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Exploring Green Development From the Perspective of Sociology: Logical Basis, Constraints, and Optimization Paths

With the advancement of ecological conservation in China, the concept of green development has gained extensive acceptance and recognition. Exploring green development from the perspectives of environmental protection and sociology holds great theoretical value and practical significance in studying the issues related to green development. Firstly, this paper examines green development in light of the objective needs of the economic and social transformation in the international community and China, and deconstructed its underlying social logic. Secondly, it further investigates the social factors that restrict green development, encompassing social structures, social concepts, social systems, and social behaviors. Finally, within the framework of the “green” discipline system in environmental sociology, this paper proposes specific measures such as restructuring social systems and transforming production modes, lifestyles, and consumption patterns to promote green development.

Research on Optimizing the Construction of the Long March National Cultural Park from the Perspective of Cultural Route Heritage Protection

The idea of cultural route heritage protection expands the protection theory for world cultural heritage. The Long March route carries the prominent characteristic of cultural route heritage. By actively building the Long March National Cultural Park, China has strengthened the overall protection and integrated utilization of the Long March cultural heritage, upgraded the hardware facilities for exhibition, and investigated ways to protect cultural route heritage with Chinese characteristics. During the construction of the Park, it is necessary to draw on the concept and norms of the cultural route heritage protection, optimize the construction approach, and make the construction of the Park more in line with the linear cultural characteristics of Long March heritage. Specifically, it is proposed to improve the Long March cultural route heritage protection system oriented towards “authenticity” protection, to deeply tap and interpret the prominent universal worth of the Long March route, augmenting the international dissemination of the Long March culture in an innovative way, and realizing a more scientific and effective protection and utilization of Long March cultural resources.

On Chengzhai Poetic Style and Shu Culture

Yang Wanli, a renowned poet of the Southern Song Dynasty(1127–1279 AD), has left an indelible mark on the history of Chinese literature with his unique artistic style. He pioneered the Chengzhai Poetic Style, a unique approach characterized by simplicity, naturalness, freshness, and liveliness in poetic creation. This style marked a turning point in the development of Song poetry and exerted a profound influence on the subsequent trends of Song poetry. As such, he was hailed as a “Leader in Poetry” by his contemporaries. The Chengzhai Poetic Style was gradually formed during Yang's creation course, under the influence of several important factors, including the Bashu culture and its aesthetic taste represented by Zhang Jun and Zhang Shi, the Zen philosophy that emphasizes liveliness prevailing in the Shu area, and the view that the “Chinese Yi-ology has its roots in the Shu area.” Meanwhile, in the Collected Works of Chengzhai(Chengzhai Ji), there are many poems and essays about the Bashu area, which have provided valuable feedback to the Bashu literature and enriched its content.

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

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

Path Breakthrough of Medical Humanities Education From the Perspective of “All-Staff, Whole-Process, and All-Round Education”

Medical education is an important cornerstone for the development of healthcare, and medical humanities education, as an integral part of medical education, plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating people's health guardians with high medical ethics. We adopted the method of stratified random sampling to select 309 students and 107 faculty members from three independent medical colleges in Sichuan province as the research subjects and distributed questionnaire surveys investigating in three dimensions: overall cognition of medical humanities, evaluation of medical humanistic qualities, and the current situation of medical humanities education, supplemented by an in-depth literature review and interviews with subject matter experts. We found that “tech-centrism” still has a great influence, the self-evaluation of medical students' humanistic quality is generally not high, the educational concept of “emphasizing professional skills over morality” of faculty and staff is still quite prevalent, and there is still the “last mile” phenomenon in medical humanities education. In order to promote the integrated development of “new medicine” and “new liberal arts” and break the barriers of “tech-centrism” and “instrumental rationality,” it is necessary to change the educational concept and strengthen the education of all employees, break through the bottleneck of internships and strengthen the whole process of education, integrate educational resources and strengthen allround education, improve the incentive mechanisms, strengthen the assessment methods, and provide Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for the development of medical humanities education.

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