Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives (JHAP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research and fostering critical dialogue in the fields of humanities and arts. JHAP serves as a platform for the dissemination of high-quality research, theoretical discussions, and creative explorations that contribute to a deeper understanding of human culture, artistic expression, and intellectual traditions across historical and contemporary contexts.
On the Engineering Turn in Modern Science Fiction Cinema
With the profound advancement of technological development and social transformation, science fiction cinema since the mid-twentieth century has increasingly exhibited a distinct “engineering turn,” undergoing significant shifts in both narrative structures and creative mindsets. This marks a transition from early narrative modes reliant on fantastical props and romantic imagination toward a systematic, materialistic narrative paradigm centered on engineering thinking. This study examines this phenomenon through two primary dimensions: “super-apparatus” and “world-building.” Through comparative analysis of cases such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Wandering Earth, it analyzes how engineering thinking reshapes the visual aesthetics and narrative logic of science fiction cinema, and investigates the underlying sociocultural drivers, including technological imperatives, the evolution of the film industry, and the enhancement of public scientific literacy.
Copyright (c) 2026 YuHang FU (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Digital Transmission of Traditional Painting in the New‑Media Era
The advances in new‑media technology have opened new possibilities for protecting and disseminating cultural heritage such as traditional painting. Taking Digital Dunhuang as an example, this paper summarizes its origins and digital dissemination methods through a literature review and data analysis, then focuses on audience cognition and interactive feedback under new‑media dissemination and evaluates its impact on cultural communication and public art education. Results show that Digital Dunhuang, relying on a high‑definition image library, social media, mini‑programs and virtual‑reality experiences, brings Dunhuang art to life in digital form and significantly broadens the audience and social influence. High levels of participation and positive responses on social media show that the public recognizes this mode of digital dissemination. However, technological upgrades and the accurate conveyance of cultural connotations remain challenges. To ensure the continued inheritance and innovation of traditional culture, cultural relics must be protected while technological innovation, richer interactive forms and open sharing of digital resources are continually promoted.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yixuan Li, MeiRong Feng, Weijian Huang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Wenzhou’s International Image in Spanish Mainstream Media
As scholarly focus shifts from national image to urban representation, Chinese cities have attracted growing attention in global media coverage. However, critical discourse analysis of the representation of Chinese cities in Spanish-language media remains scarce, particularly when approached through a corpus-assisted methodology. Therefore, this study conducts a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the representation of Wenzhou's international image. Four hundred two news articles were collected from the NOW corpus, and keyword and concordance analyses were conducted to identify the topics of the news articles and the discursive strategies adopted. The findings reveal five main topics within the news articles, namely geography, economy, technology, culture and society, along with a dual logic used to construct the city's image. This study provides insights into how city images are represented in Spanish-language mainstream media.
Copyright (c) 2026 Qi Lu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Research and Development of Dual Tutors in Chinese -Belarusian Art Education
This study examines the development, current practices, and reform needs of the dual tutoring system in art education in China and Belarus. Drawing on policy discussion, theoretical analysis, illustrative cases, and survey evidence, it first clarifies the concept and educational rationale of dual tutoring, understood as a collaborative training model that combines the guidance of on-campus and off-campus mentors in order to strengthen the integration of theoretical learning and practical training. On this basis, the study compares the present condition of art education in the two countries and argues that, although related practices have gradually emerged in China, the dual tutoring model in art education remains underdeveloped overall and is even less institutionalized in Belarus. The analysis identifies several major problems in current implementation, including weak teacher-student matching, unclear responsibilities for off-campus mentors, insufficient coordination between the two sides of supervision, and limited student initiative in seeking academic and practical guidance. The survey results further show that communication between students and mentors is often infrequent or irregular, while a considerable proportion of students tend to solve problems independently rather than actively consulting tutors. In response, the article proposes a set of reform measures, including standardizing the selection of off-campus mentors, improving institutional incentives and supervision mechanisms, clarifying the division of mentoring responsibilities, and strengthening cooperation between universities and external practice institutions. The study argues that a more systematic and better coordinated dual tutoring framework can improve practical competence, professional development, and the overall quality of art education in both China and Belarus.