{"title":"Oscillating Border Policy: Is It a Triumph for the Government or for the Myanmar IDPs in China?","authors":"Jia-bin Li","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1297","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, several large-scale internal military conflicts in Myanmar, represented by the “8.08 Kokang Incident”, have led to an influx of Burmese into Yunnan, a border area between China and Myanmar. China’s border management has faced serious challenges, most directly reflected in a change in its border policy. China has not used enforced power to directly stop the influx of Burmese, such as building walls or barbed wire. But neither has it recognized the status of these people as refugees. China’s new border management policy is more about blurring their official status, in practice, allowing them to enter easily to the Chinese border city (Ruili) for work. But it also restricts them to the southeast coast of China in search of better income. This seemingly contradictory attitude of the Chinese government reflects the complexity of a multi-actor participation in governance in the China-Myanmar border region. Using Gramsci’s “hegemony theory” and Ho’s affinity ties theory, this paper explores how IDPs can flexibly use affinity ties networks to proactively influence the Chinese government’s new border governance policy from the bottom up by interacting with grassroots multi-actor border practices.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121124829","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":"Globalization of Information—Take TiKTok as an Example","authors":"Jincheng Xu","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1291","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization is manifested in such dimensions as political globalization, economic globalization, scientific and technological globalization, and cultural globalization. Globalization of different dimensions supports and integrates. The “hardware” of information globalization is mainly concentrated in Internet and mobile communication, with obvious scientific and technological attributes. The “software” of information globalization is mainly reflected in the interaction and close connection with politics, culture, society, and other fields, with obvious communication attributes. It is a global complex integrating many elements. Information globalization brings convenience and risks to citizens at the same time. This article will take TikTok as an example to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of information globalization.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121131796","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":"A Global Society of Reciprocity","authors":"Yifan Wei","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1292","url":null,"abstract":"This essay concerns the claim that egalitarian principles of distributive justice apply within states but not between them. The analysis will rely primarily on the arguments made in Andrea Sangiovanni’s article. Due to the limit of words and attention, I shall only discuss issues of inequality of resources/wealth and focus only on Sangiovanni’s arguments on relational claims.I will first demonstrate his arguments, in relational account, how Globalist Egalitarian does not justify an obligation of distributive justice and how Internationalism, in accordance to his idea of Reciprocity, does. Later I will demonstrate, with his logic, why global distributive justice is justified and desirable. Thus, proves the claim above wrong.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116761999","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":"Glocalizing Metamorphosis: A Post-Humanist Critique of Hybrid Romance in The Legend of White Snake and The Little Mermaid","authors":"Shu Meng","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i9.1268","url":null,"abstract":"As a transcultural archetype in both Eastern and Western mythology, metamorphosis is the main clue in The Little Mermaid by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen and The Legend of the White Snake rewritten by Feng Menglong, which both demonstrate a cross-species romance between human beings and half-human-half-animal entities. Thus, by paralleling the story of metamorphosis in Eastern and Western cultural contexts, this paper attempts to investigate the “sharedness” rather than “sameness” between the metamorphosis tradition by creating a glocal heterotopia, revealing a possible post-humanistic potential for disrupting the differential human-animal categorization, while the tragic ending of both romances also indicates a shared pessimistic view on the establishment of nature-culture continuum and the underlying anthropocentric conception in the 17th century China and 19th century Europe.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116182759","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":"Culture Always Operates Through and in the Body: How Culture Constructs and Reshapes the Female Body","authors":"Tianyi Zhang","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1263","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the relationship between culture and the body, with a particular focus on the female body and the cultural construction of its biology by society. Culture always operates through and in the body, which is often embodied through the spheres of labour, production and reproduction, and is constantly reinforced in scientific knowledge and social common sense. This article is based on the literature research method to explain this view. The article explores the ways in which scientific knowledge and social practices perceive and shape women’s gender and bodies from different perspectives such as labour, production and reproduction, concluding that culture always constructs and operates on the female body. At the same time, the female body is not only culturally defined and interpreted, but also culturally and economically altered in a physical sense. Biological science and society’s traditional views on gender and the body are deeply entrenched and need to be changed in many ways, from the law, education, publicity and, most fundamentally, institutional and policy direction.