Volume 1
(December 2024)
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A study of the relationship between college students’ happiness and individual characteristics
Yundong WuThis study focuses on differences in college students’ well-being and its individual characteristics influenced by gender and age, as well as exploring the effects of a classroom intervention based on positive emotions and creativity. The study assessed 332 university students, using the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ) as assessment tools. The results of the study showed that gender and age did not show significant differences in perceived happiness, but the positive emotion intervention programme achieved significant results, with a significant increase in subjective well-being in the experimental group of students compared to the control group. In addition, happiness is positively related to academic success, which helps college students cope with life stress and positively affects personal health, social well-being, and quality of life. Given the importance of positive emotions and their many benefits for university students, we recommend incorporating these interventions into university programmes to better prepare students for their future working lives. -
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Comparison of Marx’s and Karp’s philosophical views – What is technology?
Chengyu FengThe essence of technology is at the same time the essence of man. Ernst Karp and Karl Marx are great philosophers in the same period, who successively formed a distinctive philosophy of technology and view of technology in their understanding of the concept of technology in terms of technological ontology, technological evolution and society, culture and state. On the basis of analyzing and comparing the differences between Karp’s and Marx’s views on technology in terms of technological ontology and technological epistemology, this paper follows the dialectical way of thinking and finds that Karp’s view of technology is narrow in terms of the existence of isolation and mechanicity. Marx’s view of technology, on the other hand, explains the relationship between society, technology, and productive forces in a discourse led by holistic thinking, and ultimately puts human beings in the link of purpose and power of technological development for dynamic examination. -
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Cultural Intermediaries and Cosmopolitans: A Netnographic Study of Chinese Travel Bloggers
Yongzi Liu,Maria Isabel Romero RuizThis article analyzes the symbolic power and locations of travel bloggers in the global cultural economy by linking the theories and approaches of cultural intermediaries, cosmopolitanism and tourist studies. Drawing on netnographic methodology and narrative analysis of Chinese social media accounts, this article further examines how travel bloggers convert world landscapes and self-presentations into mediascapes providing consumable content as well as life-styles for local audiences. A Chinese perspective is contributed by having the discussion connecting travel with other mobilities. We propose that the travel bloggers and their productions are the evidence of cultural traveling and transformation. -
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Evaluation of the Sports Industry Policy in China During the 2010-2024 Period
Xiao Wu,Peng YeThe sports industry policies in China are essential instruments for guiding the sector’s development, promoting quality improvement, and bolstering China’s position as a sports powerhouse. This study comprehensively examines provincial-level sports policy documents from 2010 to 2024, utilizing the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and social network analysis to investigate policy evolution and thematic shifts over time. Despite significant progress, the sports industry faces structural imbalances, limited innovation capacity, and the need for tailored policy responses. Methodologically, this research applies advanced text analysis techniques to identify core themes and developmental trajectories in policy content, analyzing data from 103 official documents across various policy stages. The results reveal that: (1) policy themes are decreasing in number but are increasingly specialized and focused; (2) policy emphasis has shifted from broad coordination to precise, field-specific improvements, aligning with evolving economic and social needs; (3) policy evolution follows multiple trajectories, incorporating aspects such as industry planning, financial incentives, market expansion, service optimization, and collaborative innovation. These insights contribute to the discourse on high-quality development in China’s sports industry and highlight strategic policy recommendations, such as refining planning directions, deepening policy content, and standardizing industry practices. -
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From Pioneering to Splendor: A Reexamination of the Development of Northeast China’s Cinema in the Context of Sino-Soviet Friendship at the Beginning of the Cold War
Shan JinAs early as the late 1940s, the United States as the leader of the Western camp and the Soviet Union as the leader of the communist camp has been due to the values, ideology of the very different and serious gap, the outbreak of the Cold War is inevitable, as a former world power, dominated the Warsaw Pact of the Soviet Union, although the Soviet Union has become a thing of the past, but in the early years of the founding of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union actually served as the “big brother” and “guide” dual role in the economic development of our country, social development and the development of art played an immeasurable influence on the effect. The dual role of “big brother” and “guide” played an immeasurable influence on the economic development, social development and artistic development of our country. At the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union not only took the lead in establishing good diplomatic relations with China, but also shared the socialist camp with China. During this period, the Soviet Union’s construction and development of China’s cinema was obvious to all. By accepting the work guidance of Soviet experts and introducing advanced Soviet machines, China also quickly ushered in new breakthroughs in cinematic art and technology, and realized development and exchanges at the cultural level. -
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Spatial Construction and Grassroots Willingness to Participate in Democracy: Analytical Framework and Empirical Tests
Haiyu Wang,Kunpeng Ai,Changcan LiIn China, political participation exists as a mainstream understanding of democratic politics. There are many factors that influence citizens’ willingness to participate, often pointing to some form of “space”, but few studies have explored the relevance of different forms of space to the willingness to participate in democracy. This study focuses on the grassroots space of NPC deputies’ contact stations in China and utilizes data collected from 185 contact stations for empirical analysis. The study adopts the physical, interactional and digital spaces identified in established research and operationalizes their variable indicators, on the basis of which an analytical framework is constructed and hypotheses are formulated. The empirical results show that there is a significant positive correlation between the improvement of the three types of spatial conditions and the willingness to participate in grassroots democracy. It has been proved that promoting grassroots democratic participation willingness through spatial constructs has a positive performance. This study aims to make an empirical test to support the spatial examination of democratic participation and provide an understanding of the spatial construction of grassroots democracy in China. -
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Catering and Distortion: The Construction of the “Republic of China” Concept in Cultural and Museum Venues under the Influence of Consumerism
Mingyang ShenThis paper focuses on the negative impacts of consumerism and market orientation on the construction of the Republic of China exhibition area within cultural and museum venues. Taking the Republic of China Pavilion in Nanjing Museum as a prime example, it delves into the phenomena of distortion and alienation of the “Republic of China” concept in this context, along with their root causes, adverse effects, and explores the paths for cultural and museum venues to strike a balance between commercial interests and cultural inheritance. It thereby provides theoretical and practical references for the healthy development of the cultural and museum sector and the accurate dissemination of historical culture.