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In 2020, Yiwen Wang published an article about gender-switching videos, a Chinese gender subculture in the digital media environment. Different from Wang, who identified gender-switching videos as an example of the slash (especially boys' love) subgenre, through a more comprehensive investigation of this subgenre this study found that gender-switching videos—which can be divided into two categories of complete and selective—involve homoerotic (including both boys' love and girls' love), heteroerotic and queer narratives. This article starts by demonstrating the multi-gender/sexual orientation narrative in gender-switching videos, and further analyses their social and cultural functions as a gender subculture in reconstructing gendered relationships in traditional Chinese aesthetics and narratives. The theory of feminist utopian narratives is further introduced to better understand how Chinese women intervene in the grand historical narrative as an important force to influence the development of history and story plots via fiction content creation in the digital media environment.

Analyzes library school curricula and ongoing education, and argues for increased training in government publications; based on a survey of 244 librarians.

The purpose of the researcher was to investigate college students' perceptions of cultural environment in residence halls. The five independent variables investigated were citizenship, gender, classification, number of friends of different cultures, and length of time international students in the U.S. The six dependent variables were Perception of Hall Environment, Perception of Peers, Perception of Staff, Perception of Hall Government, Perception of Campus Environment, and Total Score. The total sample size was 182 college students which included 88 females and 94 males. Five composite null hypotheses were tested at the .05 level of significance employing a threeway analysis of variance (general linear model). A total of 126 comparisons were made plus 84 recurring. Of the comparisons made, 42 were for main effects and 84 were for interactions. Of the 42 main effects, 20 were statistically significant at the .05 level. Of the 84 interactions, five were statistically significant at the .05 level. The results of the present study appeared to support the following generalizations: 1. Freshman and sophomore students have more positive opinions of hall environment, peers, hall government, campus environment, and total than junior, senior and graduate students; 2. females have more positive opinions of staff than males; 3. females have more positive opinions of hall government than males; 4. international students who had been in the U.S. 2 years or less have more positive opinions of peers t han those who had been in the U.S. for 3 years or more; 5. gender and classification should be examined simultaneously for the Perception of Hall Environment; 6. citizenship and gender should be examined simultaneously for the Perception of Staff; 7. citizenship and classification should be examined simultaneously for the Perception of Staff; 8. gender and classification should be examined simultaneously for the Perception of Staff; and 9. gender and classification of international students should be examined simultaneously for the Perception of Staff.

Trust is a core issue in online climate communication where communicators are found to be diverse. This study explores the trust strategies used by different communicators and their audience acceptance in climate communication on Zhihu through Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The results indicate there are structured differences in the trust strategies adopted by scientist communicators and citizen science communicators when facing climate change issues. In terms of audience acceptance, audiences have shown considerable initiative and exhibited an acceptance characteristic with certain Chinese cultural features which highlights the context of acceptance in the research and practices of trust issues in climate communication.

China's urban community is an important venue to examine the function of political discourse. Drawing on the theory of strategic action field, this article regards community as a field where officials act as incumbents, citizens as challengers, and the political discourse as an internal governance unit. The empirical data from multiple cities demonstrates that political discourses have facilitated the incumbents with several pragmatic utilities such as assuring the state's dominance, mobilizing citizens' participation, and disciplining residents' regular behaviors. Meanwhile, these discourses have met the problem of ideological fatigue. Local officials' hypocritical identification and citizens' disguised conformity disenable the Party-state to win recognition from both citizens and officials. The findings of this article enrich the current study of political discourse with a new perspective. (J Contemp China / GIGA)

Focusing on the dispute resolution mechanisms for defusing various social disturbances and collective incidents during the reform period and particularly in the last decade, this paper argues that the Chinese government has adopted pragmatic and problem-solving approaches to designing and developing various mechanisms of dispute resolution in response to the complicated and challenging situation of steadily increasing and intensifying social contention. There is evidence that neither litigation nor non-litigation means of dispute resolution can effectively resolve social conflicts. In light of this difficulty, various experiments have been put in place at the local level to meet social needs and manage social crises while balancing state power and social self-governance. We call such experiments "diversified mechanisms of dispute resolution (DMDR)." This study sheds light on the shift from an emphasis on the earlier non-litigation approach to a more diversified way of addressing collective disputes in contemporary China. (China Perspect/GIGA)