Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies
Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (JHCS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal. The mission of the journal is to provide an academic platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss the issues of humanities and cultural studies across the world. All articles published are rigorously and fast reviewed meeting the Journal Quality standards.
Reflections on the Connection between Cultural Memory and Female Subjectivity Carried by Intangible Cultural Heritage
Intangible cultural heritage is a living inheritance of the people's lives and customs that links the past with the present. In this life system, women have traditionally served as the main, but often unrecognized, bearers of oral culture, textile skills and family traditions. This paper investigates the deep connection between cultural memory and female subjectivity in intangible cultural heritage. Given the theoretical convergence of collective memory studies and feminist discourse, this paper will investigate how traditional crafts and embodied practices serve as necessary paths for women's liberation and identity formation. Women have been marginalised by patriarchal and monument-oriented societies historically, but in recent years, they have used intangible cultural heritage for economic reasons and also as a way to express their own ideas and revise historical narratives. At present, around the world, these practices have been revived and now serve as cultural symbols by female artisans. The study shows that the protection of intangible cultural heritage is closely related to promoting gender equality, and therefore, women's subjectivity should be taken into account in all parts of the discussion on global heritage protection.
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A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Anatomy of a Fall
The film Anatomy of a Fall revolves around a judicial trial, with a pronounced focus on gender issues. It traces the complete trajectory of the case surrounding the death of Sandra's husband, Samuel-from the initial incident to the courtroom proceedings that ultimately result in Sandra's acquittal. Throughout the film, the discourses articulated by the prosecution, witnesses, and the defendant engage in strategic contestation, each striving to reinterpret the case and legitimize their respective versions of events as objective truth. Drawing upon Michel Foucault's theory of discourse, this paper aims to examine the constitutive function of these multiple voices in constructing reality within the cinematic narrative.
Weak-Obligation Reciprocity and the Making of Belonging: Offline Wuliao Exchange in Chinese Fan Communities
Offline exchange remains a crucial but under-examined part of platformized fan culture. In contemporary Chinese fandom, fans often bring wuliao, including cards, stickers, postcards, handmade ornaments, and other fan-made or fan-circulated materials, to concerts, theatre performances, fan meetings, and other events. These objects are given, exchanged, photographed, remembered, and sometimes used to start further online and offline relationships. Drawing on participant observation, 13 qualitative interviews, and supplementary online observation in the performance-viewing community around Shanghai People’s Square, this article examines how wuliao exchange turns ordinary materials into gifts and how these gifts help produce a sense of fan belonging. The analysis develops the concept of weak-obligation reciprocity to describe a form of exchange in which return is expected but not compulsory, remembered but not strictly calculated, and morally evaluated without becoming a formal debt. The article argues that wuliao exchange creates situated ethics, transforms spectators into recognizable community members, and converts affective labor into visibility and subcultural capital. At the same time, it also generates tensions around value mismatch, competition, and unequal access to recognition. By placing Chinese fan wuliao exchange in dialogue with gift theory, material culture, and fan studies, the article shows how weak-tie communities can produce temporary but meaningful forms of belonging through small objects and embodied co-presence.
Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation: The Breakthroughs and Predicaments of Postmodern Design from a Deleuzian Perspective
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concepts of territorialisation, deterritorialisation, and reterritorialisation, this article examines how postmodern design challenged modernist norms and the predicaments that emerged from this process. It conceptualises the institutionalisation of modernism as a relatively stable order structured by functionalism, standardisation, and formal purity, and analyses how postmodern design unsettled this order through historical quotation, symbolic collage, and the recombination of heterogeneous elements. The study argues that postmodern design broadened the possibilities for expressing emotion, historical memory, and cultural identity. Yet, through dissemination and commercialisation, these forms of difference were transformed into marketable styles and markers of identity, resulting in the stylisation of design language, the superficial treatment of cultural meaning, and the blurring of evaluative boundaries. Postmodern design did not simply replace modernism; rather, it developed through the continuing interplay between deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation.
