Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
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description: Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research is a bi monthly international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing empirical, academic, theoretical, and review research articles that contribute to the humanities, social research, and related field practices. All articles in this journal undergo rigorous and rapid review to meet the journal's quality standards.
publisher: INTERNATIONAL STUDY COUNSELOR
language: en
publication name: Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
issn: 3008-1777
items: The Impact of Public Policy Implementation on Air Pollution and Health Levels
items: The Dialectic of Flowers and Death: The Symbolism of Life and Death in "Ophelia" from an Iconographic Perspective
items: A Study on the Filling-in Cycle and Talent Mobility Characteristics of Key Positions in Public Research Institutions
items: Interpretation of the Forms and Connotations of Writings on Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Perspective of Narratology
items: Socio-Economic Impacts of Demographic Shifts on Family Structures: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model
items: Quantifying Barriers to Women's Career Advancement in Evolving Policy Contexts using Logistic Regression Analysis
items: Implementation Challenges in Vocational Education for Rural Women in China: Institutional Design and Structural Constraints
items: Governance Practices of Digital Platforms from the Perspective of Fluidity Governance: Mechanisms, Challenges, and Transformations— An Analysis Based on Actor-Network Theory
items: Delimiting the "Unsayable": Wittgenstein and Logical Holism
items: Irreplaceability of Human Beings in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Empathy and Embodied Aesthetics in Musical Performance
items: Exploring the interactive mechanism between psychological resilience and career sustainability of rural special-post English teachers in China
items: Collaborative Teaching Pathways between Marxist Political Economy and Western Economics from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
items: Balanced Diplomacy between Regional Order and Medium Powers: A Study on Thailand's Strategic Evolution in the ASEAN Framework
items: On the Foundational Role of A Madman’s Diary in Shaping the Narrative Paradigm of Modern Chinese Fiction
items: The Impact of AI-Powered Adaptive Learning on Student Performance in Undergraduate Mathematics
items: ACGN Culture on Adolescent Social Media Platforms: The Construction of Cultural Identity and Group Belonging
items: A Study on Generation Z Users' Social Media Information Visibility Management Behaviour: Influencing Factors and Path Analysis Based on Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour
items: A Study on Information Re-editing Behavior of Gen Z Users in UGC Platform Based on Grounded Theory
items: Research on Cyber Insult Crimes in China from a Crime Script Perspective: An Empirical Analysis Based on 89 Judicial Decisions
items: A Study on Regional Disparities in the Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Increases
items: Clustering Analysis of Chinese Urban Household Types Based on Consumption Behavior
items: Personalized Design Strategies and Implementation of Online Courses in Universities
items: Construction of an Ideological and Political Resource Library for the Human Anatomy Course Based on the "Three Combinations and Three Forms"
items: A study on the long-term preservation behavior of college students' personal travel born digital resources
items: Exploring Malicious Comments behavior on Social Media: An Analysis from Cognition, Affect , and Conation
items: Narrative Strategies in Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods
items: Analysis of Narrative Situation in The Torrents of Spring
items: Investigating Sports News Headlines from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphors: A Case Study of Headlines during the Qatar World Cup
items: The Impact of Live E-commerce Marketing Strategies on Consumers' Purchase Intention —— An Empirical Study Based on JD.com
items: Reflections on Human Ethics and Research Directions in the Classical Chinese Novel Complete Legend of the White Snake

The Impact of Public Policy Implementation on Air Pollution and Health Levels
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description: Increasing public concern regarding health issues caused by air quality has intensified the search for effective solutions to air pollution. This paper collects annual data from 31 regions in China from 2013 to 2018, applying a First-Difference model, a Difference-in-Differences (DID) model, and a Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) model to analyze the impact of air pollutants on health levels. Furthermore, it examines the effects of two new environmental protection laws—the Environmental Protection Law (2015) and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution (2016)—on air quality and health. The research results indicate that the growth of PM2.5 has a significant positive impact on the first difference of Death Total Population (DTP). The implementation of the new laws significantly reduces the concentration of air pollutants; in areas with severe air pollution, the decline in PM2.5 concentration is even more pronounced. However, no significant correlation was found between the two new laws and health levels. This paper provides a theoretical basis for governing air pollution and improving public health.
subject: Articles
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subject: Air pollution
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subject: Health indicators
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subject: Environmental Protection Law
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subject: Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution
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creator: PHETMEEXAY SAENGALOUN
creator: ZiBin Tian
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2026-03-11
publication date: 2026-03-11
starting page: 51
ending page: 69
doi: 10.71465/fhsr715

The Dialectic of Flowers and Death: The Symbolism of Life and Death in "Ophelia" from an Iconographic Perspective
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description: "Ophelia" is a paragon of "returning to nature" achieved through Millais's phase of sketching. It is centered on Ophelia, the tragic female character from Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Through highly realistic natural depictions and meticulously designed visual symbols, Millais constructs a beautiful world full of poetic and death metaphors. Based on Panofsky's iconographic theory, this paper decodes the imagery of "flowers" and "death" in the painting through the lenses of semiotics and psychoanalysis, exploring their dialectical relationship of life and death and the cultural codes behind them.
subject: Articles
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subject: Millais
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subject: Ophelia
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subject: iconography
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subject: symbolism of life and death
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creator: Jiayuan Ying
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2026-03-07
publication date: 2026-03-07
starting page: 43
ending page: 50
doi: 10.71465/fhsr698

