Hasil untuk "Chinese language and literature"

Zhanhong Xi, Lubing Zhu, Xiaolian Peng

BackgroundThis study aimed to systematically and comprehensively analyze global research trends, knowledge structure, and emerging hotspots in acupuncture for herpes zoster (HZ) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN).MethodsPublications from January 1, 2015, to October 1, 2025 were retrieved from six major databases, including CNKI, Wanfang, Weipu, Web of Science Core Collection, PubMed, and Scopus. CiteSpace and VOSviewer were employed to perform co-authorship, co-citation, and keyword analyses, visualizing research collaborations, thematic evolution, and knowledge networks.ResultsA total of 2,309 publications (2,165 Chinese and 144 English) were included. In the Chinese databases, publication output peaked in 2018, while English-language publications steadily increased, surpassing 20 per year after 2022. All Chinese studies originated in China, whereas 21 countries contributed to the English-language literature, with China, the United States, Australia, and South Korea as the top contributors. Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine were the most productive institutions. Co-authorship and citation analyses identified core authors and influential journals, including PAIN, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and J Pain Res. Keyword co-occurrence and clustering analyses revealed frequent topics in Chinese publications, such as PHN, acupuncture and cupping, fire needle, TCM, and Jiaji point, whereas English publications frequently addressed HZ, PHN, neuropathic pain, management, and acupuncture. Timeline and citation-burst analyses indicated shifts in research focus over time, with early studies emphasizing traditional techniques and clinical efficacy, and later studies increasingly addressing mechanisms, patient-reported outcomes, and systematic evidence synthesis.ConclusionGlobal research on acupuncture for HZ and PHN has increasingly shifted toward precision and evidence-based approaches. Comparative analysis indicates that Chinese literature primarily emphasizes clinical applications and traditional Chinese medicine techniques, whereas international studies focus more on methodological rigor and mechanistic evidence, underscoring the need for strengthened international collaboration and high-quality multicenter trials to advance the field.

Wei Tu, Wei-Chiao Huang, Nianzhai Ma et al.

Abstract Employing a machine learning measure, we find that mixed ownership reform in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) significantly advances digitalisation. This effect is primarily achieved through the pay-performance sensitivities of management and corporate risk-taking; it is particularly pronounced in competitive industries and among corporate decision-makers who did not experience the Great Chinese Famine during childhood. Our study not only explores digitalisation measures with the help of cutting-edge natural language processing techniques but also expands the literature on digitalisation motivation and the impact of mixed ownership reform on business decisions. The findings have important implications for promoting digitalisation strategies in SOEs.

Yaoxiu Zhu, Yaoxiu Zhu, Haidong Lu et al.

PurposeAcademic adjustment is essential for the academic success of higher vocational college students. Although previous research has explored the role of perceived peer support in the academic adjustment of general undergraduate students, its role and underlying mechanisms in this group remain unclear. This study aims to explore the relationship between perceived peer support and academic adjustment, focusing on the chain mediating roles of academic hope and professional identity.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted among 9,075 students from 35 higher vocational colleges across 15 provinces and cities in China, using multi-stage stratified random sampling. Validated scales were used to measure perceived peer support, academic adjustment, academic hope, and professional identity.ResultsThe findings revealed that perceived peer support not only directly influences academic adjustment but also exerts an indirect effect through the individual mediation of academic hope and professional identity, as well as through the sequential mediation from academic hope to professional identity.ConclusionPerceived peer support, academic hope, and professional identity significantly promote academic adjustment among higher vocational college students. These findings provide theoretical insights into the mechanisms of academic adjustment and offer practical implications for educational strategies, emphasizing the importance of fostering perceived peer support, academic hope, and professional identity to enhance students’ academic success.