Analysis on the Boosting Value of Pop Culture for the Development of Cultural Industry from the Perspective of Media Communication
With the development of digital communication technology in recent years, popular culture has evolved from a type of entertainment into one of the primary ways culture is spread globally today. This paper studies how popular culture promotes the development of the cultural industry through media communication. Building on the Frankfurt school's critique of mass deception, Henry Jenkins introduced the idea of participatory convergence culture, and now we will explore how current media platforms have promoted active participation by consumers. Three main ways that popular culture promotes industrial development have been identified: the commercialisation of intellectual property (IP) through transmedia storytelling, the rapid expansion of the 'fan economy', and the promotion of transnational cultural globalisation. Based on the above investigation, it can be seen that algorithms of digital media and social networks have changed the power relationship between cultural producers and audiences, converting passive consumers into active "prosumers" who help create cultural value. Therefore, the paper concludes that it is necessary to use the dynamic and interactive features of popular culture in a multi-platform media ecosystem for the long-term economic development and continuous innovation of contemporary cultural industries.
Analysis on the Problematization of International Relations from the Perspective of Digital Interculturality
Digital interculturality refers to the modes by which digital media, translation systems and networked platforms facilitate cross-border encounters in culture. This paper believes that digital interculturality does not only help people of different cultures communicate more easily but also raises problems in international relations by altering the understanding that states, publics and institutions have of identity, trust, conflict and diplomacy. Based on intercultural communication studies, digital media scholarship and an intercultural theory of international relations, this paper shows that digital platforms have increased the visibility, shortened the time, and expanded the circulation of symbols and narratives. Altered circumstances have been created in foreign relations as a result of the above changes. Three levels of a conceptual analysis are introduced in this paper: mediation of meanings, reorganisation of diplomatic interaction, and the emergence of digitally amplified misrecognition and contestation. Therefore, digital interculturality should be understood as a space for communication and, at the same time, as a problem area where the cultural, political and epistemic foundations of international relations can be investigated.
From Collection Webpages to Digital Exhibition Narratives: A Topic-Structural Analysis of Online Exhibition Texts from the Palace Museum
As museums increasingly migrate cultural interpretation into digital environments, online exhibitions are no longer merely supplementary interfaces for displaying collection information. They have become narrative infrastructures through which museums reorganize objects, histories, spaces, and visitor expectations. Taking the Palace Museum as a representative case, this article examines eight official online exhibition and digital display texts, including the Digital Gallery, Bronze Gallery, Architecture Gallery, Clock Gallery, Painting and Calligraphy Gallery, Treasure Gallery, Ceramics Gallery, and Theatre Gallery. Through a lightweight digital humanities approach combining thematic coding and narrative-structural analysis, the study investigates how museum webpages transform object-centered descriptions into public-facing cultural narratives. The findings suggest that the Palace Museum’s online exhibition texts are structured around five recurring interpretive frames: historical memory, craft knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, courtly life, and cultural identity. Rather than functioning as neutral labels or simple online catalogues, these texts actively mediate between collections and audiences by producing coherent, accessible, and culturally authoritative narratives. The article argues that online exhibition texts should be understood as a crucial component of digital curatorship and as an important object of digital humanities inquiry.
Research on the Construction of Horror Film Types in the ' Island ' Period
During the 'island' period of domestic trouble and foreign invasion, Shanghai commercial films were unprecedentedly prosperous, and various types of films appeared one after another. Among them, Ma-Xu Weibang's " Midnight Song " marks the emergence of horror films as a type in the public eye. However, the previous horror film genre films were regarded as commercial films that were crude and paralyzed the spirit of the people, and the academic community has always focused on the creation of horror film genres on Ma-Xu Weibang. By capturing the cultural cracks in the commercial pursuit and political pressure of horror film creation in the 'island' period, this paper sorts out the construction path of horror film types in this period, so as to break the long-standing academic bias against horror commercial genre films and establish their special significance in the context of the times.
Discussion on the Connection between Local Korean Food and Migrant Adaptation from the Perspective of Dietary Changes
In recent years, there have been numerous expansions of Korean restaurants, supermarkets and other popular cultural products in Hong Kong. Local Korean food is now a daily food for many people, as well as a place to connect with one's roots for migrant communities. Dietary changes have also been made by the local Korean food community to adapt to life in Hong Kong. Based on research on dietary acculturation, transnational foodways and Korean diaspora identities, it is proposed that the consumption and production of Korean cuisine are closely related to processes of acculturation, identity negotiation and social integration. The first is to introduce the main concepts of dietary acculturation and transnational culinary consumption, and then to analyze how Korean food functions as a source of comfort, capital and a zone of contact for Korean migrants and other residents. Finally, it considers the dual nature of commercialised K-food in creating inclusive and exclusive types of urban belonging.
