Journal of Education and Educational Research
Journal of Education and Educational Research (JEER) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Darcy & Roy Press. The mission of the journal is to provide an academic forum for discussing the issues of education across the world. All articles published are rigorously and fast reviewed meeting the Journal Quality standards.
Research on Multidimensional Evaluation of College Foreign Language Teacher Training
Against the backdrop of global communication and the digital transformation in education, the professional competency of college foreign language teachers plays a crucial role in shaping both the quality of foreign language instruction and the success of cross-cultural interactions. Currently, foreign language teacher training faces challenges such as uniform content, a singular assessment framework, and inadequate adaptability for developing language skills. These issues hinder the ability to address the disruptions introduced by emerging technologies like ChatGPT and to fulfill the contemporary goal of effectively “telling China’s stories”. This study examined the current state of foreign language teacher training across Chinese colleges and universities and formulated a comprehensive evaluation framework that encompassed various subjects, dimensions, indicators, and methodologies. Additionally, it proposed enhancement strategies such as skill-specific training, optimization of hybrid models, and the establishment of an evaluation-feedback loop. The findings aim to offer theoretical insights and practical guidance for effectively implementing college foreign language teacher training programs while promoting systematic advancements in the quality of foreign language education.
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Modular Reform and Practice of Digital Cultural and Creative Design Courses based on County Place Name Culture Under the Background of Rural Revitalization
Driven by the rural revitalization strategy, the activation and utilization of county place name culture have become a key grasp for cultural revitalization. As the birthplace of the "Wenzhou Model" and the "No. 1 Digital Town in China", Jinxiang Town, Cangnan County, Wenzhou, its place name culture carries multiple connotations of military history, marine commerce and folk custom inheritance, providing high-quality teaching resources for digital cultural and creative design courses. Taking the digital cultural and creative design courses in vocational colleges as the research object, based on the characteristics of place name culture in Jinxiang Town, this paper constructs a four-dimensional curriculum module of "cultural excavation — digital transformation — creative design — industrial empowerment". Through targeted teaching practice, it realizes the coordinated improvement of students' design ability, cultural inheritance and local industrial development. Research shows that the modular curriculum reform relying on Jinxiang's place name culture can not only solve the problem of "valuing skills over culture" in traditional courses, but also inject creative momentum into the county's cultural tourism industry, providing a replicable practical sample for curriculum reform under the background of rural revitalization.
Exploration and Practice of Small Class Teaching Reform in Computer Network Course: A Case Study of Wangong Class
Computer networks, as a core course for computer science majors, have long faced challenges such as abstract theoretical content, a disconnect between practical teaching and industry needs, and insufficient student motivation. This paper, based on the "Wangong Class" small class teaching model, proposes a teaching reform plan oriented around "Digital Empowerment" and "Industry-Education Integration." The specific reform measures include: reshaping students' professional cognition to guide their learning motivation; restructuring the curriculum system with "layered progression and integration of theory and practice" through industry-education integration; innovating a "scenario-driven, digitally empowered" blended teaching method; and establishing a "process-oriented, multi-dimensional evaluation" assessment mechanism. Additionally, the integration of ideological and political education elements has been fully explored. After two rounds of teaching practice, students in Wangong Class showed significant improvement in final exam scores, the ability to solve complex engineering problems, and learning engagement, validating the effectiveness and promotability of this model in core engineering courses. It provides practical references for small class teaching reforms in similar universities under the background of new engineering education.
Ethical Risks and Prevention of Generative AI Embedded in Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities
While generative artificial intelligence provides important technical support for the digital transformation and precise education of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, it also contains multiple ethical risks such as subjectivity dissipation, value deviation, relationship alienation, and environmental complexity. Based on the three-dimensional analysis framework of "subject-institution-technology", this paper systematically explains the manifestations of ethical risks in the dimensions of subject, value, technology and environment when generative AI is embedded in ideological and political education in colleges and universities, and deeply analyzes the deep-seated causes including algorithm limitations, the expansion of instrumental rationality, the lag of institutional norms, and the weak ethical literacy of subjects. The research shows that preventing relevant ethical risks needs to adhere to the core orientation of "education-oriented and technology-supported". By strengthening value guidance, reshaping teacher-student and human-computer ethical relationships, improving institutional regulations and supervision mechanisms, and enhancing the ethical literacy of technical subjects and application subjects, a full-chain and multi-level risk prevention system should be constructed. This will realize the deep integration of technology empowerment and the essence of ideological and political education, ensure the safe, reliable and controllable application of artificial intelligence in ideological and political education in colleges and universities, and better implement the fundamental task of fostering morality and cultivating people.
