International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020

  • On the Exportation of Soft Power in Globalization with the Exemplification of the Film Wolf warrior (II)

    Baoliang Peng

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 100-107
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 12 March 2020
    Published: 8 April 2020
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    Abstract: In globalization culture is capitalized and invested as a commodity. But the commodified culture not only makes money for an exporter but also disseminates its cultural values with another culture. Both the success of the film Wolf Warrior (II) at home and its failure to be a hit abroad lend weight to the argument. The pros and cons about it eviden... Show More
  • A Comparative Study of the Interpretations of Emojis in Between U.S. and Chinese Users

    Sherman Chui

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 108-118
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 12 March 2020
    Published: 8 April 2020
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    Abstract: In recent years, Emojis have permeated online communications. They constantly show up in text messages, chats and emails, playing a significant role in business and daily interaction. Although designed to replace language text and to convert some universal emotions through icons, there are no rules governing people how to correctly define the senti... Show More
  • The Digitalization of Lifestyle in a Digital Era: A Case Study of WeChat in China

    Ru Ying

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 119-126
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 10 March 2020
    Published: 8 April 2020
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    Abstract: Digitalization has been identified as one of the most significant trends that change society, business, and people’s lives and has attracted academic attention from different fields. This study aims to investigate how digitalization, with the adoption of far-ranging digital technologies, has changed individuals’ lifestyles in China. WeChat was take... Show More
  • The Subversion of Identity from Princesses to Queens - A Cultural Study on Feminism in Maleficent

    Jialiang Chen

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 127-133
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 10 March 2020
    Published: 8 April 2020
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    Abstract: Disney films have long been known as adapting classic fairy tales or legends from all over the world and creating distinctive princess images, among which, the development of different princess images manifests relative values in corresponding periods. Maleficent is adapted from the animated film Sleeping Beauty with similar story arrangements on t... Show More
  • Exploration of Application of Confucian Conception of Critical Thinking in the Teaching English as a Foreign Language in China

    Xuejuan Gong

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 134-141
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 11 March 2020
    Published: 14 April 2020
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    Abstract: Over the past years, fostering critical thinking abilities has become one of the priorities in education in China. So far, much research has been conducted to explore how to resort to Western critical thinking methods to cultivate critical thinking abilities among Chinese students. Meanwhile, among much research in incorporating Confucian education... Show More
  • Criticizing School-related Gender-based Violence: A Cultural Analysis on the Music Video Womxnly

    Jing Zhou

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 142-147
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 18 March 2020
    Published: 14 April 2020
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    Abstract: Gender-based violence, a deeply-rooted violence directed against a person because of their gender, remains one of the most notable human rights violations in all societies. Both women and men experience gender-based violence. It is school-related in many cases and often occurs in and around schools, so it is sometimes referred to as “school-related... Show More
  • An Interpretation of To the lighthouse from the Perspective of Ecofeminism

    Lei Zhu, Fangting Shen

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 148-152
    Received: 9 February 2020
    Published: 17 April 2020
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    Abstract: Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, fully presents readers with her ecofeministic consciousness although ecofeminism did not come into existence in the era when she created this work. By analyzing the main characters the Ramsay couple and Lily Briscoe, this paper aims to interpret the ecofeminism reflected in this novel. Mr. Ramsay alw... Show More
  • A Cross-cultural Study of Pragmatic Identities Constructed in Chinese and American Marketing Discourse on Social Media

    Yue Siwei

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 153-161
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 10 March 2020
    Published: 23 April 2020
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    Abstract: Based on a mini-corpus of Chinese and American marketing discourse on social media (150 discourses each), this study conducts a cross-cultural investigation of pragmatic identity construction in marketing discourse on social media. The results show that in the context of social media, a larger variety of individual pragmatic identities rather than ... Show More
  • The Writing of History and Return of Language: Art History as An Explanation Object-On Hubert Damsich’s “A Theory of /Cloud/”

    Chai Dongdong

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 162-168
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 16 March 2020
    Published: 23 April 2020
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    Abstract: Giving a methodological and ontological explanation to the art history is the core thought of “a theory of /cloud/” of Hubert Damisch. It shows that there is no uniform explanation for art history. And the explanation of art history can only be placed in the framework of history. Language is the main reason for this, because it is historical, and t... Show More
  • Entangled with Traffic Signs: An Ethnographic Account of Internationals Driving in Mainland China

    Dai Hui

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2020
    Pages: 169-176
    Received: 27 February 2020
    Accepted: 30 March 2020
    Published: 23 April 2020
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    Abstract: This study investigates the difficulty of internationals’ driving in non-English Chinese environment by reporting on their encounters and reflections in the traffic contexts. The study adopts a geosemiotic perspective and utilizes an ethnography to study foreigners’ usage of traffic signage in Guangzhou, a major and hub city of Mainland China. It c... Show More