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yiran Tian, Bolodko V.F. (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Cultural Heritage Protection and Low-Carbon Development in World Heritage Sites
Against the backdrop of global “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” goals and the rapid development of the digital economy, World Heritage Sites (WHSs) face the triple mission of cultural inheritance, ecological protection, and low-carbon transition. These goals are inherently synergistic, yet existing research remains limited in assessment methods, cross-case comparison, mechanism integration, and policy relevance. Based on 17 core studies, this study constructs a framework of “methodological integration–empirical validation–mechanism construction–path optimization” to examine the synergy between heritage protection and low-carbon development in WHSs. It integrates screening methods, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and spatial comparison models with digital economy indicators to build an ecological/carbon footprint assessment system tailored to WHSs. Using Huangshan, Taishan, Suzhou Pingjiang Road, and Gulangyu as cases, it verifies synergistic effects and identifies heterogeneous features through literature and field survey data. The study further proposes a four-dimensional synergistic mechanism of “cultural concept guidance–technical support–SME implementation–institutional guarantee” and advances optimization paths in cultural communication, technological innovation, agent cultivation, and institutional improvement. It provides both methodological support and practical reference for the sustainable development of WHSs.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yuhao Gu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
From Guo Xi to Shi Tao: A Study on the Inheritance and Evolution of the "Four Seasons View" in Landscape Painting
Since ancient times, the "Four Seasons" has been a common theme in traditional Chinese landscape painting. The changes of spring, summer, autumn, and winter embody people's different emotions. From material images to "the creation of artistic conception", and from reality to emptiness, painters use specific natural scenes to arouse viewers' different feelings towards the four seasons.The "Four Seasons View" has been discussed in many poems and treatises. Focusing on the classic painting theories of Guo Xi's Notes on Landscape Painting from the Lofty Message of Forests and Streams and Shi Tao's Bitter Gourd Monk's Painting Manual·Four Seasons Chapter, this study explores Shi Tao's inheritance and development of Guo Xi's "Four Seasons View". Finally, it reveals that the inheritance and evolution of this concept not only reflects the deepening of the traditional landscape painting's essence of expressing the "mind of forests and streams", but also mirrors the historical transformation of painting in the early Qing Dynasty from representing nature to expressing one's inner thoughts. Shi Tao's theory not only pushed landscape painting into a brand-new poetic realm, but also provided an important reference for understanding the aesthetic connotation of Chinese painting.
Copyright (c) 2025 Shuolin Wang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Study on the Schematic Features of Giuseppe Castiglione's “Grand Review of the Qianlong Emperor”
The Grand Review of the Emperor Qianlong, painted by the Qing dynasty court artist Giuseppe Castiglione, is a quintessential equestrian portrait of an emperor, adhering to the Western traditional iconography of imperial horsemen. Research confirms that Lang Shining created two highly similar versions of The Grand Review of the Emperor Qianlong in the fourth year of Qianlong's reign (1739) and the twenty-third year (1758). Analysis reveals that both works adhere to fixed conventions derived from Western classical traditions in aspects such as the emperor's posture and the depiction of warhorses. Comparisons between Lang Shining's Grand Review of the Emperor Qianlong and works such as the ancient Roman Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Leonardo da Vinci's related sketches, and Van Dyck's “Portrait of Charles I on Horseback” confirm the transmission lineage and core elements of this Schema in Europe—from the Classical period through the Renaissance to Lang Shining's era. Langgeng, drawing upon his Western artistic background, successfully introduced this archetypal Western imperial equestrian portraiture into 18th-century Chinese court painting, reflecting the profound depth of Sino-Western artistic exchange.
