Volume 10

With the development of the new media era and the continuous maturation of internet technology, many new forms of media have emerged, with short videos arising in this context. Some high-quality short videos, focusing on promoting outstanding traditional values, have become hot topics in contemporary communication. These videos, with distinct characteristics of the times, have become one of the important ways for major media to undergo creative transformation. Therefore, this paper uses Escape from the British Museum as a case study to analyze the advantages of short video media communication on social media platforms in the context of new media, aiming to promote the high-quality development of short video media.

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This research examines the impacts of combining mindfulness training with music lessons on the emotional regulation, mental health, and attention of high-school students. Across a 12-week course, 100 15–18-year-old students were exposed to rhythmic movements, instrumental sounds and mindful movement. Qualitative measures, measured with standardised scales, indicated substantial gains in emotional regulation and stress reduction, with average scores increasing 29.6% for emotional regulation and decreasing 20.2% for stress. Assistiveness scores rose as well by 24.6%, indicating the cognitive impact of the intervention. In student journals, qualitative reporting showed a similar shift towards calmness, self-awareness and community, with students reporting that sessions were an enjoyable break from schoolwork. The short-term effects of the study are promising, but because no follow-up is conducted, we do not know how they will affect longer-term outcomes. Research should investigate how different musical instruments and cultural differences impact mindfulness training across a wide range of educational contexts. These results reveal that mindfulness-based music programmes can promote students’ mental wellbeing and academic engagement, and provide a holistic solution to well-being in schools.

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This research investigates the monosyllabic and disyllabic syllable patterns that Indo-European Chinese language learners prefer for same-morpheme nouns. In a qualitative and quantitative study that used a mix of methods, information was collected from participants at beginner, intermediate and high-level proficiency levels to test for syllable structure preferences. Preferences were measured on tasks like the Noun Repetition Task and the Structure Selection Task, and examined for correlations with proficiency. The findings suggest that beginners learn more strongly disyllabic structures, possibly due to being exposed to polysyllabic structures in their own native tongues, whereas intermediate learners gradually move towards monosyllabic forms. Advanced learners favour monosyllabic forms with greater phonological flexibility. Statistical tests such as correlation and Chi-square test showed these patterns to be statistically significant. These results provide interesting data on phonological acquisition in second-language acquisition, which have implications for how language teachers can deliver instruction that accommodates learners’ proficiency-based syllable-construction preferences.

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This essay explores the two notions of emancipation and inheritance in the films of recent Chinese new generation filmmakers by exploring their revisionist revisement of old film stereotypes in order to capture modern Chinese society. This liberation from linear structure, scripted character design and sterile editing makes these filmmakers have a distinct cinematic syntax for existential uncertainty, personal aspiration and uncompromising realism. Meanwhile, they take on and recycle old themes, symbols and narrative structures, weaving cultural continuity into contemporary retellings. This dissertation delved into films like Kaili Blues, Ash Is Purest White and The Piano in a Factory to see how filmmakers of the new generation are capable of balancing innovation with homage in order to bring viewers films that are culturally and globally sensitive. In this essay, I want to reveal how these filmmakers have kept the identity of Chinese cinema alive while working with contemporary narrative challenges, making Chinese cinema a force to reckon with on a world stage.

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This paper investigates the effect of music therapy on symptoms, social performance, and emotional regulation in individuals with ASD, depression, and anxiety. Through organised but flexible exercises such as rhythmic breathing, songwriting and chanting, music therapy has become a supplement to conventional treatments that treat the social, emotional and physiological dimensions of these conditions. For people with ASD, music therapy helps them to gain nonverbal communication and social skills. When it comes to depression, music therapy provides a safe space for the expression of emotion and enhances neurochemistry that stabilises mood. For anxiety management, music therapy reduces physiological symptoms and offers ways to cope in the long run. They used a mixed method, combining quantitative (SRS, HDRS, STAI scores) and qualitative feedback to assess the efficacy of the therapy. These outcomes improved dramatically in all groups, especially in the music therapy groups, demonstrating its efficacy as a treatment for mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders. Such results point to the potential for music therapy to increase social interaction, emotional well-being and wellbeing.