On Modern Innovative Integration of Ethnic Music from the Perspective of Cultural Inheritance
From the perspective of protecting Chinese intangible cultural heritage, ethnic music embodies the historical context and spiritual characteristics of various ethnic groups, and serves as a living cultural carrier embodying the core of the national spirit. In the current process of cultural revitalization, ethnic music is facing a gap in the inheritance population and insufficient awareness among young audiences. Some innovative creations only focus on formal packaging, ignoring the indigenous cultural roots. This article takes cultural inheritance as the starting point and conducts empirical analysis based on official statistical data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and domestic practical cases. It explores the development laws of modern integration of ethnic music from five directions: technological application, cross-border creation, ecological construction, talent cultivation, and external dissemination, and points out the formal deviations in creative practice. Research has found that innovation in ethnic music cannot be separated from its own cultural connotation and artistic essence. It needs to conform to the trend of new media communication, conform to the aesthetic orientation of the public, and establish a sound long-term inheritance mechanism. Adhering to traditional foundations and innovating performances can promote the dynamic continuation of traditional music and parallel innovation of the times, and also provide some practical references for the innovative development of traditional music ICH.
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the United States: Background, Evolution, and Practice
This paper examines the development of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system in the United States. Against the backdrop of the “litigation explosion” in the late 20th century, ADR emerged as an effective response to judicial overload. The study analyzes its application in both judicial and administrative fields, highlighting its advantages in reducing court burden, lowering litigation costs, and improving dispute resolution efficiency. Through the lens of commercial disputes, it further demonstrates ADR’s role in maintaining business relationships and promoting economic stability, while also noting its limitations in enforce-ability and procedural consistency.
Practical Exploration of Digital Platforms Boosting International Communication from the Perspective of Emotional Public
Now that platforms have been added to the media system, they have enabled many foreign countries to develop advanced data analysis and AI. Through the lens of emotional publics, this paper examines how digital platforms promote overseas communication by analysing emotional expression, algorithmic curation, AI-generated content and platform governance. Platforms do not just spread information across borders; they also create the kind of emotions that are shown, the stories that are popular overseas, and how foreigners perceive them. The paper will also explore the opportunities and risks of applying artificial intelligence to foreign language communication, such as authenticity, division and emotional exhaustion, and put forward corresponding practice paths based on transparency, human judgment and inclusive narrative design.
Interpretation of Humanistic Connotation of Digital Media Visual Expression from the Perspective of Design Aesthetics
Today, visual meaning is created, communicated and received predominantly through visual expression in digital media: interface design, motion graphics, data visualisation and algorithmically generated images. This paper argues that the humanistic connotation of digital media visual expression is not completely understood by formality aesthetics or technical functionality, but needs a design aesthetics context that combines the Bauhaus heritage of form-function unity, Barthes' semiological interpretation of visual meaning, and Manovich's cultural logic of new media. Three dimensions of humanistic connotation are identified and analysed: the cultural memory dimension, where digital visual forms encode and transmit collective identity and historical consciousness; the empathic dimension, where human-centred interface and interaction design builds affective relationships between users and digital environments; and the critical dimension, where design aesthetics enables the identification and resistance of algorithmic visual homogenisation as a threat to cultural diversity and humanistic plurality. The article also contends that the spread of AI-generated images and platform-driven design uniformity provide a structural challenge to the humanistic roots of digital visual culture. It finishes with a framework for a humanistic design practice that prioritises cultural specificity, embodied aesthetics and ethical visual communication as essential design values.
Analysis of the Design Needs of Urban Pet-friendly Parks from the Perspective of Human-pet Coexistence
Under the background of accelerated urbanisation, the rapid growth of the number of pets has promoted the transformation of public space, and pet-friendly parks have become a key measure to balance the human-pet relationship and enhance the vitality of the city. From the perspective of human-pet coexistence, this article builds a multi-dimensional analysis framework. First, it deeply explores the differentiated demands of pet owners, pet individuals and diverse groups. Secondly, it systematically sorts out the specific requirements of functional layout, facility materials and ecological integration. Finally, it puts forward the phased design path and sustainable management strategy. The research adopts a combination of demand-driven and practice-oriented methods, emphasising safety, comfort and inclusion, and reducing conflicts and promoting interaction through spatial innovation and technology empowerment. Finally, a complete plan from foundation transformation to demonstration guidance is formed, which not only provides reference for the planning department, but also creates a harmonious and shared leisure environment for residents. Practical application shows that such parks can significantly reduce management pressure, improve use satisfaction, and help the construction of ecological cities.
