How May Traditional Business District and Cultural Pedestrian Street Be Regenerated—Taking Guangzhou Beijing Road Cultural Tourist Zone as an Example

City regeneration has been a popular topic in recent days, where people discuss the combination of cultural elements and modern style, especially in a city with far-reaching history and a large traditional district in downtown area. In Guangzhou, there is a pedestrian street called Beijing Road that has shown problems that need to be solved to bring the great attractiveness and high business value back. Instead of giving some suggestions on the regeneration of specific buildings or areas, this article will suggest unifying the operation of the entire area to manage the firms that enter the area and increase cultural elements in firms' operation, creating a unique environment for customers and higher businesses value

Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Filtering

China’s Internet development raises questions on the interplay of user autonomy and Internet governance in the larger Chinese-language online cultural sphere. To what extent has user autonomy been established to conduct information gatekeeping collaboratively online? To examine how the power of Chinese-language Internet users has been harnessed in relation to the filtering and censorship regime, the article applies the concept of “network gatekeeping” to analyse two major user-generated websites, Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike, as different examples of collaborative filtering projects. Effectively they share “word-of-mouth” recommendations on encyclopaedic knowledge and information by user-contributors to edit content from different parts of the world. Two salient network gatekeeping mechanisms have emerged: the censorship mechanisms in Baidu Baike and internationalisation/localisation mechanisms in Chinese Wikipedia. The findings show a contrast between the two interaction patterns, indicating mainland-centric versus transnational Chinese gatekeeping processes employing different kinds of collaborative filtering and different levels of user autonomy

The Impact of Epidemics on Future Residential Buildings in China

With global pandemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the recent novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), awareness of disease prevention and control is increasing. Concern over the spread of viruses within residential buildings, especially multi-unit apartment and condominium buildings, is growing. The design of residential buildings in China is often focused on comfort, aesthetics, appearance, and lifestyle. This is in contrast to Western countries, where physical and mental health considerations are integrated with the design of residential buildings. Many recent reports and investigations have focused on infection and cross-infection of diseases and viruses occurring in residential buildings, especially in countries with high population density such as China. Due to COVID-19’s rapid community spread almost everywhere on the globe, including Asia, North American, the Middle East, and Europe, many local governments have issued lockdown and curfew restrictions to limit people from traveling or even leaving their residence for anything but essential purposes. Lockdown restrictions have been proven effective as 78% to 85% of COVID-19 infections have occurred within families instead of in the community. Thus, lockdown restrictions lower the chances of the virus being transmitted outside of a family. However, self-isolation can be difficult when living with other family members, and there is a high risk of household transmission. Accordingly, this thesis makes recommendations to minimize the risk of household transmission. This thesis briefly discusses how diseases and viruses can spread in buildings and what steps can be taken to lower the risk of disease transmission in residential units. The thesis begins by outlining research on residential building floor plans in main cities in China, namely Beijing. It then discusses how these designs are insufficient for the prevention and control of disease transmission. Lastly, the thesis suggests alternative solutions not only to prevent disease transmission but also to improve residents’ daily hygiene regimens. A novel concept for floor plans can help reduce disease transmission and promote a healthy living environment

Urbanlization and Internet Literature: Zhang Jiajia and His Healing Story

In 2013, Zhang Jiajia 张嘉佳’s book I Belonged to You (从你的全世界路过； thereafter Belonged) became a huge hit and a miracle of publication. In 2013 after half a year in circulation, the paper print sold more than 2,000,000 copies and was soon adapted to two movies. In 2014, both the kindle and paper edition of Belonged won No.1 for the best books list on Amazon China. Zhang Jiajia’s incredible success is a miracle, and it can only happen with the easy access of Internet. In addition to that, the lifestyle Belonged depicts is what post-80s and post-90s generations in China are experiencing now. My thesis studies how the Internet and Sina Weibo platform make the popularity of Belonged possible and why post-80s and post-90s readers from Sina Weibo like this kind of story. By investigating the reasons behind this book’s popularity, I argue that Internet literature and literary works in a similar genre to Belonged fulfill the emotional needs of post-80s and post-90s generations, which the literature works written by writers who receive government stipends cannot meet

Measurement of Investment activity in China based on Natural language processing technology

