Lexes are the most important and basic element of a language.Chinese culture-loaded lexes are those words or expressions that are greatly rich in Chinese culture.They can reflect the characteristics of Chinese culture...Lexes are the most important and basic element of a language.Chinese culture-loaded lexes are those words or expressions that are greatly rich in Chinese culture.They can reflect the characteristics of Chinese culture and Chinese nation.Therefore,it is of great significance to pay attention to the translation of Chinese culture-loaded lexes as they play a decisive role in disseminating Chinese culture.It can help promote Chinese culture worldwide,improve China's cultural exchanges and communication with other nations and strengthen China's status in the world.This paper focuses on the Chinese culture-loaded words and proposes some possible means of translation with the purpose of spreading Chinese culture.展开更多
Friendship has been cherished by Chinese people for thousands of years. In the ancient times, a bosom friend is someone who is worth dying for. But its meaning has been changing as the society evolves. This essay disc...Friendship has been cherished by Chinese people for thousands of years. In the ancient times, a bosom friend is someone who is worth dying for. But its meaning has been changing as the society evolves. This essay discusses the three different levels of friendship in modern-day China. And by exemplifying these three types: acquaintances, companions and confidants, this essay aims at helping readers who are not familiar with modern Chinese culture to have a better understanding of the meaning of friendship in China.展开更多
The irreversible trend of globalization has great effects on language and culture. In the context of globalization, China English acts as the medium of Chinese culture. It conveys Chinese culture from three perspectiv...The irreversible trend of globalization has great effects on language and culture. In the context of globalization, China English acts as the medium of Chinese culture. It conveys Chinese culture from three perspectives: the unique concepts, the typical thinking mode, and distinctive Chinese personality. In this way, China English enhances the introduction of Chinese culture,thus promoting the soft power of China.展开更多
Traditional festivals are formed in the long-term accumulation of a nation's history and culture.They are the carriers of national culture.In recent years,with economic globalization,western festivals are becoming...Traditional festivals are formed in the long-term accumulation of a nation's history and culture.They are the carriers of national culture.In recent years,with economic globalization,western festivals are becoming increasingly popular in China.They have been sought after by many young people in a form that people like,which impacts the traditional festivals in China and affects Chinese culture to a certain extent.In view of the current situation of western festivals in China,the author of this paper discusses the impact on Chinese culture and gives some suggestions on how to treat western festivals correctly,inherit Chinese traditional fes⁃tivals and develop excellent Chinese culture.展开更多
As Chinese textile and apparel travel around the world,many foreign brands are also moving into China.The first Greek brand Celia-D is debut in this largest textile country of the worM, which seems to strengthen the b...As Chinese textile and apparel travel around the world,many foreign brands are also moving into China.The first Greek brand Celia-D is debut in this largest textile country of the worM, which seems to strengthen the belief that the local market is a magnet. On 13th,May,"Chinese Culture Week"and Celia-D News Release, held by the government of Olympia, Greek and China National Garment Association took place in Tianlun Dynasty Hotel,Beijing.China National Textile and Apparel Council(CNTAC), Greek Embassy in China,Chinese Apparel Council,commercial agencies, model companies,together with People’s Daily,Xinhua Agency,CCTV, Guangming Daily,China Textile,and other news agencies presented the news release.展开更多
This paper first analyses the current situation and problems of Chinese culture courses for international students in high⁃er vocational colleges and then four strategies are put forward to improve its construction:en...This paper first analyses the current situation and problems of Chinese culture courses for international students in high⁃er vocational colleges and then four strategies are put forward to improve its construction:enhance the importance of Chinese cul⁃tural education for international students,strengthen the cultivation of teachers for teaching Chinese culture,form standard of Chi⁃nese culture curriculum and highlight teaching characteristics of Chinese culture course.展开更多
With the rapid development of globalization and internationalization, English plays an increasingly important role in international exchanges. Many Chinese experts and scholars believe that the primary goal of foreign...With the rapid development of globalization and internationalization, English plays an increasingly important role in international exchanges. Many Chinese experts and scholars believe that the primary goal of foreign language teaching is the development of intercultural communicative competence. Intercultural communication, equal and bidirectional, is not only the cultural exchange of target language, but the Chinese language. Foreign language teachers and scholars have emphasized the target language teaching of the west in Chinese universities, and Chinese culture has been neglected for a long time, contributing to"Chinese culture aphasia."Based on this situation, some Chinese cultural enlightenment can be acquired, which improve the ability of Chinese college students to express Chinese culture in English from the analysis of this study.展开更多
