Studies on Cultural Soft Power

The Formative Origins, Scientific Connotation, and Value Implications of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture

Xi Jinping Thought on Culture represents the cultural dimension of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing fundamental guiding principles for the flourishing development of socialist culture in the new era. The formation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture stems from multiple sources: the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the cultural theories of classical Marxist writers, the achievements of the Chinese Communist Party in cultural construction, and the evolving domestic and international landscape since the advent of the new era. In terms of its scientific connotation, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is committed to continuously meeting the spiritual needs of the people, upholding the Party's leadership over cultural work, building a modern civilization for the Chinese nation, implementing the “second integration”,promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, and enhancing the influence and dissemination of Chinese culture. Regarding its value implications, Xi Jinping Thought on Culture enriches and develops Marxist cultural theory, offers scientific theoretical guidance for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and contributes Chinese wisdom to the development of global civilization.

The Concentration of Chinese-Style Modernization Process: A Study of Cultural Strategies in Early Canton Fair Exhibitions

The Canton Fair resorted to exhibitions to describe features of a socialist China to foreign visitors in the 1960s-70s. This article observes the exhibitions, especially the cultural tactics used in the exhibitions, from the perspective of material culture. The exhibition visualized the idea of socialism through many material forms such as scientific inventions, new machinery, medical treatments and export commodities to show the achievements and prospects of socialism. The exhibition conveyed the social concepts practiced in China at the time, such as self-reliance, national equality, and the transformation of nature. Export commodities and the activities of the workers were combined together to show the life and skills of the working class. The exhibition were compatible with the main theme of the fair, lightened up the atmosphere in the fair buildings,and enhanced visitors' understanding of the socialist road. The exhibitions at the early Canton Fair are a concentrated manifestation of the Chinese-style modernization process, which helps to enhance the country's cultural soft power.

On the Meteorology of the Great Tang Dynasty and Du Fu's Rhythmic Poetry

This paper investigates the aesthetic mechanisms structure of Tang poetry and the artistic achievements of Du Fu's regulated verse. Methodologically, it explains how poetry moves us by employing linguistic analysis—examining syntax, rhyme, and imagery—and advocates for an interdisciplinary approach that integrates traditional Chinese and western methods of close reading. Using Du Fu's four famous poems as examples, the paper analyzes his innovative poetic techniques. It argues that Du Fu's use of topic+comment-sentences disrupts conventional subject-predicate logic and his blending of the real and the imaginary adds emotional depth. The interplay between spatial and temporal contrasts intensifies the themes of personal longing and broad sociopolitical concerns. Together, these elements contribute to creating the majesty of the Great Tang dynasty. The paper further points out that the international dissemination of Du Fu's poetry faces significant challenges due to language barriers and cultural differences. To address this, it advocates for enhanced cross-cultural communication through digital media, academic popularization, and interpretive strategies that bridge cultural divides—positioning Du Fu's work as a key vehicle for projecting the cultural soft power of China.

Research on the High-Quality Development of Thematic Publishing: Connotation Understanding, Problem Analysis and Path Exploration

Thematic publishing is a topic selection planning and publication activity on major activities, major events, major themes, major theoretical issues and other themes around the overall work of the party and the state and the major decisions and arrangements of the central government, which undertakes the responsibility of disseminating and promoting mainstream values and socialist ideology. All publishing units should have a deep understanding of the connotation and value of theme publishing, comprehensively understand the challenges and problems encountered in theme publishing under the new situation, actively explore the path of high-quality development that meets the needs of the times, optimize the planning mechanism for theme publishing topic selection, improve the cooperation and exchange mechanism of the theme publishing industry, actively build a theme publishing industry chain system, innovate the integrated development mode of theme publishing, and dedicate more theme publishing masterpieces to the party and the people.

E-Sports Regional Symbiosis: Theoretical Logic and Innovative Path

E-sports regionalization symbionte is currently facing three realistic demands. The e-sports regionalization symbionte is a large-scale, multi-level, and multi-attribute relationship construction that involves complex subject relationships. Its symbiotic body is a symbiotic base built on the local government, e-sports market, and e-sports consumer audience. Its endogenous operating mechanism constitutes a specific symbiotic environment and mode. In pursuit of maximizing the benefits of regionalization of e-sports, each subject should, based on the principle of symbiosis theory, improve the form and enrich the content of competitions to achieve the independence of diversified competitions, rebuild the value of local culture by improving infrastructure and building a new home culture, and expand diversified urban image communication by carrying out community service projects. Through the order system of the whole process, clarify the supervision of multi-subject rights and responsibilities to improve the supervision and governance system, and promote the development and prosperity of the local e-sports cultural industry.