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115098466","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":"Differences Between Beethoven’s Symphony Composing Characteristics With 18th-Century Symphony Music","authors":"Yihao Sheng","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1266","url":null,"abstract":"Compared with Mozart whose deeply influenced by J.S Bach’s music interpreted the characteristics of music, as “men serve god”. Except for the strong religious elements, both Haydn and Mozart had experiences employed as court musicians making their music more ingratiate the royalties which is so much different from Beethoven’s music realism. “Every rational person can advance society, and a person of genius can unhinge the world.” Fully expressed the enlightenment elements in his music, especially after the French revolution.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121412788","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 Rise of International and Local Media Outside the West: Really Helps Counter-hegemonic News?","authors":"Xiyan Di","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1261","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of third world media in recent years seems to be starting to change the monopoly of Western journalism by media outlets like the BBC and CNN. This article critically analyses the current situation of local media through the perspectives of anti-hegemonic journalism, soft power, press freedom and orientalism, with examples such as Al Jazeera, RT and Phoenix TV. The analysis reveals that the local media do have a limited freedom of the press through an independent business model that plays a counter-hegemonic journalistic role. At the same time, however, the complexity of political, economic and religious beliefs still severely restricts its growth.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114887380","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":"Fragmented Sexual Citizenship in China: Marriage Law, Assigned Guardianship System, and Gay Lives","authors":"K. Tang","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1265","url":null,"abstract":"The legalization of same-sex marriage in China remains unlikely to be achieved. Some same-sex couples have begun to use legal guardianship as a way to obtain some of the rights of marriage. Even if the assigned guardianship system grants some marriage privileges, it denies same-sex couples access to social aid, protection from domestic violence, a reduced mortgage, and communal property, among other things. In this paper, I analyze and evaluate the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China and conduct interviews with a lesbian couple and a gay couple who have previously applied for assigned guardianship to determine how the assigned guardianship system in China prevents same-sex couples from attaining full sexual citizenship.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134353132","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":"Youth Development and Identity in Singapore's Tian Yun Beijing Opera Society","authors":"M-H Lin","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1258","url":null,"abstract":"The history of immigration is intrinsically related to the growth of Beijing Opera in Singapore. Since the turn of the century, as China's economy has continued to grow, a growing number of Chinese living abroad have started to seek out familiar Chinese voices and deepen their links to the nation. In The Tian Yun Beijing Opera Society aggressively welcomes new immigrants while also assuming the duty of youth development. The overseas Chinese young are now dealing with difficult cultural adaptation and identity crises as a result of postmodernism and the internet information age. The Tian Yun Beijing Opera Society is actively fostering a new generation of Beijing Opera enthusiasts by encouraging secondary school students to study the opera and establishing a youth acting clubs. This makes Beijing Opera an essential link in fostering the development of overseas Chinese cultural communities and strengthening ethnic group cohesion.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127847640","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":"Analysis of Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in China-related Front Covers of The Economist","authors":"X. Cao","doi":"10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v7i8.1264","url":null,"abstract":"Most of previous studies on metaphor and metonymy at home and abroad are limited to the verbal mode, ignoring non-verbal mode. A few studies on multimodality mainly focus on the basic role of metonymy, lacking adequate attention to the representation of multimodal metaphor and metonymy, and the role in constructing specific images from the perspective of social pragmatic function. This paper takes the cover cartoons of the Economist as data to analyze the recognition and representation of multimodal metaphors and metonymy. Then, from the perspective of social pragmatics, we quantitatively analyze the symbolic signs of the source domain of the covers in the past decade, and reveal their roles in constructing the image of China. This research is to understand the linguistic approach of “how to reconstruct China’s image” and “how to construct” by international media, which can provide implication for Chinese dissemination and diplomatic strategy in the digital age.","PeriodicalId":388036,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129911429","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}