On February 6,2025,Branko Balon,President of the Croatia-China Friendship Association for Cultural,Scientific and Economic Cooperation and Professor at the VSITE College of Information Technology in Zagreb.
Since arriving in Singapore in 1993,William Yang,a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore(NUS),has spent over three decades immersed in the city-state’s vibrant landscape.Throughout these 32 years...Since arriving in Singapore in 1993,William Yang,a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore(NUS),has spent over three decades immersed in the city-state’s vibrant landscape.Throughout these 32 years,he has not only witnessed but also actively contributed to the flourishing friendship and dynamic cooperation between China and Singapore.“I was deeply struck when I first arrived in Singapore,”recalled Yang.“This country was ahead of China in terms of material living standards,economic development,and international outlook.”He describes this period as a“journey of learning.”展开更多
Catering in scenic areas is an important part of tourist experiences,yet the existing research on catering resources mainly focuses on tourist satisfaction and resource development,with limited analysis on the impact ...Catering in scenic areas is an important part of tourist experiences,yet the existing research on catering resources mainly focuses on tourist satisfaction and resource development,with limited analysis on the impact of catering resources distribution on tourists’visiting willingness.Thus,based on case analysis,surveys and data analysis,this study selected Mount Tai Scenic Area as the research object to conduct an in-depth investigation on the impact of the distribution of catering resources on tourists’visiting willingness,which identified many challenges faced by the distribution of catering resources in the scenic area and their underlying causes,finding that while there were rich varieties and concentrated catering options in high-traffic areas with strong tourists’visiting willingness,significant gaps remained in locations with weak tourists’visiting willingness.Furthermore,the overall catering offerings in Mount Tai Scenic Area demonstrated a notable deficiency in food products that authentically integrate with Mount Tai’s distinctive cultural heritage.To address such issues,improvement strategies were proposed for the development of catering resources in Mount Tai Scenic Area,including spatial development and integration,exploration of cultural connotations,and enhancement of tourism value,which provided insights for refining management of catering resources in forest park scenic spot,optimizing catering services,and enhancing the tourism experience of tourists.展开更多
Hong Kong is a hyper-dense city with 7x10(6) people living in an area of 1100km(2). One way to improve the livability of compacted and congested cities like Hong Kong is through the provision of urban parks, an aspect...Hong Kong is a hyper-dense city with 7x10(6) people living in an area of 1100km(2). One way to improve the livability of compacted and congested cities like Hong Kong is through the provision of urban parks, an aspect that has largely been under-researched. This study focuses on how users perceive and utilize various facilities in the Kowloon Park. The findings revealed that the Kowloon Park is one of the most preferred parks in Hong Kong for both local residents and tourists. Users were quite satisfied with the park's facilities. Notably, the most important component of an urban park is its greenery. This is followed by water elements, seating places, and facilities for various recreational activities. The improvements users would like to see in urban parks include good design and management, meeting users' needs, overcoming barriers to use, and providing a high quality and varied experience for different groups in the community. The findings of this study provide a good basis to address park management issues from the users' perspective. In particular, parks should provide easy access, encourage optimum usage and enable complimentary improvements to the environment.展开更多
Have you ever thought that taking a tourism-related trip could contribute to your well-being or even improve your health status?Have you considered that tourism research could play a role in health science by showcasi...Have you ever thought that taking a tourism-related trip could contribute to your well-being or even improve your health status?Have you considered that tourism research could play a role in health science by showcasing new ways of thinking?Tourism scholars have recently contemplated tourism's place in public/global health[1]as a means of enriching the well-being of people living with conditions such as dementia.A seminal study using an interdisciplinary approach[2]integrated expertise in tourism,psychology,marketing,and medical science and proposed tourism as a dementia intervention based on positive psychology.展开更多
In responding to the ongoing development needs of the university, we are seeking to recruit Chair Professors and Visiting Professors of ＂Chang Jiang Scholars Program＂ at home and abroad. School of Medicine, Tsinghua...In responding to the ongoing development needs of the university, we are seeking to recruit Chair Professors and Visiting Professors of ＂Chang Jiang Scholars Program＂ at home and abroad. School of Medicine, Tsinghua University展开更多
In responding to the ongoing development needs of the university, we are seeking to recruit Chair Professors and Visiting Professors of ＂Chang Jiang Scholars Program＂ at home and abroad.
