Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)

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Study on the Failure of Connection in A Passage to India

Qiufang Dong
A Passage to India poses the question whether it is possible for an Englishman and an Indian to be friends within the context of British colonialism. Forster uses this question as a framework to explore the general issue of Britain’s political control over India on a personal level. He explores the issue...
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Contemporary Cultural Construction of Neoromanticism Music Products

Min Wang, Xiaofeng Wang
Neoromanticism music products focuses on reaching out the balance point to seek creative inspiration from history, culture and tradition, and pays attention to localization in China. In the form of connotation expression, we should pay attention to the characteristics of Chinese local characteristics,...
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Beauty of the White Mountain and Black Water Exploration on the Graphic Design of Folk Culture in Heilongjiang Province

Han Xing
With the advancement of social culture and the improvement of public cultural quality, under the trend of the integration of world culture, the characteristics of folk customs of various countries, regions and nationalities have undoubtedly become unique cultural treasures in respective regions. Then,...
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A Study on Color Design of OTC Drug Packaging for Common Elderly People Based on CIELab Color Mean Method

Jie Du, Yujia Gao
Purpose: This paper analyzes and studies the over-pack color of all over-the-counter aged audience drugs in the market, and points out that the characteristics of drug packaging in this special population can satisfy the consumption psychology of the crowd by combining the color characteristics of disease...
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Schopenhauer’s View on Happiness and Its Practical Significance

Gao Peng
As a representative of the school of voluntarism in modern western philosophy, Schopenhauer's philosophy of life is often regarded as pessimistic. However, Schopenhauer has a positive outlook on happiness. This paper mainly adopts the research method of literature analysis, discusses the theoretical...
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App Interface Icon Design Based on Information Theory

Ya Sun
The science and technology progress leads to more and more clear division of labor in the design industry. UI design, as a hot major in recent years, has been gradually improving its theoretical basis. From the perspective of information theory, this paper attempts to make preliminary analysis the elements...
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An Analysis of the Formation of Regional Linguistic Universals

Yongming Hong, Jiangmin Zhao
Linguistic universality is prevalent in all languages, and its sources are mainly natural ability, pragmatic function, cognitive psychology, diachronic development and language contact. The commonality of language can be divided into three categories: common language, kinship language and regional linguistic...
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Deictic Verbs in Modern Linguistics

Chunrong Wang
Deictic verbs is a relatively small category of deixis. Studies on deictic verbs have so far focused on motion verbs such as come and go as well as their causative counterparts bring and take. Major findings include studies relating to deictic center, appropriateness conditions and perspective. This...
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Design Comparison of Creative Tang Suit and European Imperial Costume

Lin Lin
In China, people wear mainly two types of cloths: Chinese and western costumes. They are entirely different in styles, structures, materials, crats, dressing ideas and objects, etc. As plane-type clothing, Chinese traditional costume is highly decorative and naturally loose. As stereo-type clothing,...
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Exploring Chinese EFL Learners’ Acquisition Development of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge Based on Input Corpus and Output Corpus

Xiang Li
This research makes an empirical study on the longitudinal development of depth of vocabulary Knowledge of Chinese EFL learners from high school to junior period based on textbook corpus TECCL and English writing corpus CLEC. Taking GET as a case study, this study explores its syntagmatic and paradigmatic...
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Analysis on American Current Racial Discrimination Reflected from Zootopia

Runzhi Wu
Racial problems have attracted great attention in the current United States. With its high quality and popularity, the motion picture “Zootopia” reflected American racial conflicts from many perspectives. This article is aimed at demonstrating various explicit discrimination, implicit discrimination...
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The Exploration of Promoting Campus Culture Construction with Campus Sign Design Taking Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an Example

Xiaoge Huang, Xiao Hu
Sign Design plays an important role in the public environment, so the campus Sign Design still cannot be ignored. Taking Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an example, this paper mainly makes the relevant study from the perspective of culture and service functions, and analyzes the...
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Review: A Postcolonial-feminist Interpretation of Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Poetry

Yuan Shen
Wu Li’s A Postcolonial-feminist Interpretation of Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Poetry, the first monograph on Philip’s poetry in China, is an organic combination of postcolonial interpretation and gender study of the all the 5 collections of Philip’s poems originally published between 1980 and 2008. With...
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A Feminist Interpretation of Marlene Nourbese Philip’s She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