Emperor Qianlong's Grand Review Painting
Copyright (c) 2025 Jintao Wu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Paradoxical Narrative and Cultural Critique: A Study of Conrad’s Under Western Eyes
This study adopts the method of close textual analysis to systematically examine the intricate paradoxical narratives in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes. The research reveals how the novel consistently creates paradoxes across its narrative structure, character development, and narrative perspective in order to create a polysemic and ambiguous aesthetic tension. Narratively the dual narrative voices and meta-fictional framework perpetual constantly suspend any definitive "truth," foregrounding Conrad's profound skepticism toward linguistic reliability and fiction's function to reflect reality. In characterization, the diverse revolutionaries—alienated and trapped in contradictions between identity and action—expose through their hypocrisy, chaos, and disorder Conrad's thorough negation of the Russian Revolution. Culturally, the conflicted identity of the narrator, the "English teacher," simultaneously demonstrates the limit of Western-centric perspectives and manifests the author’s critical doubt and a reflection of colonial discourse and Western hegemony. Thus, paradox emerges not merely as Conrad's crucial narrative strategy but as his distinctive mode of critical engagement with history, politics, and culture. This research ultimately demonstrates how Under Western Eyes achieves a synthesis of literary aesthetics and cultural critique through paradoxical narration, offering new perspectives for reassessing Conrad's literary project.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jinzhi Tian (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Mist-Shrouded Beauty: The Subversion and Reconstruction of Female Criminals in She's Got No Name
Throughout the long history of crime films, the image of female criminals has remained shrouded in mystery. Their complex humanity and behavioral logic are often obscured by gender bias and narrative conventions, rendering them elusive flowers in the mist within traditional storytelling. Directed by Peter Chan, She's Got No Name employs a groundbreaking narrative strategy to subvert and rewrite this classic motif. Through three innovative approaches, a multi-perspective, jigsaw-like construction; symbolic expressions of bodily narratives; and an open-ended conclusion that leaves room for interpretation, the movie successfully deconstructs and reconstructs a complex individual embodying both perpetrator and victim. This subversion and reshaping of the character not only enriches the character arc dimension of crime genre films but also directly challenges the simplistic judgmental paradigm of traditional judicial narratives and social discourse toward female criminals. By advocating for the complexity of female offenders, it offers an enlightening narrative path for penetrating superficial appearances and exploring the human abyss and societal pathologies underlying female criminal behavior.
Copyright (c) 2025 An Li (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
From Mediatized Dissemination to Platformized Co Creation: The Transformation of Chinese Opera Audiovisual Representations in the New Media Context
As a national treasure of Chinese culture, traditional opera enjoys a long history and rich cultural implications. A survey of its dissemination history reveals that in different times, opera has been combined with different media to facilitate cross-media transmission. In the age of new media, Chinese opera has further shown powerful agency and vitality in accommodating itself to new media environment.This article discusses the audio-visual transformation of Chinese opera in the age of new media. Through analysis of new formats like short videos, live streaming, and streaming archives, this article identifies some important features of current opera dissemination: fragmented content production, interactive ritual space, and cross-dimensional cultural integration. Based on these observations, the article seeks a viable route for the modernisation of opera communication, and offers suggestions for the transmission and protection of intangible cultural heritage.
Copyright (c) 2025 Yanling Wang, Fan Yang, Bingtao Xu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
An Auto-Ethnographic Research in See and Gain
The research applied the methodologies of auto-ethnographical research and case study on artist Jiaqi Li’s solo exhibition at Studio Gallery in Shanghai, 2025. Three core characteristics distinguish this exhibition from traditional ones: a critical response to the digital media era, an artist-led collaboration model between the artist and the gallery, and multidimensional experiments conducted at exhibition openings and academic events. The exhibition drew on the theories of “simulacra”, “post-internet art”, and "trompe l’oeil", and responded to the gap between “images” and “reality”. At the same time, the study elaborates on the practical process of artist-led exhibition placement, as well as how to transform the exhibition from a static display to a dynamic, multi-sensory dialogue field through the introduction of psychological experiments and a series of lectures. See and Gain is not only a milestone for the artist himself, but also provides valuable reference cases for the contemporary art industry ecology.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jiaqi Li (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Exploring the Construction and Design Value of Digital Image Systems for Intangible Cultural Heritage
The Theory and Method of Atlas Weaving for Intangible Cultural Heritage stands out as a milestone in the development of ICH atlas studies in China. Authored by Professor Cai Fengming and his research team, and published by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press in 2020, this monograph offers foundational academic guidance for universities and professional ICH protection institutions. This book systematically discusses the comparative landscape of atlas systems in China and abroad, the theoretical core and methodology of ICH atlas research, and the significance of digitization in the big data era. By proposing new directions for the transmission and representation of ICH, the book provides a vital reference for the generation, revitalization, and design innovation of China's ICH atlas systems, fostering interdisciplinary academic integration.
