Understanding the Global Identification with China’s Stories: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Cross-cultural storytelling is a primary way for humankind to seek mutual recognition of value orientations between cultures,which facilitates the ability to jointly address the problems of human existence in the context of globalization.In this study,we conducted an interview survey of 6,130 respondents who were college students or graduates from 107 countries.The results show that there were a number of cross-cultural values embodied in China’s stories seen by the respondents as part of a common vision for the future of humankind and widely identified guidance on collaborative responses to global challenges.These cross-cultural values are common prosperity,ecological harmony,individual-collective integration,the urgency of global peace,as well as respect for multicultural and indigenous development paths.

Research on Strategies for Enhancing the Ability of Chinese German Learners to Tell Chinese Stories Through Short Videos

In the age of new media,short videos play an increasingly important role in international cultural exchange.However,German learners often encounter challenges when producing and sharing short videos due to factors such as technology and language proficiency.Such challenges can affect the professionalism and attractiveness of the videos.This study focuses on German learners at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.The aim of this study is to investigate students’experiences in producing short videos,identify issues through surveys and interviews,and concentrate on editing skills,language proficiency,and intercultural communication abilities.It proposes strategies for developing these skills and aims to provide insights for German and other foreign language learners in telling Chinese stories using short videos.

A Study of a Moral Dilemma Stories Teaching Model Focusing on the Development of Higher-Order Thinking --"Synthetic polymers" as an example

Cultivating students'higher-order thinking is one of the important goals of modern education,and innovative teaching model is an effective way to achieve this goal.Aiming at the inadequacy of the existing moral dilemma stories approach in the transformation of knowledge and behavior,this research constructs a new Project Based Learning-Ethical Dilemma Stories(PBL-EDS)Teaching Model applicable to China's secondary education stage based on the innovative features of the moral dilemma stories approach on the core competencies,taking the chemistry subject as an example to carry out practice,and puts forward suggestions for the implementation of the teaching model.Chemistry as an example to carry out the practice,and suggestions are made for the implementation of the teaching model.

Practical Paths for Integrating“Stories of China”in the New Era into Ideological and Political Education in Universities

As socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era,ideological and political education in universities is presented with new opportunities.Telling the“Stories of China”is not only necessary for inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture but also an important way to build the socialist core value system and cultivate qualified builders of socialism.Effectively integrating the“Stories of China”with the ideological and political theory courses in universities is of great significance for guiding students to establish correct worldviews,outlooks on life,and values.This paper focuses on the practical paths of integrating the“Stories of China”with ideological and political theory in universities,deeply analyzes the existing integration mechanisms,principles to follow,and challenges faced,and explores innovative paths.It aims to provide a new perspective for ideological and political education in universities,promote the comprehensive development of students,and provide solid theoretical support for cultivating qualified socialist builders.

Hero Hua Mulan With a Thousand Faces:Why Chinese Stories Can Move the World?Evidence From a Global Cross-Cultural Interview Survey

While people from Western countries do not always understand of the underlying cultural values of most Chinese stories,the Hua Mulan story has gained significant recognition from Western audiences.Therefore,it would be quite beneficial if we could understand the key elements that have contributed to the success of the Hua Mulan story so that we can employ similar elements in other intercultural communication programs and promote the communication and dissemination of cultures between China and the rest of the world.According to the findings from the interviews of 6,130 respondents from 107 countries,we found that the Hua Mulan story gains global acceptance because it represents a story of“a hero with a thousand faces,”which embodies the integration of Chinese traditions and contemporary spirit through sharing a global meaning while responding to various culturally common challenges.Five key cultural value dimensions are responsible for this Chinese story’s cross-cultural affinity and influence,which helped it win recognition and empathy worldwide.The five key cultural value dimensions are loyalty and patriotism,the courage to take responsibility,compatibility of individualism and collectivism,respondence to the multicultural appeal,and hero growth.These dimensions are then generalized as the value identity orientation grounded in a Global Shared Meaning(GSM)in this study.

A Study on Katherine Anne Porter’s Short Stories and Narrative Techniques

Katherine Anne Porter is a prominent figure in American literary history,particularly excelling in the realm of short stories as a novelist and stylist.This paper studies her short stories,combined with her growth and life experience,from the revolutionary independence of youth to middle-aged female consciousness to the old age of home-sick and miss to relatives,Katherine Anne Porter reveals a sense of loneliness and desire.Her exquisite writing style,agile language,psychological character portrait,gives a picture of the specific history and social changes under her thoughts and life insight.