Li Wu, Xianmei Ji
This essay aims at a feminist interpretation of Marlene Nourbese Philip’s collection of poems She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks from three dimensions, namely “i-mage” of African Caribbean women, the genealogy of women and maternal myths, to interpret Philip’s feminist authorial intentions...
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Exploration and Research on the Aesthetics and Fashion Trends of Product Design

Xiaochen Geng, Zhaojun Wang
This paper expounds the relationship between fashion trends and aesthetics and product design. Starting from the epoch characteristic and hierarchy characteristic of aesthetics and fashion trends of product design, the paper expounds that the popularity and aesthetics of product design have different...
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Study on Okamoto Kanoko's Novel Creation

Lei Xu
Under the influence of the Oriental culture of Mahayana Buddhism and the Western civilization which pursues the equality of men and women, Kambenga has created many different feminine images in the novel. The female identity, age and experience of the works are different, but they are also the new women...
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Study on Cultural Identity from the Comparison Between "A House for Mr. Biswas" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Jieqiong Duan
The issue of identity is closely related to cultural and traditional issues. From the perspective of the cultural conflicts of immigrants, this paper explores the dilemma choice of traditional culture and the culture of immigrant destination country from the perspective of the protagonist's choice, the...
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A Cognitive Study on Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Metaphors

He Pan
Metaphor has long been studied both in the western world and in China. From the viewpoint of the contemporary metaphorical theory, many of our fundamental concepts are structured through spatial metaphors rooted in our physical, social and cultural experiences. Cognitive linguists view knowledge, including...
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A Review of Interlanguage Pragmatics Studies

Yingying Peng, Xiaofang Gao
Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) was established in the late 1970s. Since its emergence many researchers devoted themselves to its theoretical and empirical studies, and have made great achievements. The purpose of this article is to review its research domains and data collection methods in ILP, and discuss...
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Research on C-E Translation Techniques of Culture-loaded Expressions

Yinping Lv
Translation of Chinese culture-loaded expressions are decided by the context if the equivalence can be found in the target language. Sometimes culture expressions in English are similar to Chinese, some are not, so exploration on translation techniques can solve the problems in transferring the culture...
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Inheritance and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Yi People’s Twelve-beast Dance

Lingzhi Xiao, Jun Wang
The ethnic and folk cultural heritage of Yunnan Province is relatively rich, especially the intangible cultural heritage related to sports. The intangible culture has undergone tremendous changes in the form of the social environment and national culture on which it depends, and some intangible cultural...
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Study on College Students’ Printmaking Creation

Lei Xu
Printmaking teaching is an important component of education of fine arts in colleges and universities, and the printmaking is college students’ ultimate goal. As for the college students, first of all, they should understand the development background and orientation to create printmaking; second, they...
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Study on Translation Aesthetics in Oil and Natural Gas Industry

Qifan Yi
As a key translation theory, translation aesthetics plays a predominant role in translations of different fields, especially in literary translation where it works best. With its extensive implementations, translation aesthetics has been applied widely in humanities, sociology, and gradually in EST (English...
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A Study of Translation Strategies in the Report on the Work of the Government from the Perspective of Regimes

Ting Zhang
With the unprecedented advancement of China’s economy, politics, culture and great improvement of national power and international status, China has been playing an increasingly significant role in the international affairs and attracting a great deal of attention from more and more foreigners who have...
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A Comparative Study of the Community Construction Mode in Fujian and Taiwan

Zhixiong Huang, Yamin Zhang
This paper, using the method of multi-case study, takes cultural creativity as the starting point, introduces the methods and theories of design thinking, and selects the successful typical cases of communities construction in Fujian and Taiwan to analyze the key rules and practices at the different...
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Sophy’s Tragedy in The Son’s Veto

Yumei Xu
Thomas Hardy was one of the greatest realistic writers and poets in Victorian age. The Son’s Veto was his best short story. Throughout the short story Hardy showcased his ability to present tragedy with the brutal honesty of a modern writer. This paper mainly analyzes the personal factors from the perspective...
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The Extra-textual Reasons for the Popularity of Yang Bi’s Translation of Vanity Fair