Construction of Thangka Cultural Knowledge Graph and Cross-regional Inheritance Application
Thangka - sometimes transliterated thang-ka or tangka - is a centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist painting tradition on cotton or silk, encoding layered iconographic meanings accessible only through initiated ritual and artistic training. UNESCO inscribed Thangka painting on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. That inscription, while conferring international recognition, also exposes a vulnerability: trained masters are declining in number, and younger audiences increasingly encounter these paintings through digital interfaces rather than in shrine settings that give them their full cultural significance. How to systematically represent, preserve, and transmit Thangka across regions has become pressing. Over the past decade, digital preservation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has drawn sustained attention. High-resolution imaging, 3D scanning, and online museum archives have produced vast digital corpora. Yet most efforts treat digitized Thangka as static image resources, disconnected from the rich semantic networks - iconographic attributes, artisan lineages, historical trajectories, ritual functions - that make Thangka culturally intelligible. Without structured semantic representation, digital collections remain fragmented and resist being queried, interconnected, or reused for education and inheritance work. Knowledge Graph (KG) technology, grounded in semantic web and linked data principles, offers a way forward. By representing cultural heritage entities and their relationships as nodes and edges in a graph structure, KGs enable semantic reasoning, cross-dataset linking, and intelligent question-answering. This paper presents the construction of a domain-specific knowledge graph for Thangka cultural heritage and evaluates its application to cross-regional inheritance. The KG integrates multi-source heterogeneous data - museum collections, textual sources, artisan interviews, and online archives - and formalizes the domain ontology in OWL, aligned with CIDOC CRM. A prototype platform, the Thangka Cultural Knowledge Graph Platform (TCKGP), demonstrates the KG's utility across three scenarios: museum digital curation, online artisan training, and transnational cultural education. Evaluation results show that the KG approach substantially outperforms conventional relational database approaches in semantic retrieval tasks and effectively supports cross-regional inheritance practices. This study contributes to digital heritage scholarship by providing a reusable ontology and a practical methodology (the TCKG Model) for applying knowledge graphs to ICH, and to Tibetan Buddhist art studies by supplying the first formally specified, machine-readable ontology for Thangka iconography and lineage.
Research on Living Heritage Transmission and Innovative Development of Yi Ethnic Embroidery Techniques: A Quantitative Exploration of Sustainable Development Pathways based on Innovation Models
Yi embroidery is a national intangible cultural heritage of China and a vital vehicle for the living transmission of ethnic culture. Under modernization and marketization it faces a generational gap among bearers, rigidified techniques, product homogenization, and a weakening cultural core. This paper treats the sustainable development of Yi embroidery as a multidimensional assessment problem in which cultural, economic, and social subsystems are measured by an indicator system, weighted by an entropy procedure, aggregated into a composite index, and diagnosed by a coupling coordination model, while a logistic model describes the adoption of innovation models. Based on field research in Chuxiong, Liangshan, and Bijie, six innovation models are analyzed and regional sustainability is estimated. The level and the balance of sustainability differ across regions, faster adoption is linked to stronger economic sustainability, and no single model dominates. Five coordinated pathways spanning transmission, technique, industry, brand, and governance are proposed.