A Study on the Filling-in Cycle and Talent Mobility Characteristics of Key Positions in Public Research Institutions
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description: In the process of undertaking long-term research tasks, the filling efficiency of key technical and management positions in public research institutions directly affects the project's progress. This study analyzes the impact of different position attributes on recruitment efficiency, focusing on the filling-in cycle and talent mobility characteristics. The study selected 36 months of personnel and recruitment data from a national-level research institution, covering 1,384 job openings and 12,760 candidate records. Explanatory variables included job professional requirements, project cycle stage, salary range, and team size. Survival analysis was used to characterize the filling-in time distribution, and a proportional hazards model was used to estimate influencing factors. The results show that the median filling time for positions with higher professional requirements is extended by approximately 18 days, and the filling-in risk rate significantly decreases when the project is in a critical stage. The research results provide a quantitative basis for research institutions to formulate phased talent recruitment strategies.
subject: Articles
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subject: Public research institutions
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subject: Job filling
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subject: Survival analysis
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subject: Talent mobility
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subject: Human resource planning
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creator: Emily J. Thompson
creator: Daniel R. McKenzie
creator: Laura K. Bennett
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-02-25
publication date: 2026-02-25
starting page: 34
ending page: 42
doi: 10.71465/fhsr682

Interpretation of the Forms and Connotations of Writings on Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Perspective of Narratology
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description: The purpose of this paper is to explore the forms and connotations of writing on ancient Chinese ceramics through a narratological reading method. The decoration of ceramics is one of the important elements that help us read a ceramic object. The decoration of ceramics before the Tang Dynasty was relatively simple, and then with the painted ceramics of Changsha Kiln in the Tang Dynasty as a symbol, various pattern decorations on ceramics became popular and became richer and richer with the development of the times. Among them, Chinese characters are an important form of decorative expression. Studies have shown that when the characters on porcelain were applied by ceramic craftsmen by writing, engraving or molding, they were given multiple meanings. It not only contains the artistic significance of traditional Chinese calligraphy, but also produces pattern-like features and visual significance due to its design layout on porcelain, while the most fundamental narrative function, which is mainly to convey information, still exists. This paper takes the typical cases of ceramic writing in various historical periods as specimens, and tries to explore the narrative forms and connotations behind them from new perspectives such as creators, stories, and narrative styles, in order to fill the gap in the study of this ceramic history.
subject: Articles
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subject: Narratology
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subject: Ceramics
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subject: Text
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subject: Form
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subject: Connotation
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creator: Xu Maolin
creator: Yakup Bin Mohd Rafee
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2026-02-09
publication date: 2026-02-09
starting page: 26
ending page: 33
doi: 10.71465/fhsr639

Socio-Economic Impacts of Demographic Shifts on Family Structures: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model
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description: The intersection of demographic transition and economic performance remains one of the most critical areas of inquiry in contemporary macroeconomics. As global populations age and fertility rates decline, the traditional family structure serves as the primary transmission mechanism for these shifts into the broader economy. This paper develops and applies a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the socio-economic impacts of these demographic shifts, specifically focusing on the evolution of family structures as economic units. By integrating an Overlapping Generations (OLG) framework within the CGE architecture, we simulate the intertemporal decisions of households regarding consumption, savings, and labor supply under varying demographic scenarios. The model explicitly accounts for the heterogeneity of household compositions, ranging from nuclear families to multi-generational households, and examines how changing dependency ratios alter fiscal balances and factor prices. Our results indicate that the contraction of the working-age population necessitates a structural adjustment in capital-labor ratios, leading to increased pressure on public pension systems and a significant reallocation of resources within the family unit towards elder care. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that the economic burden of demographic aging is not evenly distributed, with single-parent households and lower-income extended families facing the highest welfare costs. The findings suggest that policy interventions must move beyond simple fiscal consolidation and address the structural rigidities inherent in modern family economics to mitigate the adverse effects of the demographic transition.
subject: Articles
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subject: Computable General Equilibrium
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subject: Demographic Transition
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subject: Family Economics
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subject: Overlapping Generations
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creator: Hyun-Woo Oh
creator: Seo-Hyeon Nam
creator: Michael O'Connor
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2026-01-05
publication date: 2026-01-05
starting page: 17
ending page: 25
doi: 10.71465/fhsr609

Quantifying Barriers to Women's Career Advancement in Evolving Policy Contexts using Logistic Regression Analysis
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description: Despite decades of legislative interventions and corporate diversity initiatives, the vertical segregation of women in professional hierarchies remains a persistent sociological and economic challenge. This paper investigates the structural and procedural barriers impeding women's career advancement, specifically focusing on the efficacy of recent policy evolutions designed to mitigate gender bias. By employing a binary logistic regression framework, we analyze a longitudinal dataset comprising five thousand mid-level professionals across the financial and technology sectors. The study aims to quantify the probability of promotion while controlling for human capital variables such as tenure, education, and performance ratings, alongside interaction effects representing policy implementation periods. Our findings suggest that while overt discrimination has diminished, subtle structural barriers persist, often manifesting as reduced returns on human capital investment for female employees compared to their male counterparts. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that certain flexible work policies, while well-intentioned, may inadvertently reduce promotion odds by signaling lower commitment in high-performance cultures. This research contributes to the literature by offering a rigorous statistical evaluation of the glass ceiling hypothesis within contemporary regulatory frameworks.
subject: Articles
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subject: Gender Stratification
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subject: Logistic Regression
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subject: Organizational Policy
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subject: Career Mobility
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creator: Eleanor H. Fitzgerald
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2026-01-05
publication date: 2026-01-05
starting page: 9
ending page: 16
doi: 10.71465/fhsr608