198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught Eng...198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.展开更多
International transmission of Chinese medical culture is of great importance for the worldwide spread of traditional Chinese culture, which faces many problems, like the serious impact from western medicine and other ...International transmission of Chinese medical culture is of great importance for the worldwide spread of traditional Chinese culture, which faces many problems, like the serious impact from western medicine and other traditional medicines, low professional quality of its practitioners, language barriers, etc. It's urgent to propose some practical solutions.展开更多
There are sorts of color words that are used in all aspects of social life, which reflect cultural differences between Chinese and the Western. Through the analysis and discussion of the color words, we have a better ...There are sorts of color words that are used in all aspects of social life, which reflect cultural differences between Chinese and the Western. Through the analysis and discussion of the color words, we have a better understanding of the Chinese and the Western culture.展开更多
With advanced technologies and globalization,there are more and more forms of mass media to transmit information.Different theories have been developed to study the effects of mass media on people and culture.This pap...With advanced technologies and globalization,there are more and more forms of mass media to transmit information.Different theories have been developed to study the effects of mass media on people and culture.This paper focuses on introducing the concept and functions of mass media and taking festival culture as example to explore how to use media correctly to carry forward cultural inheritance.展开更多
This paper mainly focuses on how to promote Chinese Maritime Culture“going-out”smoothly and successfully.As is known to all,the Belt and Road Initiative advocates economic cooperation,but also involves cultural exch...This paper mainly focuses on how to promote Chinese Maritime Culture“going-out”smoothly and successfully.As is known to all,the Belt and Road Initiative advocates economic cooperation,but also involves cultural exchange and cross-cultural communication.And among all the activities,culture is put on the top priority.The Belt and Road Initiative has paved the way for Chinese cultural“going-out”,but there are stills some obstacles need to be coped with.In the paper,we will take Chinese Mari⁃time Culture for example to demonstrate the current situation of Chinese Culture“going-out”,analyzing the obstacles and figuring out the solutions as possible.展开更多
Politeness is a universal phenomenon, for it can be observed in all languages and cultures. It plays an important role in human communication: it helps establish, maintain or consolidate harmonious interpersonal relat...Politeness is a universal phenomenon, for it can be observed in all languages and cultures. It plays an important role in human communication: it helps establish, maintain or consolidate harmonious interpersonal relationships and facilitate social interactions. Politeness as an observable phenomenon is something not only express by behaviors, but also by language. However,it's a reflection of culture rather than a independent part in the world. Therefore, we need to consider the feature of different culture in order to understand the politeness. The whole thesis is divided into five part, including the introduction and conclusion.The introduction deals with the definition of politeness, the importance of the study and the politeness rules. Part two reviews the studies of politeness by the Western and Chinese scholars, which serves as the theoretical framework for the whole thesis. It introduces the main ideas of two important theories of politeness proposed by three western linguists and five Chinese scholars.It involves Leech's Politeness Principle, Brown and Levinson's Face Theory, and Gu Yueguo's Chinese politeness principle and so on. Part two and part three contain the similarities and differences between Chinese and English politeness rules and its repesentation in daily interactions. Part three discuss the causes of these differences in three aspects: value, morality, and custom. And the final part talk about the significant influence of politeness in Chinese and English. Finally, the paper comes to the conclusion that the major difference is a matter of orientation rather than degree. Negative politeness orientation is in English culture and more positive politeness orientation is in Chinese culture.展开更多
Hong Kong′s current quality management philosophy can best be described as imported and experimental. This is because Hong Kong is at the interface of Eastern and Western culture, and modern quality management philo...Hong Kong′s current quality management philosophy can best be described as imported and experimental. This is because Hong Kong is at the interface of Eastern and Western culture, and modern quality management philosophies are at first imported from the West and implanted into the Hong Kong Subsidiaries of American and European controlled companies. Local experience in quality management is usually obtained via trial and error, and through progressive modifications. The influence of Chinese culture on quality management in Hong Kong has formed the main subject of this study. This study is to initiate the interest to develop modern quality management concepts based on Chinese culture. Some initial results suggest that Hong Kong managers have great interest in applying Chinese working principle to quality management.展开更多
Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC), as one of the research fields of intercultural communication, has been given much importance from scholars all around the world. Intercultural sensitivity is one of the th...Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC), as one of the research fields of intercultural communication, has been given much importance from scholars all around the world. Intercultural sensitivity is one of the three dimensions in Dr Chen's ICC model. This research investigates the reliability and validity of Chen and Starosta's Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) (2000) against Chinese cultural background by using Chinese university students majoring in English as respondents.展开更多
In the past few years,group activities have been warmly welcomed by EFL(English as a foreign language)classes in Chi-na,but few studies have discussed it from a critical perspective.Thus,this study explores from stude...In the past few years,group activities have been warmly welcomed by EFL(English as a foreign language)classes in Chi-na,but few studies have discussed it from a critical perspective.Thus,this study explores from students’experiences what and whythe strengths and weaknesses of group work in actual contexts appear.The findings reveal that Chinese learners regard group workas an effective interactive activity for language,personal,and emotional development.However,the possible pitfalls,such as pseu-dogroups,unequal participation,groupthink,L1(first language)influence may prevent learners from obtaining the benefits of CL(collaborative learning).Finally,some suggestions are given,with the purpose of creating a more suitable facilitative EFL classroomenvironment for future Chinese EFL teaching and learning.展开更多
In modern society,food communication is one of the most important communication methods.Among all kinds of communication methods,knife-and-fork and chopsticks as tableware also play an important role in global culture...In modern society,food communication is one of the most important communication methods.Among all kinds of communication methods,knife-and-fork and chopsticks as tableware also play an important role in global culture.By study the differences between knife-and-fork and chopsticks,you can know about the differences between western food culture and Chinese food culture.As Chinese old saying goes:“Food is the first thing for people.”People could not exist in the world without food.So,food communication is indispensible.Most of time,people communicate with each other during meals.During a meal,you maybe cause several misunderstandings under the circumstance of knowing nothing about opposite.With these incaution,you may make a bad impression on someone.With the cognition of these cultures,you can grab the important information under presentations,and flexible apply them into global communication,to get to a better performance.This thesis not only gives the introductions of knife-and-fork and chopsticks,but also lists several aspects of the differences between these two cultures.Through compare the two visible different cultures,you can get more information and more respect to western countries and China.This thesis is based on the history of knife-and-fork and chopsticks,different live conditions,different diet concepts and different nation consciousness.展开更多
In Chinese traditional classes, grammar-based teaching method is widely adopted, and this leads to a phenomenon thatChinese students are usually good at grammar and writing, but poor at speaking. Besides, when Chinese...In Chinese traditional classes, grammar-based teaching method is widely adopted, and this leads to a phenomenon thatChinese students are usually good at grammar and writing, but poor at speaking. Besides, when Chinese students are in a communi-cation-based class, some of them usually feel uncomfortable and are reluctant to communicate. This phenomenon may relate to Chi-nese students' willingness to communicate(WTC).There are a great deal of research has been conducted to WTC related to person-ality, communicative and social environment. However, just small number of exploration has been allotted to the cultural perspec-tive.展开更多
As the economy and culture developing and globalizing so quickly, people have more opportunities to communicate with others who come from different cultures than before. Human communication system includes two parts, ...As the economy and culture developing and globalizing so quickly, people have more opportunities to communicate with others who come from different cultures than before. Human communication system includes two parts, one is language communication system and the other is nonverbal communication system. Some researches show that in human's daily communication, 93% information is transmitted by nonverbal communication, among which, 55% information is transmitted by facial, gesture and so on; 38% information is transmitted by tone. So nonverbal communication is the main part of body language. But body language and culture have an inseparable relationship, some body languages are similarly in different cultures, and some have their own unique culture connotation.展开更多
文摘Lexes are the most important and basic element of a language.Chinese culture-loaded lexes are those words or expressions that are greatly rich in Chinese culture.They can reflect the characteristics of Chinese culture and Chinese nation.Therefore,it is of great significance to pay attention to the translation of Chinese culture-loaded lexes as they play a decisive role in disseminating Chinese culture.It can help promote Chinese culture worldwide,improve China's cultural exchanges and communication with other nations and strengthen China's status in the world.This paper focuses on the Chinese culture-loaded words and proposes some possible means of translation with the purpose of spreading Chinese culture.