A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Intergenerational Trauma in the Context of Political Violence
Large-scale political and structural violence and social conflicts can inflict unique and long-lasting psychosocial trauma on women, which can be passed down across generations through biological pathways, family memory, and social structures. Based on the historical facts of the dictatorship of the Argentine military government and the genocide in Rwanda, combined with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820, this article uses a feminist research perspective to explore the gender characteristics of political trauma and the transmission logic of women’s intergenerational trauma. This paper analyzes international legal norms, regional reconciliation practices, and current practices of trauma recovery for women, analyzes the underlying reasons for the invisibility and marginalization of women’s trauma under the patriarchal system and political violence. Research has shown that political violence has a distinct gender orientation, with women being both the main victim group and the core carrier of intergenerational trauma; The existing institutional practice still faces challenges including the lack of historical narrative and insufficient implementation of rights protection. Only by facing up to the gender attributes of political trauma, establishing women’s narrative subjectivity and improving the institutional guarantee and healing system, can we block the intergenerational continuation of trauma and offer implications for promoting gender justice and ethnic reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
The Relationship between Work Engagement, Organizational Identification, and Work Effectiveness of Highly Qualified Specialists: An Empirical Study based on Chinese Enterprises
In the knowledge economy era, highly qualified specialists (HQS) have become critical drivers of enterprise innovation and competitiveness. However, traditional performance evaluation systems often overlook the psychological mechanisms underlying their work effectiveness. Drawing on performance management theory and social identity theory, this study constructs a theoretical model examining the relationships among work engagement, organizational identification, and work effectiveness of HQS. Using survey data from 562 highly qualified specialists in Chinese enterprises, structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. The results indicate that both work engagement (β = 0.359, p < 0.001) and organizational identification (β = 0.272, p < 0.001) are significantly and positively associated with work effectiveness. Furthermore, organizational identification partially mediates the relationship between work engagement and work effectiveness (indirect effect = 0.098, 95% CI [0.072, 0.128]). This study reveals the intrinsic mechanisms shaping HQS work effectiveness and provides empirical evidence for optimizing performance evaluation systems in Chinese enterprises.
Analysis of The Bluest Eye from the Perspective of Post-colonialism
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye centers on the tragic fate of Pecola Breedlove to reveal the self-destruction of the Black community resulting from the internalization of white aesthetic standards. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony from a post-colonial perspective, this thesis analyzes the alienation of Black identity, the estrangement of cultural identity, and the possibility of spiritual emancipation. It first elucidates how white cultural hegemony leads to self-hatred and identity alienation among Black subjects, and then reveals the mechanism by which racism is internalized and reinforced through intra-community victimization. Finally, by examining the resistant practices of the MacTeer family and the marginalized prostitutes, the thesis explores pathways toward cultural self-awareness and self-redemption. This study argues that the novel not only critiques the spiritual colonization of white cultural hegemony but also implies the potential for cultural self-restoration, offering significant literary insights for understanding identity construction and resistance strategies in the post-colonial context.
Study on the Correlation between Population Agglomeration and Common Prosperity in Wenzhou based on Mediation Verification Effects
Solidly promoting common prosperity is an intrinsic requirement for Wenzhou’s implementation of the “Double Ten Thousand Strategy.” This paper views population agglomeration as a comprehensive process that encompasses both dynamic mobility and static spatial distribution. From the dual perspectives of “making the pie bigger” (expanding economic scale) and “dividing the pie well” (optimizing wealth distribution), we construct a comprehensive index of common prosperity and empirically examine the impact of population agglomeration on common prosperity, as well as its underlying transmission mechanisms, using relevant panel data from Wenzhou. The baseline regression results indicate that an increase in population agglomeration significantly boosts Wenzhou’s level of common prosperity, with the marginal effect of making the pie bigger being greater than that of dividing it well. Mediation effect tests confirm that regional innovation levels play a significant mediating role in the process by which population agglomeration empowers common prosperity. Moreover, heterogeneity analysis reveals that this empowering effect exhibits pronounced imbalances between central towns and mountainous counties. This study provides empirical evidence and policy implications for Wenzhou to optimize its spatial population distribution and build a model city for common prosperity supported by high-quality population development.
Digital Nomads as Transcultural Cultural Intermediaries: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of ICH Mediatization on Short-video Platforms
The rapid proliferation of digital nomadism, accelerated by post-pandemic remote work, has generated a novel cultural intermediary: the location-independent content creator who documents, interprets, and disseminates local intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through short-video platforms. Drawing on mediatization theory and applying a mixed-methods comparative research design, this study investigates how digital nomads engage with ICH transmission across contrasting cultural and platform ecosystems. Fieldwork was conducted from January to March 2025 in Bali (Indonesia) and Chiang Mai (Thailand), and from April to September 2025 in the Miao-Dong ethnic region of Qiandongnan, Guizhou Province, China. The study supplemented fieldwork with in-depth interviews with 27 cross-cultural informants (n=27), including digital nomads, ICH inheritors, and local cultural workers from both Asian contexts. Quantitative content analysis examined 800 platform samples (N=800)-comprising 420 Chinese platform posts (Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili) and 380 international platform posts (TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels)-collected between October 2024 and September 2025. The findings reveal three patterns of "mediatized cultural intermediation" shared across cultural contexts: cultural recontextualization, de-territorialized dissemination, and participatory authenticity negotiation. Meanwhile, comparative analysis uncovers significant cultural variations in how platform affordances interact with local heritage logics. This study contributes to mediatization scholarship by introducing the concept of "transcultural cultural intermediation" as a framework for understanding how geographically mobile agents reshape ICH circulation in the platform era.
