Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development

Session: Chapter 2: Cultural Studies and Humanities

28 articles
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Research on Problems and Countermeasures of Doctor-Patient Communication from the Perspective of Interpersonal Communication

Chen Li, Li Wang
In this paper, we discuss problems in the process of doctor-patient communication through observational and in-depth interviewing method, from the perspective of interpersonal communication. The study find that cognitive dissonance, a lack of communication opportunities and interpersonal skills in medical...
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Reinvented Maidenhead in Commercialized Marriage: A Cultural Perspective on The Custom of the Country

Wan-Zhu Ouyang
Despite female employment in certain professions, most women before feminist movement, especially those from leisure class, practically resorted to marriage as a means of procuring financial support and domestic security, and thus being reduced to inferior status in domestic life in exchange for accepted...
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The Tragic Love of an Aristocratic Lady-----On Personality Distortion of Miss Emily

Zhi Deng
In A Rose for Emily written by William Faulkner, the heroine Miss Emily, kills her lover and stores the corpse at home for several decades. Miss Emily seems morbid, however, she is a tragic character who calls for sympathy. This essay is in an attempt to construe her murder case as an outcome of personality...
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On the Variant Character and the Determination of the Relationship between Variant Character

Jian-Yu Liu
The variant character includes two types: Characters with Alternative Configurations and Characters with Alternative Writings, the configurational principle of the former is the same while the latter is different. The main reason of the emergence of variant character should be attributed to the relentless...
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Research on the Feasibility and Methods of Increasing Judiciary Credibility with the New Media in China

Min Chen, Dao-Yong Tu
The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward the requirement of fully promoting the rule of law, and set "the steadily enhancement of judicial credibility" as one of the goals of comprehensively building a well-off society in China. Thus it becomes a key issue for the...
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A Study on English Language Economics of Electronic Commerce

Ming-Yun Chi
Based on the analysis of the theory of linguistic economics, this paper puts forward the principles of linguistic Economics. The paper points out that electronic business English is closely related to economic globalization and electronics, and embodies the principle of saving energy, and the principle...
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Research on the Relationship between Regional Culture and Street Furniture Design

Yu Qian
This paper is to clarify the interaction between regional culture and street furniture and introduce cultural symbols to furniture design. First of all, this paper analyzed the status quo of street furniture and focused on the two problems in its design- being unsystematic and lacking regional cultural...
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Inheritance and Innovation of Chinese Traditional Culture in Modern Design

Guo Chen
This article is finding the relationship between traditional culture and modern design. Through the analysis of four concepts of creating things in Chinese traditional culture, we are finding four ways to combine with past and present. To design industrial products with Chinese characteristics, we need...
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Functional Equivalence in Kinship Terms Translation --A Case of Shapiro's Outlaws of the Marsh

Fen Gao
Considering the historical and cultural differences between Chinese and English, translators may encounter some obstacles when translating kinship terms from Chinese to English. Thus, the present author is devoted to studying their translations with the case of Shapiro's Outlaws of the Marsh from the...
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A Study of the Daoism's Concept of Dao

Qing Ming
A key concept of Chinese traditional culture is Dao, which incorporates, in some form and to some degree, all Chinese philosophical Daoism, religious Daoism, philosophy of the Book of Changes and Neo-confucianist major ideas. One who wants to study Chinese traditional philosophy and religion deeply,...
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Study on the Women's Splicing Design

Ze-Yang Peng
According to the problem that how to use the splicing in women's clothing design, this paper presents a scheme of using a method to combine theory and practice by designing three sets of women's clothing as an example. Based on the subject characteristics of the "women`s splicing design", this paper...
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A Comparative Study of the Individual Philanthropic Cultures between China and America

Qin-Pei Fan
There are deep-rooted philanthropic cultures in both America and China. However, a large gap in the individual philanthropic achievements still exists between the two countries. This thesis aims to analyze the cultural elements that influence the individuals to contribute to philanthropy through making...
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Relationship between Cloud Pattern and Female during the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Wen-Jiao Li, Hui Tao
Cloud pattern has profound cultural connotation and unique decoration significance, and it is a popular clothing decoration pattern during the Ming and Qing period. This paper analyzes the origin and era characteristics of cloud pattern in Ming and Qing period. And putting shoes and cloud shoulder as...
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A Study of Chinese-English Menu Translation in Light of Skopos Theory

Xiao-Qing Sun, Jia-Lu Sun
Based on the analysis of main viewpoints of Skopos Theory, this paper puts forward two principles of Chinese-English menu translation and recommends five specific strategies.
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Chinese Culture Value Identity and Patriotism Spirit