Interdisciplinary Innovation Talent Cultivation: Collaborative Mechanisms and Practical Pathways in the Era of New Quality Productive Forces
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, big data, and digital technologies are reshaping industrial development and creating growing demand for interdisciplinary innovative talents. However, many universities still face problems such as fragmented curricula, insufficient collaboration with industry, and outdated evaluation systems. Based on these practical challenges, this paper examines collaborative education mechanisms and discusses how curriculum reform, organizational innovation, and dynamic evaluation systems can better support talent development in the era of new quality productive forces.
A Study on the Implementation Pathways for Integrating the Smart Manufacturing Engineering Major with Entrepreneurship
Against the backdrop of the in-depth implementation of the “Made in China 2025” strategy, the comprehensive advancement of new engineering disciplines, and the implementation of the 2026 “Implementation Guidelines for the ‘AI+ Manufacturing’ Special Action,” the deep integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education with professional education in the field of intelligent manufacturing engineering represents a core direction for educational reform aimed at supporting the high-end, intelligent, and green transformation of the manufacturing sector. This paper systematically reviews the theoretical research findings and policy frameworks regarding the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship with professional education in the field of intelligent manufacturing from 2020 to 2026. By analyzing industry-education integration case studies from leading domestic institutions and incorporating the latest talent demand trends in the intelligent manufacturing sector, the paper explores implementation pathways, existing challenges, and optimization strategies for this integration. The study finds that while three mainstream models of integration have emerged in the field of smart manufacturing, common challenges persist, including conceptual disconnect, superficial course integration, ineffective school-enterprise collaboration mechanisms, and insufficient faculty capabilities. Reform must be systematically advanced across four dimensions: restructuring the curriculum system, improving school-enterprise collaboration mechanisms, strengthening the faculty, and establishing a diversified evaluation system. Ultimately, this will achieve the synergistic enhancement of students’ professional and innovation-entrepreneurship competencies, thereby supplying the manufacturing sector with versatile innovative talent to support high-quality development.
AI-Empowered Transformation of University English Teachers' Roles and Pedagogical Approaches in the Digital Era
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into university English education has prompted a profound rethinking of language teachers’ professional identities and practices. Based on a systematic review of recent empirical studies, this paper addresses two core questions: how teacher roles are reconfigured under AI-enabled instruction, and what pedagogical innovations are needed to sustain the humanistic essence of education. Grounded in AI-TPACK, double stimulation theory, and collaborative knowledge creation, this study identifies six emerging teacher roles: AI Collaborator, Learning Architect, Humanistic Guide, Data Interpreter, Ethical Mediator, and Epistemic Agent. It also proposes a three-dimensional pedagogical transformation model. The paper argues that although AI improves instructional efficiency and personalized support, human elements—including empathy, critical dialogue, moral guidance, and situated interaction—remain irreplaceable. Practical pathways for teacher development are provided, including tiered training, virtual knowledge-building communities, and institutional support. This framework offers actionable guidance for university English teachers to achieve human-AI collaborative teaching while upholding educational values.