Hui Yu
Yang Bi is one of the famous translators in the history of Chinese literary translation. Her representative work — “Vanity Fair” has been considered one of the classical literary translation works in China. Her language in the translation is not only fluent and original but also beautiful and meaningful....
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Study of the Translation Strategies of Chinese Culture-loaded Words Under Skopos Theory A Case Study of Xi Jinping’s Report at the 19th CPC National Congress

Yimei Du, Huan Ren
With the significant improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength, the world is paying more and more attention to China’s policies. Therefore, the state leaders’ official speeches have been a window for foreigners to know about “the Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. Xi Jinping’s speech...
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Cultural Study of Miao People’s “Buffalo-fight”

Kaiwen Li, Fangtao Liu
Using ethnographic research, field investigation, personal participation and logical analysis, the author studies the inheritance context of the emergence of the Buffalo-fight of Miao “Hanshan Festival” in Yunnan Wenshan area. The study found that the context of the Miao Buffalo-fight manifested as the...
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A Comparative Study of Natsume Soseki's Novels and Lu Xun's Novels From the Perspective of Criticism and “Yuyu” Thoughts

Lele Zhang
Natsume Soseki and Lu Xun are two top-level writers in the world literary in the 20th century. Their works have created new literary genres in their respective countries and are the symbols of modern literature in China and Japan. The works of the two writers are distinctive, and they have strong criticism...
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The Expression Mode of Chinese Characters' Dynamic Font Design

Lu Zheng, Wenxi Zhong
With the rapid development of digital media technology, the field of visual communication design tends to be diversified. The dynamic design of Chinese character fonts continues to evolve with the rapid development of new technologies. Chinese characters, as the theme of Chinese culture, also have more...
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Ge Haowen: Partner of Mo Yan's Creative Works On the Translator's Responsibility

Hui Zeng
Since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in 2012, the importance of Ge Haowen's translation to Mo Yan's award has been affirmed and appreciated by the academic community. The importance of translation and translators to the "going out" of Chinese literature has caused the attention of literary world and translation....
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Quantitative Estimation and Use Condition of Learning Materials for Official Ci Poetry in Ming Dynasty

Xuan Liu, Yan Teng, Jiaoling Jin
There were abundant learning materials of Ci poetry in Ming Dynasty, which were mainly concentrated in the palace, central departments, local government offices and imperial vassals’ residence. These materials can be read and sold in printed form, promoting the study of people in the Ming Dynasty and...
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Pain of the History: On Family Trauma in Baldwin’s Works

Jingwei Zhong
Family trauma caused by racial discrimination is not only an individual problem but also a collective problem. Baldwin incorporates his life experiences and starts from the perspective of individuals to propose mutual care among family members. By combining black culture and American dominant culture,...
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Analysis on the Application and Inheritance of Ula Culture in Modern Residence

Ruifeng Tao, Fengming Guo
Ula is one of the clan tribes of Jurchen. It is also a nickname of Manchu because they dwelt along Songhua River in Jilin, Jinlin province for generations. Ula Street Town of Jilin City has a long history and culture. It is not only rich in folk customs, but also famous for Ula culture at home and abroad....
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The Name of God Muller’s and Cassirer’s Linguistic View on Religion

Xin Li
Muller believed that religion originated from human’s understanding of the infinite. This capacity for perceiving infinite is latent in the human mind, and this potential germinates in the people’s naming of natural phenomena which are semi-tangible or intangible. "The birth and growth of god is the...
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A Study on Ethnic Literature Discussion on Mr. Mark Bender’s Contribution to the Study of Chinese National Literature

Ruihong Peng
Ethnic minority literature is not only an important part of literature research, but also an important topic of concern in folklore (folk literature) research. In the past few decades, many overseas Sinologists and folklore have paid close attention to Chinese minority literature. Especially in the past...
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Research on the Strategy of Wudalianchi Tourism Artwork Creation