Editor s Note:On June 16,2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists(Shanghai)opened?It was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People s Republic of China,coordinated by the Network of International C...Editor s Note:On June 16,2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists(Shanghai)opened?It was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People s Republic of China,coordinated by the Network of International Culturalink Entities,organized by the Shanghai Academy of Social Science and co-organized by the Institute of China Studies,Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Think Tank Foundation.The Visiting Program for Young Sinologists has been successfully held in Shanghai for three years since 2016,attracting the active participation of young Sinologists from all over the world?展开更多
The study is to explore the test anxiety of three university English teachers in their collaborative learning community when they do their visiting scholar program.The research questions are about the representations ...The study is to explore the test anxiety of three university English teachers in their collaborative learning community when they do their visiting scholar program.The research questions are about the representations of test anxiety of the college English teacher collaborative learning community as visiting scholars,and the interaction between anxiety and their collaborative learning.The main data collection includes deep interview,field observation,online chatting,etc.The research finds that at the three stages of their learning,the participant shows various representations of test anxiety from cognitive,affective and behavioral perspectives,and collaborative learning community facilitates the participant have better execution in learning,more pressure released and much cognitive enhancement achieved.In contrast,lack of collaborative learning environment in her working university and the specific anxiety for marriage in female participant are two additional findings in the study,which may prove the positive effect of collaborative learning on anxiety from another point of view.展开更多
From June 16 to July 6,2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists(Shanghai)was successfully held.It was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and fourism of the People s Republic of China,coordinated by the Network of In...From June 16 to July 6,2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists(Shanghai)was successfully held.It was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and fourism of the People s Republic of China,coordinated by the Network of International Culturalink Entities and organized by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.Altogether 37 excellent young sinologists from 32 countries were invited to China to witness the development of contemporary China,to carry out international exchanges in China studies,and to conduct academic research in an in-depth,systematic,multi-dimensional and multi-perspective manner.The event has made a lot of positive achievements,such as building a platform to carry out exchanges and cooperation in China studies worldwide,and contributing to the improvement of research capability of young sinologists.展开更多
Goal: The aim of this study was to examine the perception of nurses who worked at the clinic which proposed home hospice and contents of care to better understand home hospice and enhance home care. Methods: Six nurse...Goal: The aim of this study was to examine the perception of nurses who worked at the clinic which proposed home hospice and contents of care to better understand home hospice and enhance home care. Methods: Six nurses who worked at the clinic where proposed visiting medical treatment participated voluntarily. They received one interview for approximately one hour, in which they narrated their perception of home hospice and content of nursing care. The narrative was recorded by an IC recorder and analyzed as contents analysis. This study was approved by the Ethical Board at St. Mary’s College. Results: About the content of nursing care, some categories were selected such as “Understanding a patient as a living person,” “Examining if a patient and caregiver live at ease,” or “Caring for a caregiver accepting a loved one’s death and care given at death.” Nurses perceived the theme as “Time and space for listening carefully,” the theme as “Feeling of responsibility and attractiveness of work,” the theme as the “Economics and manpower to continue home hospice,” the as a “Required connection between hospitals and home hospice clinics.” Conclusion: Visiting medical treatment nurses understand a patient and a family as living people based on intimate relationships, support them as the disease progresses, and connect to a visiting nurse station. They perceived that “patients can enjoy freedom;the nurses had responsibility and strong relationships. They felt the economic or man-power needs to continue and the requirement of a connection between hospitals and home hospice clinics.展开更多