Implementation Challenges in Vocational Education for Rural Women in China: Institutional Design and Structural Constraints
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description: Vocational education is widely regarded as an important tool for China’s poverty alleviation efforts and rural revitalization. Relevant policies emphasize employment orientation and gender equality, but their actual effectiveness varies notably in practice. This paper examines issues in the design and implementation of vocational education policies for rural women and explores the reasons behind the gap between policy objectives and real-world outcomes. This study adopts a qualitative policy analysis approach. It constructs an analytical framework involving policy design, implementation processes, and outcome performance. By examining policy documents at both national and local levels and integrating existing research with relevant reports, the study analyzes institutional arrangements and implementation mechanisms. It focuses on structural factors, including gender norms, care responsibilities, curriculum design, and access to information. Findings show that while relevant policies have made some progress in resource allocation and training coverage, their underlying logic often maintains traditional gender divisions of labor. They pay insufficient attention to practical obstacles, such as caregiving burdens. At the implementation level, fixed training models, quantity-driven mobilization mechanisms, and unequal access to information limit rural women’s participation depth and agency. This hinders the stable conversion of training outcomes into employment and upward mobility. This paper argues that vocational education cannot truly promote the development of rural women until policy design systematically responds to structural gender constraints.
subject: Articles
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subject: Vocational education
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subject: Rural women
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subject: Policy implementation
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subject: Gender inequality
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subject: Structural constraints
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creator: JING ZHANG
rights: Copyright (c) 2026
date: 2026-01-04
publication date: 2026-01-04
starting page: 1
ending page: 8
doi: 10.71465/fhsr569

Governance Practices of Digital Platforms from the Perspective of Fluidity Governance: Mechanisms, Challenges, and Transformations— An Analysis Based on Actor-Network Theory
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description: From the perspective of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the governance of digital platform fluidity essentially manifests as a translational practice mechanism involving multiple heterogeneous actors, including digital platform enterprises, digital platform users, governments, and other businesses. This translational practice mechanism can be divided into four stages: problematization, interesement, enrollment, and mobilization. In current digital platform governance practices, these diverse human and non-human factors are interconnected and imbued with the meaning of fluidity governance, giving rise to multiple challenges in the translational practice: first, the disorder of the translational space within the context of fluid spaces; second, divergences in inter-subjective network relationships caused by the singularization of actors; and third, the deficiency of "obligatory passage points" in translation due to structural blockages. Consequently, in response to the practical demands of governing digital platform fluidity, it is imperative to address the challenges of translational practice in the new era by focusing on spatial integration, actor connection, and structural efficiency enhancement. This involves exploring strategies to optimize the actor-network of digital platforms, thereby promoting the transformation of modern social governance systems and capabilities.
subject: Articles
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subject: Digital Platform
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subject: Fluidity Governance
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subject: Translation
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subject: Actor-Network Theory
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creator: Shuanghui Liu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
starting page: 471
ending page: 487
doi: 10.71465/fhsr486

Delimiting the "Unsayable": Wittgenstein and Logical Holism
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description: This paper aims to clarify a long-standing misconception in the history of philosophy by reconstructing the core arguments of early Wittgenstein’s philosophy, namely the identification of his early thought with the Logical Atomism advocated by Bertrand Russell. Through a systematic analysis of Wittgenstein's strict demarcation between the "sayable" and the "unsayable," his particular treatment of the concept of "generality," and the priority of propositions over words in his theory of meaning, we argue that Wittgenstein’s early philosophy is essentially a form of Logical Holism. This holism is not a metaphysical doctrine about the composition of the world but the necessary conclusion of his linguistic critique and study of logical syntax. It fundamentally rejects the atomistic model that posits simple entities as the foundation of meaning. Furthermore, this paper will reveal that this holistic perspective, grounded in the "unsayable," provides a deep and coherent philosophical foundation for his later "grammatical investigations" in the Philosophical Investigations and his revolutionary epistemological views concerning "certainty" and "world-picture" in On Certainty [1]. This paper concludes that understanding Wittgenstein solely through the label of "Logical Atomism" not only obscures the originality and profundity of his thought but also severs the intrinsic conceptual thread, based on "delimitation" and "showing," that connects his early and later philosophy.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Logical Holism
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subject: The Sayable and the Unsayable
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subject: Wittgenstein
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subject: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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subject: Logical Atomism; Showing
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creator: Yu Gao
creator: Jingzhe Kang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-12-18
publication date: 2025-12-18
starting page: 461
ending page: 470
doi: 10.71465/fhsr485

Irreplaceability of Human Beings in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Empathy and Embodied Aesthetics in Musical Performance
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description: The rapid development of artificial intelligence has reshaped the boundaries of artistic creation. As AI algorithms increasingly demonstrate the capacity to simulate composition, painting, and even literary creativity, the “irreplaceability of human beings” in artistic practices has emerged as a central issue in contemporary aesthetics and the philosophy of technology. Focusing on musical performance as a core case study, this article investigates the unique value that performing arts continue to hold in the age of AI. It argues that the aesthetic significance of musical performance lies not in the produced artistic outcome but in the embodied, situational, and relational processes through which performers and audiences co-create affective resonance and social connectedness. By examining the semiotic mechanisms of AI-generated art, theories of autopoiesis, and the dynamics of human emotional intimacy, the study demonstrates that although AI can reproduce artistic forms, it cannot generate the life-oriented intentionality or empathic structures inherent in human expression. Drawing on findings from cognitive neuroscience—particularly mirror-neuron systems and emotional empathy mechanisms—the article further analyzes the psychological differences in audience perception when encountering artificial versus human performance. Consequently, it contends that the relationship between AI and performing arts should not be framed in terms of substitution or conflict but rather as a dynamic force driving the self-renewal of the artistic system. The delineation of this boundary constitutes not only a technological issue but also an aesthetic and ethical one.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Artificial Intelligence
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subject: AI Art
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subject: Performing Arts
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subject: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
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creator: Kehang Li
creator: Wen Ji
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 450
ending page: 460
doi: 10.71465/fhsr454