Study on the Lingnan Culture of Chinese Caribbean in Pao from the Spatial Perspective of Creolization
From the spatial perspective of Creolization, this paper explores the inheritance and reconstruction of Lingnan cultural elements in the Caribbean context in Pao, a novel by the Chinese-Jamaican writer Kerry Yang. Focusing on three dimensions-culinary culture, martial arts practice, and community ethics-it offers a close analysis of how Lingnan culture achieves creative transformation through encounters with diverse cultures and develops into an evolving creolized cultural practice. This process constructs a micro-space for identity negotiation and power interaction within the Chinese Caribbean community. The paper argues that Lingnan culture in the novel is not a static relic of nostalgia, but a relational network dynamically generated within the distinctive context of the Caribbean islands. Culinary techniques are deeply embedded with local ingredients, traditional martial arts are integrated with the survival codes of Jamaican streets, and community ethics transcend clan boundaries toward cross-racial solidarity. Creolization thus functions not only as a survival strategy for the Chinese diaspora to maintain their cultural roots, but also as a vital pathway to break rigid racial boundaries and construct a multifaceted identity.
Integration of Multicultural Elements in Music Appreciation Education and Enhancement of Students’ Cultural Understanding
In the context of global cultural integration, music appreciation education, as the core vehicle of aesthetic education, is an important path to cultivate students’ cultural understanding literacy. The current teaching of music appreciation in primary and secondary schools faces practical challenges such as limited cultural perspectives, fragmented content of world traditional ethnic music, and superficial interpretation of cultural connotations, which seriously restrict the implementation of cultural education goals. This article is guided by The 2022 Edition of Art Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education and related policies of the Aesthetic Education Infiltration Action, combined with literature research method and front-line teaching practices, relying on the 2024 art education survey data of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, to systematically explore the practical paths of integrating multicultural music elements into music appreciation classrooms, analyze its mechanism for improving students' cross-cultural cognition, aesthetic empathy, and cultural thinking ability, and propose targeted optimization strategies. Research has confirmed that the systematic integration of multicultural elements can effectively address teaching shortcomings, enhance the cultural immersion function of music education, and provide solid practical support and theoretical reference for the reform of music appreciation teaching in primary and secondary schools and the cultivation of students' cultural understanding literacy.
Gender Effects on Judicial Decision-Making in Chinese Divorce Cases: A Qualitative Analysis
After decades of feminist development and a growing number of women in the legal profession, scholars continue to debate whether gender influences judicial outcomes. Most existing research focuses on Western judicial systems, while studies on China remain limited. This paper explores gender differences among Chinese judges in divorce cases through 23 semi‑structured interviews. Findings show male and female judges differ in understanding marital breakdown, trial perspectives, stress coping, and mediation styles. Female judges tend to adopt a care‑oriented approach, while male judges lean toward a justice‑oriented, rule‑based stance. All interviewed judges confirm that gender does not undermine judicial fairness, as decisions remain grounded in law and discretion. This study supports Gilligan’ s “different voices” theory and reveals how gender shapes judicial practice in Chinese divorce proceedings.