Xiaojuan Wang, Zhongfeng Fu
Wudalianchi in Heilongjiang Province is a key scenic spot in China, attracting more and more Chinese and foreign tourists for sightseeing, tourism and recuperation. However, there is no tourism artwork with high appreciation value. Tourism artwork can enhance the cultural and artistic image of tourist...
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Confusion and Path and Direction of Value Study on the Aesthetic Experience of Ethnic Minorities in China from the Perspective of Aesthetic Anthropology

Wenbiao Lei, Jiajue Fang
The study of aesthetic experience is an important and confusing problem both in the study of traditional aesthetics and modern aesthetic anthropology. From the perspective of traditional aesthetics, due to the vagueness of aesthetic experience cognition, the diversity of the concept appellation of aesthetic...
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Research on New Media Protection for Intangible Cultural Heritage from the Perspective of Communication

Xuemin Bao, Shengnan Yu
The development of informatization in the new media era provides new methods and ways for the dissemination of intangible cultural heritage. This paper is guided by the perspective of communication to explore the new media protection of the intangible cultural heritage from the four aspects of distributor,...
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A Contrastive Study of Grammaticalization and Degrammaticalization

Yujuan Feng, Xianjing Han
Grammaticalization is most frequently conceived as a diachronic process form a process from a less grammatical unit to a more grammatical unit. While the research on degrammticalization has stirred great disputes from its very beginning for the simple reason that it challenges the Principle of Unidirectionality,...
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A Contrastive Study of Disciplinary Identity in English Research Articles by Advanced Learners and Experts

Liang Chu, Zhuo Ben
EAP writing is a kind of academic interaction and communication between author and reader. In addition to presenting his own views, the author uses a series of means to interact with the reader to build his own identity. In recent years, identity construction has become a hot topic in EAP writing. However,...
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Analysis of the Research Status of Solon Tribe Plastic Arts in Heilongjiang River Valley in China and Russia

Zhongfeng Fu
In the study of Sino-Russian Heilongjiang River Valley culture, most scholars' researches focus on the study of the history of northern minorities. They only have a general statement about the plastic arts, and there are obvious shortcomings in the depth of theoretical exploration and highlighting academic...
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A Brief Discussion on the Origin and Diachronic Evolution of the Chinese "not only p, but also q"

Xiaoyan Cao
The Chinese sentence pattern "not only p, but also q" is originated from the sentence pattern "not only p, but q" in the Western Han Dynasty. After long-term development and change, the sentence patterns such as "not only p, also q", "not only p, and q" and "not merely p, but q” has appeared successively....
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Organization of Probabilistic Expert Estimates Collection and Interpretation in Political Forecasting

Dmitriy Alpackiy, Irina Alpackaya, Anastasia Kolosova
The purpose of the proposed article is to study the probabilistic approach to political forecasts, obtained from experts’ survey. The article describes expert information collection characteristic features, in particular, the networking: for obtaining probabilistic estimates of specialists. Especially...
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Conservative Liberalism as a Conceptual Basis of Modern Humanitarian Policy

Marina Ivleva, Sergey Kurilov
The article examines the philosophical foundations of the socio-political concept of conservative liberalism. The thesis of the relativity of political ideologies and their dependence on socio-historical conditions is upheld. It is shown that liberal and conservative measures are in practice inverted....
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Phobias of Russians in the Paradigm of "General and Special"

Nadezhda Bagdasaryan, Marina Korol
The article deals with the problems of modern socio-cultural reality and the associated state of human anxiety, which is reflected in the nature of its fears. The specifics of the fears of Russians peculiar to the "traumatized society" are revealed, where the split, contradictoriness and deformation...
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Study on the Self-conscious and Confident Development in Folk Sport Culture

Hongmei Li
This paper discusses the self-conscious and confident development of folk sport culture from the macro level, meso-level and micro-level. It has been shown in the researches that it is required to enhance the supervision strength of functional government departments on folk sport culture to guarantee...
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Analysis of the Problems at the Encounter Stage of Freshmen’s Organizational Socialization

Yuling Huang, Zhenyuan Wang, Jiaming Mai, Chih Huang
The paper mainly refers to the stage model of organizational socialization, and analyzes the problems existing in the encounter stage of the 2017 freshmen of the School of Business of Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai in the process of school socialization. This research adopts the literature research...
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Research on the Development of China's National Music Against the Background of Cultural Soft Power