Exploring the interactive mechanism between psychological resilience and career sustainability of rural special-post English teachers in China
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description: Rural special-post English teachers in China work under challenging conditions, including limited resources, professional isolation, and restricted career advancement, making sustained teaching careers difficult to maintain. This study develops a conceptual model to examine how psychological resilience interacts with career sustainability in this group. Drawing on Mansfield’s four-dimensional resilience framework and contemporary career sustainability theory, the model identifies three core pathways—adaptive functioning, resource accumulation, and career identity development—through which resilience supports long-term professional engagement. It also emphasizes the reciprocal nature of this relationship: sustainable career conditions further strengthen teachers’ resilience, forming a cyclical mechanism that promotes stable and meaningful retention. Although conceptual in design, the study provides a theoretical foundation for future empirical work and offers practical implications for supporting rural teachers through resilience-informed professional development and policy interventions. The conceptual analysis contribute to a deeper understanding of how special-post English teachers navigate adversity and sustain their careers in rural educational contexts.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Psychological resilience
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subject: Career sustainability
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subject: Special-post teachers
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subject: Rural English education
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subject: Teacher retention
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subject: Conceptual model
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creator: Yuheng Pi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 440
ending page: 449
doi: 10.71465/fhsr451

Collaborative Teaching Pathways between Marxist Political Economy and Western Economics from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
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description: In the context of China’s turn toward high-quality development and the expanding digital economy, university economics education faces a dual challenge: to consolidate Marxist political economy as the fundamental guiding framework while drawing effectively on Western economics as a core analytical toolkit. In practice, however, these two theoretical traditions are often taught in parallel and in isolation, resulting in fragmented knowledge structures, weak connections between theory and practice, and a limited ability of students to interpret complex socio-economic issues from multiple perspectives. This study responds by proposing an interdisciplinary model of collaborative teaching between Marxist political economy and Western economics. Using literature review, comparative analysis and illustrative teaching cases, it clarifies the distinct yet complementary teaching objectives and core categories of the two theories, and constructs a rationale grounded in constructivist learning theory, dialectical materialist epistemology and interdisciplinary education theory. On this basis, the study develops a three-dimensional pathway of “theoretical mutual learning, methodological integration and practice bridging.” Concretely, it suggests restructuring course content around shared themes such as value, distribution, digital economy and common prosperity; designing dual-theory case teaching, blended learning and cross-course project-based learning; and building collaborative education platforms that connect classroom teaching with university–industry cooperation, academic exchange and field-based social investigation. The paper argues that, supported by cross-disciplinary teacher development, multi-dimensional assessment and integrated teaching resources, this collaborative model can transform the prevailing parallel pattern into a synergistic one and significantly enhance the quality and integrity of economics education in Chinese universities.
subject: Articles
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subject: Marxist political economy
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subject: Western economics
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subject: Interdisciplinary teaching
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subject: Teaching collaboration
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subject: Curriculum ideological and political education
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creator: Wenhui Lyu
creator: Cheng Li
creator: Xinrui Liu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-11-25
publication date: 2025-11-25
starting page: 427
ending page: 439
doi: 10.71465/fhsr446

Balanced Diplomacy between Regional Order and Medium Powers: A Study on Thailand's Strategic Evolution in the ASEAN Framework
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description: Since the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1967, Thailand, as one of the founding members, has always played a key role in the ASEAN integration process and regional diplomacy pattern. This paper aims to systematically analyze Thailand's diplomatic strategic logic, main practices and challenges under the ASEAN framework. The study found that the core goal of Thailand's diplomatic strategy is to maintain national security, promote economic development and enhance regional influence through multilateralism. This paper analyzes from four aspects: historical evolution, diplomatic concepts, policy practices and future directions, and combines the new situation of regional security and economic cooperation, and proposes that Thailand should further strengthen its core position in ASEAN under the strategic framework of "balance-initiative-innovation".
subject: Articles
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subject: Thailand
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subject: Asean
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subject: Diplomatic strategy
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subject: Regional cooperation
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subject: International relations
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creator: Luo Kun
creator: Zifan Zhang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-08-13
publication date: 2025-08-13
starting page: 413
ending page: 426
doi: 10.71465/fhsr428