Wei Xiong, Tianhui An

Abstract Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant global public health issue, with a substantial population in China. Influenced by traditional Chinese medicine that links kidney health to sexual vitality, people with CKD in China face unique societal stigmatization. This study aimed to explore the stigmatization experiences of individuals with CKD in China and their corresponding coping strategies. Employing a focused ethnographic approach, this research utilized participant observation within three WeChat groups and conducted offline semi-structured interviews with 30 individuals. The analysis of interviews and field transcripts reveals that people with CKD in China adopt a dualistic coping strategy metaphorically described as “huddling for warmth”: they externally conceal their condition to avoid social stigma while internally cultivating a strong communal identity through online and offline interactions. Despite the prevalent stigma, these individuals demonstrate remarkable resilience and agency through their proactive coping mechanisms. This study highlights the urgent need for the Chinese government, medical institutions, and the public to address this deep-rooted stigma and foster a more inclusive and supportive environment to enhance the well-being of people living with CKD.

Advances in Multimedia

Ahmad A. M. Abushariah, Hua-Nong Ting, Mumtaz Begum Peer Mustafa et al.

In this technological era, smart and intelligent systems that are integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, algorithms, tools, and technologies, have impact on various aspects in our daily life. Communication and interaction between human and machine using speech become increasingly important, since it is an obvious substitute for keyboards and screens in the communication process. Therefore, numerous technologies take advantage of speech such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), where human natural speech for many languages is used as the means to interact with machines. Majority of the related works on ASR concentrate on the development and evaluation of ASR systems that serve a single language only, such as Arabic, English, Chinese, French, and many others. However, research attempts that combine multiple languages (bilingual and multilingual) during the development and evaluation of ASR systems are very limited. This paper aims to provide comprehensive research background and fundamentals of bilingual ASR, and related works that have combined two languages for ASR tasks from 2010 to 2021. It also formulates research taxonomy and discusses open challenges to the bilingual ASR research. Based on our literature investigation, it is clear that bilingual ASR using deep learning approach is highly demanded and is able to provide acceptable performance. In addition, many combinations of two languages such as Arabic-English, Arabic-Malay, and others, are still limited, which can open new research opportunities. Finally, it is clear that ASR research is moving towards not only bilingual ASR, but also multilingual ASR.

Rostislav Berezkin

<i>Baojuan</i> (precious scrolls) are a type of prosimetric literature in the vernacular language that flourished in the lower Yangzi valley between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most <i>baojuan</i> texts are devoted to religious themes, often involving wondrous figures and events which can be characterized as “supernatural”. The <i>Precious Scroll of Wang Hua</i> (<i>Wang Hua baojuan</i> 王花寶卷) is a comparatively late text centered on the marvelous apparitions leading to the salvation of a lay person. It is a widespread text of the southern “scroll recitation” tradition as it survives in Changshu, Jiangsu, but to date, it has not received attention from scholars of Chinese popular literature and religion. Still, it is important for understanding the origins, development, and functions of precious scrolls and their contribution to the field of Chinese popular religion. The original text of the <i>Precious Scroll of Wang Hua</i> formed ca. end of the nineteenth century, but the present research mainly uses the manuscript version of a modern performer from the vicinity of Changshu (ca. 1995). This narrative combines two major topics of the wondrous manifestation of Bodhisattva Guanyin and the descent to Hell. Both topics can be traced back to the early “miracle tales”. Here, they have been adapted to the local life and cultural setting. The figure of the skeptical and egoistic Wang Hua who initially rejected the injunctions of Guanyin is a type well known to the modern audiences of <i>baojuan</i>. Thus, the supernatural elements serve the purpose of reconfirming traditional beliefs and values in the contemporary society.

Jiazhou Yao, Marianne Turner, Gary Bonar

ABSTRACT In order to distinguish between language-related ideologies, Ruiz (1984) proposed three language orientations, namely ‘language-as-problem’, ‘language-as-right’ and ‘language-as-resource’. Although this typology has been applied to various countries and regions around the globe, relevant research in China, a multi-ethnolinguistic country, remains limited. Through a review of China’s minority language policies and relevant literature, this paper explores the application of Ruiz’s theory to the context of China and proposes two possible directions which can complement this theory. Firstly, the study found that there are different layers, complexities, and even contradictions under a broad/unified language orientation, and that minority languages can be simultaneously positioned as a ‘right’, a ‘resource’ and a ‘problem’. Secondly, by investigating a particular ethnic minority language (the Nuosu Yi language), the study found that the written (literacy) and spoken (oracy) skills of the language can be positioned differently in language-in-education policies and practices. We therefore propose that a critical ‘biliteracy continua’ lens (Hornberger 2004) can provide further analytical nuance to the language orientations put forward by Ruiz (1984).