What has really happened in Europe since 2014?Why in 2018 are so many migrants still making their way towards Europe?For the first time since the Second World War,an important number of individuals have entered into E...What has really happened in Europe since 2014?Why in 2018 are so many migrants still making their way towards Europe?For the first time since the Second World War,an important number of individuals have entered into European soil.The idea for this article goes back to October 2015 when the prefet from the town where I live went in search of asylum seekers.This is what sparked off my inquiry amongst about 50 exiles housed in the annex of the Montmorency(95)hospital in July 2015.But against popular belief,migrants are not accepted fairly into countries,and the geographical distribution of Syrians in Turkey,Lebanon,Jordan,and Europe is contrary to what Kant had defended as a“right to visit”.Although the majority of researchers suggest welcoming migrants,it is necessary to reconsider some methodological and epistemological aspects and get away from some wrongly perceived concepts which dated prior to the year 2000.Yet,the Arab Spring has showed that we are dealing with unfinished post-colonialism,something that we will soon come back to in another article where we will propose another solution.展开更多
In April 2016,as a council member of the Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU),I joined the delegation of CAFIU and visited Japan and Thailand.Although this tour only lasted for 8 days,ranging fro...In April 2016,as a council member of the Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU),I joined the delegation of CAFIU and visited Japan and Thailand.Although this tour only lasted for 8 days,ranging from the people and i elds I contacted to the means of exchange,it was a totally new experience for me and I experienced and benei ted a lot from this visit.展开更多
This study used Chinese visiting scholars in the UK as a sample, discussed Chinese visiting scholars' cross-cultural adaptation from the perspectives of linguistic confidence, cultural confidence and academic conf...This study used Chinese visiting scholars in the UK as a sample, discussed Chinese visiting scholars' cross-cultural adaptation from the perspectives of linguistic confidence, cultural confidence and academic confidence, analyzed the correlation among the three types of confidence, and then proposed the concept of establishing a positive international profile of Chinese visiting scholars. It was recommended that Chinese visiting scholars should make more improvements in their cross-cultural adaptation. They should become the representative of China's international image, and play a more active role in further internationalizing of Chinese higher education.展开更多
The aim of this study is to identify and analyze ways to increase usage of destination website and motivate website visitors’intention to actually visit the destination.The sample population is South Koreans who visi...The aim of this study is to identify and analyze ways to increase usage of destination website and motivate website visitors’intention to actually visit the destination.The sample population is South Koreans who visit the VisitBritain website,the homepage of Britain’s national tourism agency.The data for this study were collected by a self-participated online survey on the blog of VisitBritain Korea,which is directly linked to the VisitBritain Korea website.Using structural equation modeling,six hypotheses were tested.The results show that the destination image on the destination marketing organization(DMO)website,quality of the destination website design including three dimensions(information quality,system quality,and service quality),and customers’satisfaction formed by high quality of the website design have a significant impact on website visitors’use intention and increase their visiting intention to the destination.Based upon the results of the analysis,managerial implications and areas for future research are proposed.展开更多
Penglai,Yantai City,is located at the northern tip of the Shandong Peninsula,330 kilometers north of Langya Port in Qingdao.In 133 BC,Emperor Wudi(156-87 BC)of the Han Dynasty visited the region during an inspection t...Penglai,Yantai City,is located at the northern tip of the Shandong Peninsula,330 kilometers north of Langya Port in Qingdao.In 133 BC,Emperor Wudi(156-87 BC)of the Han Dynasty visited the region during an inspection tour of the eastern part of his empire.He gazed out into the sea in the direction of the mythical Mount Penglai,home of immortals.展开更多
文摘On February 6,2025,Branko Balon,President of the Croatia-China Friendship Association for Cultural,Scientific and Economic Cooperation and Professor at the VSITE College of Information Technology in Zagreb.
文摘Since arriving in Singapore in 1993,William Yang,a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore(NUS),has spent over three decades immersed in the city-state’s vibrant landscape.Throughout these 32 years,he has not only witnessed but also actively contributed to the flourishing friendship and dynamic cooperation between China and Singapore.“I was deeply struck when I first arrived in Singapore,”recalled Yang.“This country was ahead of China in terms of material living standards,economic development,and international outlook.”He describes this period as a“journey of learning.”