On the Foundational Role of A Madman’s Diary in Shaping the Narrative Paradigm of Modern Chinese Fiction
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description: Lu Xun’s “A Madman's Diary” (1918) is universally acknowledged as the genesis of modern Chinese literature. This paper argues that its significance transcends this chronological primacy, positing that the story is a foundational text that deliberately constructed a new narrative paradigm that defined Chinese literary modernity. This paradigm is characterized by a revolutionary synthesis of three elements: (1) a radical shift to subjective, psychological interiority enabled by a first-person, unreliable narrator; (2) the strategic weaponization of literary form—specifically allegory and satire—as a tool for incisive socio-cultural critique; and (3) the ideological and aesthetic championing of vernacular Chinese (baihua) over its classical counterpart (wenyan). This paper first establishes the historical and intellectual context of the New Culture and May Fourth Movements that necessitated this literary break. It then conducts a close formal and thematic analysis of the story, dissecting its “diglossic warfare” (the wenyan frame versus the baihua diary), its modernist exploration of consciousness, and its central “cannibalism” metaphor as a multi-layered deconstruction of Confucian tradition. Finally, the paper traces this paradigm’s profound and enduring legacy, examining its immediate influence on May Fourth literature, its complex canonization during the Mao era, and its continued resonance in the works of contemporary authors such as Mo Yan and Yu Hua. The paper concludes that “A Madman's Diary” functions as both a national allegory and a work of world literature, whose final plea to “Save the children” remains a timeless call for humanistic renewal.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lu Xun
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subject: A Madman’s Diary
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subject: Modern Chinese Literature
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subject: Narrative Paradigm
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subject: New Culture Movement
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subject: Cannibalism (Allegory)
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subject: Vernacular (Baihua)
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subject: May Fourth Movement
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subject: Subjectivity
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creator: Yimeng Lu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-11-02
publication date: 2025-11-02
starting page: 400
ending page: 412
doi: 10.71465/fhsr427

The Impact of AI-Powered Adaptive Learning on Student Performance in Undergraduate Mathematics
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description: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education has revolutionized traditional teaching methodologies, particularly through adaptive learning systems that personalize instruction based on individual student needs. This study examines the impact of AI-powered adaptive learning platforms on undergraduate mathematics performance, exploring how these intelligent systems enhance learning outcomes through real-time content adaptation and personalized feedback mechanisms. By analyzing recent empirical evidence and implementation frameworks, this research demonstrates that AI-driven adaptive systems significantly improve student achievement in mathematics courses, with effect sizes ranging from 0.36 to 0.42 standard deviations compared to traditional instruction methods. The study also investigates the underlying architectural mechanisms through which these systems operate, including distributed data processing, knowledge graph modeling, and multi-user adaptive delivery systems. Furthermore, this research addresses implementation challenges and provides insights into optimal deployment strategies for maximizing educational effectiveness in diverse undergraduate mathematics contexts. Findings suggest that while AI-powered adaptive learning shows considerable promise in enhancing mathematical competency through scalable architecture and personalized knowledge mapping, successful implementation requires careful consideration of pedagogical design, technological infrastructure, and instructor training to ensure sustainable educational transformation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Artificial Intelligence
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subject: Adaptive Learning Systems
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subject: Mathematics Education
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subject: Student Performance
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subject: Personalized Learning
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subject: Undergraduate Education
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subject: Educational Technology
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subject: Learning Analytics
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creator: Long Chen
creator: Yuting Zhao
creator: Emily Parker
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-10-30
publication date: 2025-10-30
starting page: 378
ending page: 399
doi: 10.71465/fhsr424

ACGN Culture on Adolescent Social Media Platforms: The Construction of Cultural Identity and Group Belonging
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description: This study investigates the mechanisms through which participation in ACGN (Anime, Comics, Games, and Novels) fan communities on Chinese social media platforms contributes to the construction of cultural identity and a sense of group belonging among adolescents. Situated within the framework of Social Identity Theory, this research posits that active community engagement and perceived group cohesion are significant predictors of these psychological outcomes. A quantitative, cross-sectional survey was conducted with a sample of 485 Chinese adolescents (aged 14-19) who are active members of online ACGN communities. Data were collected via an online questionnaire measuring four key constructs: ACGN Community Engagement, Perceived Group Cohesion, Cultural Identity Formation, and Sense of Group Belonging. Two multiple linear regression models were employed for data analysis. The results indicate that both ACGN Community Engagement and Perceived Group Cohesion are strong, statistically significant positive predictors of both Cultural Identity Formation (R^2 =0.56 and Sense of Group Belonging (R^2 =.63). These findings provide empirical support for the application of Social Identity Theory in digital subcultural contexts and underscore the critical role of online fan communities as spaces for significant developmental work during adolescence. The study concludes that these digital environments are not merely for media consumption but function as vital social worlds where identity is explored, and belonging is forged.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: ACGN
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subject: Erciyuan
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subject: Social Identity Theory
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subject: Cultural Identity
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subject: Group Belonging
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subject: Adolescence
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subject: Social Media
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creator: Yitong Liu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-10-23
publication date: 2025-10-23
starting page: 364
ending page: 377
doi: 10.71465/fhsr403

A Study on Generation Z Users' Social Media Information Visibility Management Behaviour: Influencing Factors and Path Analysis Based on Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour
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description: [Purpose/Significance] This study investigates the motivations and influencing pathways of information visibility management behaviours on social media platforms among Generation Z users in a digital context. Recommendations are proposed from both user and platform perspectives to optimise the social media experience. [Methodology] Using university students as representative Z-generation participants, this study employs the Theory of Planned Behaviour framework augmented with perceived risk factors. Data collected via questionnaire analysis identifies characteristic information visibility management behaviours on WeChat Moments and other typical social media platforms. Structural equation modelling validates the influence pathways. [Results/Conclusions] Emotional satisfaction, self-disposal norms, and perceived risk exert positive effects on the intention to engage in information visibility management behaviour. Perceived control and the privacy information risk component of perceived risk positively influence such behaviour. The intention to self-dispose positively impacts information visibility management behaviour and mediates the path from privacy information risk and privacy social risk to self-disposal behaviour.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: University students
  topic: keywords
subject: WeChat Moments
  topic: keywords
subject: Information visibility management behaviour
  topic: keywords
subject: Structural equation modelling
  topic: keywords
creator: Tiantian Shen
creator: Jiachen Li
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-10-18
publication date: 2025-10-18
starting page: 346
ending page: 363
doi: 10.71465/fhsr388

