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Data that Should Not Have Been Given: Noise and Immunity in James Newitt’s HAVEN 不该提供的数据：詹姆斯-纽威特的《避难所》中的噪音与豁免权

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0202

Ilios Willemars

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Erratum to “‘Thrice the brindled cat hath mew’d’ – The Three Trials of William Hone” 威廉-霍恩的三次审判 "的勘误

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0204

Georgina Abreu

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Montana as Place of (Un)Belonging: Landscape, Identity, and the American West in Bella Vista (2014) 蒙大拿作为（非）归属之地：贝拉维斯塔》中的景观、身份和美国西部（2014 年）

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2024-0001

Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi

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A Syphilis-Giving God? On the Interpretation of the Philistine’s Scourge 赐予梅毒的上帝？关于非利士人祸害的解释

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0196

Matteo Bächtold

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Tracing Exilience Through Literature and Translation: A Portuguese Gargantua in Paris (1848) 通过文学和翻译追溯出身：巴黎的葡萄牙加尔干图亚人（1848 年）

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0203

Rita Bueno Maia

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Social Connection when Physically Isolated: Family Experiences in Using Video Calls 物理隔离时的社会联系:使用视频通话的家庭体验

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0165

I. Kačāne, M. Hernández-Serrano

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The Mirror Image of Sino-Western in America’s First Work on Travel to China 美国第一部中国游记中的中西镜像

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0176

Jing Yang

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A Russian Aristocrat in the Principality of Liechtenstein: Life Trajectories, Material Culture, and Language 列支敦士登公国的俄罗斯贵族:生活轨迹、物质文化和语言

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0172

Irina Grinevskaya

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The Case of John and Juliet: TV Reboots, Gender Swaps, and the Denial of Queer Identity 《约翰与朱丽叶的故事:电视重启、性别互换和对酷儿身份的否认》

Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0189

Mareike Jenner

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Strategies of Localizing Video Games into Arabic: A Case Study of PUBG and Free Fire 电子游戏的阿拉伯本土化策略——以《绝地求生》和《Free Fire》为例

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0179

Shatha Jarrah, Ahmad S. Haider, S. Al-Salman

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