The scope for the development of product design concerns several fields including cognitive meanings, symbolic functions and cultural histories of form. Through effective intervention of the culture identity design, the difference of the nationality will be decreased, the interaction between product and people will be improved, and the opportunities for cultural self-expression will be enhanced...

This paper proposes a virtual brush model based on droplet operation and its application on retrieving character outlines and character modeling in Chinese calligraphy style. In the proposed approach, a virtual brush model based on droplet operation is applied to produce vivid character outlines. The droplet model helps to compute stroke area with well-defined geometry information and leads to ...

This article seeks answers to the perplexing phenomenon: the increasing widespread youth religiosity in contemporary China. How is it possible for young people to acquire such religiosity in a society where the state vigorously opposes religion through its policy and practice? Using data from my own and others’ field observation and investigations, I show that in the past two decades, religious...

Searle’s Chinese Room argument is refuted by showing that he has actually given two di erent versions of the room, which fail for di erent reasons.

the fundamental doctrine of eastern culture is based on the ethics. this is a thought found in every, even tiny, lesson taught to the children. in fact, all the values are takes from the life, even apparently materialistic but spiritual deep inside. here, in order to exalt the soul and to fulfill the valuable status an endless effort of the man is taken in his life. therefore, no boundary can b...

Writing forms whether in terms of Chinese characters and Chinese ideographs, phonetic alphabet or numeric systems – are created by and thus reflect culture, mind, and social reality. In turn, these writing forms exert great impact on the culture and mind of their users. This article contends that in addition to the cultural content that the Chinese writing system conveys, the media of Chinese c...

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