A Study on Information Re-editing Behavior of Gen Z Users in UGC Platform Based on Grounded Theory
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description: [Objective/Significance] This study analyzes the influencing factors and behavioral characteristics of Generation Z users're-editing behaviors on user-generated content (UGC) platforms based on their own published content. It explores the online information behavior characteristics of Generation Z users, aiming to enrich and expand research in the field of user information behavior and provide references for UGC platforms to understand user needs. [Methods/Process] Grounded in grounded theory, this study investigates the influencing factors of Generation Z users' information re-editing behaviors on UGC platforms. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and processed via three-level coding to construct an impact factor model for users 'information re-editing behaviors. [Results/Conclusion] The behavior of users re-editing information based on their own published content on platforms results from the interaction between individual users and environmental factors, as well as pre-and post-action factors. Key elements include: publishing purposes, self-presentation, platform mechanisms, social norms, interpersonal communication, information leakage, peer feedback, and work popularity. Additionally, Generation Z users're-editing behaviors on UGC platforms exhibit distinct goal-oriented tendencies, pronounced "internet celebrity mentality," and a tendency to filter out negative information.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: User-generated content
  topic: keywords
subject: Information re-editing behavior
  topic: keywords
subject: Grounded theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Generation Z
  topic: keywords
creator: Dan Zhao
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-10-18
publication date: 2025-10-18
starting page: 336
ending page: 345
doi: 10.71465/fhsr387

Research on Cyber Insult Crimes in China from a Crime Script Perspective: An Empirical Analysis Based on 89 Judicial Decisions
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description: Grounded in environmental criminology and employing a crime script methodology, this study conducts an empirical analysis of 89 judicial decisions on the offense of cyber insult in China from 2014 to 2024, examining types, pathways, characteristics, causes, and governance strategies. Findings show four crime types: emotion-driven catharsis (64.04%), interest-dispute driven (14.61%), sex-related online conflict (6.74%), and relationship-unclear (17.98%). Key features include higher incidence in East and North China; female offenders concentrated in emotion-driven cases (75%); intensified harm under the “WeChat plus multi-platform” combined insult pattern; and “aggregative” diffusion of consequences. Script analysis indicates a common pathway of “conflict—opportunity pre-setting—open insult.” Offender profiling identifies typical groups such as “men engaging in extreme breakup retaliation” and “women betrayed in intimate relationships.” Causal analysis spans the individual level (offender, victim, third-party platform), legal level (legal characterization, offense nature, legislative gaps), and social level (herd behavior among netizens, platform review failures). Governance recommendations propose four pathways: enhancing digital literacy and rights awareness among netizens, strengthening platform algorithmic oversight, advancing legislative and litigation mechanisms, and improving law-enforcement training and fairness in practice.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Insult Offense
  topic: keywords
subject: Cyberspace
  topic: keywords
subject: Crime Script
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subject: Crime Governance
  topic: keywords
creator: Jibing Liu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-10-16
publication date: 2025-10-16
starting page: 324
ending page: 335
doi: 10.71465/fhsr385

A Study on Regional Disparities in the Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Increases
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description: This study examines the heterogeneous employment effects of minimum wage increases across different regions, focusing on disparities driven by local economic conditions. Against the backdrop of ongoing debates about the employment impacts of minimum wage policies, this research addresses the critical gap in understanding how regional factors—such as cost of living, industrial composition, and labor market tightness—moderate these effects. Using a difference-in-differences methodology applied to longitudinal employment data from diverse regions over a decade, the analysis reveals that minimum wage hikes have negligible employment consequences in high-cost urban areas but lead to modest employment reductions in low-income rural regions. These findings underscore the importance of tailoring minimum wage policies to regional economic contexts to mitigate adverse outcomes. The study contributes to policy discussions by advocating for geographically differentiated approaches to minimum wage implementation.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Minimum Wage
  topic: keywords
subject: Employment Effects
  topic: keywords
subject: Regional Disparities
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subject: Labor Market Policy
  topic: keywords
creator: Guoqiang Zhou
creator: Tingting Huang
creator: Chao Lin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-10-04
publication date: 2025-10-04
starting page: 309
ending page: 323
doi: 10.71465/fhsr380

Clustering Analysis of Chinese Urban Household Types Based on Consumption Behavior
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description: This study investigates the heterogeneity of urban household types in China through a clustering analysis of consumption behavior patterns. Against the backdrop of rapid economic growth and evolving consumption structures, understanding household consumption dynamics is critical for market segmentation and policy formulation. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey, this research applies the K-means clustering algorithm to categorize urban households based on expenditure variables across categories such as food, housing, education, healthcare, and leisure. The analysis identifies four distinct household clusters: necessity-oriented, education-focused, healthcare-prioritized, and balanced-spending types. Key findings reveal significant regional and socioeconomic disparities in consumption preferences, with education and healthcare expenditures becoming increasingly prominent among middle-to-high-income households. These results highlight the shifting consumption trends in urban China and offer valuable insights for businesses in tailoring marketing strategies and for policymakers in designing targeted social and economic programs.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Consumption behavior
  topic: keywords
subject: Clustering analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: Urban households
  topic: keywords
subject: Household typology
  topic: keywords
creator: Bo Yang
creator: Zhenhua Gao
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-10-04
publication date: 2025-10-04
starting page: 291
ending page: 308
doi: 10.71465/fhsr377

