Volume 9

After a great disaster, people’s psychology often produces related problems and shadows. On July 20, 2021, people’s homes were destroyed after a rainstorm in Henan, China. The death or injury of a loved one. Some survivors even saw people die in front of their eyes. These are the reasons why people are traumatized. However, in modern society, people do not attach importance to the intervention of others and the importance of psychological counseling. Instead, they advocate self-regulation and self-digestion of these pains, fears, and anxieties. However, these cannot be resolved only by using personal power. As a result, people’s psychological state has become increasingly worrying. This paper uses the comments in the short video about the incident to study the information that can be displayed in the comments. For example, the content of comments by reviewers, the IP address of reviewers, and the number of likes or comments. The results show the psychological impact on people in Henan Province. Some of them have psychological trauma after the disaster. Besides, People in provinces adjacent to Henan Province had noticeable feelings, impressions, and attention to the event.

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In the northwest of China, there is the Taklamakan Desert, one of the largest deserts in the world, and under the dust, there is a prosperous city hidden. At the same time, in the depths of the desert, a ruined ancient city was sleeping. The two cities we are going to introduce today - Dunhuang and Loulan, are two very similar but completely different cities. The ruins of one of the cities have been buried by wind and sand, but the other city is still full of vitality until today. Loulan’s disillusionment is not just a natural factor, but the result of many different choices. We will analyze the endings of these two cities from three aspects (nature, human reasons, and religious reasons), and I also hope that you can gain some thoughts about “choice” while reading.

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English has become the most studied second language around the world. Regardless of nationality, speakers of another native language other than English face challenges in acquiring English due to their fixed linguistic habits. This is a phenomenon called negative transfer. Mandarin and Czech are completely unrelated in terms of language family; thus, they can be used in this study to prove that the interference of the mother tongue with English happens inevitably and usually shares common areas of negative transfers. Since the author is a native speaker of Mandarin and Czech, her knowledge of the lexical, phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of these languages is used to demonstrate why native speakers of these two languages are prone to making specific English mistakes. At the same time, it relies heavily on first-hand accounts of common English errors gathered by other researchers to improve the study’s dependability. The finding of this study argues that the negative transfer occurs because Mandarin and Czech lack the corresponding linguistic qualities of English. Native speakers of these two languages frequently struggle to remember English collocations, non-existent phonemes cannot be accurately pronounced, and similarly incompatible English tenses are used with errors. The absence of articles and the tendency for random word order also cause them to frequently go wrong in English usage. This research can be used as a resource for Chinese and Czech English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers to improve the quality of their classes.

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In the internet era, Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical theory has been applied and extended to the online realm. As self-presentation in the virtual world tends to become self-exhibition, new media has given rise to new social needs and modes. This study focuses on youth subculture enthusiasts on social media as a research subject, based on the theory of self-presentation, and explores the characteristics and social drivers of self-presentation on social media. Through analyzing specific aspects such as personal web pages, virtual community interactions, and freedom of expression on social media, the study highlights the connection between the unique transmission mechanisms of social media and the flourishing development of youth subcultures on the internet. As the youth subculture groups on the internet continue to grow, this paper also discusses possible directions for the self-presentation of subculture characteristics on social media.

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The focus on the living conditions of adolesecents has always been an important in Taiwanese cinema. This paper combines philosophical phenomenology represented by Merleau-Ponty’s body theory with the film phenomenology and unites the presentation of the cinematic body with the audience’s corporeal preception to achieve a phenomenological oneness of subject and object. This paper hopes to use The River as a case study to explore tsai’s concern for marginalized groups and how it evokes emotional resonance in the audience; simultaneously, by examining body narrative and body images, it discusses the audience’s visual experience and aesthetic recpetion on a physical and perceptual level, rather than only on a mental one, thus further stinulating academic thinking on the intersubjectivity of film and the body. Specifically, there will be three chapters for analysis: body narrative, situated bodies and role of film technology itself in facilitating the viewers’ visual experience.