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Visual Translation of the Imprint of Life
Caravaggio's art opened the door to European realism in the 17th century. His short and glorious life was full of suffering and disappointment. He lost his parents in a minor and experienced social suppression after adulthood. Under the dual stimulation of physiology and psychology, his heart was extremely distorted, his personality was eccentric, his temper was irritable, and he was full of rebellion towards society. He stood on the opposite of "stylism" and academicism, and fought against the times with his own unique artistic language. This article starts from the vision of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, analyzes Caravaggio's life's missing experience and deconstructs the visual presentation of this missing experience in his artistic creation.
Nomadism in a Becoming-Labyrinth in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49 constructs a wholly new “Becoming-Labyrinth” narrative via the tangled underground postal system known as Tristero. Unlike the linear structure of a traditional labyrinth, in which a hero is guided to a central truth, Pynchon’s Becoming-Labyrinth thrives on rupture, drift, and uncertainty. The protagonist Oedipa Maas continually wanders nomadically through fragmented clues and decentered spaces, embodying the modern individual’s existential plight adrift between discourses of power and illusions of truth. Grounded in Deleuze and Guattari’s theories of rhizomes, deterritorialization, nomadism, and becoming, this paper examines how Oedipa navigates an ever-expanding network of meaning within the Becoming-Labyrinth, revealing how Pynchon’s rhizomatic writing resists the grand narratives and rationalist centers of modernity. In the end, the novel denies any possibility of reaching a final truth and instead points toward an endless process of meaning-generation, thereby constructing a pluralistic, open, and politically resistant postmodern aesthetic paradigm.
Reception Aesthetic Interpretation and Comparative Analysis of Chinese Translations of Wordsworth's The Rainbow
William Wordsworth, a leading figure of British Romantic poetry, captivates readers with his nature poems that depict natural beauty and mystery through delicate imagery and profound emotion. From the perspective of Reception Aesthetics, this study conducts a comparative analysis of two Chinese translations of Wordsworth's classic nature poem The Rainbow--Zhang Baohong's version and He Gongjie's version--focusing on rhythmic transmission, imagery conveyance, reconstruction of artistic conception, and readers' horizon of expectations. The paper aims to deepen Chinese readers' understanding of Wordsworth's poetry and offer new insights for poetic translation.
This study examines the films of Czech director Jirí Menzel, a leading figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave, through the lens of nostalgia, original desires, and utopia. It argues that Menzel’s “pastoral trilogy” constructs a nostalgic aesthetic by reimagining rural landscapes as poetic spaces of escape, compensating for the anxieties of modern society and offering a sense of belonging amid historical dislocation. At the same time, his films repeatedly foreground bodily needs and primal desires, dramatized in playful and carnivalesque forms, which serve both as a release of individual trauma and as an implicit critique of political repression. The construction of utopian worlds—shielded from external intrusion yet subtly marked by political allegory—reveals the deep tension between reality and ideality in Czechoslovak cultural identity. By blending humor, poetry, and desire, Menzel developed a distinctive cinematic language that not only reflects the lived experiences of his generation but also expresses a collective longing for freedom and self-definition.
A Critique of Animal Science Knowledge Production in We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Animals who can not independently voice their own conditions are put into a representational strategy dominated by human scientists. However, situated in anthropocentric ideologies, the scientists are usually not faithful narrators of animal stories, but ventriloquists for the animal’s other status. As a novel exploring an experiment in which a human and a chimpanzee are raised up together, We are All Completely Beside Ourselves puts this situated process of animal science knowledge production under scrutiny: Conducted against the anthropocentric background, the experiment inevitably shows a tendency to emphasize the human-animal binary opposition and the animals’ other status in the world. Disappointed by this phenomenon, the human girl who has grown up with a chimpanzee and believes in human-animal affinity, Rosemary, chooses to reject the logocentrism and human-animal distinctions propagated by scientists, and to disseminate her own knowledge of human-animal similarity, love and mutual-respect. However, since Rosemary’s experience can not be reproduced in the reality, the novel’s nihilist tendency to deny all the scientific achievements is dangerous. The scientist’s role as a spokesman for animals and nature is still irreplaceable in reality, and a compromise should be reached between the dogmatic scientism criticized and the radical disbeliever to science advocated by the novel.