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This study investigates whether the presence of explicit cross-cultural pragmatics instruction in L2 learners improves communicative skills. Focusing on practical pedagogy and cultural sensitivity, the study evaluates whether formalised instruction in politeness, face-saving and indirectness improves students’ intercultural sensitivity. By way of an experiment, subjects were randomly assigned to an experimental group that received focused pragmatic teaching and a control group that received regular language tuition. It turns out that, in our experiments, explicit teaching did dramatically enhance the performance of the experimental group in role-play tests – suggesting an enhanced capacity to change language use to suit different cultures. From this research, it appears that explicit pragmatics training makes it possible for learners to make linguistic decisions with precision, in a way that is both linguistic and culturally correct. Giving students these tools, clear pragmatic training makes for more assured and versatile L2 speakers and hence a richer language acquisition that responds to the demands of global communication.

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This essay considers the spread and reception of Dream of the Red Chamber in the West through the theory of aesthetic reception. Though it was originally read with wonder and Orientalist suspicion, its Western reception has progressed through increasing exposure to Chinese culture and literature, gaining an appreciation of its thematic and cultural depth. In its conception, aesthetic reception theory, developed by Hans Robert Jauss, emphasises the openness of reading, even when texts traverse linguistic and cultural borders. The paper covers translation issues confronting Dream of the Red Chamber translators, such as interpreting culturally distinctive symbols, reusing narrative conventions, and conveying Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist philosophical concepts. By investigating choices in translation and their effect on reception, the paper illustrates how cultural translation turns the text around for Western readers, turning Dream of the Red Chamber from an exotic object into a world literature classic. If it takes account of the significance of cultural exchange in translation, this research offers a glimpse of the future of Chinese literature’s global influence.

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Digital feminism is an innovative approach to gender equality, and social media has also served as a key tool in the growth of feminist voices and activism. In Asia, a region where patriarchy and cultural conventions have shaped social order to a considerable degree, social media has served as a fertile ground for advocacy and mobilisation. This essay examines how social media is used as both a form of empowerment and conflict, including advocacy on the web, the creation of online communities, and the culturalisation of feminist movements. But it also exposes broader barriers, such as online bullying, the digital divide and state censorship, that prevent digital feminism from developing and becoming more inclusive in Asia. Taking this perspective, the paper examines the activist use of digital technologies to advance feminist values in diverse and politically closed environments. This finding highlights the need for systemic solutions to close digital divides, defend online activists and create inclusive digital communities. It also contributes to the discussion of how technology, culture and feminism go hand in hand and what it means for social media-driven feminist movements in Asia to flourish or fail.

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Previous research on the Tujia epic Sheba Songs has primarily relied on qualitative methods, which are less conducive to objectively examining the text’s features. This paper introduces quantitative research methods to explore the textual characteristics of Sheba Songs and compares its features with those of regulated verse, modern Chinese poetry, and Chinese folk songs. The structure of the study is as follows: (1) From the perspective of word frequency distribution, Zipf’s law is employed to verify the “naturalness” of the Sheba Songs text. (2) From the perspective of part-of-speech probability distribution, clustering indices reveal that, compared to regulated verse, the stylistic features of Sheba Songs are closer to those of modern Chinese poetry. (3) Clustering experiments using relevant clustering indices confirm the inclination of Sheba Songs toward the characteristics of “folk balladization.”

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Artificially-generated characters in movies have radically altered conventional cinema, creating entirely new mechanisms of perception and feeling. This research investigates the psychological effects of artificial character, including how realistically, empathetically and trust-based traits impact audience reactions. Drawing on cognitive processing, social conditioning and ethical implications, the article examines the emotional bond (or lack of it) that viewers feel between artificial characters. Data suggests that intensely realistic AI characters are potentially empathetic and absorbing, but they come with their own unique difficulties, like the "uncanny valley" effect and ethical questions around AI autonomy. In this way, the paper shows how AI is increasingly a force for storytelling and emotional connection, which can help filmmakers optimise how audiences engage with virtual characters. Knowing these dynamics can help developers anticipate audience reactions and leverage AI characters to augment films. This study adds to the ongoing debate about AI’s contributions to media psychology and narrative.

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