scholarly journals Research on Design Innovation for Reshaping Local Cultural Characteristics of the Tourist Souvenirs

2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 02087
Author(s):  
Qiao Yang
Keyword(s):  
Market Value ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Core ◽  
Carrier Selection ◽  
Symbolic Method ◽  
Innovative Idea

This article traces the essence of the tourist souvenir design, explaining the core of its value, the essence of local culture, and emphasizing the law of souvenir market value that maintains the uniqueness of local culture to attract purchases. By analysing the current situation of design homogeneity and lack of innovation in Chinese market, it proposes an innovative idea, “Back to Design Origins”. Then taking Nanjing souvenir design as an example, it introduces two innovative approaches, “Discovery and Application of New Cultural Elements” and “ Cute Stylization of Traditional Symbols”. In the end, it summarizes several feasible rules on element selection, symbolic method application, and carrier selection, mainly based on the thought of “Back to Design Origins”.

scholarly journals A Study on Cultural Characteristics of Taoist Clothing

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Rong Yang ◽  
Xiaoming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Core ◽  
Han Nationality ◽  
Chinese Traditional Culture ◽  
Important Significance

Dress and personal adornment of Taoism, also short for Taoist Clothing. Its refers to the type of clothing with ‘Tao’ as the core concept. Taoist clothing as a kind of religious symbolic clothing, it can be described as a typical carrier of Chinese traditional culture (especially the Han nationality), which contains Chinese traditional religion, philosophy, aesthetics and technology. By studying the history, form and cultural symbols of Taoist clothing has important significance for help us to deeply understand Chinese traditional costume culture and to discover the valuable cultural elements contained in them.

The Challenge of Terror: A Traveling Essay

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lederach
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Global System ◽  
Basic Trust ◽  
Finger Nail ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand

So here I am, a week late arriving home, stuck between Colombia, Guatemala and Harrisonburg when our world changed. The images flash even in my sleep. The heart of America ripped. Though natural, the cry for revenge and the call for the unleashing of the first war of this century, prolonged or not, seems more connected to social and psychological processes of finding a way to release deep emotional anguish, a sense of powerlessness, and our collective loss than it does as a plan of action seeking to redress the injustice, promote change and prevent it from ever happening again. I am stuck from airport to airport as I write this, the reality of a global system that has suspended even the most basic trust. My Duracell batteries and finger nail clippers were taken from me today and it gave me pause for thought. I had a lot of pauses in the last few days. Life has not been the same. I share these thoughts as an initial reaction recognizing that it is always easy to take pot-shots at our leaders from the sidelines, and to have the insights they are missing when we are not in the middle of very difficult decisions. On the other hand, having worked for nearly 20 years as a mediator and proponent of nonviolent change in situations around the globe where cycles of deep violence seem hell-bent on perpetuating themselves, and having interacted with people and movements who at the core of their identity find ways of justifying their part in the cycle, I feel responsible to try to bring ideas to the search for solutions. With this in mind I should like to pen several observations about what I have learned from my experiences and what they might suggest about the current situation. I believe this starts by naming several key challenges and then asking what is the nature of a creative response that takes these seriously in the pursuit of genuine, durable, and peaceful change.

What is the purpose of this meeting? The hidden meanings of the meeting announcement

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110402
Author(s):  
Palmira López-Fresno ◽  
Rosalía Cascón-Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
International Project ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
The Core ◽  
Distinct Line ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study examines the coincidence or discrepancy between the purpose of meetings stated in the organizer’s announcement and the purposes perceived by the participants. This analysis enriches and complexifies the view of meeting purposes in the literature. Based on structured questionnaire data from 1946 respondents involved in 490 meetings conducted in the context of an international project, our analysis shows that the stated and perceived purposes of a meeting are not necessarily the same. In particular, a purpose expressed as a noun (e.g. Coordination) may be perceived by participants as various purposes expressed in verbs, that are strongly or weakly aligned with that noun (e.g. Socialize, Coordinate, Follow up or Persuade). This study establishes the need for a distinct line of research into the discrepancy between stated and perceived meeting purposes to understand meeting related organizational dynamics, and it lays a basis for theorizing within that line of investigation by demonstrating an influence of the internal-external nature of meetings and the local culture. This study also highlights the core intermediation role of socialization for achieving the stated purposes of certain meeting types. Additionally, this study has immediate implications for organizing and managing meetings.

The Emerging Media Exchange in the Cultural Regionalization of Asia

2011 ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peichi Chung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Emerging Media ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
National Media ◽  
Asian Market ◽  
Global And Local

This chapter focuses on the emerging media regionalization that takes place in Asia in 2000s. Japan and Hong Kong used to be the dominant cultural exporters commercializing their national media products to the nearby Asian markets. The recent market success of Korean wave and the gradual opening of Chinese market bring media regionalization to a different level. The chapter selects three cases to present the detailed image of cultural standardization in Asia’s media regionalization. The first centers on the circulation of media text in television drama, emphasizing on Korean wave and the particular TV series, Boys Over Flowers. The second case discusses Taiwanese popular music and its influence on Mandopop in the Chinese communities. The last case studies the regionalization of online game from China. This case examines the localization of Chinese online game, Westward Journey Online II. Chinese online games initially begin with the imitation of Korean game but later form their national branding based upon a mixture of global and local cultural elements that speak to the largest group of online game consumers in the pan-Asian market.

