This history of the Leipzig Book Fair examines the socialist showcase, the motor of the centrally planned book trade, censorship, and Stasi surveillance, but also the theft of books from Western ...publishers. It shows how Leipzig, due to the presence of delegates from the West German media and publishing houses, became a central site of German-German encounter and literary exchange during the Cold War.
Cross-cultural exchanges among the locals and the tourists have been beneficial in terms of social value creation and sustainability. The present study has examined the role of cultural tourism and ...social entrepreneurship on social value creation and environmental sustainability. The study has drawn a sample through a non-probabilistic convenience sampling method for desired data collection, as investigators approached tourists visiting the tourism destinations. The study reports data received with the help of tourists visiting cultural heritage in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. The study has employed the PLS_SEM approach for analysis purposes to draw the results. The findings showed a significant relationship between cultural tourism, environmental sustainability, and social value creation that significantly predicts environmental sustainability. The results revealed a significant positive association between social entrepreneurship, social value creation, and environmental sustainability. Besides, results showed that social value creation mediates the relationship between cultural tourism and environmental sustainability and social entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability. The study’s findings climax the importance of cross-cultural interactions that enriches the cultural understanding and gives new perspectives to the existing cultural traditions. Pursuing environmental sustainability through social value creation requires an excellent combination of the administrative and political collaborative strategy that integrates cultural tourism and social entrepreneurship in tourist destination development and aims to attain improved tourist attractions. Besides, this research identifies a significant effect of cultural tourism on environmental sustainability. However, the relationship between tourism and environmental sustainability is bidirectional. It might provide direction for further study. The findings deliver valuable insight into global cultural tourism and social entrepreneurship activities that provide tourism destinations for community development. This investigation produces a systematic and holistic research framework to help explore the influence of cultural tourism and social value creation on the environmental sustainability at tourism destinations. The generalizability of the findings supplies helpful directions for future research on environmental sustainability related to social entrepreneurship and cultural tourism that leads to social value creation.
The Croatian Jesuit Ivan Vreman is recorded in historical literature as the first Croatian to arrive in China. He was born in Split, Dalmatia in 1583, joined the Jesuit Order in 1600, set sail from ...Portugal for Asia in 1615, arrived first in Macao of China in 1616, and then traveled northward into the mainland of China. He died of illness in Nanchang in 1620 at the age of 37. This article, with the help of historical materials in Croatian, Latin, English, Chinese, and other languages, reconstructs the life of Ivan Vreman and the history of cultural exchange between the East and the West in the late Ming dynasty from several aspects, including his educational background, scientific achievements, missionary journey to the East, and experiences in China.
In recent decades, research focused on the production of knowledge and cultural transfers in Latin America in a transregional context has intensified. Its conception is largely based on the profile ...of the IAI, which is characterized by being not only a knowledge archive, but also a place of knowledge production and cultural and scientific exchange with and about Latin America. This volume brings together a series of articles by specialists in these subjects, most of whom worked at said institution as visiting researchers. It is the result, then, of an intense dialogue between them and the permanent researchers of the IAI. The volume critically discusses theoretical concepts, methodologies, and research on specific processes in the analysis of the production and circulation of knowledge, and cultural transfers in Latin America, from an intra- and trans-regional point of view.
With the popularization of social media and the acceleration of globalization, cross-cultural social media research has become an increasingly important research field. This article takes cultural ...differences as the starting point to explore the use and impact of social media in cross-cultural environments. The study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to collect social media data from users from different cultural backgrounds, and conducted data analysis and comparison. Research has found that users from different cultural backgrounds have significant differences in social media usage behavior, content expression, and interaction methods. At the same time, the use of cross-cultural social media will also have different impacts on users’ cultural identity, social relations and mental health. The research results have certain reference value for promoting cross-cultural communication, enhancing cultural understanding, and improving the effectiveness of social media usage.
Plants and insects have been the main sources of natural dyes in the past and have been utilized for several millennia. A large number of well-preserved textiles unearthed from archaeological sites ...has provided us with opportunities to understand systematically the use of natural dyes in Northwest China. In the present study, dye analyses of about 400 samples from archaeological textiles dating from the 17th century BCE to the 10th century CE were carried out by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with a diode array detector and a mass spectrometric detector (HPLC-DAD-MSD), revealing a 2500-year history of natural dyes in Northwest China. At least 16 dyes were used to color the archaeological textiles. Of these, Rubia tinctorum is considered to be the earliest dye source in Northwest China, but the presence of Porphyrophora species in Subeixi textiles (the 5th-3rd centuries BCE) suggests that the early transmission of the steppes culture from the south of Siberia to the Turpan Basin occurred in the early Iron Age. The geographical origins of the dyestuffs identified in Mogao Grottoes textiles indirectly indicate that the four most influential cultures--Chinese, Hellenic, Islamic and Indian--in Eurasia all converged at Dunhuang in the Tang Dynasty.
•Dye analysis of archaeological textiles was carried out by using LC-MS.•Two insect dyes were used to color textiles in Xinjiang in the Early Iron Age.•Dyes used in Dunhuang textiles reflect the influence of the four important cultures.•Flavonoid-based dyes contain mainly luteolin, quercetin and their glycosides.•Vitex negundo was identified in the archaeological textiles for the first time.
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Through this special issue, we aim to provide the language to describe and give weight to the significance that the lifting of the Japanese cultural ban in 1998 had in understanding modern cultural ...exchange between Korea and Japan. We credit the lifting of the ban with the active cultural exchange that has happened between Korea and Japan, as well as the swift and indelible changes that were happening in South Korean culture in a short amount of time. We call this period and the effects of such the Japanese Cultural Influx, as a reflection of how Japanese culture has entered the Korean cultural landscape. We highlight the permanence of these changes, and we spotlight: 1. the dramatic shift in Japanese cultural consumption by the Korean public, 2. the active rather than passive role that the Korean public took to create legal and cultural shifts, and 3. how this period influenced the current approach to Japanese culture as well as the resurgence of nostalgic Japanese culture of the period.
For the first time, an edited volume presents a major survey dedicated to Chinese reverse glass painting, tracing its history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical ...characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe as well as for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks constitute a paramount part of Chinese visual culture and attest to the intensive cultural and artistic exchange between China and the West.
