Cultural Evolution and Cultural Translation

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Ge Song
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
Chinese Overseas

In the early 20th century, Chinese communities in the then-Malay and Singapore began to take shape. The sudden shift of living conditions, especially the sociopolitical atmosphere, uprooted these migrated Chinese who had to adapt to new cultural realities of their host lands. This article argues for the cultural dimensions of Chinese overseas, particularly those in Malaysia and Singapore, as an object of translation studies, since these Chinese overseas have already shown a uniquely evolved culture that is different from that in China. Linguistic displacement in the same language is a reflection of cultural discrepancy resulted from cultural evolution, and cultural divergence innately calls for the intervention of cultural translation. This paper is expected to garner fruitful insights into the cultural translation between two geographically and culturally different Chinese communities.

scholarly journals Cultural evolution in Vietnam's early 20th century: A Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 100001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Quang-Khiem Bui ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Networks Analysis

Why do so many people with a name that is half Vietnamese, half foreign, answer questions about Vietnam? Can they represent Vietnamese?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.L. Cu Si
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Do So

One of the most seminal work on Vietnamese cultural evolution (the study of changes in culture that draws a lot of parallels to Darwinian biological evolution) is Cultural evolution in Vietnam's early 20th century: A Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs , which studied the architecture of multiple buildings of Hanoi’s Old Quarter and plotted them on a graph based on the probabilities that any given building would contain Buddhist, Chinese, and/or French decorations...

scholarly journals The Challenge and Value of applying ‘subjective interpretation’ with Bayesian network analysis in Arts and Cultures

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng ◽  
Le Tam Tri
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Networks Analysis

Art and Culture are very important aspects of humanity. However, due to their abstract nature, attempts to quantify the value of such fields have been the challenges for the scientific community. Recently, a new work of Vuong et al. (2019) presents an approach that sheds light on the possibility of applying Bayesian networks analysis to clarify the connection between architecture, for example, the design of the house façade and cultural evolution in Vietnamese city in the early 20th century. The data were partly created through the 'subjective interpretation' of the cultural evolution in 68 Vietnamese old houses. The way applying 'subjective interpretation' with Bayesian analysis is challenging, but its value is worth a try.

scholarly journals Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Bui Quang Khiem ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Technical Requirement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Architectural Transformation

The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions. Inspired by this computational movement, this study uses Bayesian networks analysis, combining both the frequentist and the Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, to investigate the highly representative elements in the cultural evolution of a Vietnamese city’s architecture in the early 20th century. With a focus on the façade design of 68 old houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter (based on 78 data lines extracted from 248 photos), the study argues that it is plausible to look at the aesthetics, architecture, and designs of the house façade to find traces of cultural evolution in Vietnam, which went through more than six decades of French colonization and centuries of sociocultural influence from China. The in-depth technical analysis, though refuting the presumed model on the probabilistic dependency among the variables, yields several results, the most notable of which is the strong influence of Buddhism over the decorations of the house façade. Particularly, in the top 5 networks with the best Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) scores and p<0.05, the variable for decorations (DC) always has a direct probabilistic dependency on the variable B for Buddhism. The paper then checks the robustness of these models using Hamiltonian MCMC method and find the posterior distributions of the models’ coefficients all satisfy the technical requirement. Finally, this study suggests integrating Bayesian statistics in the social sciences in general and for the study of cultural evolution and architectural transformation in particular.

scholarly journals Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Franco-Chinese house designs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Bui Quang Khiem ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Toan Manh Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Technical Requirement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Architectural Transformation