Study on the Artistic Features of Folk Needlework

2013 ◽  
Vol 796 ◽  
pp. 523-526
Author(s):  
He Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Language Form ◽  
Manual Skill ◽  
Color Features

The needlework is the exclusive arts of women in folk, It is the great manual skill, shown unique artistic features, The needlework has been included in the non-material cultural heritage. Beginning of the article is the overview of folk needlework,Used the method of Compare to analysis, Discussion on the artistic features of the distinct from the other arts ,study on the Constitute forms of needlework patterns, Special Technology, Color features and Cultural characteristics,The Needlework with its unique language, form a unique artistic style. On this basis, thinking on the needlework of the feasibility of inheritance and protection.in the current situation.

Aversive Response Towards Culture Fusion Is Moderated by the Source of Foreign Cultural Inflow

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 370-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobby K. Cheon ◽  
Ying-yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Aversive Response ◽  
The Usa

Culture fusion reflects blending of elements from distinct cultures that produces a novel, hybrid cultural representation. Prior research among participants in the USA revealed that fusion of cultural elements from the USA and China could be perceived as contamination of one’s local culture and evokes disgust. It remains unknown whether this aversion to culture fusion generalizes to other samples and is contingent on perceivers’ attitudes toward the source of the foreign culture. Here, we tested these questions across two studies. Participants were exposed to different patterns of culture mixing of their own local culture and two foreign cultures (one relatively favored and one relatively disfavored). Across both studies (Singaporean participants in Study 1 and Hong Kong participants in Study 2), the results replicated prior findings suggesting that culture fusion elicits stronger negative evaluations (e.g., disgust, discomfort) compared to other patterns of culture mixing (i.e., presentation of local and foreign elements side-by-side). Importantly, a Mixing Type × Foreign Source interaction emerged, such that participants in both studies reacted more negatively to culture mixing involving a less favored (China) than a more favored (USA) culture, with negative reactions especially pronounced toward culture fusion. This aversive response was moderated by patriotism in Singapore but not in Hong Kong. These findings demonstrate that response to culture mixing depends on intergroup attitudes toward foreign cultures, and culture fusion is especially aversive when involving cultural inflows from a disfavored out-group. The contribution of geopolitical differences between Singapore and Hong Kong on these findings are also considered.

The Developmental Research of HeBei Province High Level Innovative and Creative Talents on the Cooperative Development of Beijing, Tianjin and HeBei Province

2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 2983-2986
Author(s):  
Na Zou ◽  
Bo Wu
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Hebei Province ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
High Level

Analysis of the current situation of regional talent cooperation with the development of Beijing is carried out, with the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region integration as the background. It turns out that the Hebei province is obviously in inferior position in regional talents co-operation. Standing on the point of cooperative and regional development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei regional, the paper puts forward the strategies of talent development and counter measures, which stressed the core of Hebei province lies in the development of high-level innovative and creative talents.

The “New Eastern Europe”

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhii Plokhy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Distinct Region ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
The West ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
Established Group

More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, the region is still grappling with the problem of its new identity and the choice of an appropriate name to reflect it. There has been considerable talk about a “return to Europe,” as well as the emergence of a “new Europe” and, as a consequence of the latter, the birth of a “new Eastern Europe.” Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova are often viewed as the core of the “New Eastern Europe.” These countries have recently found themselves in a unique geopolitical position, sandwiched between the extended European Union in the west and Russia in the east. They had never been thought to constitute a distinct region and thus had no established group identity. This article explores the question of whether looking at the history of Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova as that of one region can help us better understand its past and explain its current situation.

scholarly journals Developing a FinTech Ecosystem in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges for Startups

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 04001
Author(s):  
Van Thien Hao
Keyword(s):  
Market Value ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Market Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Past ◽  
Potential Market ◽  
The Government

In the article, the author has analyzed the current situation of fintech market development and Vietnam’s startup ecosystem in recent years. The research results show that, in the past 3 years, the number of fintech companies in Vietnam has nearly quadrupled, the market value in 2020 is estimated at 9 billion USD. With 72% of adults using smartphones, nearly 64% of the population using the Internet, along with the young generation of technology-savvy, the explosion of e-commerce and the support of the Government, Vietnam is a potential market for implementing tech startup models. Opportunities and challenges for fintech startups in Vietnam have been discussed by the author, from which solutions to develop fintech ecosystems are proposed in the upcoming time.

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