Rong Xing
At present, with the increasingly stable international environment, the influence of traditional elements such as military and economic competitiveness on the growth of national strength is gradually declining while the importance of national soft power such as cultural strength is increasingly prominent...
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A New Thinking on the Driving Force of Social Development

Gao Peng
This paper mainly proposes a new thinking about the driving force of social development. The driving force of social development is the "three-in-one" system with human self-transcendence as the motive force and theoretical innovation and practical innovation as the two fundamental driving forces. This...
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Research on the Influences of Credit Constraints & Occupational Heterogeneity on Women’s Participation in Continuing Education

Qin Wang, Zimin Wang, Dongli Lu
In this paper, the microcosmic data of ‘China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)’ are used to analyze the impacts of gender, marriage and childbearing, occupational heterogeneity and credit constraints on adults’ participation in continuing education. The study finds that both marriage and childbearing have...
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Research on the Construction and Diffusion of Central Plain Culture Under “the Belt and Road” Initiative

Donghai Jin
“The Belt and Road” initiative refers to a comprehensive and innovative development strategy that is proposed by the General Secretary Xi Jinping and has global view and manifests the wisdom of China. It can be regarded as a new try at present to revitalize Chinese culture. As the origin of the ancient...
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Study on Campus Security Legislation

Mei Liu
At present, there is no single law in China that specifically regulates campus security issues. Only some relevant basic laws have provisions on campus security issues or have principled provisions. The legislation of the Campus Security Law should be initiated as soon as possible. Through the campus...
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Study on Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in the Construction of Rural Circulation System

Jingfei Ran
Circulation is the blood of economic and social development, but the irregular circulation order in China's rural areas has been disturbing the rural economic development. There are widespread difficulties in circulation enterprises management, and adverse selection prevails. In terms of the adverse...
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A Review of the Research on School Accident

Mei Liu
At present, the research on school accidents has been very deep, but some theoretical issues related to school accidents are still arguing and there is no clear conclusion. This paper intends to make a brief review of important theoretical issues in school accidents, hoping to bring some inspiration...
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A Study on the Well-being and the Leisure Satisfaction of Zhuhai Residents

Bingxian Liu, Li Li
The Chinese government regards residents’ happiness as one of the major administrative achievements, which is also individuals’ final goal. Based on the research case-Zhuhai, it is supposed that there exists high relativity between leisure satisfaction and happiness, which is proved through the questionnaire...
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The Modernization of Traditional Chinese Culture in the Perspective of Marxism in China

Jing Wang
This article begins with the demonstration of the relationship between Marxism in China and the transformation of the modernity of Chinese traditional culture, discussed the practical significance and necessity of the transformation of the modernity of Chinese traditional culture. It explores the significance...
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Organization and Reconstruction of Modern Industrial Heritage Building Space Taking Xi'an Dahua Cotton Mill as an Example

Tianhang Wang
Dahua Cotton Mill is the earliest modern textile enterprise in Northwest China, and has now become the most representative industrial heritage in Shaanxi Province. The protection and utilization of urban industrial heritage is related to regional social development, residents' production and life, and...
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Research on Graduation Design Innovation Under the Dual Drive Models of "Internet Plus" and "Transformation of Local Colleges and Universities"

Qinghai Wang
In the context of the dual drive models of "Internet plus" and "transformation and development of local colleges and universities", this paper takes Qinghai Normal University's transformation to application-oriented comprehensive university as an example, expounds the new measures brought by ZTE's ICT...
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Productive Protection and Tourism Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Research on Taking the Traditional Technology of Yongsheng Water Flaky Cake as an Example

Jihong Li, Cheng Wang, Guifang Yang
The intangible cultural heritage of traditional technologies and arts is a living culture, so productive protection is an important means for its protection and inheritance. The making technique of water flaky cake in Lijiang Yongsheng is provincial intangible cultural heritage. It has been rooted in...
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Strategies to Boost the Moral Construction of Chinese Citizens in the Process of Basic Modernization

Xiangyong Dong
The basic realization of modernization on the basis of building a moderately well-off society in an all-round way is a significant stage of the modernization development of Chinese society. In the stage with distinctive features of the times, extremely targeted planning on the corresponding strategy...
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Residents’ Perceptions on Study Tourism Impacts