Ueno Park:As a Symbol of the Starting Point of Time and Space of Modern Japan

This paper explores the historical significance and political connotation of Ueno Park as a symbol of the starting point of time and space of modern Japan,pointing out that it is an important material space for Japan's transformation from a feudal state to a modern nation-state. As a product of the Meiji Restoration,the park reflects the political will of Emperor Meiji and the turning point of Japan's mainstream ideology during the Meiji period. The landscapes in Ueno Park,such as Tosho-jingu Shrine,Kanei-ji Temple,Shogitai Tomb,and Saigo Takamori Statue,not only carry the memory of the shogunate era,but also reflect Emperor Meiji's strategy to consolidate his rule through the use of samurai culture. At the same time,Ueno Zoo and the “Ueno Cultural Venue Group”,as production facilities of modern ideology,not only show the image of Japanese civilization,but also have a close connection with the country's foreign aggression. The historical development of Ueno Park reveals the incompleteness of the Meiji Restoration. As a Symbol of the starting point of time and space of modern Japan,it not only marks Japan's efforts to modernize,but also testifies to the historical limitations and the connection with militarism of Japan's mainstream ideology.

Public Cultural Service System from the Perspective of Chinese Path to Modernization:Construction Process and High-Quality Development

Cultural modernization is an important topic of Chinese path to modernization. Since its founding,the CPC has taken the rejuvenation of Chinese culture as its own responsibility. After the founding of New China,its leadership has established a comprehensive cultural system. After the reform and opening up,it has actively promoted the reform of cultural undertakings,which formed a separate cultural system. As socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era,the CPC has coordinated the development of cultural undertakings with the construction of a public cultural service system,thus forming a cultural modernization process that is both continuous and innovative. The rich connotation of Chinese path to modernization provides value and direction guidance for the development of public cultural service system. As an important carrier to promote the revival of Chinese culture,high-quality public cultural service system will also provide cultural nourishment and spiritual support for Chinese path to modernization. Reforming institutional mechanisms to promote efficient,balanced,integrated,and innovation driven development is an effective path to building a more dynamic,fair,and sustainable high-quality public cultural service system.

A Powerful Work on the Study of “Roots Literature” in the New Era——Review ofTranspacific Cartographies:Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

The Structure,Characteristics,and Value of Technological Soft Power

As an important component of comprehensive national strength,technological soft power is generated from scientific and technological practice,and develops with the development of science and technology,becoming a new engine for the modernization and prosperity of science and technology,playing an irreplaceable role in various fields of society. In the increasingly fierce competition of comprehensive national strength,although technological soft power belongs to the category of soft power,it has “innovated” and has its own special connotation under China's specific national conditions. It is different from general soft power,as it has both the attributes and characteristics of general soft power and its own special regulations. As an endless force of development,technological soft power has penetrated into all aspects of the technological society,becoming an inexhaustible driving force for promoting technological and social development.

Typical Narratives and Atypical Narratives:A Discussion on Cultural Product Types from the Perspective of Narratology

The history of narrative art is as long as the history of mankind. All materials and all means can be used for narrative. Narration is an important way to produce human cultural products,and story is an important content of human cultural products. Based on the perspective of narratology,cultural products can be divided into two categories : narrative and non-narrative. The former provides typical text narration,which has been influenced by classical narratology. Literature,folk art,drama,film and television are generally in contact with people's daily cultural consumption. The latter provides atypical post-text narrative,and post-classical narratology provides theoretical support for its entry into the field of narrative art. People's daily cultural consumption is generally in contact with exhibitions,cultural and creative products,tourism products,etc.