Optimization of Sports Team Management Based on Bayesian Dynamic Weights and Entropy-Weighted TOPSIS
Aiming at the coupling problems of dynamic multi-objective decision-making, multi-dimensional asset valuation and structural risk transmission in professional sports team management, this paper constructs an integrated algorithm framework integrating Bayesian online learning, entropy-weighted TOPSIS and graph theory clustering. At the dynamic decision-making level, a three-objective optimization function including competitive performance, financial return and risk exposure is established, the Bayesian weight update mechanism (learning rate η=0.05) is used to realize the adaptive adjustment of strategy priority, and the Monte Carlo simulation (1000 iterations) is combined to calculate the value at risk and the value at risk at 95% confidence level, and the convergence test shows that the utility function increases by 18.7% within 10 weeks. At the level of player valuation, a multi-dimensional evaluation system containing 7 on-field indicators, 3 commercial factors and injury risk coefficients is constructed, and the entropy weight method is used to objectively determine the index weight (information entropy redundancy). <0.12), the player ranking is completed by calculating the relative closeness of TOPSIS, and the optimal resource allocation is solved in combination with linear programming, and the balanced strategy of "40% of the draft + 40% of free signing + 20% of the trade" is realized under the constraints of the salary cap, and the expected win rate is increased by 5.2%. At the level of league expansion impact analysis, a team association network is constructed based on graph theory, K-means clustering (contour coefficient 0.73) is used to quantify the market overlap index, and a revenue dilution function and talent dispersion model are established, which shows that the new adjacent teams will cause an annual revenue loss of 5.6–7.2 million US dollars, and the talent dilution index reaches 0.15, according to which a hierarchical buffer strategy can recover about 20% of the potential loss. The sensitivity analysis verifies that the key parameters (learning rate, injury reduction coefficient, geographical weight) maintain a stable model output within the ±20% fluctuation range, and the cross-verification shows that the coupling error of each module is less than 6.8%. Experimental results show that the integrated algorithm framework can provide quantitative decision support for management, and improve the three dimensions of strategic adaptability, asset allocation efficiency and risk forward-looking by 23%, 17% and 31% compared with traditional methods, respectively.
An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Application from the Perspective of Marx’s View of Machinery
Marx’s view of machinery provides a scientific theoretical foundation for understanding the application of artificial intelligence (AI). AI represents the intellectualization of machinery construction and is, in essence, a further extension of human organs. Under capitalist application, AI is reduced to an instrument of capital exploitation, giving rise to problems such as the displacement of workers, labor intensification, field penetration, and labor alienation. Based on a critique of the capitalist application of AI, the reverse construction of a socialist application scheme for AI is of great significance for enabling people to achieve smooth employment and labor, reduce the burden of work, share development dividends, and move steadily toward free and all‑round development in the era of AI.
Research on the Present Situation and Optimization Path of Tourism Development in Fuping County
This study addresses fragmented cultural resources, weak infrastructure, and insufficient synergy in Fuping County’s tourism development, alongside a lack of empirical validation in northwestern Chinese counties. Using literature review, field investigation, and comparative case analysis, it evaluates current conditions and proposes a tripartite integration model—regional cooperation, community participation, and intelligent empowerment—to overcome planning, funding, and talent constraints.
Indra Sinha, a British-Indian writer, based his novel Animal’s People on the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster. Focusing on the experiences and observations of “Animal”, a disaster survivor, in the fictional “Khaufpur” (meaning “city of hell”), the novel is a classic work of contemporary postcolonial trauma literature. Told through tape-recorded oral narration, the novel takes sound as the main narrative device running through the whole text, forming its unique narrative feature. This paper will analyze the sound in the novel from two perspectives: first, exploring how the narrative medium of tape recording helps ethnic minorities break free from the representation and coercion of Western humanitarians and official forces, and regain the narrative power of their own stories; second, attempting to interpret the ritual chants of Muharram and the songs of Somraj, a master of Indian local music, to explore the mixed characteristics of local multiculturalism they carry and the profound significance of music in crossing civilizational barriers and resolving conflicts. The sound narrative in the novel is not a mere formal innovation, but a way of resistance for disaster survivors to break the predicament of being silenced by power—it subverts the spectacular consumption and scrutiny of the suffering of the Third World by the West in the postcolonial context, and provides a unique narrative path for marginalized groups to speak out.
The transition from industrial civilization to ecological civilization
Rapid technological advancement fueled substantial economic growth in the West yet simultaneously strained the relationship between humanity and nature. The recurrent emergence of ecological crises has compelled humanity to confront environmental issues. Against this backdrop, a new form of civilization is urgently needed to reshape human thought, production, and lifestyles. It is therefore essential to reflect on the dialectical relationship between industrial and ecological civilizations, learn from historical experience, and make scientifically informed projections for the future-so as to forge a path toward harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, and sustainable development.
A Study on Chinese Folk Paper-cut Patterns
Through the research on Chinese folk paper-cut art, this paper points out the connection between the characteristics of Chinese folk paper-cut patterns and modern aesthetic concepts. It also analyzes that the regional characteristics of folk paper-cut patterns are influenced by geographical location, climate and other factors. Paper-cut art has high artistic value, reflecting different ideological values and artistic levels, and more importantly, the common national cultural ideology.
Northeast Chinese folk paper-cut patterns