Construction of Personalized Learning Mode for Higher Mathematics in Vocational Education Based on Artificial Intelligence
With the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI)in vocational education, there comes new chances to improve on how higher mathematics gets taught and learned. Traditional methods used for instruction in vocational college cannot cater to the varying mathematical base, speed of learning and mode of thinking among students thus leading to big differences in achievement as well as loss of interest. This paper proposes and examines a comprehensive AI-based personalized learning mode specifically designed for higher mathematics instruction in vocational education contexts. Based on the theories of adaptive learning, cognitive load theory and mastery learning theory, it is expected that a personalized learning path could be realized by combining ML algorithms, KGs and ITS. From the empirical data that I have obtained after doing a 16 weeks intervention with 240 vocational college students, we can look into how effective this model is. Student's math performance has improved a lot, they are more engaged and confident too. Four data table give out the comparison on a way of performance metric, learning styles distribution, adaptation strategy matching and satisfied result. It will contribute to academic researches about AI-enhanced Education and also have practical significance for curriculum developer, instructors, administrator in vocational education.
Research and Reflection on Ideological and Political Course Teaching in Private Undergraduate Universities
Private undergraduate universities, as important components of higher education alongside public universities, enroll a considerable share of college students in China. They play an irreplaceable role in China’s higher education system and deserve focused attention for the sustainable and sound development of China’s socialist education cause. As a core curriculum guiding students’ professional ideology, fostering their sound mental development, and establishing their value beliefs, ideological and political education is crucial to fulfilling the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, promoting students’ all-round development, advancing the healthy development of universities, and cultivating high-quality talents for socialist construction. Private undergraduate universities, as an integral part of higher education, must attach sufficient importance to ideological and political courses, advance teaching reform timely, elevate teaching quality, and improve the comprehensive competence of graduates. Against this background, this paper conducts an in-depth study on promoting the construction of high-level ideological and political courses in private undergraduate universities, analyzes realistic dilemmas and deep-seated causes, and puts forward targeted strategies to enhance teaching effectiveness, so as to provide a useful reference for the high-quality development of ideological and political education in private undergraduate colleges and universities.
Enhancing Teaching Quality in the Graduate Course Decision Theory and Methods: Pathways and Practices
To improve the teaching quality of the graduate course Decision Theory and Methods and better meet graduate training needs, this study analyzes data from a course teaching quality questionnaire covering course design, teaching and learning processes, overall satisfaction, learning needs, and existing problems. The results show high overall teaching quality and student satisfaction, with strong recognition of the instructor’s teaching attitude, expertise, and teaching methods. However, issues including insufficient frontier-oriented content, an imbalance between theory and practice, limited integration of literature reading and research training, and the need to improve assessment methods. Based on the findings, this study proposes systematic reform measures centered on integrating literature reading into teaching, including content restructuring, teaching model innovation, assessment optimization, and strengthened practical training, providing references for enhancing graduate course quality.
The Implementation of Project-Based Teaching Method for the "Fundamentals of Electronic Technology" Course at OBE
Addressing current challenges in the teaching process--including students 'weak theoretical foundations, monotonous theoretical content, and insufficient practical experience--we integrated the OBE project-based teaching approach, aligned with the university's educational philosophy of "cultivating high-quality, interdisciplinary, and application-oriented talents" and the specific characteristics and realities of the Fundamentals of Electronic Technology course. Implementation results demonstrate enhanced students 'engineering project thinking, practical skills, and overall course teaching quality, contributing positively to the institution's talent development and significantly improving educational outcomes.
Senior University Students' Extracurricular Activities and English Performance: A Study on Determining Factors and Perceived Impacts
In the context of globalization and internationalization of higher education, English proficiency has become a core competency for college students. Traditional classroom teaching faces limitations such as a single context, insufficient interaction, and limited practical opportunities. Extracurricular activities related to English have become an important complementary path for enhancing language proficiency. This study takes 120 senior English majors from Fuzhou University of Foreign Trade as the research subjects, adopts an interpretive sequential mixed method, and quantitatively analyzes the types, frequency, personal and family determinants of extracurricular activity participation, as well as their correlation with English scores. It also explores subjective perceptions and practical experiences through semi-structured interviews with 10 students. The results show that the frequency and type of extracurricular activity participation are significantly positively correlated with overall English scores; personal motivation, self-efficacy, family economic and cultural capital, and communication atmosphere are key factors affecting participation behavior; academic, professional, and cross-cultural extracurricular activities have differentiated enhancement effects on academic writing, professional application, and oral fluency, respectively. This study addresses the deficiencies in existing research regarding the lack of attention to senior student groups and the absence of a longitudinal perspective, providing empirical evidence for universities to optimize their English extracurricular systems and enhance the quality of talent cultivation.