Languages: A Prerequisite for the Belt and Road Initiative

The Belt and Road Initiative,with its profound significance,requires language as a prerequisite for the interconnections between China and countries along the line. For that purpose, language awareness is required and needed to be strengthened for the whole society. Also plans and an administrative agency should be set up to formulate top-level designs and specific language policies. Secondly, the training of language specialists,including Chinese citizens who are familiar with local languages and local citizens who are familiar with Chinese,should be accelerated. Thirdly,as economic co-operations are the main contents in the Belt and Road Initiative,language for business purposes should be incorporated in both foreign language teaching and Chinese teaching. We believe,with its bright future,the Belt and Road Initiative gives both teaching practices new challenges and also new opportunities.

On Cultural Self-confidence

Cultural self-confidence is a core content of the national cultural soft power, which is also an important component of the comprehensive national strength. In contemporary China,cultural self-confidence is proud of the socialist advanced culture. Its external form includes the self-confidence on the road, on the theory and on the institution. Its mainly internalized form is the values' s confidence. However,cultural selfconfidence is not unconditional. There are profound causes and reasons behind it. Contemporary China 's cultural self-confidence is deriving from its excellent body content, from doing major contribution to human civilization,from the glorious history of Chinese civilization,from the great success of Chinese road and from the typical cultural mentality,just like all rivers run into sea. There should be enough will power to adhere cultural self-confidence. There should be looking at the problems rightly which exist in contemporary China,but also to break the superstition and blind worship on the Western culture and values. Cultural self-confidence is in relation to the spiritual home of Chinese nation and contemporary China's cultural sovereignty. A nation cannot stand proudly among the nations of the world if the nation even doesn't have the most basic cultural confidence which could not win the respect of the world. A country which is lack of the self-confidence is also impossible to break heavy containment from the Western countries to keep the independence of the national spirit!

The Core Spirit and Contemporary Value of Red Culture

This paper approaches the origin and source of Chinese "Red Revolution"and reveals its metaphor based on the overal grasp of Chinese revolution history led by CCP. The limited sense of Red Culture means the Red Revolution Culture. It traces to Chinese excellent traditional culture, also Salvation Culture and Revolution Culture of recent times,combines with May 4th New Culture after Maxism's spreading in China,linked up with New Democratism Culture and followed by Socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. The contemporary value of Red Culture is uprearing determined ideality,promoting political identity,enhancing cultural self-confidence and helping the construction of advanced socialist culture.

On the Promotion of International Academic Discourse Power

Whether from the perspective of the academic development itself,or enhancing the national cultural soft power and safeguarding national cultural safety, it is an extremely important and urgent task that we endeavor to enhance Chinese academic discourse power in the world. In recent years, our international academic discourse power has been advanced constantly, but still is relatively weak. If we further enhance Chinese international academic discourse power,we will have to understand the discussion and construction of the academic discourse system and discourse power by setting them in a more far-reaching and deep background,and rooting them deeply in the solid contemporary Chinese academic construction process with the theme of connotation and quality. In addition,we also need to base on China and face the world to actively construct open,inclusive,objective and fair academic publication and evaluation system,to deal well with a series of important relationships between studying China and studying the world,studying China and expressing China,promoting academic autonomy and expanding academic opening up.

Reflections on the Realization of Creative Transformation and Innovative Development of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture

Through the analysis of the change of the political orientation about Chinese traditional culture in modern times and especially learning the important spirit of a series of speeches from General Secretary Xi Jinping,this paper puts forward that the traditional Chinese culture should be treated differently and that the inheritance of Marx is a sharp weapon to distinguish Chinese traditional culture from the philosophical point of view.At the same time,the author points out that Chinese excellent traditional culture must be compatible with the contemporary culture and coordinate with the modern society.In the process of realizing the creative transformation and innovation development,we should overcome three kinds of wrong tendency that may be encountered:historical nihilism;doctrine of back to the ancients;utilitarianism under the condition of market economy.

Review of Studies on the Great Founding Spirit of the CPC

Xi Jinping put forward and discussed the great founding spirit of the CPC in his important speech to celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, and made clear the source of the spirit of the Communist Party of China. In the past two months, some research achievements have been made on the basic issues, scientific connotation, main characteristics, practice paths and related issues of the great founding spirit of the CPC in the domestic academic. The study of deepening the great founding spirit of the CPC should summarize the connection of all aspects of the great founding spirit of the CPC from the holistic perspective; further expand the research horizon with the grand historical view; make good use of mental pedigree to clarify the relationship between the great founding spirit of the CPC and each great spirit; realize the research breakthrough of the great founding spirit of the CPC to the outside world with a global vision.