Haiming Chen, Xudong Guo, Xuemei Mo
The purpose of this paper is to explore residents’ perceptions of study tourism impacts. It concerns the development direction of local tourism directly. This study presents the results of qualitative and quantitative survey among residing families of a small mountain community located in south China....
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Research on the Healthy Tourism Development of Zhuhai Hengqin New Area Based on RMP Analysis in the Background of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Shengxi Liang, Dingling Wang
The planning and construction of the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” has been clearly written into the Party’s 19th National Congress report and government work report, which shows that it has been upgraded to the national development strategy level. The planning and construction of the...
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Problem of Truth in Historiography

Alexander Nesterenko
From its very beginning, history was regarded as rational and scientific knowledge objectively reflecting historical reality. Such ideal definition of the past has no fundamental epistemological foundation and is not based on the concepts of the classical scientific rationality, since historiography...
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History as a Science

Boris Zemtsov, Tatiana Suzdaleva
The article is devoted to a relevant perspective of historical science: to historical regularities, specifics of historical knowledge, definition of a subject of historical science. Authors recognize what at the level of human acts of regularity it is difficult to reveal as each person is under the influence...
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Historical Changes of Traditional Funeral Rites of the Yi Nationality

Kaihui Lu
In the history of the Yi nationality, there were many kinds of burials, and cremation was the most important traditional one. Since the Han dynasty and throughout the dynasties, it has been recorded in Chinese literature that the Yi people were mainly cremated. After Ming and Qing dynasties, the central...
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Historical Changes, Status and Value Utilization of Three Guanhan Roads

Junxia Jia
Baoxie Road, Chencang Road and Tangluo Road were important paths for economic and cultural exchanges between the ancient Central Plains and southwest China, which were called "Three Guanhan Roads" by the Qin Merchants in the Ming Dynasty. In history, although Three Guanhan Roads have been changed several...
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Sympathy for Nature in Contemporary Ethical Discourse

Aleksey Chernyak, Svetlana Rudanovskaya
Sympathy for nature is an essential component of ecological thinking, and a sign of ethical perception of nature. The proposed paper analyzes the ways nature is understood and treated in J. Bentham’s utilitarianism, ethics of A. Schweitzer, and ecological ethics of A. Leopold, especially the motives...
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Russian Neo-Kantianism of Fyodor Stepun and Sergius Hessen: Features of the Philosophy of Culture

Anna Chernysheva, Anna Kostikova
The article presents an analysis of the features of the philosophy of culture in abroad Russian Neo-Kantianian tradition, most fully presented in the works of F. A. Stepun and S. I. Hessen. Following the German predecessors, the Russian Neo-Kantians considered values as a key problem of philosophy of...
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Phenomenology, Existentialism and Postanalytic Philosophy in Modern Social Cognition: Attitude Positions

Anna Ivanova
The article considers the phenomenological theory interrelation with some other directions of modern socio-philosophical discourse, primarily - with existentialism. We formulated the difference between the phenomenology of M. Heidegger and existentialism J.-P. Sartre. Considered existential sociology...
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Medieval Sources of the Modern Symbolic Meaning of the Sword

Daniil Lobach
The paper analyzes one of the most often used modern symbols - the sword, dwells upon the main stages of the sacral and symbolic significance of the sword. Results of the research suggest that the roots of the modern symbolism of the sword date back to the Middle Ages. Much attention is given to the...
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Pierre Bayle: Religion Ecology Through the Eyes of a Skeptic

Marina Doguzhieva
The article considers a complex of ideas of Pierre Bayle, the famous French thinker of the XVIIth century, related to the religion, morality, and freedom. The great Voltaire, who, like all enlighteners, experienced the strongest influence of Bayle's main work “The Historical and Critical Dictionary”,...
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Conceptualizations of Nature in Classical Indian Philosophy Ecological Issues

Elena Anikeeva
The following article deals with the varieties of interpretations and conceptualizations of nature in classical (ancient and medieval) Indian Philosophy. We find in these conceptualizations the fruitful ideas for environmental philosophy. Cosmos and the nature are nearer to impersonal principle than...
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Homo Faber and the Technological Progress Consequences

