, this study will highlight the bad situation that leads to insensitivity, ignorance, and backwardness among the people. Lu Xun criticizes the social status quo caused by feudal ideas in the people. He aims to enlighten the people with literature and change the feudal and backward part of vernacular culture. This also reflects Lu Xun’s native sentiment for his hometown and expresses his desire to eradicate feudal cultural customs.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"98 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141378184","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":"Virtue and Desire: Love in Petrarch’s Poetry","authors":"Shuqian Yu","doi":"10.61173/15rgwb71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/15rgwb71","url":null,"abstract":"Petrarch, famous for his sonnets, is one of the leading poets of the Renaissance. His love poems are widely circulated and have touched countless readers for nearly a thousand years. In his lyric poems, there is usually a constant heroine - Laura. Petrarch loved Laura as an earthly beauty and worshipped her as a saintess. This love does not demand perfection, nor even contact, as if the remaining poems as witnesses were enough. His unrequited love for Laura is one of the focuses of the study of Petrarch. For a long time, his love for Laura was often compared to the love presented in chivalry literature. This paper attempts to interpret this literature love from a philosophical perspective. Therefore, this paper will analyze Petrarch’s love for Laura based on philosophical concepts. By interpreting Petrarch’s love from a different perspective, readers can get closer to the nature of his love. According to different schools of philosophy, his love may be a kind of supreme good or just a kind of narcissism.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141380362","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":"Eye-Tracking Researches in Reading and Second Language Acquisition: from Monolinguals to Bilinguals","authors":"Cong Sun","doi":"10.61173/p0dnpb41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/p0dnpb41","url":null,"abstract":"The mechanism of cognitive processing in reading has been a research focus for many years. Recent years, people have gradually turned their focus from understanding the process of text of monolinguals to bilinguals. As eye-tracking technology becomes more and more sophisticated, this paper aims to selectively review studies employed eye-tracking in reading and second language acquisition and to provide advice for Chinese learners of English. Based on CNKI and Web of Science database, this paper reviewed classic research in eye movement and eye-tracking, and analyzed research in reading and second language acquisition by areas of interest. Then, this paper summarized research focus, and particularly the factors influenced reading ability in passage reading. Moreover, the paper pointed the limitations of previous research and found two general problem: the limited participants and eye movement measures. Finally, this paper considers future directions for both monolingual and bilingual studies and in particular the language comprehension mechanism.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"359 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141380919","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":"The Effect of Subtitling on the Learning Effectiveness of Second Language Acquisition","authors":"Yongtianai Li","doi":"10.61173/s3ahkn70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/s3ahkn70","url":null,"abstract":"Learning a second language has been prevalent along with the globalization of the world. Quite a few people have started to utilize multimedia tools to achieve their learning goals. Subsequently, whether videos with or without captions would be more beneficial for learning has been heatedly discussed. To find the most effective way to learn and figure out the function of the second learning acquisition, this paper mainly focuses on the recent experiments of captioned videos influencing second language learning. Accordingly, captioned video has its merits, which promote learners’ listening competence. However, some people argue that watching captioned videos would also burden learners’ cognitive load, weakening their learning effectiveness. Based on this, some suggestions are raised to explore how to improve learners’ second language learning according to the influencing factors, including learning styles, learners’ reliance, and the presentation format of the videos. Therefore, it was suggested that there is a need to explore ways to meet different learners’ needs and address the visual and auditory imbalance.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"25 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141378877","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":"Electra complex: alienation in the depths of self-motivated involution","authors":"Zongqi Li","doi":"10.61173/qpkecr90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/qpkecr90","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, “involution” as a hotly debated social phenomenon has generally appeared in front of people, and it is widely accepted that involution in general, and passive involution in particular, must be a kind of human alienation. However, there are different arguments for self-motivated involution. The point of this paper is that when a subject’s behavior is defined as “involution,” it is already alienation. Even if this “involution” is full of the subject’s own volition, it is strongly self-motivated and is interpreted in the context of psychoanalysis, i.e., the Electra complex.