On Cultural Self-confidence

Cultural self-confidence is a core content of the national cultural soft power, which is also an important component of the comprehensive national strength. In contemporary China,cultural self-confidence is proud of the socialist advanced culture. Its external form includes the self-confidence on the road, on the theory and on the institution. Its mainly internalized form is the values' s confidence. However,cultural selfconfidence is not unconditional. There are profound causes and reasons behind it. Contemporary China 's cultural self-confidence is deriving from its excellent body content, from doing major contribution to human civilization,from the glorious history of Chinese civilization,from the great success of Chinese road and from the typical cultural mentality,just like all rivers run into sea. There should be enough will power to adhere cultural self-confidence. There should be looking at the problems rightly which exist in contemporary China,but also to break the superstition and blind worship on the Western culture and values. Cultural self-confidence is in relation to the spiritual home of Chinese nation and contemporary China's cultural sovereignty. A nation cannot stand proudly among the nations of the world if the nation even doesn't have the most basic cultural confidence which could not win the respect of the world. A country which is lack of the self-confidence is also impossible to break heavy containment from the Western countries to keep the independence of the national spirit!

Summary of Xi Jinping's Exposition on the Socialist Cultural Construction

Since 18 th National Congress, the domestic academic circles have carried out extensive research and discussion around Xi Jinping's important exposition on socialist cultural construction. Scholars have indicated that Xi Jinping's important exposition on socialist cultural construction covers ideological work, ideological and moral construction, construction of cultural industries and so on, demonstrates the characteristics of people's subjectivity, innovation and systematicness, profoundly grasps the goal of building a socialist cultural power, realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the task of improving cultural soft power, answers the question of cultural construction in the new era, which should be guided by Marxism, promote the innovation and development of socialist culture, improve the relevant systems and mechanisms of cultural construction, and enhance the international discourse power of culture. In the process of further in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's important exposition on socialist cultural construction, scholars will have more achievement in strengthening the integrity and system of research, expanding research horizons and methods, and strengthening interdisciplinary research.

An Empirical Study on the Development of Rural Cultural Tourism Products from the Perspective of Rural Revitalization

The strategy of rural revitalization not only provides opportunities for the development of rural cultural tourism products, but also puts forward requirements for it. In order to make full use of the opportunity of rural revitalization strategy to realize the sustainable development of rural cultural tourism, this paper uses questionnaire to collect first-hand data, and makes an empirical study on the influencing factors of tourists' perception and attitude towards the development of rural cultural tourism products. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed, and 373 questionnaires were collected. SPSS19.0 software was used for reliability analysis, validity analysis, factor analysis and regression analysis. Through empirical analysis, it is concluded that the main factors affecting tourists' perception and attitude towards rural cultural tourism products are product connotation, product environment and product service. Finally, the paper puts forward corresponding suggestions from three aspects: enriching the connotation of rural cultural tourism products, perfecting the product environment of rural cultural tourism and constructing the service system of rural cultural tourism products.

Evolution Trend of Tourism Performance Immersive Experienceunder the Background of Culture and Tourism Integration

Under the background of the national strategy of cultural tourism integration, with the progress of scientific and technological means of expression and the deepening of tourists' demand for in-depth experience, as a typical stage scene experience art of cultural tourism integration, the form and depth of experience are constantly evolving and upgrading. Based on the interworking relationship among stage, scene and audience, tourism performance forms an immersive tourism experience through three links: object creation, subject entry and blending of subject and object. The development characteristics of immersion experience of tourism performance are mainly reflected in the evolution of stage form from traditional stage and landscape stage to scene stage, the evolution of performance content from drama creation to plot experience, and the evolution of audience role from “stage viewing” to “scene immersion”. In recent years, the evolution trend of China's tourism performance immersion experience has been confirmed by the development examples of three tourism performance product series: “Impression Liu Sanjie” has created a landscape stage, “See Pingyao” has constructed a stage immersion performance scene, and “Unique Mount Emei” has created a real scene interactive immersive performance space. The evolution of tourism performance immersion experience is an important trend and manifestation of the integration of culture and tourism in China.