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This paper analyzes the Chinese nationalism or patriotism embodied in Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream" discourse. It first reviews the "typological tradition" of categorizing nationalism into different types, for instance, banal, hot and cultural nationalism. Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream" discourse goes beyond the explanation of these distinct types of nationalism. Instead, it embodies a "hybrid" type of nationalism/patriotism that is at once banal, state, cultural, and "de-banalized". This study adopts a dialectical-relational perspective by viewing the "Chinese Dream" discourse as representations of social practices through which politicians utilize a wide range of discursive resources including thematic, evaluative and cultural representations to evoke the imagination of a common identity in support of their governance. Through the analysis, this study advocates a holistic view of nationalism in real political practices; it also focuses on how nationalism is evoked and propagated through the integration of various discursive resources embodying a hybrid type of nationalism.

This paper examines how the political slogan of the "Chinese Dream", coined and promoted by China's president, Xi Jinping, was mediatised in the Chinese and the American media. Applying theoretical frameworks in narrative studies and concepts inmediated discourse analysis, it investigates how elements such as context, time, and space played a vital part in the construal and interpretation of the "Chinese Dream" in a nexus of media practices; as such differing characteristics of mediatisation in the Chinese and the American media emerged. These mediatising mechanisms demonstrate a constant "othering" practice of the American media in mediatising the slogan, and the "blind-to-others" practice of the Chinese media. It is suggested the nexus of the mediatising practice be changed by enhancing the mutual understanding between the two cultural systems.

This article advocates using theories and approaches in political communication to advance the agenda of political discourse analysis (PDA) that uses the approaches in critical discourse analysis (CDA). I first review the development in the research of PDA and criticisms against CDA and PDA, along with my reflections on these criticisms. I also discuss how basic concepts and dimensions in political communication can be used to advance PDA. In conclusion, I argue that traditional approaches to PDA center too much on Marxist or post-Marxist conflict theories and on linguistic description and interpretation. They fail to adequately explain political issues as CDA does to social issues. Incorporating theories and approaches in political communication can "demystify" PDA from its status quo toward a discipline that addresses political problems in communication.

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Using Systemic Functional Grammar and conceptual framework in the argumentation-oriented approach to discourse, this study analyzes Chinese central government's " Report on the Work of the Government" in 2020 (henceforth the Report) to explore the "interpersonal-function topoi" in the political discourse. The Report was delivered and issued against the backdrop of the surging covid-19 epidemic. This study first calculated the frequency of mood, modality and persons in the Report. The statistics were qualitatively analyzed in relation to various topoi-imagery of the crisis vis-à-vis representing the agency-reflected in the interpersonal metafunction of the language in the Report. These topoi play a vital role in winning popular support for the Chinese central government's anti-epidemic measures and mobilizing the widest public into actions against the covid-19 pandemic. The analysis demonstrates how the analysis of interpersonal metafunction from an argumentation-oriented perspective can shed light on dealing with crisis discourse, especially in the pandemic settings.

This paper investigates how tourists develop adaptive perceptions in response to pandemic situations and how these perceptions influence their international travel decision-making toward a COVID-19-shaken destination in the new normal era. The survey was administered to Chinese potential international tourists and 608 questionnaires were utilized in data analysis. The results revealed the indirect effect of COVID-19 risk perception on travel intention first through cognitive image and then through affective image. Cognitive and affective images were identified as mediators of these interrelationships. The findings also showed that COVID-19 displayed varying effects on tourists with different past travel experiences. By unveiling factors influencing individuals' travel decision-making in the new normal era, this study provides a theoretical basis for understanding the psychological and behavioral effects caused by a pandemic; delineating the underlying mechanism of the COVID-19 risk perception effect on international travel decision-making; expanding the research on destination image by clarifying the mediating roles of cognitive and affective images and their relation; providing timely and insightful implications for post-pandemic tourism recovery.

Although community empowerment is an important component of sustainable tourism, few studies have examined how empowerment influences residents' support for sustainable tourism at nature-based destinations. We formed a conceptual framework to investigate the moderating effect of Chinese
cultural values in the relationship between residents' perceived empowerment and their support for sustainable tourism. We collected 794 survey responses from residents of communities at a nature-based tourism destination in China. Results show there was a significant relationship between
empowerment and support for sustainable tourism. The moderating role of cultural values was partially supported. Our findings provide implications on how to better empower residents with an East Asian cultural background, to make sustainable tourism achievable and maintainable.

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Background: Augmented reality is a new technology that, when applied to spinal surgery, offers the potential for efficient, safe, and accurate placement of pedicle screws. This study investigated whether augmented reality combined with a guide board improved the safety and accuracy of pedicle screw placement compared to traditional free-hand screw placement.
Methods: Four trainers were divided into augmented reality navigation and free-hand groups. Each group consisted of a novice and an experienced spine surgeon. A total of 80 pedicle screws were implanted. First, the AR group reconstructed the 3D model and planned the screw insertion route according to the CT data of L2 lumbar vertebrae. Next, the Microsoft HoloLens™ 2 was used to identify the vertebral model, and the planned virtual path was superimposed on the real cone model. Next, the screw was placed according to the projected trajectory. Finally, Micron Tracker was used to measure the deviation of screws from the preoperatively planned trajectory, and pedicle screws were evaluated using the Gertzbein-Robbins scale.
Results: In the augmented reality group, the linear deviation of experienced doctors and novices was 1.59 ± 0.39 mm and 1.73 ± 0.52 mm, and the angle deviation was 2.72 ± 0.61° and 2.87 ± 0.63°, respectively. In the free-hand group, the linear deviation of experienced doctors and novices was 2.88 ± 0.58mm and 5.25 ± 0.62mm, and the angle deviation was 4.41 ± 1.18° and 7.15 ±1.45°, respectively. The screw accuracy rate was 97.5% in the augmented reality navigation group and 77.5% in the free-hand group.
Conclusions: Augmented reality navigation improves the accuracy and safety of pedicle screw implantation compared with the traditional free-hand method and can assist inexperienced doctors in completing the surgery.