2025 Vol.5 No.1

This study presents a systematic investigation into the symbolic system of Hemudu culture, aiming to construct a comprehensive classification framework and explore the potential for modern reinterpretation and application. Drawing on an interdisciplinary methodology, we utilized bibliometric analysis via VOSviewer (v1.6.19), text mining with Python’s NLTK toolkit (v3.8.1), and field-based archa... more

This essay makes a renewed attempt to explain the Egyptian word “ššt“ from Urk IV, 1938, 4. The word appears there next to the “ḏcm“-gold. The investigation thus has a philological focus. The study of philological questions traditionally promises the most benefits in Egyptology. The topic has been rarely addressed in previous research. The expected result therefore has a certain novelty value. ... more

This article offers a philosophical reflection on the concept of music within the framework of Martin Heidegger’s thought. It argues that music can be understood as an immediate articulation of time, drawing upon Heidegger’s major works: The Concept of Time, Being and Time, Time and Being, Nietzsche, The Origin of the Work of Art, and On the Way to Language. Through these readings, t... more

Since the early twentieth century, intellectuals, artists, writers, and philosophers across the board have realized that humanity is increasingly losing its grip on its own existence in many different terms. Neither rationality nor reality seems to make all that much sense any longer. Catastrophic experiences in various wars, in the Holodomor, Holocaust, and a long series of other genocidal cam... more

With eikaiwa (English conversation schools) playing a crucial role in Japan’s English education landscape, the pedagogical methods used in eikaiwa have received relatively little attention. Thus, utilizing the three-dimensional framework of temporality, sociality, and spatiality, this autoethnographic study explored and documented the teaching practices used and adopted by one of the researcher... more

With the rapid advancement of digital technologies, the preservation and management of cultural heritage face both new opportunities and challenges. Jiangbei District in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, is home to a substantial number of immovable cultural relics requiring systematic documentation and scientific oversight. In response to the Fourth National Cultural Relics Survey, this study proposes... more

This study explores the interplay between visual art and classical music, focusing on the role of ekphrasis—the translation of visual art into musical form. Two types of art–music connections are investigated: ekphrastic connections, in which the music translates a single painting and retains its title, and related connections, in which the music is inspired by multiple paintings. Twenty-one ad... more

A growing number of Chinese literary works have been translated and distributed to different nations as China’s relations with other nations deepen. Since translation is important for cross-cultural communication, Chinese literary works have been translated into several languages, including Burmese. In this paper, the author presents the history of the dissemination of Chinese literary works in... more

Spanish humanism, unlike its more radical counterparts in Italy or Germany, emerged as a gradual and integrative intellectual movement that sought harmony rather than rupture with the past. While Italian humanism was marked by are discovery of classical antiquity and German humanism became closely tied to the Protestant Reformation, the Spanish variant followed a uniqu... more

This study examined a theme of rural to urban migration as highlighted in selected Tanzanian young adult novels.
Significantly, the study sought to generate some knowledge on class struggle revealed in the selected young adult novels in Tanzanian society. The study has used Marxist social critical theory as a literary criticism. We have examined qualitatively rural to urban migration as a... more