The Practice of AI-Generated Gongbi Painting
This study investigates the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) image generation platforms in simulating the stylistic features of traditional Chinese Gongbi painting. Focusing on four widely used platforms—leonardo.ai, Doubao, ChatGPT, and Artbreeder—the research conducts a comparative analysis across two key modalities: text-to-image and image-to-image generation. Using parameters such as composition, line quality, color treatment, and style fidelity, the study evaluates each platform’s performance in reproducing the refined aesthetics of Gongbi painting. The classic Chinese art theory Six Principles of Xie He is employed as a critical framework, assessing the AI-generated images through six dimensions: spirit resonance (qiyun), structural brushwork (gufa), formal likeness, color application, compositional arrangement, and stylistic imitation. Findings reveal that while AI systems demonstrate competence in replicating visual structures and color harmonies—making them suitable for preliminary sketching and stylistic exploration—they struggle with the nuanced expression of brush rhythm, cultural semantics, and artistic intentionality that define traditional Chinese painting. The study concludes that although current AI platforms cannot replace human artists as primary creative agents, they serve as valuable tools for inspiration, stylistic experimentation, and augmenting traditional workflows. This research thus contributes to a deeper understanding of how AI can interact with and extend the practices of classical art in the contemporary technological context.
A Study on Interaction Optimization of Home Service Robots Based on Generative AI
The rapid advancement of smart home technologies, increased market demand, and policy backing have facilitated the extensive deployment of home service robots. However, the complexity of domestic environments has gradually exposed the shortcomings of traditional household robots. With the advancement of generative AI, home robots can now better comprehend natural language and handle diverse data, enabling them to deliver more personalized intelligent services. This paper explores the applications of generative AI-based robots in multimodal interaction, emotional computing, and intelligent services through the analysis of typical domestic robot product cases from both home and international markets. To improve user experience, this paper proposes innovative strategies that integrate emotional intelligence, personalized services, adaptive learning, and augmented reality technologies, with the goal of enhancing the performance of robots in interacting with elderly users, offering emotional companionship, and adapting to smart homes, thus improving elderly users' experiences with intelligent, personalized, and emotional services.
As an important form of online art, online films bear significant responsibilities and missions in promoting the main melody and inspiring positive energy. Given the young demographic of online film audiences, telling stories that align with the main melody, conveying the values of truth, goodness, and beauty, and inspiring positive energy among young audiences while guiding them to enhance their moral judgment and sense of honour are inherent requirements for online films to strengthen their positive orientation. Although the box office revenue of online films has been growing year by year, and an increasing number of films have achieved both box office success and critical acclaim, the overall quality of online films still needs improvement, and their ability to tell Chinese stories effectively remains underdeveloped. Based on an analysis of the current state and issues surrounding online films in telling Chinese stories, this paper proposes three pathways for online films to effectively tell Chinese stories.
A Study of Scene Scheduling in the Narrative Space of Heterotopian Cinema
This paper takes the concept of “heterotopia” as an entry point to explore the specific expression and significance of the concept of heterotopia in movie scene scheduling. Scene scheduling plays a crucial role in creating film atmosphere and promoting narrative development, such as scene scheduling, camera, color, lighting, composition, editing and other audiovisual language skills, which can help to convey the deeper cultural connotations of the film. This paper will also analyze the construction mechanism of heterotopian film narrative space with the help of film semiotics theory. By breaking the linear narrative of traditional movie structure, heterotopian space creates a unique sense of time and space interlacing, which provides a useful reference for the theoretical research and creative production of movie art.
The Impact of Intuitive and Ideal Thinking on Modern Dance Improvisation
This paper explores how intuitive and ideal thinking influence the practice and pedagogy of modern dance improvisation. Through theoretical analysis and practical case studies, the study highlights the interplay between spontaneous creativity (intuition) and aspirational frameworks (ideal thinking). It also examines the potential of balancing these cognitive modes in cultivating versatile dancers and choreographers. This research contributes to both theoretical understandings and practical methodologies in the field of modern dance.