Galina Chernogortseva, Valeriy Nekhamkin
The work analyzes the present-day global problems, which result from the rapid development of science and technology. We consider the liaising between the technological progress and human society at different stages of its development. The author analyzes such problems as the influence of mass communication...
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Human Ecology — Between Idleness and Labour

Irina Kavinova
The article examines the problem of ecology of a human, studies the correlation between self-knowledge and "self-concern" in the ancient culture, explores the existential phenomena of idleness and labor in the historical context. It also distinguishes various forms of "fatigue" in relation to the life...
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Prospects for the Development of a Universal Theory of Truth

Nikolay N. Gubanov, Nikolay I. Gubanov, Lyudmila Rokotyanskaya
Some philosophers are unjustified in their attempts to remove the category of truth from philosophy and science and to replace it with the concepts of sense, validity, and plausibility. This paper considers classical and non-classical concepts of truth. The paper aims to substantiate the hypothesis about...
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Logical Analysis of Parmenides Concept of True Being

Oksana Nevdobenko
The article analyzes the central concept of Parmenides philosophy, i.e. true being. One of the possible representations of this concept is its interpretation as a logical law, namely, the law of identity. However, there are different ways of representing this law, determined by a selective logical analysis...
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Ecological Practice: New Understanding on Article XI of Theses on Feuerbach

Jian Gao
The Article XI of Theses on Feuerbach writes: “in the past, philosophers only interpreted the world, but the problem was to change the world”. This sentence is the most famous and well-known classical quote cited by scholars from Marx’s works and it understands Theses on Feuerbach from practice to knowledge...
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Realization Process of Confucius’ “Gentleman” Thought Education

Huanghua Huang
Gentleman is an ideal personality established by Confucius when he lived in a world without the principles of truth and right and in the age of ritual collapse. The realization of Confucius's "gentleman" thought education is a process that educatee practices benevolence and justice and becomes gentleman...
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Power and Violence in Socio-philosophical Context of Contemporaneity

Olga Chistyakova
The author analyzes the most important phenomena of our time – social violence and power – in terms of identifying traditional and modern theoretical models of their relations. The philosophical concepts of H. Arendt, J. Bentham, and M. Foucault are presented, being considered through anthropological...
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Self-concept in Western Philosophical Tradition

Ruimin Li
Self-concept has a complex transformation in the history of philosophy. Through the investigation of this transformation, we can see how the philosophy of different eras internalizes into the concept of life. In modern times, subjective philosophy experiences the process of rise, establishment, and rethinking,...
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Sexuality, Love and Eroticism: Methodology of Distinguishing

Philipp Tagirov
The following article proposes the approach of distinguishing of three core components of the complex phenomenon of eros which are love, sexuality and eroticism. The proposed approach can be the foundation for further studies of the social ontology, psychology and phenomenology of love and sexuality...
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Responsibility and Ethical Reflection on the Current Ecological Crisis A Philosophical Exploration of Organic Marxism

Bingfeng Meng, Lihua He
Under the deep intervention of the human practical activities, the natural ecosystem is gradually becoming unbalanced, suffering an unprecedented crisis. After a systematic reflection on the causes of the ecological crisis, organic Marxism puts forward a series of new ideas. Adhering to the principles...
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Some Philosophical Approaches of Investigations of Indian Theology

Ruzana Pskhu
The main task of this article is to analyze some philosophical approaches proposed by the contemporary scholars of religious hermeneutics and history of Indian Philosophy and Religions. The author tries to ponder and correlate the weak and strong points of each approach. The three approaches, which were...
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Levels of Organization of Scientific Knowledge

Sergey Lebedev
The article deals with the levels of organization of scientific knowledge. It is substantiated that every developed branch of science includes four levels of knowledge: perceptual, empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical ones. Though being interrelated, the levels aren’t derived one from another....
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Consensual Nature of Scientific Truths

Sergey Lebedev
The article enunciates and justifies the consensual conception of the scientific truths nature. The basis of this conception is a constructive and representational interpretation of scientific knowledge at all levels of scientific cognition: sensual, empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical. We consider...
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Philosophical Foundations of Science: Their Structure and Functions