Chuanyu Peng, Jianda Liu, Hongwen Cai

Faten A. Alqahtani

Existing literature indicates that assessment is a critical aspect of teaching and learning language; the outcomes of testing are vital. The history of assessment can be traced back to when exams primarily served two significant purposes in China: choosing candidates for admission into government offices and preventing corruption. Washback as a concept can be traced back to the 1990s. It was advanced by Alderson and Wall in 1993 as a force that obliges test-takers and tutors to engage in particular tasks or activities due to exams. In this regard, washback is an impact that a test has on the teaching and learning process. High-stakes exams like the LOBELA demonstrate the significance of washback in the Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language context. This paper explores the mechanisms through which washback occurs in teaching and learning processes, ways to determine its validity, and different types of washback. It further highlights the impact of washback in promoting teaching and learning processes, as well as the role it plays in policy development in the educational system.

Akshay R. Maggu, Akshay R. Maggu, Akshay R. Maggu et al.

In the current study, we aimed at understanding the effect of exposure to complex input on speech sound development, by conducting a systematic meta-analysis review of the existing treatment-based studies employing complex input in children with speech sound disorders. In the meta-analysis review, using a list of inclusion criteria, we narrowed 280 studies down to 12 studies. Data from these studies were extracted to calculate effect sizes that were plotted as forest plots to determine the efficacy of complexity-based treatment approaches. The outcome variables of interest were improvement on the treated and generalization to the untreated sounds. Meta-analysis revealed that the exposure to complex input not only promoted improvement in production of complex speech sounds (d = 1.08, CI = 0.98–1.19) but also facilitated the production of untreated simple speech sounds (d = 2.69, CI = 1.98–3.54). Overall, the current findings revealed that the exposure to complex input promotes acquisition of both complex and simple speech sounds. The current findings are in line with the models of language learnability. The current findings have implications in the treatment of speech sound disorders.

Ágnes Birtalan

About the Workshop organised by the Department of Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies and the Research Centre for Mongolian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) related to the Thematic Excellence Program “Community Building: Family and Nation, Tradition and Innovation”.

Yang Gao

Given that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has penetrated most, if not all, fields in China and the countries along the road, this paper attempts to join the existing literature by providing a unique perspective (language planning) to understand the BRI and its impacts. The article presents the way in which the BRI has informed language planning policies among China and approximately 65 countries along the road. From an ecological standpoint, it proposes how BRI language planning aims at promoting and constructing a language-and-discourse ecosystem. Taking an interpretive policy analysis method, it analyzes policy documents and the existing literature by elaborating upon the planners, purposes and principles involved in designing the language planning initiative. Specifically, different ministries, departments and committees have worked together to propose a systemic, sustainable language plan for BRI; BRI language planning then serves communication, discourse power, global governance and socioeconomics purposes. Under the overarching ecosystem planning, specific planning principles, including Chinese language status planning, foreign language planning, language structure planning, language-in-education planning and language service planning, co-evolve to sustain the system. Instead of simply depicting the language-and-discourse ecosystem, this article also discusses challenges that BRI language planning initiative might meet along the way of its implementation, including the avoidance of making language unity the same as language imperialism, and continued efforts to balance language internationalization and language localization.

You Su, Yanyan Li, Hening Hu et al.

Luyao Liang, Hui Li, Alice Chik

Abstract Although English is taught to students worldwide at different educational levels, the actual implementation of early childhood English language education (ECELE) may vary from country to country. This study aims to comprehensively compare how ECELE is being put into practice in China and Australia, where young children learn English as a foreign language and as an additional language or dialect, respectively. Based on a critical analysis of relevant policy documents and the empirical studies found in the literature, this paper provides a detailed account and comparison of how ECELE is delivered in China and Australia. It is found that despite their different sociolinguistic contexts, the educational authorities in both countries share the same ostrich policy and inactive involvement in overseeing and directing ECELE. The implications for policymaking are also addressed.

