scholarly journals Analysis on History and Cultural Background of Chinese Tai Chi Soft Ball

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
En jing LI ◽  
Michael Huen sum LAM ◽  
Lobo LOUIE ◽  
Sam Sai sum LI
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Tai Chi ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Competitive Sport ◽  
Cultural Connotation ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English. Tai Chi Soft Ball is a young Chinese sport with distinctive ethnic characteristics. It has profound cultural connotation and philosophy, and blends traditional sport and modern competitive sport into a unity. Deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture, the sport developed rapidly in the last 20 years, and loved by people all over the world. The aims of this paper are to provide 1) a comprehensive historical and cultural background of Tai Chi Soft Ball and; 2) a solid theoretical foundation for this ancient but young sport and; 3) systematic review on Tai Chi Soft Ball in scientific evidence based research. 太極柔力球是一項由中國人發明的，具有深厚文化內涵和哲理，融傳統(太極)運動方式與現代競技雙重特徵於一體，具有鮮明民族特色的新興體育運動項目。太極柔力球運動的產生正是受到中國傳統文化的深刻影響，才能在短短的20年時間裡成井噴式發展，並為世界各國人民所喜愛。此文章全面研究太極柔力球運動產生的歷史文化背景，以及有系統地回顧世界各地太極柔力球運動的循證研究，為這一既古老又年輕運動的發展尋找更加堅實的理論基礎。

scholarly journals The internet racing ahead of the scientific evidence: the case of "liberation treatment" for multiple sclerosis

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yára Dadalti Fragoso
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Neurological Disease ◽  
Venous Insufficiency ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Internet Discussion ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The Subject

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease that typically affects young adults. A recent publication suggested that MS might originate from insufficient blood drainage in certain areas of the central nervous system. The condition was named chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI). Other papers have not confirmed these findings and, therefore, the matter remains controversial. Nineteen months after the original publication on CCSVI and MS, another 22 papers have been published addressing the matter. No clinical trials have been carried out on the subject and there is no evidence-based indication to perform surgical vascular procedures in MS patients. However, over the same nineteen-month period, the internet discussion on the subject of CCSVI and MS has led to countless websites advertising treatment using vascular surgery for patients with MS all over the world. The treatment based on the CCSVI theory has appealingly been called "liberation treatment", thus making it difficult to explain to patients why a treatment that has been highly praised (on the internet) cannot be recommended based on partial medical results that await confirmation.

scholarly journals Enthusiasm-Based or Evidence-Based Charities: Personal Reflections Based on the Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 802-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T. L. Shek
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Charitable Foundations ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
The Needy

In charitable foundations throughout the world, different approaches are used to allocate funding. As many projects with good will (i.e., enthusiasm-based charity) actually fail to help those who really need it, it is argued that the evidence-based approach (i.e., charity guided by scientific evidence) represents the best strategy to support projects that can really help the needy. Using this approach, scientific research findings are systematically used to (1) understand the nature of the problem and/or social needs, (2) design appropriate intervention programs based on the best available evidence, and (3) systematically evaluate the outcomes of the developed program. Using the Project P.A.T.H.S. funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust as an example, the characteristics underlying this approach are outlined. The systematic use of scientific evidence in the Project P.A.T.H.S. is exemplary in different Chinese societies. This project provides much insight for charitable foundations and funding bodies locally and globally.

Internal Relation between Design and Culture - Chinese Cultural Characteristics Reflected in Interior Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 649-652
Author(s):  
Tao Li ◽  
Jing Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
World Market ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Internal Relation ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Current Design

With the increasingly development and practice of interior design in China, designers are facing an important problem which requires them to have a good consideration,that is the culture reflected in their design is borderless.The urgent problem which comes to us now is try to reflect the inheritance and innovation of native culture in the interior design in a right way. Designers need to think better of returning to traditional Chinese culture and have it carried forward.The traditional culture and the taste of traditional aesthetic concept are well worth learning by designers, which is the foundation of the design. We should think deeply of current design behavior and face the reasonable direction of the development squarely, so as to make Chinese interior design more competitive in the world market.

scholarly journals On the Concept and Value of Yi People’s Traditional Scripture Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Yihong Jiejue
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture

Yi people’s traditional scripture literature was created by the Yi people in the long process of social and historical development and has important academic research value. Under the contemporary social and cultural background, the study of Yi people’s traditional scriptures and literature can develop traditional Chinese culture and promote the development of multi-ethnic culture, which is of great significance for improving the soft power of Chinese culture.

scholarly journals The Power of Spectacle

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Greenspan
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Free Market ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Eastern Shore ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture

When people say Shanghai looks like the future the setting is almost always the same. Evening descends and the skyscrapers clustered on the eastern shore of the Huangpu light up. Super towers are transformed into giant screens. The spectacular skyline, all neon and lasers and LED, looms as a science fiction backdrop. Staring out from the Bund, across to Pudong, one senses the reemergence of what JG Ballard once described as an “electric and lurid city, more exciting than any other in the world.” The high-speed development of Pudong – in particular the financial district of Lujiazui – is the symbol of contemporary Shanghai and of China’s miraculous rise. Yet, Pudong is also taken as a sign of much that is wrong with China’s new urbanism. To critics the sci-fi skyline is an emblem of the city’s shallowness, which focuses all attention on its glossy facade. Many share the sentiment of free market economist Milton Friedman who, when visiting Pudong famously derided the brand new spectacle as a giant Potemkin village. Nothing but “the statist monument for a dead pharaoh,” he is quoted as saying. This article explores Pudong in order to investigate the way spectacle functions in China’s most dynamic metropolis. It argues that the skeptical hostility towards spectacle is rooted in the particularities of a Western philosophical tradition that insists on penetrating the surface, associating falsity with darkness and truth with light. In contrast, China has long recognized the power of spectacle (most famously inventing gunpowder but using it only for fireworks). Alongside this comes an acceptance of a shadowy world that belongs to the dark. This acknowledgment of both darkness and light found in traditional Chinese culture (expressed by the constant revolutions of the yin/yang symbol) may provide an alternative method for thinking about the tension between the spectacular visions of planners and the unexpected and shadowy disruptions from the street.

scholarly journals Integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage into Ideological and Political Courses in Colleges and Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Jianping Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Ideological And Political Education ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Special Places

China’s intangible cultural heritage as an important part and the soul of the traditional Chinese culture is the cultural treasure of China and even the world. As the concept of cultural protection is deeply rooted in the minds of people, the state attaches increasing importance to intangible cultural heritage. The unique forms of cultural expressions and the special places of these expressions are deeply rooted in the Chinese culture and they should also be an important content in China’s efficient ideological and political education. This article mainly explores the significance of intangible cultural heritage in ideological and political teaching as well as the strategies to effectively integrate intangible cultural heritage into ideological and political teaching in order to achieve the educational purposes of condensing the consensus of traditional Chinese culture, enhancing the cultural consciousness among teachers and students in colleges and universities, and enhancing the patriotic enthusiasm and cultural confidence.

Fo Guang Shan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall Marchman
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Temple

Fo Guang Shan is a transnational Buddhist organization that rose to prominence in the late 20th century. Founded in 1967 by the charismatic monk Hsing Yun, who remains the face of the organization, Fo Guang Shan’s main temple and headquarters are in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The temple has become a major tourist attraction that welcomes millions of visitors annually. Starting in the 1980s, Fo Guang Shan began building other large branch temples around the world, the first of which is Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California. Hsi Lai Temple, like the main Fo Guang Shan campus, has become a popular tourist destination. Fo Guang Shan, Hsi Lai Temple, and the other branches serve their communities with regular services, retreats, festivals, and youth programming that promote Buddhism as well as traditional Chinese culture. The rise of Fo Guang Shan and other Buddhist organizations in Taiwan occurred alongside the economic rise of Taiwan and its citizens. As it continued to grow, the organization developed its own schools and universities, a television station, and a publishing house in order to further spread the teachings of the Buddha.

scholarly journals Physiotherapy and Mental Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Michel Probst
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Appropriate Care ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Movement Awareness ◽  
World Confederation

Physiotherapy in mental health care and psychiatry is recognized by the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) as a specialty within physiotherapy. Physiotherapy in mental health offers a wide range of interventions in regard of body functions, physical activity, exercises, sensory, body and movement awareness, stress and tense regulation and pain management, based on clinical and scientific evidence-based literature. Additionally, the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and “physio-education” (i.e. the process of providing education and information regarding specific physiotherapy related topics to patients and their family members) should be a responsibility of the physiotherapist. This paper gives a short overview of the interventions in the field of mental health to offer appropriate care to a specific vulnerable but growing group in our society.

scholarly journals Integration of Chinese Traditional Virtues and Chinese Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianli Xue
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
New Era ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Cultural Connotation ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Chinese Teaching

The Chinese nation has a long history and a long history of culture. Traditional Chinese virtues are an important cultural connotation of the Chinese nation and an important spiritual asset of the Chinese nation. In colleges and universities, "Chinese" as an important subject, not only focuses on the teaching of Chinese-related knowledge, but also emphasizes the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese culture and traditional virtues. From this perspective, it is of great significance to study the modern integration of traditional Chinese virtues and Chinese teaching. This article starts with an analysis of the current situation of the integration of traditional Chinese virtues and Chinese teaching and explores innovative strategies for the integration of traditional Chinese virtues and Chinese teaching. It is hoped that contemporary college students can better learn the spiritual connotation of traditional Chinese virtues and promote social development and progress in the new era.

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