文摘Friendship has been cherished by Chinese people for thousands of years. In the ancient times, a bosom friend is someone who is worth dying for. But its meaning has been changing as the society evolves. This essay discusses the three different levels of friendship in modern-day China. And by exemplifying these three types: acquaintances, companions and confidants, this essay aims at helping readers who are not familiar with modern Chinese culture to have a better understanding of the meaning of friendship in China.
文摘The irreversible trend of globalization has great effects on language and culture. In the context of globalization, China English acts as the medium of Chinese culture. It conveys Chinese culture from three perspectives: the unique concepts, the typical thinking mode, and distinctive Chinese personality. In this way, China English enhances the introduction of Chinese culture,thus promoting the soft power of China.
文摘Traditional festivals are formed in the long-term accumulation of a nation's history and culture.They are the carriers of national culture.In recent years,with economic globalization,western festivals are becoming increasingly popular in China.They have been sought after by many young people in a form that people like,which impacts the traditional festivals in China and affects Chinese culture to a certain extent.In view of the current situation of western festivals in China,the author of this paper discusses the impact on Chinese culture and gives some suggestions on how to treat western festivals correctly,inherit Chinese traditional fes⁃tivals and develop excellent Chinese culture.
文摘As Chinese textile and apparel travel around the world,many foreign brands are also moving into China.The first Greek brand Celia-D is debut in this largest textile country of the worM, which seems to strengthen the belief that the local market is a magnet. On 13th,May,"Chinese Culture Week"and Celia-D News Release, held by the government of Olympia, Greek and China National Garment Association took place in Tianlun Dynasty Hotel,Beijing.China National Textile and Apparel Council(CNTAC), Greek Embassy in China,Chinese Apparel Council,commercial agencies, model companies,together with People’s Daily,Xinhua Agency,CCTV, Guangming Daily,China Textile,and other news agencies presented the news release.
文摘This paper first analyses the current situation and problems of Chinese culture courses for international students in high⁃er vocational colleges and then four strategies are put forward to improve its construction:enhance the importance of Chinese cul⁃tural education for international students,strengthen the cultivation of teachers for teaching Chinese culture,form standard of Chi⁃nese culture curriculum and highlight teaching characteristics of Chinese culture course.
文摘With the rapid development of globalization and internationalization, English plays an increasingly important role in international exchanges. Many Chinese experts and scholars believe that the primary goal of foreign language teaching is the development of intercultural communicative competence. Intercultural communication, equal and bidirectional, is not only the cultural exchange of target language, but the Chinese language. Foreign language teachers and scholars have emphasized the target language teaching of the west in Chinese universities, and Chinese culture has been neglected for a long time, contributing to"Chinese culture aphasia."Based on this situation, some Chinese cultural enlightenment can be acquired, which improve the ability of Chinese college students to express Chinese culture in English from the analysis of this study.
文摘198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.
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文摘International transmission of Chinese medical culture is of great importance for the worldwide spread of traditional Chinese culture, which faces many problems, like the serious impact from western medicine and other traditional medicines, low professional quality of its practitioners, language barriers, etc. It's urgent to propose some practical solutions.
文摘There are sorts of color words that are used in all aspects of social life, which reflect cultural differences between Chinese and the Western. Through the analysis and discussion of the color words, we have a better understanding of the Chinese and the Western culture.
文摘With advanced technologies and globalization,there are more and more forms of mass media to transmit information.Different theories have been developed to study the effects of mass media on people and culture.This paper focuses on introducing the concept and functions of mass media and taking festival culture as example to explore how to use media correctly to carry forward cultural inheritance.
文摘This paper mainly focuses on how to promote Chinese Maritime Culture“going-out”smoothly and successfully.As is known to all,the Belt and Road Initiative advocates economic cooperation,but also involves cultural exchange and cross-cultural communication.And among all the activities,culture is put on the top priority.The Belt and Road Initiative has paved the way for Chinese cultural“going-out”,but there are stills some obstacles need to be coped with.In the paper,we will take Chinese Mari⁃time Culture for example to demonstrate the current situation of Chinese Culture“going-out”,analyzing the obstacles and figuring out the solutions as possible.
