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Central Asian Carpets, Assyrian Stone Thresholds, and Greco-Roman Mosaics - Cultural Exchange and Integration on the Silk Road

  • He, ZHANG
    • Acta Via Serica
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.1-38
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    • 2022
  • Many knotted carpets from western China and Central Asia from 700 BCE to 700 CE demonstrate strong resemblances to the Assyrian-Persian stone reliefs and Hellenistic-Romanmosaics. Egypt reveals the earliest samples in plain linen fiber and carpets with colorful designs in the mural paintings. The Egyptian wall decoration in faience shows the motifs of waterlily in two variations in the design, both of which appear in the Assyrian floor thresholds designs. The same waterlily or four-petal design in the Egyptian and Assyrian stonework also appear in the Pazyryk knotted carpet in the same manner. The Assyrian thresholds show a composition with a central area and borders in a square or rectangular overall design, which again parallels the Pazyryk carpet. The ideas of composition and motifs commonly seen in the Hellenistic and Roman mosaics appear in the carpets of Central Asia and western China. The similarities between the stone mosaic works and carpets demonstrate clearly that the remote places and peoples in ancient times learned from, and exchanged with, each other the ideas and artistic styles, and integrated to create some local artistic traditions, thanks to the roles the easy-to-carry textiles played throughout the Silk Road. The carpets played their roles: as practical material for daily use, and as carrier of cultural information through their designs.

A Study on the Fashion Communicating of The East and The West (동서양(東西洋)의 패션 커뮤니케이션에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Chun, Hei-Jung
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.82-94
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to focus on the fashion communicating of the East and the west. For this purpose, the study will analyze the Visions of the East in Western Dress has long expressed an intense multiculturalism. This study is realized that clothing has served to consolidate more then to segregate. While never losing the characteristics of its place of origin, clothing has shown itself a reading assimilated object portability and ephemerality promote investigation, at the very least. Eastern ideas of textile, design, construction, and utility has been realized again as a positive contribution to the culture of the West. The East offers a larger concept in alternative to the Western propensity for tailoring. In giving primacy to the textile, Eastern dress emphasizes the flat terrain of cloth, the looping and Wrapping of the garment, and the integrity of the untailored textile. There values, antithetical to postmedieval Western dress, have offered a paradigm of dressing and dressmaking to the West that has been sporadically Influential, and notably so in our time.

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Exploration and Practice in Training Research Mathematics Teachers in the Middle Schools Located in the Countryside of Western China

  • Ding, Fengchao
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.265-274
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    • 2007
  • The middle school mathematics teachers of the countryside in western China have little chance to further their education and strengthen their research abilities. In this program, we should offer them chance to learn new educational ideas and teaching methods. There will be demonstration lectures and video teaching of course standards followed by group discussion and personalized instructions. These activities prepare the teachers to give their own demonstration lectures. This again is followed by additional personalized instructions. The teachers come to the program with very limited knowledge of these techniques but will leave with the ability to write educational scientific research papers.

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The Forties Effect: An Appraisal of the Definitive 1940's Look and its Influence on Fashion

  • Almond, Kevin
    • International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.79-92
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    • 2013
  • This article explores 1940's fashion. Much has been documented about the huge influence Dior's 1947 New Look had on fashionable clothing, as the industry conspired to reinvent itself as an economic and cultural power after World War II. The introduction of highly feminised and luxurious styles reinstated fashion as a viable concern globally and has arguably been recognised as the defining style of the 1940's. During World War II the fashion system of design, manufacture and export within the western world, virtually ceased. Many dress historians (Arnold, 2008; Breward, 1997; Guenther, 2004; McDowell, 1997; Robinson, 1976; Taylor, 1992; Steele, 1998; Veillon, 2002; Walford, 2008; Wilson & Taylor; 1989) have suggested that fashion ideas froze from 1939 to 1947. Deeper research identifies that during this period of style and trend starvation, many diverse and interesting design ideas arose from the restrictions imposed and Veillon (2002, p.145), has suggested that this period instigated what we now identify as Street Style (Polhemus, 2010). This research investigates the diversity of design ideas produced between 1939-1947 in order to establish whether pre or post 1947 can be upheld as the definitive 1940's look, one that influences contemporary fashion designers and one that we identify with as a conclusive style today.

A Study on Seokgok Lee Gyujoon's Posangkimun(浦上奇聞) and His Perception of the Occident (석곡(石谷) 이규준(李奎晙)의 "포상기문(浦上奇聞)"과 석곡(石谷)의 대서양(對西洋) 인식(認識))

  • Park, Sang-Young;Han, Chang-Hyun;Ahn, Sang-Young;Lee, Jun-Kyu;Kwon, Oh-Min
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2010
  • This study is to discuss the content of Posangkimun on the whole and to report the understanding of Seokgok Lee Gyujoon on western civilization. Through the overall analysis of Posangkimun, it is found the following facts: 1. Posangkimun aroused interest of academic circles as it covered theories of western civilization. Most of the introduction to western civilization contained in the book is related to astronomy and geography. Seokgok criticized all the western theories on revolution of the earth, astronomy, continents and oceans on the ground that these theories were not congruous with the teaching of the Oriental sages. 2. Seokgok found the reasons why the West had led the East from 'nationalism' of the West. The nationalism mentioned here were more similar to 'democracy' in modern sense, or rather 'democratism'. What is specially noteworthy is that he did not find the reasons of western advancement from the spiritual issues not from the machine civilization. In this way, Seokgok could avoid the fallacy of throwing away traditional ideas to concentrate in western machine civilization. 3. The content of Posangkimun shows that Seokgok was a person with a very conservative view. Notwithstanding his inclination, he had good knowledge about western theories, most of which were gathered from newspapers and magazines at that time. It means that newspapers and magazines should be treated with more importance when studying Korean intellectuals in late Joseon period or during the time of Japanese forced occupation.