The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions. Inspired by this computational movement, this study uses Bayesian networks analysis, combining both the frequentist and the Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, to investigate the highly representative elements in the cultural evolution of a Vietnamese city’s architecture in the early 20th century. With a focus on the façade design of 68 old houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter (based on 78 data lines extracted from 248 photos), the study argues that it is plausible to look at the aesthetics, architecture, and designs of the house façade to find traces of cultural evolution in Vietnam, which went through more than six decades of French colonization and centuries of sociocultural influence from China. The in-depth technical analysis, though refuting the presumed model on the probabilistic dependency among the variables, yields several results, the most notable of which is the strong influence of Buddhism over the decorations of the house façade. Particularly, in the top 5 networks with the best Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) scores and p<0.05, the variable for decorations (DC) always has a direct probabilistic dependency on the variable B for Buddhism. The paper then checks the robustness of these models using Hamiltonian MCMC method and find the posterior distributions of the models’ coefficients all satisfy the technical requirement. Finally, this study suggests integrating Bayesian statistics in the social sciences in general and for the study of cultural evolution and architectural transformation in particular.

Challenge of applying ‘subjective interpretation’ with Bayesian network analysis in Art and Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Networks Analysis

Art and Culture are very important aspects of humanity. However, due to their abstract nature, attempts to quantify the value of such fields have been the challenges for the scientific community. Recently, a new work of Vuong et al. (2019) presents an approach that sheds light on the possibility of applying Bayesian networks analysis to clarify the connection between architecture, for example, the design of the house façade and cultural evolution in Vietnamese city in the early 20th century.

Challenge of applying ‘subjective interpretation’ with Bayesian network analysis in Art and Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Networks Analysis

Art and Culture are very important aspects of humanity. However, due to their abstract nature, attempts to quantify the value of such fields have been the challenges for scientific community. Recently, a new work of Vuong et al. (2019) presents an approach that sheds light on the possibility of applying Bayesian networks analysis to clarify the connection between architecture, for example, the design of the house façade and cultural evolution in Vietnamese city in the early 20th century.

scholarly journals Hanoi Old Quarter Houses: A View for Bayesian Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bui Dieu Quynh
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
People’S Perception ◽  
History Of

The mentioning of Hanoi – the capital city of Vietnam and the land of thousand years of civilization – depicts among both locals and tourists the image of the ‘Sword Lake’ with its ancient ‘Turtle Tower’ and the charming Old Quarter with its preserved shop-houses lying along small ancient commercial alleys. The houses in the old quarter constructed over a century ago which feature tube houses with inclined tile roofs and a blend of French architecture create the infusions of history and memory. One can easily find abundant research done on these townhouses, either in the collectibles of many authors, the quintessential drawings of talented painters, or in publications on the history of the Old Quarter. Among these, the recent work by Vuong et al. (2019) adds an extremely interesting view of the architectural features of Hanoi’s ancient townhouses as these features are viewed as dependent and independent variables. The study titled ‘Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: A Bayesian network analysis of Hanoi Franco- Chinese house designs’ aims to find traces of cultural evolution in the early 20th century in Vietnam and highlight the most notable elements that affect the Vietnamese people’s perception of cultural evolutions.

scholarly journals Extending the Explanatory Scope of Evolutionary Theory: The Origin of Historical Kinds in Biology and Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunter Wagner ◽  
Gary Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Population Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Synthesis ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Extended Evolutionary Synthesis ◽  
Modern Evolutionary Synthesis ◽  
Intellectual Challenge ◽  
Recent Extension

Since its inception, evolutionary theory has experienced a number of extensions. The most important of these took the forms of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (MES), embracing genetics and population biology in the early 20th century, and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of the last thirty years, embracing, among other factors, non-genetic forms of inheritance. While we appreciate the motivation for this recent extension, we argue that it does not go far enough, since it restricts itself to widening explanations of adaptation by adding mechanisms of inheritance and variation. A more thoroughgoing extension is needed, one that widens the explanatory scope of evolutionary theory. In addition to adaptation and its various mechanisms, evolutionary theory must recognize as a distinct intellectual challenge the origin of what we call “historical kinds.” Under historical kinds we include any process that acquires a quasi-independent and traceable lineage-history in biological and cultural evolution. We develop the notion of a historical kind in a series of paradigmatic exemplars, from genes and homologues to rituals and music, and we propose a preliminary characterization.

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