Liang Yuchun's prose writing holds a unique value and significance in the history of modern Chinese literature. He approached writing with a passion for life, drawing upon concrete life experiences as creative material. His "whispering" style of youthful reflection reveals the intellectual atmosphere of an entire era. Through the interplay of his pessimistic and optimistic attitudes, he cast a skeptical eye on all forms of authority and truth, producing essays that shine with the light of human nature and uphold the spirit of freedom and independence. Deeply influenced by Charles Lamb and Six Dynasties literature, Liang's prose demonstrates the maturity of modern prose through a harmonious integration of Chinese and Western literary resources. Liang Yuchun is a neglected gem in the annals of modern literary history. Researching his prose offers new avenues for understanding prose writing and youth consciousness in the post-May Fourth era.

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The theory of existence is one of the core issues that must be discussed in religious philosophy, and Islamic philosophy is no exception. If the earlier Islamic philosophers, represented by the Ikhwan al-Safa, were often influenced by Greek philosophy and sought to address this issue through reason, later Sufis, represented by Ibn Arabi, placed more emphasis on the intuitive role of “revelation,” believing that only “revelation” could lead to a direct mystical understanding of the First Existence. Among these ideas, the most representative are Ibn Arabi’s “Oneness of Being” and Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi’s “Oneness of witnessing.” As core theories of Sufi philosophy, the introduction and comparison of these two forms of monism have remained enduring subjects of discussion, though most discussions tend to lack depth. Therefore, the author intends to conduct a more in-depth comparative study of these two monisms, using the relationship between tazahhud (transcendence) and tashbih (immanence) as the main thread. This study aims to restore the original form of the “Oneness of Being,” and further demonstrate that the differences between the two are not a vast divide. On the contrary, it could be argued that Suhrawardi’s “Oneness of witnessing” (in an epistemological sense) is a clarification and return to the “Oneness of Being.”

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This study explores the spatial transformation of contemporary performance art between theater and art museum. By tracing the adaptive changes of performance works in different locations, this article reveals how Black Box Theater and White Cube Gallery foster the transformation of aesthetic expression and creative logic. Combining the perspectives of drama theory and spatial criticism, this article proposes that performance space is not only an artistic container but also a co-creator of meaning generation. Typical cases of traditional theater, contemporary art museum, and remade industrial space are selected to analyze how the site characteristics reconstruct performance relationships, narrative strategies, and institutional discourse. Iconic works such as Marina Abramovich's The Artist is Present, along with site-specific creative practices, demonstrate the revolutionary challenge of mixed spaces to theater and visual art paradigms. It is found that different spatial forms can profoundly affect the perceptual intensity, emotional transmission and political metaphor of performing arts, which opens a new possible avenue for interdisciplinary artistic practice.

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This article introduces a mixed-methods study examining the psychological effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools on the research writing processes of English as a Second Language (L2) graduate students. While previous research has highlighted GenAI’s benefits for language accuracy and efficiency, its influence on procrastination and anxiety remains underexplored. This proposed study will employ a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) combined with qualitative phenomenology to investigate how GenAI tools reshape self-regulation strategies and emotional states during academic writing. Focusing on 120 Chinese graduate students, the research will compare three experimental conditions: GenAI use with AI detection protocols, GenAI use without detection, and a non-AI control group. Quantitative data from validated procrastination and anxiety scales will be integrated with reflective journals and semi-structured interviews. The study seeks to enhance theoretical frameworks concerning technology-mediated writing anxiety and guide ethical AI integration policies.

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