移动设备下全景动画的叙事特征表达研究——以Google Spotlight stories 为例

目的:当前,全球以移动流媒体的视频消费能力最强,人们不再满足于传统影视观看方式,转而寻求多样化、互动型的沉浸式观看方式,全景动画应运而生。全景动画独特的叙事特征消解了传统动画叙事结构,需要对全景动画影片的独特叙事形态进行分析,促使其在传达故事的同时强化观众的互动体验。方法:文章阐述在全景技术的差异变化下,动画叙事难度与信息密度有所增加,以及观众身份在观影时发生变化等问题。以Google Spotlight stories平台出品的动画为主要案例,分析影响全景动画影片叙事的因素,阐明如何通过全景媒介实现观众互动与讲故事之间良好的叙事融合,强化受众对故事的体验感。结果:对Duet、Pearl和Buggy Night三部全景动画进行分析,说明通过建立分化事件、镜头视角以及观众引导三方面可以协调观众互动和故事表述之间的平衡关系,并以此探讨全景动画的叙事特征。结论:基于移动终端的全景动画不仅提供了更加便捷的观看方式,还打造了有趣且具有互动性的叙事体验。全景技术打破了传统叙事结构中导演的绝对控制权,允许观众根据自身观影习惯寻找或选择故事的展开方式。在此叙事过程中,应该更注重观众的体验与故事的传达方式。

A Survey of Feautures of Three English Versions of Lu Xun’s Short Stories

Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Call to Arms(1923)and Wandering(1926)represent the greatest achievement of Chinese story-writing at that time.Since the 1920’s,Lu Xun’s stories have been translated into various languages and published throughout the world,enjoying an international reputation.The three English versions chosen are different with various features,especially in dealing with Chinese traditional culture according to different purposes and towards different English readers.

A Survey of Major English Versions of Lu Xun’s Short Stories in the 20th Century

Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Call to Arms(1923)and Wandering(1926)represent the greatest achievement of Chinese story-writing at that time.His short stories are not only profound in thinking,but also worthy of admiration for their great value and innovation in art.Since the 1920’s,Lu Xun’s stories have been translated into various languages and published throughout the world,enjoying an international reputation.Only their English versions in the 20th century are discussed within this paper.These versions are different with various features,especially in dealing with Chinese traditional culture according to different purposes and towards different English readers.

SEISMIC DAMAGE PREDICTION ON MULTI-STORYBRIOK BUILDINGS WITH TWO FRAME-SHEAR-WALL-SUPPORTED STORIES

This paper presents a method for searching the weak story by using the ultimate shear force coefficient on the multi-story brick buildings with two frame-shear-wall-supported stories. The method of seismic damage prediction is discussed according to different weak stories. When the first story is t theweak one,the damage state of the building can be determined by the displacement ratio. The prediction method is also used in a practical engineering project.

An Empirical Study on Teaching Non-English Major Adult Students Reading with Allusions and Their Stories

Effective English reading requires readers not only possess good English grammar, flexible reading skills and plentiful vocabulary but also master rich cultural background knowledge.However, for the adult students educated in the Continuing Education College, it is rather obvious that they have troubles learning English The author of this thesis pro-posed a new idea of English reading teaching-teaching with allusions and their stories in English reading class.The author tries to apply the relationship between schema theory and reading in the process of teaching adult students so that they can get a deeper understanding of English allusions and their stories.The author of this thesis did an empirical research and made a quantitative analysis for pretest and posttest.The result of this research indicates that to improve English reading proficiency, either teachers or students should attach equal importance both to language structures and to cultural background knowledge.

Shaking table tests and dynamic analyses of masonry wall buildings with frame-shear walls at lower stories

This paper describes shaking table tests of three eight-story building models： all are masonry structures in the upper stories, with or without frame-shear walls of one- or two- stories at the bottom. The test results of damage characteristics and seismic responses are provided and compared. Then, nonlinear response analyses are conducted to examine the reliability of the dynamic analysis. Finally, many nonlinear response analyses are performed and it is concluded that for relatively hard sites under a certain lateral stiffness ratio （i.e., the ratio of the stiffness of the lowest upper masonry story to that of the frame- shear wall story）, the masonry structure with one-story frame-shear wall at the bottom performs better than a structure built entirely of masonry, and a masonry structure with frame-shear wall of two stories performs better than with one-story frame- shear wall. In relatively soft soil conditions, all three structures have similar performane. In addition, some suggestions that could be helpful for design of masonry structures with ground story of frame-shear wall structure in seismic intensity region VII, such as the appropriate lateral stiffness ratio, shear force increase factor of the frame-shear wall story, and permissible maximum height of the building, are proposed.