文摘Catering in scenic areas is an important part of tourist experiences,yet the existing research on catering resources mainly focuses on tourist satisfaction and resource development,with limited analysis on the impact of catering resources distribution on tourists’visiting willingness.Thus,based on case analysis,surveys and data analysis,this study selected Mount Tai Scenic Area as the research object to conduct an in-depth investigation on the impact of the distribution of catering resources on tourists’visiting willingness,which identified many challenges faced by the distribution of catering resources in the scenic area and their underlying causes,finding that while there were rich varieties and concentrated catering options in high-traffic areas with strong tourists’visiting willingness,significant gaps remained in locations with weak tourists’visiting willingness.Furthermore,the overall catering offerings in Mount Tai Scenic Area demonstrated a notable deficiency in food products that authentically integrate with Mount Tai’s distinctive cultural heritage.To address such issues,improvement strategies were proposed for the development of catering resources in Mount Tai Scenic Area,including spatial development and integration,exploration of cultural connotations,and enhancement of tourism value,which provided insights for refining management of catering resources in forest park scenic spot,optimizing catering services,and enhancing the tourism experience of tourists.
基金Under the auspices of the Germany-Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme (No.GER/99-00/01) and the Faculty Re-search Grant of the Hong Kong Baptist University (No.FRG/00-01/I-38)
文摘Hong Kong is a hyper-dense city with 7x10(6) people living in an area of 1100km(2). One way to improve the livability of compacted and congested cities like Hong Kong is through the provision of urban parks, an aspect that has largely been under-researched. This study focuses on how users perceive and utilize various facilities in the Kowloon Park. The findings revealed that the Kowloon Park is one of the most preferred parks in Hong Kong for both local residents and tourists. Users were quite satisfied with the park's facilities. Notably, the most important component of an urban park is its greenery. This is followed by water elements, seating places, and facilities for various recreational activities. The improvements users would like to see in urban parks include good design and management, meeting users' needs, overcoming barriers to use, and providing a high quality and varied experience for different groups in the community. The findings of this study provide a good basis to address park management issues from the users' perspective. In particular, parks should provide easy access, encourage optimum usage and enable complimentary improvements to the environment.
文摘Have you ever thought that taking a tourism-related trip could contribute to your well-being or even improve your health status?Have you considered that tourism research could play a role in health science by showcasing new ways of thinking?Tourism scholars have recently contemplated tourism's place in public/global health[1]as a means of enriching the well-being of people living with conditions such as dementia.A seminal study using an interdisciplinary approach[2]integrated expertise in tourism,psychology,marketing,and medical science and proposed tourism as a dementia intervention based on positive psychology.
文摘In responding to the ongoing development needs of the university, we are seeking to recruit Chair Professors and Visiting Professors of ＂Chang Jiang Scholars Program＂ at home and abroad. School of Medicine, Tsinghua University
文摘In responding to the ongoing development needs of the university, we are seeking to recruit Chair Professors and Visiting Professors of ＂Chang Jiang Scholars Program＂ at home and abroad.
文摘Editor s Note:On June 16,2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists(Shanghai)opened?It was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People s Republic of China,coordinated by the Network of International Culturalink Entities,organized by the Shanghai Academy of Social Science and co-organized by the Institute of China Studies,Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Think Tank Foundation.The Visiting Program for Young Sinologists has been successfully held in Shanghai for three years since 2016,attracting the active participation of young Sinologists from all over the world?
基金The author wishes to acknowledge support from English Language and Literature,a Key Program in Gauangdong Province(GDTX170109),2017The Research Team in South China Buisiness College:The Association Project of Comparative Study of English and Chinese in the New Era(2017-298).
文摘The study is to explore the test anxiety of three university English teachers in their collaborative learning community when they do their visiting scholar program.The research questions are about the representations of test anxiety of the college English teacher collaborative learning community as visiting scholars,and the interaction between anxiety and their collaborative learning.The main data collection includes deep interview,field observation,online chatting,etc.The research finds that at the three stages of their learning,the participant shows various representations of test anxiety from cognitive,affective and behavioral perspectives,and collaborative learning community facilitates the participant have better execution in learning,more pressure released and much cognitive enhancement achieved.In contrast,lack of collaborative learning environment in her working university and the specific anxiety for marriage in female participant are two additional findings in the study,which may prove the positive effect of collaborative learning on anxiety from another point of view.
文摘From June 16 to July 6,2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists(Shanghai)was successfully held.It was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and fourism of the People s Republic of China,coordinated by the Network of International Culturalink Entities and organized by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.Altogether 37 excellent young sinologists from 32 countries were invited to China to witness the development of contemporary China,to carry out international exchanges in China studies,and to conduct academic research in an in-depth,systematic,multi-dimensional and multi-perspective manner.The event has made a lot of positive achievements,such as building a platform to carry out exchanges and cooperation in China studies worldwide,and contributing to the improvement of research capability of young sinologists.