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In response to the burgeoning Chinese Internet and mobile Internet landscape, new media has consistently undergone rapid evolution, subsequently ushering in a novel era for Chinese documentary filmmaking. As the documentary genre coalesces with new media, the emergent works, specifically designed for audiences in the digital age, are termed ‘new media documentaries’. These productions distinguish themselves from conventional documentaries in several ways, including investment and production by Internet companies, utilisation of innovative broadcasting techniques, and adoption of unconventional narrative structures. Moreover, new media documentaries strive to expand their business models and audience reach, as well as actively promote Chinese culture and values domestically. In this article, we examine and deliberate the influence of Chinese new media documentaries on the nation’s cultural landscape.

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Since the 1980s, Hong Kong film has had a wide impact on the world. Amongst this, crime films take a salient position. It results from the strong artistic tension within the production of crime films itself, and on the other hand, it provides us with rich material for studying the changing socio-cultural context of Hong Kong. The creation and dissemination of art is both a process of coding for the creator and a process of coding for the social context, a process that involves both the personal expression of the creator and inevitably the shaping of cultural codes by ideology. Since A Better Tomorrow, Hong Kong crime films, as a category of films closely connected to social reality, have had a significant impact in responding to social issues. The main content of Hong Kong crime films also has a strong role in shaping social contexts and influencing audiences’ perceptions in a subtle way. Therefore, in the process of creation, apart from thinking about the artistry of the films, the impact on the shaping of social perceptions of the films also needs to be taken into consideration.

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Moral hypocrisy refers to an act of having different moral standards for self and others (higher for others) and can also be manifested as showing good moral motives, but ultimately choosing to act more in one’s own interest. In real life, these people are called “hypocrites”. Starting from the literature of the past two decades, this article makes a systematic review of moral hypocrisy from the aspects of the definition, formation mechanism, influencing factors and consequences. Firstly, the concept, mechanism and manifestation of moral hypocrisy are discussed. Moreover, previous studies have found that the character of moral principles, emotions, individual traits, and cognitive components were the main influencing factors of moral hypocrisy. Moreover, moral hypocrisy also affects individuals’ moral judgement and social justice. The discussion and analysis of the antecedents and outcomes in this article offer some implications for further research and practice. More systematic and thorough research with ecological benefits needs to be conducted.

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When human labor is completely replaced by technology, what will become of human moral mechanism? The rapid changes in morality caused by the rapid development of science and technology undoubtedly make moral prediction more valuable. In this review, the theory of morality as cooperation, one of the latest moral theories, is used to speculate on the impact of this situation on human ethics. Through some discussion, this paper gets some hold prediction. Firstly, the principle of fairness predicts that an ostensibly altruistic society will emerge. Then some principles about distribution predict that labor value will be replaced by a value which, like labor, does not feel seriously unequal because of unmanageable gaps, and which is primarily for spiritual purposes. There is a pity that social institution can be predicted hardly, which silences a principle. This discussion may help people to make a necessary discussion in advance of a serious ethical conflict in the future, so as to make a trade-off and reduce the loss.

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Morality is a significant component of human behaviour norms and plays a crucial role. With the involvement of morality, a fundamental question must be asked: which behaviours should be considered “good”, and which should be considered “evil”? This involves the issue of the ethical evaluation criteria of morality. Among the whole question, it is clear that the standard that is truly important to morality evaluation should be discussed. Obviously, different theories have different attitudes toward it. For example, utilitarians insist that the value of morality comes from fulfilling people’s need, especially their emotional requirements, which means that only a movement that leads to a “good” result can be appraised as moral; moreover, deontologists argues that morality is made to demonstrate the transcendental and inevitable essence of human beings, such as liberty or free will, in other words, morality should be used to describe a motive which is accord with the essence. By discussing the debate between motivation theory and consequentialism, this article aims to investigate the two most important criteria for the evaluation of morality: whether it is universally valid and whether it is operable. Moreover, the analysis and discussion contribute to a more in-depth understanding of the fundamental ethical issue of identifying “goodness”.

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