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"116 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141376910","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":"Neo-Confucianism and its influence in Song Dynasty","authors":"Xizhan Huang","doi":"10.61173/cyvr3g65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/cyvr3g65","url":null,"abstract":"Confucianism, embodying the finest aspects of traditional Chinese culture, has its roots in the pre-Qin period and has evolved over thousands of years, influencing every Chinese. It represents the internalized value system and externalized behavioral standards of the Chinese people. During the Song Dynasty, Confucianism entered a new phase, known as Neo-Confucianism, which was disseminated to Japan alongside Buddhism during the Song-Japanese exchanges. Japan was also undergoing a transition from the Heian period to the Kamakura period, necessitating the establishment of a new culture to solidify its rule. Lin Luoshan, recognizing the political potential of Neo-Confucianism, transformed it into an ideological tool to safeguard the regime, significantly elevating its status in Japan and establishing it as an “official school”. Post-Meiji Restoration, Confucianism seemingly disappeared from Japanese society, yet in reality, it was gradually integrated into the value systems and moral codes of the Japanese people. The reach of Confucianism’s influence is vast and profound, with all East Asian countries being influenced, to varying degrees, by Confucianism in their history. A “Confucian cultural circle” has thus formed in East Asia, with China at its core, and extending to the surrounding regions. Currently, by examining the value of the recognition of Confucianism in East Asian countries, we can establish a “Confucian cultural circle” in modern East Asia and foster the cooperation, development, and integration of a region where “each country has its unique beauty”.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"113 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141377676","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":"The Images of Peasants in Modern and Contemporary Societies Depicted in Zhao Shuli’s Works","authors":"Xinyu Wei","doi":"10.61173/0jfvfk48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/0jfvfk48","url":null,"abstract":"Rural literature is indispensable content in studying modern and contemporary literature. As a modern and contemporary literature writer, Zhao Shuli’s works are worthy of more comprehensive study. In changing times, the emancipation of thought and alternating the old and the new are urgent problems. This paper intends to take Zhao Shuli’s works as an example to examine Zhao’s perspectives on farmers and the images depicted in his works. The paper cites various kinds of literature to discuss farmers’ problems and explore related issues depicted in Zhao Shuli’s rural literature works. The paper argues that Zhao Shuli sought to shed light on the societal challenges and transformations unfolding in rural China during his time. Through his works, he aimed to give voice to the often marginalized and overlooked rural communities, highlighting their resilience, dignity, and humanity amidst the changing landscape of modernization and societal upheaval. Only by truly understanding farmers and rural areas can modern society make effective decisions and better promote rural development in the long term.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"7 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141380328","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":"The Application of Non-language Symbols in Japanese Games from the Perspective of Cross Cultural Communication--Take”Animal Crossing” as an Example","authors":"Shuhan Wang","doi":"10.61173/cckcjc85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/cckcjc85","url":null,"abstract":"In cross-cultural communication in electronic games, non-language symbols’ application scope and methods are very diverse. Studying the design and application of non-language symbols in Japanese games in cross-cultural communication can assist Chinese games in going global and contribute to the dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture. This article takes “Animal Crossing” as an example to analyze how nonverbal symbols are used in cross-cultural communication from scene, character, and plot setting. Finding that non-language symbols in the game assist language symbols, integrate players’ feelings, shape a complete scene, and promote cultural exchanges. It is concluded that Chinese games can build a perfect non-language symbol system from three aspects: digging deeply into the culture with national characteristics, looking for universal non-language symbols, and using non-language symbols from multiple perspectives so as to achieve the goal of cross-cultural communication.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"109 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140695319","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":"Feminism in Lu Xun’s “Regret for the Past”","authors":"Xia Liu, Zhirui Teng, Ying Wang","doi":"10.61173/n7xzas69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61173/n7xzas69","url":null,"abstract":"Lu Xun, one of the representatives of feminism movements in China at the first stage, clearly empathized with Chinese females’ fate and called on Chinese women to awaken their feminist consciousness, playing an important role in the development of feminism movements in China. However, women were not treated equally to men in his description. Zijun, in Lu Xun’s work Regret for the Past, is a woman dependent on male domination and lacks independent consciousness. This paper explores the progress of feminism in Lu Xun’s works and the limitations of his description of independent females based on an analysis of the text Regret for the Past. Lu Xun strongly called on women to empower themselves, free their personalities, and awaken their feminist consciousness to become independent individuals. However, the paper argues that Lu Xun’s examination of feminism also had some limitations due to its male thoughts and narrative perspective.","PeriodicalId":294483,"journal":{"name":"Arts, Culture and Language","volume":"30 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140696766","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}