Deep Integration of AI and Multimodal Theory in College English Teaching: Design, Practice and Effect Verification
In the context of smart education, college English instruction is shifting from knowledge delivery to competency cultivation and humanistic development. Based on multimodal discourse analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, this paper builds an innovative college English teaching framework supported by intelligent tools, diversified input, interactive output and data-based evaluation. Via theoretical exploration, teaching design, empirical practice and effect analysis, this research explores the implementation path and application value of the integrated model. Results show that the joint application of AI and multimodal theory significantly promotes students’ English application skills, autonomous learning capacity, cross-cultural communication awareness and critical thinking competence. This study offers theoretical support and practical references for the deep integration of information technology and college English courses, and facilitates the high-quality advancement of college English education.
Study on the Construction of "Memory Anchors" and Spatial Narrative Strategies of Public Art in the Transformation of Urban Industrial Heritage
As an important carrier of urban history and culture, industrial heritage carries the city’s collective memory and witnesses the course of industrial development. Transforming old factories into cultural and creative parks has become a mainstream model of urban renewal, but problems such as homogeneity and “thousands of parks with the same appearance” are prominent. Traditional transformation models often ignore the excavation of historical context and the expression of cultural connotation, leading to memory loss and lack of spiritual identity. Taking Beijing 798 Art District, Shanghai M50 Creative Park and Shenyang Hongmei Cultural and Creative Park as research objects, this paper takes public art (sculptures, installations, murals) as the core carrier, defines the concept and value of “memory anchors”, and constructs a spatial narrative strategy system of “anchor layout—context integration—experience interaction”. This research solves the problem of homogenization in industrial heritage transformation, provides a theoretical reference for the organic combination of public art and industrial memory, and forms a replicable practical paradigm for the cultural renewal of urban industrial heritage with memory and temperature.
Research on Innovative Design and Practice of Urban Information Publications Under the Background of Cultural Tourism Integration
The integration of culture and tourism has brought new opportunities for the innovation of urban information publications. Aiming at problems such as fragmented content, homogeneous design, disconnection between online and offline channels, and weak cultural experience, this paper constructs an innovative design system of "online + offline, reading–traveling–enjoying–reflecting". Taking the "Joyful Travel" APP and urban handbook as carriers, it integrates the design concepts of five senses, green development and integration, forming a complete path from information inquiry and travel planning to immersive experience and cultural reflection. Practice has proved that this model can improve the quality of publications and user experience, promote the in-depth integration of culture and tourism, and provide implementable theoretical references and practical paradigms for urban cultural communication.
Practice Research on the Paradigm Transformation of AIGC Penetrating into the Teaching Form of Art Majors in Colleges and Universities
With multi-modal content, AIGC deeply intervenes in the teaching scene of art majors in colleges and universities, promoting the transformation of teaching objectives from skill training to creative expression and humanistic aesthetics, the transformation of teaching subjects from one-way teaching by teachers to human-machine collaborative creation, the transformation of teaching implementation from closed classrooms to project-driven open learning, and the transformation of teaching evaluation from result judgment to process tracing and comprehensive literacy assessment. Based on the teaching reform practice, this study can form an integrated implementation path of "concept first, curriculum reconstruction, classroom closed-loop, and evaluation innovation", which applies AIGC to teaching, re-sorts out and optimizes the teaching-related processes, clarifies the copyright rules for the use of AIGC in teaching, and strengthens the supervision and management of AIGC in the teaching process, so as to promote its application in teaching and realize the improvement of art talent training efficiency and the enhancement of original ability. The AIGC teaching mode conforms to the needs of the digital cultural industry and the direction of new liberal arts construction, and can provide a stable and feasible practical framework for the intelligent transformation of art education in local colleges and universities.
