Research on the Cultivation of College Students’ Design Originality from the Perspective of Cultural Confidence

Culture confidence is an important internal factor to promote the development of modern design in China.College students majoring in design are the mainstay of Chinese design field in the future,but some of them are lack of cultural confidence.Therefore,the school should strengthen the cultural confidence of college students majoring in design from the aspects of curriculum setting and reform,environment shaping and professional belief,so that their design originality can be stimulated and maintained,and the“Chinese original design”belonging to the new era can be created.

Creating Landscapes with Chinese Characteristics: A Review of Modern Landscape Design Originated in China

Modern Landscape Design Originated in China1Author:Yu Changbin Year:2013Publisher:China Machine Press ISBN:9787111314318,711131431X(367pages,in Chinese)Under China’s surging economy,the life quality of Chinese people has changed deeply,having realized the historical leap from simply having enough food and clothing to leading a relatively comfortable life.As people put forward higher living standards,

Geographical Indications for Medicinal Plants:Globalization, Climate Change, Quality and Market Implications for Geo-Authentic Botanicals

Pharmacopoeial standards for crude drugs are established based on analysis of authenticated specimens which should be representative of the quality of material traditionally specified in systems of traditional medicine from species' geographical origin. This reflects the ‘geo-authentic'material that corresponds to traditional ecological and medical knowledge. In cases where specimens are obtained from cultivation outside of the species origin, this ‘authenticated' material will not be ‘geo-authentic'.There is a growing trend for the protection of ‘geographical indication'(GI) botanicals in the context of intellectual property rights. GI botanicals are named after a geographical area, indicating production within a particular area, quality and characteristics dependent on natural,historical and cultural factors. However, with the globalization of systems of traditional medicine such as Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, Asian species are being introduced to cultivation outside of their geographical origins particularly in the EU and US.In contrast to the Chinese concept of ‘daodi' and European concepts of ‘provenance' or ‘terroir' is the competing trend for ‘locally grown'herbs, i.e. cultivated closer to where they will be used. Reasons include concerns about quality control, contamination from polluted air, soil and water in some source countries, climate change, supply chain security and traceability, costs of production and price pressure.This review looks at selected agronomic experiments aiming to discern differences between geo-authentic medicinal herbs vs. introduced crops and whether the global market cares to make a distinction or pay a price premium for articles with designations of geographical origin of specified quality.