Li Liu, Shuang Sai
The Chinese cultural value agree with the Chinese nation is Chinese culture to the value of the tendency to consensus and recognition. By multiple culture shock, college students group for the Chinese cultural value agree with the reality of declined significantly with each passing day. In light of the...
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On Translation Equivalence from the Perspective of Cultural Gaps

Lei Dai
Translation is intrinsically not only inter-lingual but also intercultural communication. So exploration of how to translate will inevitably touch upon the cultural gaps. In fact, the substantial challenge with translation derives far more from the cultural than the linguistic dimension. Judging from...
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Interpreting the Motif of The Son from America from the Historical Perspective

Xin Huang
As an American Jewish writer with great reputation, Issac Bashevis Singer has published a number of novels and short story collections, always adhering to the Jewish characteristics in his writing which reveals Jews' tragic destiny. The Son from America, one of Singer's best-known short stories, vividly...
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Analysis on Literary Narrative Force of Male Images Aiming to Female Tragedy in Madame Bovary

Man Zhai
Female tragedy, as a part of patriarchal discourse, is not only the existence of an exit for female to release their muffled desires, but also a structural existence. Behind the female tragedy lies the construction of human by discourse. By creating the existence of others to cover the vacancy in real...
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Tennessee Williams' Ecological Awareness in His Plays

Guo-Ping An
As an American dramatist, Tennessee Williams has been regarded as one of the greatest playwrights after Eugene O'Neill in the 20th century. With the popularity of eco-criticism, his ecological awareness has aroused researchers' concern. This paper attempts to explore Williams' ecological awareness from...
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The Historic Orientation of the Development of Media Technology of Social Development of Mankind in Modern Times

Yan-Ran Ding
Variegated world under traditional polygon prism, it is the driving force of Social Development of Mankind in Modern Times, which is also the historic footprint it carries through, media is spurring the future of globalization with its digitalization. It conceals the original meaning of life and man's...
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Religious Belief, Disaster Awareness, and Disaster Response: Findings and Implication For Disaster Risk Reduction

Lei Sun, Yan Deng, Wen-Hua Qi
Through reviewing the literature about religion belief and natural disaster, this paper argues that religious belief is an important contextual and identity factor in how religious persons understand, interpret, and respond to natural disasters. Religious belief can impact the public's disaster response...
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Impact of World Heritage Declaration on Guangzhou Residents' Sense of Place

Wen Jian
This paper investigates Guangzhou residents' sense of place, focusing on the impact of world heritage declaration as an external event by using a five-point Likert-type scale with a series of statements listed. We have found that Guangzhou's world heritage declaration has strengthened residents' place...
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Behind Contrastive Identity Prioritizations: A Moral Reconciliation between Confucian and Utilitarian Ethics

Xi-Yan Lyu
This paper is based upon some common facts of identity prioritizations. It aims to explain how observance of Confucian ethics leads to prioritizations of relational and family identities, and how observance of utilitarian ethics leads to prioritizations of independent and friend identities. The author...
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An Exploration of Self-love, Self-Annihilation, and Faith in Pascal's Pensées

Jia-Ying Yu
In the Pensées, Pascal introduces the idea of the imaginary self versus the real self. He states that it is impossible for us to love the substance of a person's soul, and it would also be wrong to do so. Our inability to find the essence of the soul is attributed to our corrupted nature, while the wrongness...
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Shijing, Pingdian and Cognitive Poetics

He Lin, Jing Du
This article discusses the effectiveness of cognitive poetic frameworks like figure-ground, mental space, and prototype which are implied in and evidenced by traditional literary interpretations in the Chinese critical tradition. With examples from Shijing, it points out the relevance between cognitive...
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Evaluation the Television Dramas Ranking Using the Bayes' theorem

Bo-yang Lu, Ji Li, Yin-zhu Chen, Hang Xu
With the development of the TV industry, the prediction of the TV drama is becoming more and more important. In recent years, large data analysis has gradually developed, so through large data to analysis the trend of TV drama will be the greatest extent to accelerate the development of the TV industry....
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The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Work-to-family Enrichment

Lin Qiu
The present study investigates the impact of ethical leadership as perceived by followers on their work-to-family enrichment (WFE) by focusing on the mediating role of job autonomy and work engagement. The results from a survey of 186 working adults in China provide support for the hypotheses, indicating...
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On the Modern Value of Tourism Poetry in Tang Dynasty from the Perspective of Tourism Science

Li-Xia Zhao
This paper attempts to explore the modern value of tourism poetry in the Tang Dynasty from the perspective of tourism, which has far-reaching influence on the Tang Dynasty poetry. In this paper, by means of inductive statistics, comprehensive analysis, classification and other methods, and the use of...