An Automatic Method to Identify Citations to Journals in News Stories: A Case Study of UK Newspapers Citing Web of Science Journals

Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and have been manually monitored to assess the extent of press coverage of scholarship.Design/methodology/Approach: To make larger scale studies practical, this paper introduces an automatic method to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals. Curated ProQuest queries were used to search for citations to 9,639 Science and3,412 Social Science Web of Science(WoS) journals from eight UK daily newspapers during2006–2015. False matches were automatically filtered out by a new program, with 94% of the remaining stories meaningfully citing research.Findings: Most Science(95%) and Social Science(94%) journals were never cited by these newspapers. Half of the cited Science journals covered medical or health-related topics,whereas 43% of the Social Sciences journals were related to psychiatry or psychology. From the citing news stories, 60% described research extensively and 53% used multiple sources,but few commented on research quality.Research Limitations: The method has only been tested in English and from the ProQuest Newspapers database.Practical implications: Others can use the new method to systematically harvest press coverage of research.Originality/value: An automatic method was introduced and tested to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals.

对虚拟现实动画中观众引导的探索——以Google Spotlight Stories为例

随着虚拟现实技术的日趋成熟,在其加持下的虚拟现实动画展现出独特的魅力。但由于虚拟现实技术赋予了观众可以自由控制视角的能力,使得导演对观众所见的控制力被削弱,使观众很容易被动画场景中其他内容所吸引,而无法准确的关注到导演传递情感的主舞台。所以在虚拟现实动画中,观众需要通过合理的引导,使观众可以跟随导演的脚步,达成流畅、完整的叙事。本文将以Google Spotlight Stories中的动画作品为例进行分析,并尝试提出虚拟现实动画中观众引导的意义与方法。

Narrative Time in Alice Munro's Short Stories

Alice Munro is a well-known contemporary Canadian writer.She departs from the traditional linear development but employs a seemingly random narrative line as a structural device in her story-telling.In the five short stories,"Material","Walk er Brothers Cowboy","The Moons of Jupiter","Miles City,Montana"and"Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell you",Mun ro manipulates the use of disconnected narrative time to deal with rites of passage.Free from the conventional time schemes,she expresses her vision in multiple themes and leaves the story open for readers.

Standing on the Shoulders of the Giants: Stories of 3 Pioneers

The history of medicine and surgery is a rich source of interesting stories of genius and brave people who paved the way ahead of mankind towards the current status of medical and surgical practice. One has to admire the enthusiasms and courage of such people to whom millions of patients ought to be grateful. This paper reports the inspiring stories of 3 heart surgeons (Werner Forssmann, Dr. Lillehei and Dr. Michael E. DeBakey) and highlights their outstanding contributions to the modern cardiac surgery. It reminds the people to remember these three pioneers forever and encourages people working in this field to seek innovation.

Chinese Brands Need to Tell Good Brand Stories for ＂Going Global＂

Under the national wave of ＂going global＂, more and more Chinese enterprises and brands are nudging into the overseas market, with the focus shifting from pure manufacturing to quality focus and to the current innovation orientation,

A Brief Discussion of Contemporary American Realistic Short Stories

On the contemporary scene of American literature, realism remains one of the main modes of expressions. Apart form realistic thematic concerns, the American post war realistic short fiction also exhibits its nature by successful portrayal of a whole gallery of typical characters. In this essay, some major works are brought under the discussion.

Globalization of China’s film industry through “telling China’s stories”

As is known to all,the globalization of China’s film industry plays as one important means in enhancing China’s national image and international voice.During the process of exporting externally,there exist some problems in its content production and marketing system.However,due to the"Belt and Road",the present film industry has ushered in new opportunities.In the essay,according to the author,only with strategies of ecological marketing in global market,China’s film industry could strengthen China’s cultural confidence through telling China’s stories,as so to shape China’s national image in the world.

Relevance Theory-based Cognitive Study on the Communication Effect of “China's Stories”

Telling the story of China and transmitting the voice of China has become a strategy to promote the national image and cultural soft power of China. Since its implementation in 2013, China has ushered in a significant change in communication ideas and approaches. This strategy also enriches the communication genres of "China's stories" and more importantly enhances its communication effect. In this context, it is necessary to understand and study the significance of this strategic practice, assess the value realization of "China's stories" during the communication process, and thereby establish a basis for future communication of more "China's stories." Based on the factors of relevance theory, this paper analyzes the ideas of and approaches to effective communication of "China's stories" and proposes corresponding strategies.