This paper provides a policy-oriented overview of the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in China, examining it as a living carrier of national identity. While ICH is deeply rooted in China’s 5000-year civilization—encompassing everything from Kunqu Opera to traditional tea-making—it currently faces significant dilemmas, including inheritance breakage, shrinking cultural spaces, and the tension between preservation and economic development. Drawing on a narrative review of Chines...

Culture  History 

With the rapid development of cross-border agricultural e-commerce, consumer reviews have become a critical data source reflecting product quality and service experience. This study focuses on consumer reviews of agricultural products on cross-border e-commerce platforms and employs natural language processing techniques, specifically LDA topic modeling and BERT-based sentiment analysis, to explore consumer feedback on language services—including product translation, cultural adaptation, and cus...

Culture  Language Education  Linguistics 

Henan Opera, a key Chinese intangible cultural heritage, faces significant barriers in global dissemination due to profound cultural distance extending beyond language to include aesthetic and contextual gaps. Traditional outreach methods struggle to bridge this divide. Drawing on qualitative data from multiple stakeholder groups and comparative case analysis, the study develops the AI-VR Integrated Communication Model as a new paradigm for understanding technology-mediated intercultural engagem...

Culture  Art 

The best inheritance of history is to create new history. Zhejiang, an important stop along the ancient Maritime Silk Road, boasts a rich variety of relics of the Maritime Silk Road Culture and is currently protecting, inheriting and developing this culture through assorted activities. Promoting the global expansion of Zhejiang’s Maritime Silk Road culture requires a solid theoretical foundation: the key communication content of this culture should be refined from the perspectives of perceptible...

Culture 

Taking the attitudinal system in Martin’s Appraisal Theory as the analytical framework, this study takes news reports in The Economist’s dedicated China column from 2020 to 2025 as the research corpus. Adopting an integrated method of corpus-based quantitative annotation and critical discourse analysis, this paper examines the distribution patterns of attitudinal resources, discursive strategies, and the mechanism through which China’s national image is constructed. The findings show that the co...

Culture  Linguistics 

This study investigates how VR technology transforms the translation of culture-loaded terms from linguistic conversion to multimodal meaning production. Using the “Qi Culture VR Museum” as a case study, we demonstrate that VR enables an active process of meaning reconstruction through “perceptual construction” and “context generation.” By integrating multimodal analysis with critical theory, this research develops an “immersive translation” model to analyze how concepts like “Jixia Academy” are...

Culture  Linguistics 

Drawing on journal articles indexed in CNKI and the Web of Science Core Collection, this study conducts a systematic review and comparative analysis of Chinese and international research on AI-empowered foreign language and translation teaching. Specifically, 104 Chinese literature pieces published between 2020 and 2025, and 200 English literature pieces published between 2006 and 2025 were included in the survey. By adopting bibliometric methods and knowledge mapping with CiteSpace, the study e...

Artificial Intelligence  Pedagogy  Culture  Statistics  Computer Vision  Computer graphics and visualization  Technology  Linguistics  Literature 

The Absent Black Father is important since fathers are critical to maintaining stability within a traditional family structure. According to (Rosenberg et al., 2006) [1], children growing up without a father are at greater risks for partaking in high activities like illegal drug usage, high alcohol consumption, greater emotional problems, and engagement in other illegal activities. The article highlights the importance of Absent Black fathers and young African American males and the nee...

Culture 

Against the backdrop of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) going global, this study focuses on the global communication of bamboo weaving, a traditional Chinese ICH craft. Using online fieldwork, the study draws on an integrated theoretical framework of 5W Communication Model and Platform Affordance Theory. It explores core challenges, practical needs, prominent characteristics and optimization strategies for bamboo weaving’s international promotion, identifying bottlenecks like inadequate multi...

Culture  Journalism and Communication  Anthropology 

This paper is a descriptive study of segmental and supra-segmental features of English and Ịzọn languages as well as the interference that occurs in the spoken English performance of Ịzọn English bilinguals. It investigates the differences in the sound systems of both languages that result in interference. Through the literature and by observation, the researcher noted alarming phonological errors or interference in the spoken English performance of Ịzọn speak...

Culture