Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
type: channel
description: 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.
publisher: Jandoo Press
language: en
publication name: Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
issn: 2760-330X
items: “A Feast for the Five Senses” and “The Hollowing Out of Meaning”
items: The Narrative Style, Aesthetic Principles, and Exploration of National Identity in the Films of Majid Majidi
items: On the Engineering Turn in Modern Science Fiction Cinema
items: Digital Transmission of Traditional Painting in the New‑Media Era
items: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Wenzhou’s International Image in Spanish Mainstream Media
items: Research and Development of Dual Tutors in Chinese -Belarusian Art Education
items: Cultural Heritage Protection and Low-Carbon Development in World Heritage Sites
items: From Guo Xi to Shi Tao: A Study on the Inheritance and Evolution of the "Four Seasons View" in Landscape Painting
items: A Study on the Schematic Features of Giuseppe Castiglione's “Grand Review of the Qianlong Emperor”
items: Paradoxical Narrative and Cultural Critique: A Study of Conrad’s Under Western Eyes
items: Mist-Shrouded Beauty: The Subversion and Reconstruction of Female Criminals in She's Got No Name
items: From Mediatized Dissemination to Platformized Co Creation: The Transformation of Chinese Opera Audiovisual Representations in the New Media Context
items: An Auto-Ethnographic Research in See and Gain
items: Exploring the Construction and Design Value of Digital Image Systems for Intangible Cultural Heritage
items: Visual Translation of the Imprint of Life
items: Nomadism in a Becoming-Labyrinth in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
items: Reception Aesthetic Interpretation and Comparative Analysis of Chinese Translations of Wordsworth's The Rainbow
items: Nostalgia, Original Desires and Utopia
items: A Critique of Animal Science Knowledge Production in We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
items: The Practice of AI-Generated Gongbi Painting
items: A Study on Interaction Optimization of Home Service Robots Based on Generative AI
items: Narrative, Identity and Communication
items: A Study of Scene Scheduling in the Narrative Space of Heterotopian Cinema
items: The Impact of Intuitive and Ideal Thinking on Modern Dance Improvisation

“A Feast for the Five Senses” and “The Hollowing Out of Meaning”
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description: Iterative innovations in generative artificial intelligence have propelled AI micro-short dramas into a new form of online art, completely rewriting the production models, aesthetic forms, and reception mechanisms of traditional audiovisual content. Distinct from the traditional film and television aesthetic paradigm of “narrative-driven, emotion-empowered” storytelling, AI micro-shorts rely on algorithmic parameter tuning to construct a comprehensive, immersive “sensory carnival” aesthetic experience. By leveraging a new aesthetic reception contract based on the premise of “accepting the fake as fake,” they cater to the demands of audiences in the age of fragmentation for imaginative consumption and emotional compensation. However, behind the dividends of technological empowerment, the industry is gradually revealing significant issues of aesthetic alienation. Sensory revelry obscures narrative depth, and algorithmic production erodes humanistic substance, ultimately creating a developmental dilemma characterized by “excessive atmosphere and hollowed-out meaning.” Based on existing research on AI micro-short dramas and integrating the logic of human-machine collaborative production, the aesthetics of atmosphere, and reception contract theory, systematically analyzes the generative logic of the five-sense carnival in AI micro-short dramas, elucidates the diverse manifestations and underlying mechanisms of their aesthetic alienation, and explores pathways for the value redemption of a virtuous symbiosis between technology and art from four dimensions: technological correction, content enrichment, audience cultivation, and industry regulation. This study provides theoretical references and practical guidance for the high-quality and sustainable development of AI micro-short dramas.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: AI micro-short dramas
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subject: sensory extravaganza
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subject: atmospheric production
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subject: aesthetic alienation
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subject: hollowing out of meaning
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subject: value redemption
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creator: Zongye Gu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zongye Gu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-30
publication date: 2026-06-30
starting page: 7
ending page: 13
doi: 10.70731/gs7vsb08