Personalized Design Strategies and Implementation of Online Courses in Universities
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description: The online delivery of courses by universities has become an important form of teaching. However, the interface designs of many online course platforms are still largely similar, failing to meet the diverse needs of learners in terms of cognitive styles, learning habits, knowledge bases, and browsing interests. This one-size-fits-all approach not only affects the learning experience but also weakens learners' participation and enthusiasm, leading to poor learning experiences and low efficiency in using functions, which in turn reduces learners' participation and enthusiasm and thus lowers learning efficiency. This paper analyzes the necessity of personalized interface design for online courses in universities, explores the challenges and solutions, and discusses the core strategies and technical implementation plans.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Online courses
  topic: keywords
subject: Interface design
  topic: keywords
subject: Personalization
  topic: keywords
subject: College education
  topic: keywords
creator: Zhiqun Ren
creator: Ahmadrashidi Bin Hasan
creator: Lingling Guo
creator: Zhou Jiang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-09-13
publication date: 2025-09-13
starting page: 272
ending page: 277
doi: 10.71465/fhsr334

Construction of an Ideological and Political Resource Library for the Human Anatomy Course Based on the "Three Combinations and Three Forms"
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description: The construction of the ideological paradigm and political resource base of human anatomy course based on the teaching of "Three Combinations and Three Forms" not only conforms to the direction of the reform and development of vocational education in China, but also has urgent practical significance and long-term social value. It can not only effectively promote the deep integration of professional education and ideological and political education, but also help to comprehensively train high-quality nursing talents who meet the needs of the new era, which has far-reaching influence on the long-term development of China's medical and health cause and social civilization progress. This paper first expounds the necessity of the construction of ideological and political resource database for the course of human anatomy in higher vocational nursing, defines the content of the construction of resource database including text database, photo database, video database, simulation question database and ideological and political practice case database, and puts forward the path and specific steps of the construction of resource database, aiming to realize the comprehensive study of human anatomy for nursing students and the deep integration of ideological and political education. In order to train students to have correct medical values, medical ethics and benevolence, humanistic love, scientific spirit, improve the quality of personnel training and employment competitiveness.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Higher vocational colleges
  topic: keywords
subject: Nursing major
  topic: keywords
subject: Human anatomy
  topic: keywords
subject:
  topic: keywords
subject: Ideological and political education in courses
  topic: keywords
subject: Resource library
  topic: keywords
creator: Hui Wang
creator: Jing Chen
creator: Yuan Wang
creator: Meng Ye
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-06-18
publication date: 2025-06-18
starting page: 262
ending page: 271
doi: 10.71465/fhsr282

A study on the long-term preservation behavior of college students' personal travel born digital resources
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description: In the digital era and tourism era, exploring the long-term preservation behavior of college students' personal tourism born digital resources has a positive significance in promoting the retention of personal digital memory. Twenty-one samples were selected as semi-structured interview subjects to be interviewed to obtain primary data, and with the help of qualitative analysis software Nvivo12, the model of long-term preservation behaviors of college students' personal tourism born digital resources was constructed by using the rooting theory. It was found that the influencing factors of college students' long-term preservation behavior of personal tourism born digital resources include personal dimension (personal needs), tourism dimension (tourism context, tourism cost and tourism decision), information dimension (information value, information characteristics) and environment dimension (social environment, technological environment).With the help of rooted theory research method, the theoretical model of long-term preservation behavior of college students' personal tourism born digital resources is systematically sorted out, and corresponding development suggestions are put forward to the relevant responsible parties.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: personal born digital resources
  topic: keywords
subject: tourism born digital resources
  topic: keywords
subject: long-term preservation behavior
  topic: keywords
subject: college students
  topic: keywords
creator: Mingmin Shang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-02-28
publication date: 2025-02-28
starting page: 17
ending page: 29
doi: 10.71465/fhsr20

Exploring Malicious Comments behavior on Social Media: An Analysis from Cognition, Affect , and Conation
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description: With the development of social media, user behavior on these platforms has become a focal point of research. However, less attention has been paid to irrational information behaviors in the study of social media user behavior. Malicious comments fundamentally reflect the irrational behavior of social media users. This paper, based on the cognition-affect-conation theoretical model, constructs a structural equation model that includes malice, individual constraints, radicalized emotions, and malicious comment behavior. Through 214 questionnaires, SEM is used to analyze the path relationships between cognitive bias, radicalized emotions, and malicious comment behavior, as well as the factors influencing radicalized emotions. The study findings indicate: (1) the objective perception of information malice is not related to malicious comment behavior. (2) Subjectively perceived information malice significantly positively influences both radicalized emotions and malicious comment behavior. (3) Individual cognitive constraints significantly positively influence both radicalized emotions and malicious comment behavior. (4) Radicalized emotions, acting as a mediating variable, significantly positively influence malicious comment behavior. The conclusions of this study will provide theoretical references for publishing accurate information on social media, reducing online hostility, and building a healthy and harmonious online environment.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Social media
  topic: keywords
subject: Irrational information behavior
  topic: keywords
subject: Malicious comment behavior
  topic: keywords
subject: Cognitive-emotional-intention theory
  topic: keywords
creator: Xiangyu Kong
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-06-07
publication date: 2025-06-07
starting page: 248
ending page: 261
doi: 10.71465/fhsr261