Applied Research on Yin and Yang Five Elements Feng Shui Thought in Garden Space Sequence Design
The five elements of yin and yang and the idea of feng shui are an important part of the traditional Chinese concept of environmental construction. Its influence is not only reflected in the site selection, landscape configuration and spatial organisation, but also deeply permeates the shaping process of the garden space sequence. The garden space sequence is not a simple path series, but a continuous aesthetic experience formed by starting and closing, virtual and real opening and closing, and static and dynamic conversion. By introducing the concept of yin and yang into garden design, we can understand the intrinsic mechanism of spatial contrast, rhythm adjustment and order generation; starting from the concept of the five elements, it helps to recognise the relationship between mountains, water, plants, materials and direction; feng shui thought provides holistic ideas in site adaptation, environmental coordination and artistic conception. This article takes the sequence design of garden space as the research object, sorts out the impact of yin and yang five elements feng shui thought on the traditional garden space organisation, analyses its specific embodiment in the entrance, transition, main scene and tail scene and other links, and further explores its inspiration for modern garden space layout, site shaping and cultural expression, for contemporary gardens Forest design provides a theoretical reference with local cultural roots.
The Transformation of Gender Concepts and the Construction of New Women Images in Modern China
Against the backdrop of repeated military defeats after the First Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Uprising, the urgent mission of national salvation drove Chinese intellectuals to launch a thorough critique of feudal Confucian ethics through Western ideological discourse. This nationalist narrative tied women’s liberation closely to national modernization, giving rise to a series of New Women images in modern China, including the National Mother, the Female Citizen, the Runaway Nora, and the Modern Girl. Throughout this process, male intellectuals dominated the discourse power of shaping female images, while women’s subjective consciousness gradually awakened and challenged the patriarchal-nationalist narrative. Based on existing research and historical documents, this paper systematically combs the evolution of new women images in modern China, analyzes the discourse logic behind image construction, and summarizes the contradictions and dilemmas in the transformation of modern Chinese gender concepts.
AI-Driven New Media Interactive Communication Modes and User Stickiness Improvement Strategies
Against the background of artificial intelligence technology being fully integrated into the new media industry, the traditional interactive communication modes of new media have gradually failed to meet users’ increasingly personalized, real-time and immersive needs, and the cultivation and improvement of user stickiness has entered a new stage. Taking the in-depth integration of AI technology and new media communication as the main line, this paper systematically analyzes the enabling logic and reform path of AI technology for new media interactive communication by adopting literature research and theoretical construction methods. On the basis of sorting out relevant theoretical foundations, this paper constructs an interactive communication system and a user stickiness improvement framework driven by AI. The research shows that AI technology has fundamentally changed the form and efficiency of new media interaction through core capabilities such as user portrait construction, intelligent content distribution, real-time interactive response and data closed-loop optimization, which can effectively enhance users’ sense of participation, belonging and continuous use intention. Based on technical logic, communication logic and user demand logic, this paper proposes a complete reconstruction plan of interactive communication mode, and puts forward user stickiness improvement strategies from four levels: content supply, interactive experience, social connection and long-term operation. The research can provide theoretical reference and practical basis for new media platforms to optimize communication mechanisms and enhance user retention and platform competitiveness in the intelligent era.
Research on Activation, Utilization and Construction of Celebrity Residences in Shenyang During the Republican Period
As the political, military and cultural center of Northeast China during the Republican Period, Shenyang preserves a large number of celebrity residences of military and political figures of the Fengxi Clique. These buildings are important carriers of regional modern historical culture and architectural art. At present, the Republican Period celebrity residences in Shenyang generally suffer from insufficient protection, single spatial function, traditional exhibition methods, low digitalization level and lack of long-term operation mechanism. Guided by historical building protection, cultural inheritance and urban renewal, this paper systematically sorts out the resource distribution, architectural characteristics and multiple values of Republican Period celebrity residences in Shenyang. Focusing on innovative means such as VR immersive experience, digital restoration and scene construction, it constructs an activation and utilization system of “protection first, digital empowerment, function regeneration, cultural tourism integration and long-term operation”. It also puts forward construction strategies and implementation paths suitable for Shenyang’s regional climate and cultural characteristics. The research aims to promote the transformation of Republican Period buildings from “static protection” to “dynamic inheritance”, realize the coordinated development of historical heritage protection, cultural value communication and cultural industry cultivation, and provide theoretical reference and practical reference for the activation and utilization of historical and cultural resources in old industrial cities.