The Narrative Style, Aesthetic Principles, and Exploration of National Identity in the Films of Majid Majidi
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description: Majid Majidi is a prominent figure among the third generation of Iranian filmmakers, whose children's cinema holds significant influence within global film circles. His works are renowned for adopting a child-centric perspective, exhibiting strong realist undertones, and manifesting deep humanistic care. Employing case studies and comparative analysis, this paper investigates the narrative style, aesthetic tenets, and national ethos within Majidi’s films, while synthesizing their broader implications for the creation of national and children's cinema against the backdrop of globalization. First, by utilizing a narrative mode characterized by both simplicity and depth, Majidi’s films successfully depict the tight-knit connection between individual destiny and social reality, thereby offering the audience a space for profound reflection. Second, the convergence of documentarian realism and poetic expression constitutes the core of Majidi’s cinematic aesthetics, allowing the films to transcend mere socio-political observation and attain a heightened artistic allure. Finally, by rendering a multidimensional tapestry of national culture, Majidi conveys the spiritual essence of the Iranian nation, showcasing the rich connotations inherent in its cultural heritage.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Majid Majidi
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subject: narrative style
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subject: aesthetic tenets
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subject: national identity
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subject: children's cinema
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creator: Bingtao Xu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Bingtao Xu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-30
publication date: 2026-06-30
starting page: 1
ending page: 6
doi: 10.70731/q4sf4f13

On the Engineering Turn in Modern Science Fiction Cinema
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: science fiction cinema
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subject: engineering turn
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subject: technology and society
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creator: Yuhang Fu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 YuHang FU (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-31
publication date: 2026-03-31
starting page: 22
ending page: 25
doi: 10.70731/ch3f2896

Digital Transmission of Traditional Painting in the New‑Media Era
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: New media
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subject: Traditional painting
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subject: Digital Dunhuang
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subject: Digital transmission
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subject: Cultural communication
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creator: Yixuan Li
creator: MeiRong Feng
creator: Weijian Huang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yixuan Li, MeiRong Feng, Weijian Huang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-31
publication date: 2026-03-31
starting page: 1
ending page: 6
doi: 10.70731/nk7nts10

A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Wenzhou’s International Image in Spanish Mainstream Media
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Spanish mainstream media
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subject: city image
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subject: corpus-assisted approach
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subject: critical discourse analysis
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creator: Qi Lu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Qi Lu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-31
publication date: 2026-03-31
starting page: 26
ending page: 35
doi: 10.70731/snr0x807

Research and Development of Dual Tutors in Chinese -Belarusian Art Education
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Art education
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subject: Dual tutoring system
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subject: Mentor collaboration
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subject: Practical training
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subject: China–Belarus comparison
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creator: Yiran Tian
creator: Bolodko Vladimir Fedorovich
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yiran Tian, Bolodko V.F. (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-31
publication date: 2026-03-31
starting page: 36
ending page: 40
doi: 10.70731/w100tc44

Cultural Heritage Protection and Low-Carbon Development in World Heritage Sites
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: World Heritage Sites
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subject: cultural heritage protection
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subject: low-carbon development
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subject: synergistic mechanisms
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subject: digital tourism economy
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subject: ecological footprint
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subject: small and medium-sized enterprises
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subject: quantitative assessment
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creator: Yuhao Gu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yuhao Gu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-31
publication date: 2026-03-31
starting page: 7
ending page: 21
doi: 10.70731/en1jvd34

From Guo Xi to Shi Tao: A Study on the Inheritance and Evolution of the "Four Seasons View" in Landscape Painting
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Guo Xi
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subject: Shi Tao
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subject: Four Seasons View
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subject: Inheritance and Evolution
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creator: Shuolin Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Shuolin Wang (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 29
ending page: 33
doi: 10.70731/14bmvs54

A Study on the Schematic Features of Giuseppe Castiglione's “Grand Review of the Qianlong Emperor”
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description: 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.
subject: Case Studies
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subject: Giuseppe Castiglione
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subject: Emperor Qianlong's Grand Review Painting
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subject: Imperial Equestrian Portrait
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subject: Schematic Features
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creator: Jintao Wu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jintao Wu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 34
ending page: 40
doi: 10.70731/nv3f4y03

Paradoxical Narrative and Cultural Critique: A Study of Conrad’s Under Western Eyes
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Paradoxical Narrative
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subject: Linguistic Skepticism
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subject: Alienation of the Individual
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subject: Negation of Revolution
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creator: Jinzhi Tian
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jinzhi Tian (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-30
publication date: 2025-11-30
starting page: 15
ending page: 21
doi: 10.70731/9c2s2v86

Mist-Shrouded Beauty: The Subversion and Reconstruction of Female Criminals in She's Got No Name
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: She's Got No Name
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subject: Female Criminals
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subject: Image Reconstruction
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subject: Film Narrative
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creator: An Li
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 An Li (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-30
publication date: 2025-11-30
doi: 10.70731/83tt6d64

From Mediatized Dissemination to Platformized Co Creation: The Transformation of Chinese Opera Audiovisual Representations in the New Media Context
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Chinese Opera Dissemination
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subject: New Media
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subject: Audiovisual Transformation
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subject: Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection
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creator: Yanling Wang
creator: Fan Yang
creator: Bingtao Xu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Yanling Wang, Fan Yang, Bingtao Xu (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-30
publication date: 2025-11-30
doi: 10.70731/f0wzwh50