The purpose of this study is to propose a new index to measure and reflect China's investment activity in time, and to analyze the changes of China's investment activity in the past five years. This study first uses the NEZHA model for semantic representation, and expand the indicator system based on semantic similarity. Then we calculate China's investment activity index by using the network search data. This study shows that China's investment activity began to decline in 2019, rebounded for a period of time after the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, and then continued to maintain a downward trend. Private investment activity has declined significantly, while government investment activity has increased. Among the provinces in Chinese Mainland, the investment activity of economically developed provinces has decreased significantly, while the investment activity of some economically less developed provinces in the north and south is higher. After the outbreak of COVID-19, the investment period became shorter. Our research will provide timely investment information for the government, decision makers and managers, as well as provide other researchers who also pay attention to investment with a perspective other than investment in fixed asset

Complicating Digital Nationalism in China

SCHNEIDER, Florian. 2018. China’s Digital Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. HAN, Rongbin. 2018. Contesting Cyberspace in China. New York: Columbia University Press. At the end of April 1999, Chinese hackers hijacked several US government websites. They replaced home pages with messages such as “Protest USA’s Nazi action! Protest NATO’s brutal action!” In the midst of the war in Kosovo, this was retaliation for the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by NATO force..

Business model innovation in chinese private art galleries: a dual value proposition model

JEL : M10 General Administration; M21 Business EconomicsWith the rapid development of China's economy, people's living standards continue to improve, spiritual needs are constantly increasing, and more and more people participate in the appreciation, investment and collection of art. Private art galleries are constantly emerging but, in the absence of government subsidies, private capital or donations, have to consider their dual nature of commerciality and commonweal to ensure a sustainable management. Based on the network theory, this thesis puts forward a new type of business model for private art galleries in the Chinese context, as opposed to the traditional linear model, in order to integrate this dual nature. The aim is to resolve the conflict between commerciality and commonweal and to integrate the different kinds of value specific to art works revealing that the dynamism and richness of networks allow for such integration and enable the full release of artistic value. The research uses multiple case studies of private galleries in Sichuan province, China, as well as an extensive collection of interviews, fieldwork and secondary data. Along two years, five galleries have been visited, 42 artists, 10 executives and 9 art professors have been interviewed and substantial secondary data were analyzed. In the whole, 300,000 words in Chinese have been collected and processed through content analysis and data triangulation. The analysis allowed to (1) verify the conflictual nature of commerciality and commonweal that private galleries need to address; (2) identify that the release of artistic value is a process developed through the interaction among creators, appreciators and brokers; (3) identify that only explicit value may be fully released while potential value is constantly promoted through networks that emerge among appreciators. On a first stage the thesis proposes a double helix model based on artistic value where potential value provides space for integrating commerciality and commonweal. There is also a dual purpose in this thesis: (1) to reveal the limitations of the traditional business model canvas and (2) to present a new business model aiming at optimizing the ability of art organizations to fulfill the dual aim of commerciality and commonweal for the full release of artistic value. The data collected enabled to conclude that networks contain the dynamism and richness required for the transport of artistic value and, based on them, a new business model was developed, integrating the main elements of the traditional business model canvas with the network theory and proposing an evolutionary, volcano like model, so as to express the intense, continuous and often ignored activity developed by networks and that resembles the lava in a volcano.The thesis draws from three theoretical approaches – value, network and business model theories – and integrates the three of them. Then, based on qualitative data collection and analysis, proposes a new business model that may add to existing theory and aims at being useful for those art organizations that face the need to satisfy commerciality and commonweal and to release both explicit and potential value for the full realization of artistic valueCom o rápido desenvolvimento da economia chinesa e a melhoria dos padrões de vida, as necessidades espirituais têm também vindo a aumentar e cada vez são mais as pessoas que, na China, apreciam, investem e colecionam arte. Este aumento nota-se também no número crescente de galerias de arte privadas que, na ausência de subsídios governamentais, investimento privado ou mecenato, têm de encontrar formas de satisfazer objetivos sociais e comerciais para garantir uma gestão sustentável. Esta tese propõe um novo tipo de modelo de negócios que, em contraste com a linearidade do modelo de negócios tradicional, integra a dupla natureza das galerias de arte no contexto chinês através de uma proposta de valor assente na teoria das redes de relações. O modelo pretende resolver o conflito existente entre a necessidade de satisfazer objectivos sociais e comerciais e agregar os diversos tipos de valor característicos das obras de arte, demonstrando que o dinamismo e a riqueza das redes de relações favorecem a integração destes objectivos com vista à promoção integral do valor artístico. A tese utiliza diversos casos de estudo de galerias privadas na província de Sichuan, China, e uma extensa coleção de entrevistas, trabalho de campo e dados secundários. Ao longo de dois anos foram visitadas cinco galerias, entrevistados 42 artistas, 10 gestores, 9 professores de arte e recolhida documentação secundária obtendo-se, no total, mais de 300 mil palavras em chinês. O material foi depois processado através de análise de conteúdo e triangulação de dados. A análise permitiu (1) confirmar a natureza conflitual entre objectivos sociais e comerciais com que se debatem as galerias de arte privadas; (2) identificar que a libertação do valor da arte se processa em constante interação entre criador, apreciador e canal de distribuição; (3) identificar ainda que apenas o valor explícito da obra de arte pode ser integralmente libertado ao contrário do que acontece com o valor potencial, baseado nas redes de relações promovidas entre apreciadores. Numa primeira fase a tese propõe um modelo tridimensional em hélice para representar o processo de formação do valor artístico, segundo o qual o valor potencial permite a integração de objectivos comerciais e sociais. É também duplo o objectivo fundamental desta tese: (1) expor as limitações do modelo de negócios tradicional e (2) apresentar um novo modelo que permita optimizar a capacidade das organizações artísticas corresponderem a objectivos sociais e comerciais e libertarem ao máximo as diversas formas do valor artístico. Verificou-se, através da recolha e análise de dados, que as redes de relações proporcionam o dinamismo e a riqueza necessários para transportaresse valor e foi com base nelas que se chegou a um novo modelo de negócios que integra os elementos principais do modelo tradicional com a teoria das redes de relações propondo um novo modelo não linear, mas evolucionário, que se designou por “vulcão” para retratar a intensa, contínua e não totalmente conhecida atividade desenvolvida pelas redes, semelhante à lava no interior de um vulcão. Partindo de três abordagens teóricas – as teorias do valor, das redes de relações e do modelos de negócio – esta tese integra as três perspectivas e, com base numa extensa recolha de dados tratados qualitativamente, propõe um novo modelo de negócio que pode acrescentar algo à teoria existente e ser útil para as organizações que negoceiam em arte e se debatem com a dupla necessidade de satisfazer objectivos sociais e comerciais e de libertar o valor explícito e potencial das obras para a completa realização do valor artístico