文摘Goal: The aim of this study was to examine the perception of nurses who worked at the clinic which proposed home hospice and contents of care to better understand home hospice and enhance home care. Methods: Six nurses who worked at the clinic where proposed visiting medical treatment participated voluntarily. They received one interview for approximately one hour, in which they narrated their perception of home hospice and content of nursing care. The narrative was recorded by an IC recorder and analyzed as contents analysis. This study was approved by the Ethical Board at St. Mary’s College. Results: About the content of nursing care, some categories were selected such as “Understanding a patient as a living person,” “Examining if a patient and caregiver live at ease,” or “Caring for a caregiver accepting a loved one’s death and care given at death.” Nurses perceived the theme as “Time and space for listening carefully,” the theme as “Feeling of responsibility and attractiveness of work,” the theme as the “Economics and manpower to continue home hospice,” the as a “Required connection between hospitals and home hospice clinics.” Conclusion: Visiting medical treatment nurses understand a patient and a family as living people based on intimate relationships, support them as the disease progresses, and connect to a visiting nurse station. They perceived that “patients can enjoy freedom;the nurses had responsibility and strong relationships. They felt the economic or man-power needs to continue and the requirement of a connection between hospitals and home hospice clinics.
文摘What has really happened in Europe since 2014?Why in 2018 are so many migrants still making their way towards Europe?For the first time since the Second World War,an important number of individuals have entered into European soil.The idea for this article goes back to October 2015 when the prefet from the town where I live went in search of asylum seekers.This is what sparked off my inquiry amongst about 50 exiles housed in the annex of the Montmorency(95)hospital in July 2015.But against popular belief,migrants are not accepted fairly into countries,and the geographical distribution of Syrians in Turkey,Lebanon,Jordan,and Europe is contrary to what Kant had defended as a“right to visit”.Although the majority of researchers suggest welcoming migrants,it is necessary to reconsider some methodological and epistemological aspects and get away from some wrongly perceived concepts which dated prior to the year 2000.Yet,the Arab Spring has showed that we are dealing with unfinished post-colonialism,something that we will soon come back to in another article where we will propose another solution.
文摘In April 2016,as a council member of the Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU),I joined the delegation of CAFIU and visited Japan and Thailand.Although this tour only lasted for 8 days,ranging from the people and i elds I contacted to the means of exchange,it was a totally new experience for me and I experienced and benei ted a lot from this visit.
基金funded by China Scholarship Council,CSC No:201800230006。
文摘This study used Chinese visiting scholars in the UK as a sample, discussed Chinese visiting scholars' cross-cultural adaptation from the perspectives of linguistic confidence, cultural confidence and academic confidence, analyzed the correlation among the three types of confidence, and then proposed the concept of establishing a positive international profile of Chinese visiting scholars. It was recommended that Chinese visiting scholars should make more improvements in their cross-cultural adaptation. They should become the representative of China's international image, and play a more active role in further internationalizing of Chinese higher education.
文摘The aim of this study is to identify and analyze ways to increase usage of destination website and motivate website visitors’intention to actually visit the destination.The sample population is South Koreans who visit the VisitBritain website,the homepage of Britain’s national tourism agency.The data for this study were collected by a self-participated online survey on the blog of VisitBritain Korea,which is directly linked to the VisitBritain Korea website.Using structural equation modeling,six hypotheses were tested.The results show that the destination image on the destination marketing organization(DMO)website,quality of the destination website design including three dimensions(information quality,system quality,and service quality),and customers’satisfaction formed by high quality of the website design have a significant impact on website visitors’use intention and increase their visiting intention to the destination.Based upon the results of the analysis,managerial implications and areas for future research are proposed.
文摘Penglai,Yantai City,is located at the northern tip of the Shandong Peninsula,330 kilometers north of Langya Port in Qingdao.In 133 BC,Emperor Wudi(156-87 BC)of the Han Dynasty visited the region during an inspection tour of the eastern part of his empire.He gazed out into the sea in the direction of the mythical Mount Penglai,home of immortals.