Research on the Construction and Implementation Strategy of High-Quality Characteristic Development Mode in Private Colleges and Universities
Against the background of the in-depth advancement of a strong educational nation and higher education entering a highly popularized stage, private colleges and universities, as an important part of China’s high-quality education system, are transforming from scale expansion to connotative and characteristic development. This is not only an inevitable requirement to respond to the national strategy of “promoting the reform and development of colleges and universities by classification”, but also a key path to solve their own development dilemmas and enhance core competitiveness. Based on the Outline of the Plan for Building a Strong Educational Country (2024–2035) and the spirit of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposals, combined with the current development status of private colleges and universities, this paper systematically analyzes the prominent problems in governance system, faculty construction, specialty setting, scientific research services and other aspects, clarifies the core connotation and value orientation of high-quality characteristic development of private colleges and universities, constructs a five-in-one development mode of “Party building guidance, precise positioning, connotation support, characteristic breakthrough and collaborative empowerment”, and then puts forward targeted implementation strategies from six dimensions: strategic planning, governance optimization, faculty construction, specialty construction, integration of industry and education, and quality assurance. It provides theoretical reference and practical reference for private colleges and universities to achieve high-quality characteristic development, help the implementation of scientific research projects, and promote the quality and efficiency of private higher education.
Holistic Spatial Perspective on Cultural Empowerment for Urban Quality Upgrading in Shenyang: A Pathway Study
Under the national holistic spatial development strategy and the people-centered urban development concept, urban quality upgrading has become a core task of high-quality new-type urbanization, with culture serving as a key empowering force. As a core city in the Northeast old industrial base, Shenyang possesses abundant historical and revolutionary cultural resources. In promoting holistic spatial development, it urgently needs cultural empowerment to break through bottlenecks in quality improvement. From a holistic spatial perspective, this study defines concepts, reviews theories, applies SWOT analysis to Shenyang’s current situation, draws on domestic and international experience, and constructs pathways and safeguard measures for cultural empowerment to upgrade urban quality. The research shows that Shenyang has prominent advantages but faces problems such as inefficient resource transformation, uneven spatial distribution, and weak industrial competitiveness. Accordingly, a four-dimensional optimization pathway is proposed to provide a reference for Shenyang’s high-quality development.
Transformation and Reconstruction of Programming Course Teaching Mode in The Era of Large Language Model
The rapid development of large language models is reshaping the teaching mode of programming courses in universities. While AI tools enhance learning efficiency and enable personalized tutoring, they also pose a risk of students becoming overly dependent and core computer thinking deteriorating. The traditional "grammar-driven" teaching mode faces severe challenges. Based on a systematic analysis of the current status of AI-assisted programming course teaching, this paper deeply analyzes the dual dilemma of "teaching facilitation" and "thinking hollowing out", pointing out the necessity and urgency of teaching mode transformation. In response to the current dilemma, this paper proposes a "thinking-oriented, human-machine collaborative" teaching mode, systematically elaborating on the transformation path from four dimensions: reshaping teaching objectives, reconstructing classroom teaching, upgrading project practice, and innovating evaluation systems. Practical teaching research conducted in two consecutive "C Language Programming" courses shows that this mode can significantly improve students' algorithm design and problem-solving abilities without the aid of AI, while effectively cultivating students' collaborative literacy in mastering AI tools to complete complex engineering tasks. This paper provides an operable theoretical framework and practical reference for the teaching reform of programming courses in the intelligent era.
