Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

A Study of the Effectiveness of Narrative Patient-centered Counseling

Yijia Wei — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800

This study aims to investigate the effects of narrative patient care on depression index, anxiety index and DT index of cancer patients. Through the experiment, patient education sessions were implemented for 100 cancer patients, practicing the three elements of narrative medicine—attention, reproduction and belonging, observing the psychological pain and anxiety and depression changes of infectious disease combined with tumor patients after narrative patient education sessions, and observing the changes of empathic ability and narrative ability of the participating healthcare personnel, so as to analyze the reality and generalizable significance of narrative patient education sessions practiced in the clinic, and to provide reference for the subsequent clinical work. The experimental group is planned to include a total of 100 cases in the experimental group. A total of 100 cases of the experimental group were planned to be included.

Shaping Aesthetics and Stimulating Demand: An Analysis of “Facial Attractiveness Analysis” Videos

Xu Guo — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800

In an effort to evade strict regulations and garner more attention, the cosmetic medicine industry has embraced major online video platforms as crucial marketing channels. Platforms like Bilibili in China host a plethora of videos centered around celebrity facial aesthetics. This study aims to ascertain whether the creators of these videos are professional marketers by analyzing the content features, uncovering their objectives, and gauging audience attitudes. The research, conducted on the well-known Chinese video platform Bilibili, confirms that "aesthetic analysis" videos serve as a form of online marketing in the cosmetic medicine field. Their primary purpose is to subtly shape the audience's aesthetic standards, stimulate cosmetic desires by emphasizing the gap between ideal and reality, yet the audience generally responds positively to such videos.

Research on the Cultural Creative Design of the "Indirect Eight Immortals" from the Semiotics Perspective

Xinyi Duan — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800

The Chinese people have a keen aptitude for employing symbolism to convey the concept of "good luck" via the theme of "Eight Immortals." A notable exemplification of this is the concept of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and Displaying Their Divine Skills." This term is derived from Chinese folklore, where individuals employed symbols of the objects held by the Eight Immortals as emblems, rather than the deities themselves. The "Indirect Eight Immortals" frequently materialize in folk art and are a fundamental aspect of Chinese culture that signifies good luck, embodying the trend of symbolization in Chinese auspicious art. Within the framework of semiotics, we propose to preserve the continuous legacy of Indirect Eight Immortals culture, simplifying its patterns to emphasize design focus and fostering a dialogue between traditional Indirect Eight Immortals culture and modern design. This aims to provide a guiding principle for creating an aesthetic layout with a distinctive national style, leading fashion, and promoting the inheritance and development of Chinese culture.

Symbol deduction: Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments’ Creative representation on Streaming Media

Jinhui Jiang — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800

Due to the development of economy and the Internet, traditional Chinese musical instruments have gradually broken away from the limitations of elegant performance venues like concerts, and have entered the lives of more ordinary people through streaming media works such as animation, games, and online museums as a traditional Chinese cultural symbol. In animation, ekphrasis has enriched the meaning of musical instrument symbols through tangibility, reflecting the influence of traditional Chinese musical instruments; in games, traditional musical instruments have broken through the simple value as a kind of tool and expanded the value of consumer symbol as a social currency; and the online museums have developed due to the digital migration of traditional musical instruments, promoting the traditional musical instruments among the general public.

The Evolution of Chinese 007- “JINYIWEI”: From Authoritarian Sector to Charismatic Secret Agent

Qiaozhuo Li — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800

The Jinyiwei, a historically significant governmental institution, holds considerable prominence as a symbol within contemporary Chinese popular culture. This study utilizes the theory of markedness to explicate the evolutionary trajectory of the Jinyiwei symbol-recognized as emblematic of Chinese secret agents. The societal perception of the Jinyiwei has undergone a substantial transformation, influenced by the rapid proliferation of Chinese movies and games. Formerly characterized by “The Marked”, the image of the Jinyiwei has progressively shifted towards to “The Unmarked”.

The public's perception of the Chinese secret agent emblem has experienced a noteworthy transformation, transitioning from the negative portrayal as "hounds and butchers" to a more positive and alluring depiction as "royal agents." The rise of this phenomenon serves as a conspicuous illustration of the heteronomous inversion of conventional Chinese symbols within the contemporary digital media landscape.

Utopia in Gears: The Spiritual Core and Aesthetic Culture of Steampunk Style

Wenjie Zheng — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0800

Steampunk is an aesthetic style based on the Western steam era, which has distinct artistic characteristics and is constantly evolving and innovating under the impetus of the times. As a subculture, steampunk explores society and history with a specific aesthetic imagination, which contains spiritual cores such as optimism, rebellion and freedom. At the same time, under the macro background of increasingly aesthetic contemporary culture, steampunk leads the design innovation and consumption fashion, feeds back the industrial heritage and urban reconstruction, promotes the collage of fragments and the integration of East and West, and demonstrates the expansion of science and technology to artistic creation. Therefore, this essay uses aesthetic theory to observe and analyze the steampunk style, explore its profound spiritual core and rich aesthetic culture, which is of great significance for a deeper understanding of its philosophical connotation and speculative spirit.