From mythology to animation, the image of Nezha has become a model for literary and artistic portrayal. Throughout its evolutionary history, it has been associated with social culture. This study examines the diachronique and synchronicity ofNezha's localization by combining the internal and external contexts of classical literature and animated films. The localization of Nezha's childlike form and rebellious spirit as "markedness" have given him a new life in the subject reconstruction with the spirit of the times.
The wide application of computer technology and the Internet has brought about global network technology changes. In this digital age, digital media art, which has become mainstream, has a huge impact on traditional art forms. In this context, this study examines the main stages that Chinese animation art has gone through up to date and the possibilities of integrating digital technology platform with China's distinctive national culture on this particular platform.
This paper aims to show the impact that censorship generates on the translation and reception of Western works translated into Chinese in contemporary times. The bibliographic and textual linguistic analysis points to a marked complicity between translators and censors, giving rise to a translation trend that does not always silence controversial contents, but rather opts to create, through the adulteration of the original work, discourses favorable to the interests of the Chinese political regime. Despite this, the paratextual analysis allows us to appreciate how in the selected cases clearly divergent messages have slipped out with respect to the dominant ideology. To specify the scope of this phenomenon on translation, in the future it will be necessary to increase, logically, the corpus of analysis and broaden the spectrum to all types of literary genres. ; Este trabajo pretende mostrar el impacto que generó la censura en la traducción y recepción de obras occidentales vertidas al chino en la época contemporánea. Los análisis bibliográfico y lingüístico textual apuntan una marcada complicidad entre traductores y censores, dando pie a una tendencia traductológica que no siempre silencia los contenidos polémicos, sino que más bien opta por crear, mediante la adulteración de la obra original, discursos favorables a los intereses del régimen político chino. A pesar de ello, el análisis paratextual nos permite apreciar cómo en los casos seleccionados se han logrado deslizar mensajes claramente divergentes de la ideología dominante. Para precisar el alcance de este fenómeno sobre la traducción, en el futuro será necesario aumentar, lógicamente, el corpus de análisis y ampliar el espectro a todo tipo de géneros literarios.
With the help of all authors and enthusiastic editorial team members, the Trends in Renewable Energy (TRE) completed the publication of first volume. We deeply appreciate your support, and are looking forward to continuously working with all colleagues around the world.We also would like to thank you for all nominations for the 2015 TRE Author of the Year Award. The award of this year goes to Dr. Athanasios G. Lazaropoulos at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Lazaropoulos gave our journal tremendous supports during 2015, and his papers often show high quality. Next nomination period will be this December, and categories will include the Author of the Year, the Paper of the Year, and the Editor of the Year.Low petroleum price did impact the interest of renewable energy technologies last year. But considering advantages of these novel energy technologies along with the benefits of environmental and economic factors, we believe that renewable energy is still one of fastest developing areas. In 2015, governments showed their visions on the development of renewable energy technologies. US Department of Energy granted numerous projects related to clean energy, energy efficacy, energy conservation, and renewable energy technologies. In December 2015, USDA-EPA-DOE released the Biogas Opportunities Roadmap Progress Report, in which challenges and opportunities for the robust biogas industry are outlined. We are expecting that this growing trend of renewable energy will be extended through 2016 and 2017.We will continue the TRE's mission to publish quality reviews, original research, and application-oriented papers, providing a communication platform that is run exclusively by scientists working in the renewable energy field. Papers are invited on any individual topic related to renewable energy or those that are interdisciplinary. The article processing charge (APC), i.e. the publication fee, is fully waived for papers published during 2016.
Between 1979-1988, the People's Republic of China has been enmeshed in an extraordinary program of economic and political reform. The scope and pace of reform have exceeded what most observers, Chinese and foreign alike, believed possible, when Mao Zedong died in 1976. Deng Xiaoping's description of China's post-Mao reform program, as the "second revolution" conducted by the Chinese Communist Party, has proved accurate and appropriate. Since then, the reform coalition has followed a strategy of starting with programs that were likely to produce dramatic increases in production and standards of living, delaying measures that would have the most disruptive impact on the economy, and launching reforms on a nationwide scale, only after they have proven successful in local experiment. China's reform focus on the domestic economic system, foreign economic relationships, political structure, and principal institutions. However the successes reform has enjoyed should not obscure the obstacles it has encountered. The relaxation of administrative controls over the economy, especially in the absence of strict financial discipline or an effective legal system, has produced chronic budget deficits, corruption, unprofitable investments, and shortages of foreign exchange. The growing use of market forces has aroused uncertainties about inflation, unemployment, and inequality. This thesis will examine how things were in China before reforms began, and what changes have occurred to reach the state of affairs that exists today. The emphasis of this thesis study is to analyze the Chinese reform program: its origins, contents, implications and prospects.
Local governments around mainland China initiated over 14,000 public&ndash ; private partnership (PPP) projects with a total investment of 18 billion RMB in recent years, but nearly half have been withdrawn since the end of 2017, which raised wide concerns about whether PPP can contribute to the sustainable infrastructure development in urban China. In this study, we empirically investigated major factors affecting local governments&rsquo ; PPP adoption, especially factors that led local governments to initiate inappropriate PPP projects. Based on a unique panel dataset of 286 Chinese cities between 2014 and 2017, the empirical findings suggested that local governments&rsquo ; financial pressure was the most important factor and cities with higher off-budgetary debts or lower budgetary deficits tended to initiate more PPP projects. PPP projects initiated under off-budgetary burdens were more likely to be inappropriate and subsequently withdrawn. Based on the empirical results, we provide policy suggestions to promote sustainable PPP developments in China.
Over the past five years, the pilot establishment of national parks in China has been a major event in global biodiversity conservation. The national parks under construction and proposed account for nearly 1% of the land area, and their social impacts have attracted the attention of researchers and managers. However, most of the research has a focus on the effects of protection, and national parks do not have a sufficient understanding of the social impacts and perceptions of the local residents. This research, taking Nanling National Park in Guangdong Province as the case, used the social impact assessment research framework to explore the perceptions and support of local people for the creation of national parks. Through questionnaires and in-depth interviews, the findings were first that most residents expressed a low awareness of Nanling National Park's development, but they still expressed conditional support. Second, ethnic minorities and less educated residents did not support the creation of national parks. Perceptions of ecological, economic, political, and cultural impacts affected whether residents supported the construction of national parks. In the initial stages of national park development, governmental administrative departments should reduce the negative impacts of national park construction by strengthening the publicity and awareness building, formulating appropriate policy guidance for different needs, and giving local residents the right to express their views, so as to enhance resident support for national park projects.
The ability to live independently plays a crucial role in the mental and psychological wellbeing of the disabled. To achieve this goal, most governments spend a substantial budget on home adaptation projects. It has been observed that schemes with different target clients (residents versus landlords) are different in efficiency and effectiveness. To understand why and how these schemes differ in performance, this paper develops and applies a generic economic evaluation framework for government-funded home adaptation schemes. Based on the individual-level surveys collected in the United Kingdom, an empirical model was formulated to quantify the determinants for various performance indicators, including money costs, time costs and client satisfaction. Robust estimation procedures were applied to deal with the heteroscedasticity and outlier problems in the data. Results showed that a specialized independent living scheme dedicated to disability adaptations (e.g., the Physical Adaptations Grant, PAG) had higher efficiency and effectiveness than general-purpose schemes (e.g., the Disabled Facilities Grant, DFG), because the funds were provided to the landlords who had a stronger motivation to minimize the time cost in the short run and maximize the future rent potential in the long run. A "unified system" approach to adaptations should be a guiding principle for policy development, regardless of who actually delivers the service.