Digital Platforms as Creative Intermediaries: Algorithmic Mediation, Cultural Visibility, and the Case of Li Ziqi
Social media is increasingly becoming a necessary infrastructure in the digital age, organising cultural production and visibility. Within this context, this paper examines how digital platforms operate as intermediaries that reshape the relationships between creators, audiences, and cultural value. Drawing on theories of cultural and creative intermediaries, the study explores how platform-based systems transform processes of cultural mediation. The analysis integrates approaches to self-presentation and frameworks concerning algorithmic visibility, focusing on how the affordances and constraints of platform algorithms shape both opportunities and limitations for cultural expression. Drawing on the case of the Chinese video creator Li Ziqi, the paper examines how cultural identities are constructed within the recommendation algorithms of major video-sharing platforms. The findings show that Li Ziqi’s visual style and narrative strategies align with platform expectations for immersive, aesthetically engaging content while simultaneously offering an alternative to accelerated algorithmic temporalities by highlighting authenticity, craftsmanship, and a slower life rhythm. This dual negotiation illustrates the paradoxical nature of platforms as both facilitators and regulators of creative visibility, revealing how cultural agency can still be exercised within algorithmically governed environments. Overall, the study contributes to broader sociological understandings of digital cultural mediation and offers new insights into how creative labour navigates visibility in platformised creative economies.
Platformisation, Creative Intermediaries, Algorithmic Visibility, Cultural Mediation, Li Ziqi, Self-Presentation.
Wall Breaker or Wall Builder? The Dual Role of Livestreaming in Cross-Cultural Communication: A Case Study of IShowSpeed’s China Tour
Under the development of global digitalization, live streaming has emerged as a new media form and is transforming the way of cross-cultural communication. Regarding the experiences of American live streamer IShowSpeed’s China tour as a case study, this article explores the role of livestreaming as both a bridge and a barrier. A three-layered theoretical framework was utilized in this paper, including platforms, hosts, and audiences, revealing how key characteristics of live streaming, such as its strong interactivity and immediacy, contribute to real-time cultural exchange. This research indicates that livestreaming platforms create new spaces for cultural coexistence due to the ability to blur geographic and temporal boundaries, but also raise concerns about the negative value of attention-seeking. Although live streaming shortens the distances of distinct community members, several concerns were raised by the public regarding the possible threats it might bring, such as algorithmic recommendations, authenticity issues and misunderstanding of diverse cultural backgrounds. Generally, live streaming is a double-edged cultural format with both opportunities and challenges, allowing global audiences to communicate and negotiate while also deepening stereotypes. Theoretically, this paper offers an exploratory theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of cross-cultural communication. Practically, constructive insights were given into platform governance, streamer and audience engagement.
Cross-cultural communication, IShowSpeed’s China Tour, Livestreaming, Digital intimacy.
The Effects of Bilingualism on Executive Functioning
Bilingualism has been an important topic for researchers in the last few decades considering educational and lifespan benefits. It has been shown that bilingualism can have special effects on individual executive functioning. However, specific effects on different domains of executive functioning as well as different age groups still need a general or systematic explanation. Therefore, this paper systematically reviews previous studies about how bilingual competence can have effect on individual executive functioning and provides suggestions for future research, focusing on bilingual evaluations and classifications. Both advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism as well as current limitations of research in this field are discussed. It can be indicated that there cannot be a consensus regarding the general effects on individual executive functioning since both of the fields are complex, while a system of knowledge can be acquired. Differences in research results can be due to the ambiguity of bilingual evaluations, age control, demographic diversity, and variations in language use. Future research may focus on more detailed manipulations of language status and comparisons in order to complete a more systematic knowledge about this topic regarding its complexity.
Bilingualism; executive functioning; language acquisition.
Doing Gender under Explicit Equality: Implicit Division of Labor in Dual-Income Families under China’s Two-Child Policy
Amid China’s discourse of “explicit equality” and the implementation of the “universal two-child” policy, this study employs doing gender theory to explore the hidden inequality in domestic labor among dual-income families in China. Drawing on in-depth interviews with seven households in Xi’an, it reveals that the birth of a second child becomes a critical turning point that reconfigures family dynamics. Under the combined influence of market pressures, national policies, and patriarchal traditions, families shift from relatively equal labor division to the conventional model of “men work outside, women work inside.” Women not only shoulder increasing domestic and emotional burdens but also internalize and rationalize unequal responsibilities through mechanisms such as “self-reinforcement of maternal identity” and “family-first” ideology. This process demonstrates how gender inequality is continuously enacted and reproduced in everyday practices. The study concludes that advancing gender equality requires addressing family micro-politics and transforming the social meanings of gendered labor.