Logico-linguistic semantic representation of documents

The knowledge behind the gigantic pool of data remains largely unextracted. Techniques such as ontology design, RDF representations, hpernym extraction, etc. have been used to represent the knowledge. However, the area of logic (FOPL) and linguistics (Semantics) has not been explored in depth for this purpose. Search engines suffer in extraction of specific answers to queries because of the absence of structured domain knowledge. The current paper deals with the design of formalism to extract and represent knowledge from the data in a consistent format. The application of logic and linguistics combined greatly eases and increases the precision of knowledge translation from natural language. The results clearly indicate the effectiveness of the knowledge extraction and representation methodology developed providing intelligence to machines for efficient analysis of data. The methodology helps machines to precise results in an efficient manner

CHINA'S K12 ONLINE EDUCATION RESEARCH UNDER THE EPIDEMIC : Satisfaction Analysis on K12 Distance Learning

The value that the Internet brings to the K12 education industry is reflected in four aspects: supply chain, efficiency improvement, experience optimization and clear output. In this research, we first briefly introduce the K12 online education and its history of development. Additionally, we discuss the general features of the online educations according to analyzing the comments under the relevant applications. Then we analyze the market of K12 online education in China, including the dominant applications in the current market, the business model, and the supply chain of the online education. Next, we analyze the evaluation framework for online education which is proposed by Quality Matters as a model. Even though it is still very difficult to design a model that can perfectly evaluation the quality of online education, however, at least, according to the analysis, we see the possibility. To analyze the satisfaction of the distance learning in K12, we design a questionnaire and receive responses from 218 student and more than 100 responses from their parents. Based on the data, we find the result is relatively positive. Evidence shows the potential bright future of online education. Therefore, we use SWOT model to analyze and predict the future development of K12 online education from different dimensions. Finally conclude the research