A study on scholarship paradigm of 'Jiang Shan-Lei(張山雷)' -focus on "Nan Jing Hui Zhu Jian Zheng(難經滙注箋正)"- (장산뢰(張山雷)의 학술인식체계(學術認識體系)에 관한 연구 -"난경회주전정(難經滙注箋正)"을 중심으로-)

  • Ha, Hong-Ki;Kim, Ki-Wook
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.69-87
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    • 2012
  • Objective: "Nan Jing Hui Zhu Jian Zheng" published in 1923 is a book that 'Jiang Shan-Lei' wrote. He selected the past footnotes about "Nan Jing(難經)" and developed his own medical ideas on its base. Method : We will try to understand on scholarship paradigm of 'Jiang Shan-Lei' focus on his "Nan Jing Hui Zhu Jian Zheng". Result and Conclusion : He introduced the western medicine system to the Chinese medicine education, and he introduced a viewpoint of the human body of the western medicine to the structure of the human body as well. He judged yes or no of the Chinese medicine theory on the base of his human body viewpoint focused on an anatomy and a physiology. His human body viewpoint like this helped prove actually some of the Chinese medicine theory that was explained ideally. However, it had inappropriate aspects in explaining the Chinese medicine, which has a low alteration of a theory by inferring from the principle, due to a changeability of the western medicine theory itself. Moreover, his rash judgement concerning the Chinese medicine theory on its base brought about even side effects hampering efforts which reveal the Chinese medicine essence.

A Study of LOGO in Secondary School Mathematics Classroom (로고(LOGO) 언어의 중등수학교육 활용방안)

  • 황우형
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.15-35
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of the study was to suggest a few fundamental ideas to secondary mathematics teachers regarding using LOGO in their classrooms. Even though this software is "classic" in mathematics lessons in the States and western countries, Korean secondary mathematics teachers did not have much opportunities to become familiar with this software and its applications in their classrooms. This article offered a few suggestions with the specific guidelines. Basic commands were also listed for those who are not familiar with this software. Since the current Korean educational curriculum do not allow to use LOGO in regular classrooms as substitute lessons, it is recommended to implement these ideas in extra curriculum lessons or "Math Club" as trial basis.

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A Study on the customs in Han Hyungmo's film (한형모 감독의 영화 <자유부인>에 나타난 복식에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyejeong
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.98-113
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    • 2013
  • This study is an attempt to analyze the daily life of the Western-yearning Seoul citizens and the inflow of the Western culture into certain social classes. The customs of the characters in the film are studied to illustrate the process of deconstruction of Korean traditional clothes due to the Western influence. The combined application of the Western and Korean styles is also observed. All this study leads to the sense of homogeneity of the times and the conformity to the culture the Korean women shared, which boils down to the social identity of the Korean women who sought an escape from the men-centered social structure by displaying their competence in the field of global modern fashion. As Seonyeong Oh, the main character of the film, , was wearing in the movie the Korean traditional dress, socks, rubber shoes, and then a western-style coat, it well shows that in 1950's, the traditional dress and ornaments were mixed with Western styles. In time, men's wear were completely changed from the traditional Korean clothes to suits, while women's could not break off from the traditional clothes and become westernized, which indicates that the men-centered conservative ideas to keep women within the feudal regime of the society remained. The military look of Seonyeong Oh while she was acting in the society was a symbol of anti-bias against women and anti-convention as well as the will of freedom as an independent woman. Besides, the modern girls would wear clothes of military fashion, Dior's trapeze line, and knit styles flattering the figures. All these well show their desires to embrace Western cultures, especially their dress fashions as well as manners as so-called enlightened ladies. All these elements show that the director was trying to represent the progress of the drama, characters, and psychological states by means of the dress and ornaments.

Health Promotion in Canada

  • George, Anne
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2001
  • Canada has a rich history in the theory and development of the field of health promotion. Over 25 years ago, in 1974, the Canadian government produced the first government policy document that identified health promotion as a national strategy. The document, which came from the national Health Minister, was entitled A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians (Lalonde, 1974). It led the way for other governments to produce similar documents, and to many western countries embracing the ideas and ideals of health promotion.(omitted)

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A Study on the Relationship Between Feminist Art and Fashion in Modern Chinese Art Era

  • Xing, Zhang;Kan, Hosup
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.18-45
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    • 2020
  • Feminist artists are special in Chinese modern art. Sticking to their own artistic ideas, they constantly emphasize women's psychological characteristics and aesthetic values in their works under the background of modern society. Since feminism was introduced into China from western arts in the 1970s, it has greatly inspired Chinese female artists. This study used comparative analysis and correlation analysis to establish the connection between the works of local Chinese female artists and modern women's wear design, this connection is the common language form of Chinese female artists and modern fashion designers when expressing female psychology and aesthetics. This is a way for Chinese female artists to seek dialogue with Western and global female art, and the development characteristics of the localization of feminism in Chinese art and design. The significance of the research is to improve the international artistic atmosphere of Chinese feminist art and instill a new understanding of Chinese feminist art in the world.