{"title":"How Can China Escape the Middle-Income Trap?","authors":"Siqi Chen","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230627","url":null,"abstract":"As one of the most widely discussed terms in recent decades, the middle-income trap refers to a dilemma in which middle-income economies struggle to achieve high-income status. After becoming an upper middle-income country in 2010, China has been stuck in the middle, facing the problem of economic stagnation. This research focuses on the steps taken by the countries that have successfully escaped the middle-income trap and figures out how those actions can shed light on the policy-making in China. The conclusion drawn from the work is that the Chinese government should present a co-creation and pro-industry attitude towards private sectors for industrial upgrading and developing vocational education, enhancing the connection between schools and enterprises in providing courses and pipelining talents. This work points out the policies China can work on to escape the middle-income trap by adjusting the relationship between the government and enterprises and transforming its rich population resources into a reliable reserve of highly qualified labor forces.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683439","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":"Stereotyping the Feminine in Greek Mythology: The Embodiment of Womens Social Roles in Canonical Narrative","authors":"Quesheng Chen, Chuhan Fang, Yixiao Zhang","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230098","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we categorize famous female figures in Greek mythology based on three primary social identities: daughter, inamorata, and mother. Although these identities are meant to reflect most women's life trajectories, they appear as independent characteristics in Greek mythology. Consequently, the portrayal of female characters is often one-dimensional and shallow, lacking the entire growth curve that male characters receive in heroic epics. Moreover, female characters are often relegated to supporting roles, mirroring women's subservient positions in patriarchal societies.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140684205","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":"What Was the Repatriation Controversy at the End of the Korean War?","authors":"Enze Shi","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230797","url":null,"abstract":"The repatriation problems at the end of the Korean War marked a critical juncture in the global struggle for political ideas and human rights. This paper aims to delve into the multifaceted dimensions of this controversy, which were largely about the fate of prisoners of war (POWs) held by opposing forces, primarily the US, and China and North Korea communists. The conflicts centered on the voluntary repatriation versus the compelled return of POWs to their original country, and the USs ambiguous stance attempting to resolve it. This paper generally analyzes the USs decision making and the on-going disparity remained between belligerent countries. The study also considers the lasting controversy of repatriation from an international perspective in relation with human rights, Geneva Convention, and humanitarian laws. Through an all-sided examination, this paper aims to provide a broader understanding of the Korean Wars situation and how the US decided to deal with the inconsistency between the POWs and the belligerent countries.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140684820","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":"How Churches Defend Homosexual Rights in the U.S. in the 1960s","authors":"Junqi Yang","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230292","url":null,"abstract":"It is commonly considered that churches were usually opposers to the LGBTQ+ movements. Especially in the 1960s when churches played a negative role in the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States of America. But the fact seemed not to be that simple. As a matter of fact, in cities like San Francisco, some churches had started to play an active role in defending homosexual rights and they had a positive influence on homosexual acceptance among the American people. This paper discussed how specific churches defended homosexual rights in the United States of America in the 1960s by surveying what the Glide Memorial Church did in the 1960s. Through these resources, it can be easily found that the Glide Memorial Church, as a staunch supporter of the Gay Liberation Movement, helps defend homosexual rights in multiple ways including making sermons, holding public assemblies, etc. This research may be helpful to the LGBTQ+ movements today.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 47","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140685392","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 Annunciation in Art: Revealing the Irreplaceability of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Jiaxuan Cui","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230754","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence painting suddenly became popular at the beginning of the year, and many different artificial intelligence painting websites appeared on the Internet. Just like when photography emerged in the nineteenth century, it aroused the concern of the painting industry whether human painting would be replaced. This paper will mainly explain 7 paintings from painters like Fra Angelico and Jan Van Eyck with the same theme, the Annunciation, in different time periods, so as to analyze the uniqueness and irreplaceability of human painting. At the same time, this paper also points out a direction for the future development of artificial intelligence painting, that is, with its high efficiency and high technology to assist human painting, as a tool to refine painting, leading painting into a new era.