Narrative Strategies in Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods
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description: Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods utilizes intricate narrative strategies to explore the themes of isolation and existential reflection. This essay focuses on three key techniques:(1) a complex first-person narrator whose framing creates intimacy yet reveals subjectivity; (2) the narrator’s unreliability, stemming from distance and invention, questioning factual truth; and (3) narrative time manipulation, using flashbacks, varied pacing, and repetition. These intertwined techniques help to create a hauntingly ambiguous meditation on life, death, and human relationship.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sherwood Anderson
  topic: keywords
subject: Narrative strategies
  topic: keywords
subject: Genette
  topic: keywords
subject: unreliable narrtor
  topic: keywords
creator: Yani Zhang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-06-03
publication date: 2025-06-03
starting page: 242
ending page: 247
doi: 10.71465/fhsr251

Analysis of Narrative Situation in The Torrents of Spring
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description: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) stands as one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century and is revered as a master of modern narrative art. In 1954, he was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1926, Hemingway created the only parody The Torrents of Spring, which combines humor, satire, romanticism and naturalism, and uses rich narrative techniques. From the perspective of narratology, this paper studies the narrative situation: narrative person, narrative focalization and narrative manner in this novel, trying to explain Hemingway’s exceptional narrative art.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: The Torrents of Spring
  topic: keywords
subject: Narratology
  topic: keywords
subject: Narrative situation
  topic: keywords
creator: Hailian Zhang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Frontiers in Humanities and Social Research
date: 2025-06-03
publication date: 2025-06-03
starting page: 235
ending page: 241
doi: 10.71465/fhsr250

Investigating Sports News Headlines from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphors: A Case Study of Headlines during the Qatar World Cup
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description: This paper, based on the theory of conceptual metaphors, uses sports news headlines from the Qatar World Cup as the research object and systematically analyzes the patterns of metaphor application in sports news. The study found that there are three main types of conceptual metaphors in sports news headlines: structural metaphors are the most abundant, including the war metaphor that compares football matches to war (e.g., "迎战" and "备战") and the journey metaphor that views the match process as a journey (e.g., "首发" and "全场"); orientation metaphors express changes in status through up and down concepts, such as using "暴涨" and "晋级" to indicate positive states, and "止步" to express adverse outcomes; entity metaphors are primarily based on container metaphors, using terms like "挺进" and "入围" to conceptualize match stages as spaces that can be entered. These metaphorical expressions utilize familiar concepts to explain abstract sports content, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of news headlines and the efficiency of information dissemination and reflecting the value of metaphors as an important cognitive tool in news communication.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sports news headlins
  topic: keywords
subject: Conceptual metaphors
  topic: keywords
subject: Corpus analysis
  topic: keywords
creator: XUEHAN YU
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-05-30
publication date: 2025-05-30
starting page: 230
ending page: 234
doi: 10.71465/fhsr246

The Impact of Live E-commerce Marketing Strategies on Consumers' Purchase Intention —— An Empirical Study Based on JD.com
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description: This study examines the influence of live streaming e-commerce marketing methods on consumers' purchase intentions, using the JD.com platform as a case for empirical analysis. Data were gathered via surveys and evaluated employing quantitative research methodologies to elucidate the impact of various marketing strategies on customer decision-making. The research findings indicate that live streaming hosting, time-sensitive discounts, and interactive live broadcasts significantly enhance consumers' buy intentions, with time-sensitive discounts having the most pronounced effect. The research findings assist JD.com and other e-commerce platforms in refining live-broadcast marketing strategies and enhancing consumer conversion rates.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: E-commerce
  topic: keywords
subject: Consumer Purchase Intention
  topic: keywords
subject: Live Streaming Hosting Influencers
  topic: keywords
subject: Limited Time Discount
  topic: keywords
subject: Live Interactivity
  topic: keywords
creator: Renbo Zong
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-05-25
publication date: 2025-05-25
starting page: 220
ending page: 229
doi: 10.71465/fhsr242

Reflections on Human Ethics and Research Directions in the Classical Chinese Novel Complete Legend of the White Snake
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description: As a pivotal narrative within the “Legend of the White Snake” tradition, The Complete Tale of the White Snake (Bai She Quanzhuan) embodies multiple layers of Chinese cultural imagination concerning morality, emotion, humanity, and the supernatural. This paper examines its textual characteristics and historical evolution by comparing it with other narrative variants from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Further, it explores the underlying moral views, religious beliefs, and narrative logic embedded in folk traditions. The study highlights how this tale has been continuously adapted and reinterpreted in contemporary media—from Tian Han’s theatrical adaptations in the mid-20th century to recent animated films—demonstrating a dynamic process of cross-media transformation and cultural revitalization. Through comparative literature analysis and multimodal case studies, this paper argues that the White Snake narrative serves as a medium of cultural identity and emotional resonance, whose fluid structure enables renewed vitality in modern contexts. The research contributes to a deeper understanding of how traditional Chinese narratives are recontextualized and transmitted within contemporary media systems.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: The Complete Tale of the White Snake
  topic: keywords
subject: Folk narrative
  topic: keywords
subject: Cross-media adaptation
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural reappropriation
  topic: keywords
subject: Tradition and modernity
  topic: keywords
creator: Sirui Du
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-05-23
publication date: 2025-05-23
starting page: 215
ending page: 219
doi: 10.71465/fhsr236