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The intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities in Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou is born and grows essentially basing local environmental protection. Doubling efforts in protecting the ecological environment is the key to enabling the live transmission of such non-material cultural heritage. To better preserve the environment in places inhabited by ethnic minorities, this paper probed into and verified the live transmission tourism development of the intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities in Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, in virtue of the evaluation system built applying the dimensionless method. The results suggested that tourism development has improved the ecological environment of ethnic minority villages. Digitally, the utilization rate of clean energy and resource exceeded 85% and 76.8%, while the vegetarian coverage and afforestation area reached 45% and 137.4 hectares respectively. That made level 5 the impact of the intangible cultural heritage tourism development of ethnic minorities on the corresponding ecological environment, enabling joint development.

Studies on migration, education and social mobility are usually discussed in three separate fields. This article presents the overlap of these three fields by discussing how Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta perceive the educational opportunities for their children and the ethnic-based status for themselves. The study finds that for people from middle- and working-class families, migration overseas to less developed countries is a good opportunity to obtain higher socio-economic status and an upward mobility path for their children. However, the opportunity also creates unexpected anxieties. The privileges that these migrants obtain and the anxieties they have illustrate opportunity traps for these middling migrants.

The growing number of the elderly in China is bringing dramatic changes into family life, the nature and structure of the support system for the aging population. Especially with the growing decrepitude in physical health and experiences of the inevitable losses of the significant others among the oldest old, it is crucial to understand how different compositions of family members or other social ties provide support or care for the oldest old to sustain a certain quality of life. The goal of this study is to explore how family structure and care and other social ties affect the extent to which the oldest old assess the quality of life after controlling for their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, using data from the first wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Ordered logistic regressions are conducted and multiple imputation are applied to compute missing data. Findings in this study show that the demographic factors, including age, residential area, and physical health status, affect the life of the oldest old. Previous socioeconomic status of the oldest old have a cumulative effect on life quality over the life course. Most importantly, how family is structured impacts the well-being of the oldest old in China. Children play an important role in the life of the oldest old. They not only provide financial assistance and caregiving but also affection and love for the elderly, which greatly improves their subjective feeling about life. Extended family structures of multiple younger generations further have a positive effect on the well-being of the elderly. The reification of the traditional norm of enjoying the happiness of living together with multiple younger generations in their late life appears to be crucial to the emotional well-being of the elderly. Those who are living in nursing homes are more likely to feel better than those living with family members at home, indicating that nursing homes not only function in providing care for the daily routine of the elderly but also serve as a social setting for the elderly to socialize and make friends with their contemporaries. This reinforces their feelings of social attachment, hence, improves their subjective feeling of the life quality. Social services, provided by the government for the oldest old who do not have a family support, can facilitate financial support, formal caregiving, and the social life of the oldest old. They need to be taken into consideration to improve the life quality of the oldest old in China.

Ancient Chinese literati paintings artistically interpret the relationship between man and nature by introducing a sense of human morality into the consideration and treatment of the relationship between man and nature, the ecological aesthetic aspirations of individuals are expressed. The ecological aesthetic concept in ancient Chinese literati paintings still has modern significance.

While the concept of family cohesion in immigrant families has frequently been explored, its definition has not been clearly constructed, which lead to disagreement on how this concept should be measured. A Common practice was to apply exploratory factor analysis to operationalize family cohesion. This study aims to take an alternative approach, using confirmatory factor analysis in the structural equation modeling (SEM) framework to conceptualize and operationalize the latent concept, perceived cohesion of the adolescent toward parents, in the context of parent-child relationships. Furthermore, a spectrum of important factors, parents' involvement in activities with the child, are used to examine how they affect perceived cohesion of youth toward parents in mimic models of SEM. Data come from Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health 1994-1995 in grades 7-12) which uses a subsample of over 13,000 adolescents from multiple immigrant generations in intact two-parent families. Findings reveal that the operational definition of adolescents' perceived cohesion comprises of two dimensions, feelings of closeness and perceived affective support. The improved definition of perceived cohesion contributes a better understanding of what it means to adolescents when they think about cohesion towards their parents. This study further suggests that parental involvement in various activities with the child, including going shopping, playing sport, going to religious related event, going out for a movie, play, museum, concert, or sports event, working on a project for school, and having evening meals with the child, has significantly positive impacts on perceived cohesion of adolescents toward their parents in intact two-parent immigrant families.

Abstract
Xie Lingyun was the first of China's great nature poets. As the most celebrated poet in fifth-century China and a histrionic scion of the illustrious Xie clan of the Eastern Jin, he had cultural influence that extended beyond the literary into religion and philosophy. This article examines Xie's poetic exploration of the concept of "return" – an important rhetorical trope throughout the history of Chinese literature. By close reading, annotating, and analyzing a selection of Xie's poems, the article sheds light on the poet's obsession with instability in the meaning of "return" and argues that beneath the compliant poetic surface lies a saliently dissenting voice. Xie's distinctive imagery and ideation emerge from an intricate deployment of earlier texts, among which the Classic of Changes is of paramount importance.