文摘Politeness is a universal phenomenon, for it can be observed in all languages and cultures. It plays an important role in human communication: it helps establish, maintain or consolidate harmonious interpersonal relationships and facilitate social interactions. Politeness as an observable phenomenon is something not only express by behaviors, but also by language. However,it's a reflection of culture rather than a independent part in the world. Therefore, we need to consider the feature of different culture in order to understand the politeness. The whole thesis is divided into five part, including the introduction and conclusion.The introduction deals with the definition of politeness, the importance of the study and the politeness rules. Part two reviews the studies of politeness by the Western and Chinese scholars, which serves as the theoretical framework for the whole thesis. It introduces the main ideas of two important theories of politeness proposed by three western linguists and five Chinese scholars.It involves Leech's Politeness Principle, Brown and Levinson's Face Theory, and Gu Yueguo's Chinese politeness principle and so on. Part two and part three contain the similarities and differences between Chinese and English politeness rules and its repesentation in daily interactions. Part three discuss the causes of these differences in three aspects: value, morality, and custom. And the final part talk about the significant influence of politeness in Chinese and English. Finally, the paper comes to the conclusion that the major difference is a matter of orientation rather than degree. Negative politeness orientation is in English culture and more positive politeness orientation is in Chinese culture.
文摘Hong Kong′s current quality management philosophy can best be described as imported and experimental. This is because Hong Kong is at the interface of Eastern and Western culture, and modern quality management philosophies are at first imported from the West and implanted into the Hong Kong Subsidiaries of American and European controlled companies. Local experience in quality management is usually obtained via trial and error, and through progressive modifications. The influence of Chinese culture on quality management in Hong Kong has formed the main subject of this study. This study is to initiate the interest to develop modern quality management concepts based on Chinese culture. Some initial results suggest that Hong Kong managers have great interest in applying Chinese working principle to quality management.
文摘Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC), as one of the research fields of intercultural communication, has been given much importance from scholars all around the world. Intercultural sensitivity is one of the three dimensions in Dr Chen's ICC model. This research investigates the reliability and validity of Chen and Starosta's Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) (2000) against Chinese cultural background by using Chinese university students majoring in English as respondents.
文摘In the past few years,group activities have been warmly welcomed by EFL(English as a foreign language)classes in Chi-na,but few studies have discussed it from a critical perspective.Thus,this study explores from students’experiences what and whythe strengths and weaknesses of group work in actual contexts appear.The findings reveal that Chinese learners regard group workas an effective interactive activity for language,personal,and emotional development.However,the possible pitfalls,such as pseu-dogroups,unequal participation,groupthink,L1(first language)influence may prevent learners from obtaining the benefits of CL(collaborative learning).Finally,some suggestions are given,with the purpose of creating a more suitable facilitative EFL classroomenvironment for future Chinese EFL teaching and learning.
文摘In modern society,food communication is one of the most important communication methods.Among all kinds of communication methods,knife-and-fork and chopsticks as tableware also play an important role in global culture.By study the differences between knife-and-fork and chopsticks,you can know about the differences between western food culture and Chinese food culture.As Chinese old saying goes:“Food is the first thing for people.”People could not exist in the world without food.So,food communication is indispensible.Most of time,people communicate with each other during meals.During a meal,you maybe cause several misunderstandings under the circumstance of knowing nothing about opposite.With these incaution,you may make a bad impression on someone.With the cognition of these cultures,you can grab the important information under presentations,and flexible apply them into global communication,to get to a better performance.This thesis not only gives the introductions of knife-and-fork and chopsticks,but also lists several aspects of the differences between these two cultures.Through compare the two visible different cultures,you can get more information and more respect to western countries and China.This thesis is based on the history of knife-and-fork and chopsticks,different live conditions,different diet concepts and different nation consciousness.
文摘In Chinese traditional classes, grammar-based teaching method is widely adopted, and this leads to a phenomenon thatChinese students are usually good at grammar and writing, but poor at speaking. Besides, when Chinese students are in a communi-cation-based class, some of them usually feel uncomfortable and are reluctant to communicate. This phenomenon may relate to Chi-nese students' willingness to communicate(WTC).There are a great deal of research has been conducted to WTC related to person-ality, communicative and social environment. However, just small number of exploration has been allotted to the cultural perspec-tive.
文摘As the economy and culture developing and globalizing so quickly, people have more opportunities to communicate with others who come from different cultures than before. Human communication system includes two parts, one is language communication system and the other is nonverbal communication system. Some researches show that in human's daily communication, 93% information is transmitted by nonverbal communication, among which, 55% information is transmitted by facial, gesture and so on; 38% information is transmitted by tone. So nonverbal communication is the main part of body language. But body language and culture have an inseparable relationship, some body languages are similarly in different cultures, and some have their own unique culture connotation.