An Auto-Ethnographic Research in See and Gain
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
  topic: section
subject: Exhibition
  topic: keywords
subject: Contemporary Art
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subject: Painting
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subject: Artist
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subject: Gallery
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creator: Jiaqi Li
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jiaqi Li (Author) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-30
publication date: 2025-11-30
starting page: 8
ending page: 14
doi: 10.70731/y03ph967

Exploring the Construction and Design Value of Digital Image Systems for Intangible Cultural Heritage
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description: 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.
subject: Review Articles
  topic: section
subject: Intangible Cultural Heritage
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subject: Digitization
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subject: Geographic Information System (GIS)
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subject: Atlas System
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subject: Design Value
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creator: Wei Guo
creator: Hui Ye
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 47
ending page: 49
doi: 10.70731/j0g04n41

Visual Translation of the Imprint of Life
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description: 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.
subject: Case Studies
  topic: section
subject: Missing Experience
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subject: Caravaggio
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subject: Violence
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creator: Yingpeng Zhang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
doi: 10.70731/nbf25032

Nomadism in a Becoming-Labyrinth in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
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description: 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.
subject: Case Studies
  topic: section
subject: Becoming-Labyrinth
  topic: keywords
subject: Rhizome
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subject: Nomadic Subject
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subject: Decentering
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subject: Crisis of Modernity
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subject: Postmodern Narrative
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creator: Yiman Chen
creator: Shanshan Yang
creator: Zhaoyan Li
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-10-17
publication date: 2025-10-17
starting page: 35
ending page: 41
doi: 10.70731/axamnf16

Reception Aesthetic Interpretation and Comparative Analysis of Chinese Translations of Wordsworth's The Rainbow
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description: 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.
subject: Case Studies
  topic: section
subject: Reception Aesthetics
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subject: Wordsworth
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subject: Chinese Translation
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subject: Nature Poetry
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creator: Xiaofang Yang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-10-17
publication date: 2025-10-17
starting page: 30
ending page: 34
doi: 10.70731/010ppr55

Nostalgia, Original Desires and Utopia
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description: 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.
subject: Case Studies
  topic: section
subject: Jirí Menzel
  topic: keywords
subject: Czechoslovak New Wave
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subject: Nostalgia
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subject: Cinematic Aesthetics
  topic: keywords
creator: Ying Zhao
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 26
ending page: 29
doi: 10.70731/sd3m0z44

A Critique of Animal Science Knowledge Production in We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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description: 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.
subject: Case Studies
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subject: We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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subject: Science Knowledge Production
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subject: Animal
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subject: Situated Knowledge
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creator: Yuan Tian
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
doi: 10.70731/h72kgv46

The Practice of AI-Generated Gongbi Painting
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Gongbi Painting
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subject: AI-generated imagery
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subject: Style Simulation
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subject: Six Principles of Xie He
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creator: Mohan Kan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 14
ending page: 20
doi: 10.70731/xn9v3p17

A Study on Interaction Optimization of Home Service Robots Based on Generative AI
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Generative Artificial Intelligence
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subject: Home Service Robots
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subject: User Experience
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subject: Aging Population
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creator: Yang Wang
creator: Zhangyi Ye
creator: Wei Guo
creator: Kyung Min Hong
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 7
ending page: 13
doi: 10.70731/qmjxcq70

Narrative, Identity and Communication
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Online Films
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subject: Chinese Story
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subject: Narrative
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creator: Yanling Wang
creator: Zongye Gu
creator: Bingtao Xu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 1
ending page: 6
doi: 10.70731/kypkwd02

A Study of Scene Scheduling in the Narrative Space of Heterotopian Cinema
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Heterotopia
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subject: Narrative Space
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subject: Narrative Time
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subject: Film Semiotics
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subject: Scene Scheduling
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creator: Jun Deng
creator: Weiwei Deng
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-02-28
publication date: 2025-02-28
starting page: 9
ending page: 14
doi: 10.70731/ex6zn027

The Impact of Intuitive and Ideal Thinking on Modern Dance Improvisation
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description: 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.
subject: Research Articles
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subject: Modern Dance Improvisation
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subject: Creativity in Dance
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subject: Embodied Cognition
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subject: Structured Improvisation
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subject: Cognitive Processes in Dance
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creator: Qisong Zheng
creator: Xiangyiyi Chen
creator: Jianan Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives
date: 2025-02-28
publication date: 2025-02-28
starting page: 1
ending page: 8
doi: 10.70731/vwec9d90