Sergey Lebedev
The article analyses the following problems: 1) whether philosophical foundations of science are included in the structure of scientific knowledge; 2) what types there exist; 3) what their functions in scientific cognition are. The author proves the position that philosophical foundations of science...
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Philosophy of Technology: Modern Technological Reality and the Regularities of Development

Tatiana Malkova
While analyzing the phenomenon of engineering and technological reality, the relevance of developing such specialized discipline as the philosophy of technology in terms of ecological science is substantiated. Modern interpretations of the phenomenon of technological reality are given alongside with...
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Axial Age Heritage in Religious Philosophy and Culture of the Bengal Renaissance

Tatiana Skorokhodova
Jaspers’ interpretation of a renaissance as recollections and reawakening of the potentialities of the Axial Age is useful methodological approach to the study of cultural ascent epochs in religious, philosophical and social spheres. In British India the Bengal Renaissance XIX – early XX centuries can...
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Ecocentrism and Its Alternatives Within the Worldview Paradigm

Valeriy Nekhamkin, Galina Chernogortseva, Nikita Kishkin
The article dwells upon the three systems of natural and scientific worldviews: anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism. It states that each system has certain basic theses, plays the role of an aggregate of behavioral attitudes and theoretical theses. Their hierarchy is being revealed. The utopic...
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Philosophical Foundations of the Concept of Green Economy

Vitaly Ivlev, Marina Ivleva
The article investigates the initial philosophical principles of the green economy concept, which is one of the modern promising approaches in economic science. The authors analyze the essence of the green economy, describe a retrospective of its conceptual development. They come to the conclusion that...
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Information Metaphors and Classification of Information Sciences

Vitaly Ivlev, Marina Ivleva, Vladimir Sedyakin
The paper considers the methodological basis for information sciences including terminological base and the issue of defining the notion of information. Both the problem of classifying information sciences and the analysis of metaphorical understanding of the notion of information in evolutionary biophysics,...
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Objective Meaning of Logical Knowledge

Vitaly Ivlev, Yuriy Ivlev
Logic, same as other sufficiently developed sciences, features two types of knowledge: empirical and theoretical. At the empirical level a distinction is drawn between objects described by logical and non-logical terms. It is possible to divide the first group further, into those that describe objective...
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Religious and Political Facets of Fundamentalism: Socio-philosophical Analysis

Alexey Volobuev
The article is devoted to the socio-philosophical analysis of a phenomenon of fundamentalism, its religious and political facets. Historically, the concept "fundamentalism" has appeared in hermeneutics and had highly specialized value, designating literal reading of the religious text. Having arisen...
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Research on the Formation of Marx and Engels' Communism

Pengcheng Li, Yanling Mei
Interpretation of Marx's related works reveals the formation of his communist view. The "1844 Economics and Philosophy Manuscript" first expresses the preliminary principles of communism in a systematic theoretical form, and performs criticism for other unscientific communist views, which uses alienation...
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The Historical Transcendentality of the Marx’s Thought of “Species Being” and Its Contemporary Value

Changhe Wang
Marx regarded the practice of human’s free and conscious activities as a "species characteristic" which departs human from other things, and put forward the view that man is a " species nature", which finds a unified basis for the multiple contradictions of human existence. By relief human from traditional...
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Comprehension of the Social Crisis from the Sense of Urgency

Wenli Huang
The sense of urgency has profound philosophical and practical significance. We understand the social crisis from the perspective of the sense of urgency to prevent it from happening. For the social crisis, we should have a deep sense of urgency and always keep a clear head. The transformation of the...
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Cultural Criticism of Post-modernism Cultural Marxism

Chuan Wang
Post-modernism cultural Marxism, a Western Marxist trend of thought that has emerged and had extensive influence under the new historical conditions where significant change has taken place in contemporary capitalism, has quickly become a critical cultural trend that questions the mainstream values of...
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Understanding the New Evolution of Life: from the Biosphere to the Post-biosphere Picture of the World

Eduard Demidenko, Elena Dergacheva
The concept of the scientific picture of the world reflects its essential and substantive aspects, principles and laws of world's existence and development. The change of biosphere-biological evolution that has been self-developed for 4 billion years to post-biosphere one including the analysis of global...