Gender Role Performance, Household Division of Labour, Maternal Role Identification
How Chinese Primary and Secondary School Teachers Unconsciously Construct Gender Identity through Everyday Discourse: A Discussion Based on the “Boy Crisis”
This study focuses on the "boy crisis" by exploring how primary and secondary school teachers unconsciously shape gender identity through their everyday discourse. In doing so, semi-structured interviews with primary and secondary school teachers are analyzed, drawing on Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex, which focus on the implicit gender norms in teachers’ speech and the eventual effects on subjectivity among students. Teachers commonly use gendered language in classroom management and evaluation of students, for example "girls are quiet and attentive" and "boys are mischievous and impulsive". These two discourses reproduce stereotypes of gender and also establish an invisible power structure: students who happen to possess “feminine traits” such as obedience and calmness are praised whereas other boys who are less typical are implicitly disfavoured on the basis of their behaviours and identities. De Beauvoir's theory in The Second Sex further reveals that the essence of this educational disciplinary logic is society's attempt to shape all students into "manageable others." The "boy crisis" arises as boys are forced to take on the "second sex" role within the disciplinary system. The study suggests that educational practice should reflect on gender biases in discourse and evaluation systems to promote more diverse and inclusive processes of subject construction.
gender identity, Foucault, second sex, boy crisis, educational discourse.
The Difficulty in Painting Lies in the Spirit: An Exploration of Humanistic Spirit of the Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Contemporary China has been experiencing an extended phase of drastic changes and the May Fourth Movement and New Culture movement enhanced the change in the world of thought and culture. The good and righteous people and thinkers at the time worked to change the condition of social thinking which had been enriched in the late Qing Dynasty and the detached indifference of the masses. Humanistic spirit is the centre point as they attempt to base thought and culture on the true self of humanity. The change of poetry is especially noticeable in these times of breaking with the old and the creation of the new. Basing this discussion on the cultural theory and relying on philosophical resources, this paper will trace the roots, development and the major spirit of the humanistic in modern and contemporary poetry in a systematic manner. This paper has explored how the creative practices of the representative poets in various periods in history enhanced the traditional values of humanity and benevolence coupled with the unity of heaven and humanity and incorporated the resources of Western intellectual power to bring about creative change and progressive growth upon themselves. It also looks at their spiritual worth and culture of the modern world.
Chinese modern and contemporary poetry, humanistic spirit, traditional culture, modernization, cultural confidence.
China's Trade Countermeasures and Global Value Chain Resilience
Since the 2020s, the global economic landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation. The past, highly efficient but fragile global value chains (GVCs) have revealed their inherent vulnerabilities under the impact of multiple shocks including the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflicts. The concept of "resilience" in value chains has supplanted "efficiency" as the central focus in international trade. In this context, China, as a key hub in the global economy, has responded to external pressures not just with countermeasures but with a national strategy aimed at enhancing resilience. This paper, dated December 23, 2025, systematically explores the evolution of China's trade countermeasures from 2020 to 2025 and the refinement of its legal system. It also interprets these measures against the backdrop of the "dual circulation" development strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative. The paper analyzes how countermeasures, through various transmission paths such as cost, uncertainty, and network restructuring, profoundly impact the stability, recovery capacity, and regional structure of global value chains. The study suggests that China's trade countermeasures are not aimed at "decoupling and breaking chains". Instead, they are part of a strategy to build new, more inclusive, and risk-resistant global economic connections. The core objective is to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and developmental interests while promoting the balanced, safe, and sustainable evolution of global value chains, thereby contributing Chinese wisdom and solutions to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
trade countermeasures, global value chain resilience, dual circulation, Belt and Road, economic security.