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 81","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683613","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 Impact of Chinese Consumers' Perception of Scarcity of Goods on Their Consumption Behavior","authors":"Xuanying Chen, Ruohong Fan, Wei Ni, Yan Peng","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230650","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese people have been repeatedly isolated in the nearly three years of the epidemic, and after the end of Covid-19 in China, the number of large-scale events such as concerts with a large number of people increased sharply. As a result, people's desire to buy tickets became urgent, which led to the scarcity of tickets. In this study, the authors used two questionnaire surveys to study the behavior of Chinese consumers in the face of the scarcity of concert tickets. The authors found that after tickets were sold, Chinese consumers became more anxious and were more willing to pay tens of times more for tickets than the original price since they feel that tickets were scarcer after selling, and their anxiety levels also vary depending on which social media is used most frequently. Therefore, this research paper could help Chinese merchants better understand the psychology of Chinese consumers to some extent, thus helping them design better sale strategies that can promote consumption.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140684066","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":"Gaze, Female Agency, and Gender Power Dynamics in Chinese Chick Flicks in the 2000s","authors":"Yuqian Cui","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230383","url":null,"abstract":"Chick flick is an emerging film genre in the 2000s, which usually involves elements of sentiment, fashion, and a female leading character. It centers on female characters and is situated in the themes of romance and the discovery of self-meaning, and therefore triggers the discussion in the field of cine-feminism about its connotations, as well as the presence of gaze and female agency in the film. With analytic lenses applied to the context of China in the modern age, this paper first reviews the theories of Beauvoir, Mulvey, and Bourdieu and then introduces major criticisms of chick flicks in China. From the angles of narrative techniques, cinematography, and staging, it examines the representations of gaze, female agency, and the gender power structure in two typical Chinese chick flicks: Go Lala Go! and Finding Mr. Right. The results of analysis indicate differences between the two films, lying in the image of female protagonist, the visibility of male gaze and female gaze, and the activeness of female agency, and reveal a bifurcation in the styles of current chick flicks in China, into two distinct forms, with one sticking to conventional themes and westernized paradigms, and the other beginning to indigenize and demonstrate thoughts on serious issues including gender inequality.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140684735","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 Influence of Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch on Japanese Zen","authors":"Qiao Liu","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230495","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is based on speech of master Hui-neng and his well-known \" Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch\", which showed us the endless wisdom by Hui-nengs enlightenment. There are some different version of Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch till now in the world. Based on master Jing-huis viewpoint, the original Sutras of Caoxi\" was the oldest version. No matter how the methods of enlightenment are different, they are helpful to see ones self-nature. Let us think about what Chinese Zen is, what the awakening mind is, and so on. In the process of Zen being introduced and inherited into Japan, this paper selects two representative figures of Japanese Zen. One is master Myoan Eisai who was the founder of Rinzai Zen, and the other is master Eihei Dogen who brought the St school of Zen from China to Japan. The paper introduces the influence and application of Zen in Japan at the original time and in modern Japan till now.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 29","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140685468","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 Negative Transfer of Chinese Phonology on Students English Accents and Its Impact on Accent Perception","authors":"Jialing Wu, Yuqi Ma","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230528","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the impacts of Chinese phonology on students who learn English as a second language from the production and perception sides. For the production side, this paper focuses on the impacts of Chinese phonology on students English accents, taking the phoneme // as an example, based on the framework of negative transfer proposed by Edward Thorndike. For the perception side, this work explores whether there is a correlation between the students pronunciation accuracy and accent perception. In this work, ten Chinese international students were invited as subjects for the experiment, and the matched-guise test was chosen as the methodology. The results in this work show that negative transfer did occur when Chinese students pronounce the phoneme //, and it seems that pronunciation accuracy doesn't correlate to their perception of accents. The findings have implications for English education and provide suggestions for Chinese students to improve their pronunciation accuracy as well as their perception of accents.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 42","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683430","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":"Cultivating \"Masculinity\": Where Does China's Anxiety about Masculinity Come From?","authors":"Qinxuan Zhu","doi":"10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230006","url":null,"abstract":"China's Education Minister recently called for educating teenagers to be \"masculine\" by highlighting the \"crisis of masculinity.\" This paper intends to examine the causes and impact of this initiative by exploring the cultural and societal factors. Drawing on academic literature, media reports, and government policy documents, the paper identifies the main causes of anxiety in China about masculinity from two perspectives: 1) The increasing participation of Chinese women in the workplace and 2) The trend of feminization and its relationship to collectivism. Finally, the paper discusses the negative consequences of overemphasizing the \"crisis of masculinity\" in China, particularly on mental health issues, domestic violence, and gender stereotypes. This paper offers insights into promoting a more diverse and inclusive gender-equal society.","PeriodicalId":326480,"journal":{"name":"Communications in Humanities Research","volume":" 87","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683505","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}