Zecheng Xie, Zenghui Sun, Lianwen Jin et al.

Online handwritten Chinese text recognition (OHCTR) is a challenging problem as it involves a large-scale character set, ambiguous segmentation, and variable-length input sequences. In this paper, we exploit the outstanding capability of path signature to translate online pen-tip trajectories into informative signature feature maps, successfully capturing the analytic and geometric properties of pen strokes with strong local invariance and robustness. A multi-spatial-context fully convolutional recurrent network (MC-FCRN) is proposed to exploit the multiple spatial contexts from the signature feature maps and generate a prediction sequence while completely avoiding the difficult segmentation problem. Furthermore, an implicit language model is developed to make predictions based on semantic context within a predicting feature sequence, providing a new perspective for incorporating lexicon constraints and prior knowledge about a certain language in the recognition procedure. Experiments on two standard benchmarks, Dataset-CASIA and Dataset-ICDAR, yielded outstanding results, with correct rates of 97.50 and 96.58 percent, respectively, which are significantly better than the best result reported thus far in the literature.

You Su, Yanyan Li, Jyh‐Chong Liang et al.

Abstract In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among language educators in implementing and researching collaborative learning in wiki-based learning environments. However, little empirical evidence has been reported about the role of EFL learners’ online self-regulating capacity in their collaborative learning. This study used wiki-based literature circles as an instructional method to engage EFL learners in collaborative learning. Using a mixed research method, this study examined the under-researched relationship between learners’ online self-regulation and their attitude toward learning through wiki-based literature circles activities. Quantitative data were collected from two surveys, the online self-regulated English learning (OSEL) and the attitude toward wiki-based literature circles (AWLC), among 228 university students in China. Qualitative data were collected from a follow-up interview of 13 participants to explore further the interplay between the students’ online self-regulation and their attitude. The results indicated that students hold positive attitude toward learning through wiki-based literature circles in terms of perceived usefulness, self-efficacy, affection, and behavior. The findings partially confirmed the positive correlations between students’ self-regulated learning strategies and their attitudes. More interestingly, stepwise regression analysis revealed that students’ goal setting acted as a significant predicator of their perceived usefulness of and self-efficacy in completing wiki-based literature circles activities. Self-evaluation was found to be the variable to predict the learners’ affection for and behavior in doing this task. This study highlighted the positive role of students’ goal setting and self-evaluation for explaining their attitude toward wiki-based collaborative learning. Pedagogical implications and future work are also addressed.

K. Idemaru, Peipei Wei, Lucy Gubbins

Lina Vyas, Baohua Yu

D. Kwok

ABSTRACT Good quality teacher education and training has been acknowledged as an effective strategy to reduce sexual prejudice against sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning/queer [LGBQ]) students. However, no mandated programmes have been developed to include LGBQ-related content in teacher training in Hong Kong, a Chinese society in which heterosexism prevails. Based on the concepts of sexual prejudice, minority stress and contact theory, this paper explores the international and regional literature on LGBQ students’ school experiences, highlighting the significant role teachers play in supporting these students to transgress sexual prejudice, and presenting suggested themes and strategies for teacher training programmes, drawn from qualitative interviews with eleven Chinese teacher allies. Data analysis led to the identification of the following themes: 1) starting sexual diversity training officially; 2) reconsidering assumptions; 3) engaging with relevant cultural knowledge and skills; and 4) using dialogue as a training strategy. This paper argues that accurate content about sexual diversity should be incorporated into the professional teacher training curriculum, with updated sexuality concepts and prejudice-free, LGBQ-inclusive language relevant to the Chinese cultural context. Teachers need to become more aware of how sexual prejudice is manifested through cultural forces. Intergroup contact can be included as a useful training strategy.