Liu Xin Research Articles

Investigating discourse markers “you know” and “I mean” in mediatized English political interviews: a corpus-based comparative study

This study employs a corpus-based approach to examine and compare the use of two discourse markers (DMs), “you know” and “I mean”, within the context of two mediatised English political interviews. The analysis encompasses frequencies, functions, co-occurrences, and positional distributions of these DMs. The study utilizes specialized corpora from two political interview programs: CGTN’s The Point with Liu Xin and BBC’s HARDtalk. The frequency analysis reveals that “you know” is statistically more prevalent than “I mean” in both programs, reflecting the spontaneity, interactivity, and need for clarification characteristic of political interviews. Notably, the Chinese interviewer (IR) uses “you know” more extensively, possibly due to a cultural preference for ensuring mutual understanding and engaging the audience, while the British IR employs “I mean” slightly more frequently, likely reflecting a tendency to clarify or reframe statements for precision. Functionally, these DMs serve diverse purposes such as hedging, agreeing, and monitoring across various domains including interpersonal, sequential, and rhetorical. Positional analysis shows “you know” typically appearing medially and “I mean” often in initial positions. These results underscore the distinctive interviewing styles of the two IRs and the pivotal role of these DMs in fulfilling a spectrum of communicative functions. This research offers valuable insights into the interviewer’s perspective in political interviews.

Win-Loss-Win in the US–China Game: A Cross-cultural Analysis of a TV Anchor Debate Between Trish Regan and Liu Xin

Abstract Guided by the cultural game theory, WGTICC and cultural analysis model, this study has found such game intentions and communication strategies as shaming the invited counterpart versus correcting the host calmly, turning a debate into a Q&A versus using the Q&A as a meaningful presentation, and getting ready to listen versus demonstrating courage, sincerity, and cogency have been adopted during the 3 rounds of debate, thus illustrating and expanding the third assumption in the water and game theory from a win-loss to a win-loss-win result. In terms of cultural roots, Fox Business News, as an example of Western media, has been shifting from objective, accurate, and fair journalism ethics to unilateralism, catalyzed by prioritizing the US interests. In contrast, the Chinese media, like CGTN, have been reshaping themselves for survival and performance employing and developing multiple online platforms while converging with social media.

Platforms versus agents: the third-party mediation role of CGTN’s news commentary programs in China’s Media Going Global plan

Since the 2019 televised debate on the US-China trade war between China Global Television Network (CGTN) host Liu Xin and Fox Business Network host Trish Regan, China’s flagship international broadcaster CGTN has placed more emphasis than before on producing news commentary programs. By inviting commentators from China and other developing countries to participate in discussions, CGTN has sought to balance the views emanating from the Global North and the Global South. Drawing upon the content of these programs from 2020 through 2022 and on interviews with 13 intellectuals and program guests in and outside China, this paper explores this strategic shift and conceptualizes the role of these news commentary programs, arguing that, by vigorously promoting news commentary programs, CGTN now plays a third-party mediation role in China’s Media Going Global plan. This role differs according to the theme under discussion, however, with the broadcaster either providing a platform for discussing sensitive issues or serving as a cooperative agent with experts from the Global South.

Transfer of an Aluminum Atom: An Avenue to Aluminum Heterocycles

Open AccessCCS ChemistryRESEARCH ARTICLES6 Oct 2022Transfer of an Aluminium Atom: An Avenue to Aluminium Heterocycles Xin Zhang, Hongyu Wang, Xiaofang Lan, Yanbo Mei, David A. Ruiz and Liu Leo Liu Xin Zhang Google Scholar More articles by this author , Hongyu Wang Google Scholar More articles by this author , Xiaofang Lan Google Scholar More articles by this author , Yanbo Mei Google Scholar More articles by this author , David A. Ruiz Google Scholar More articles by this author and Liu Leo Liu Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.022.202202406 SectionsSupplemental MaterialAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Synthetic chemistry targets building up molecular complexity using simple substrates through simple processes. We disclose an unprecedented Al-atom transfer strategy for the synthesis of aluminium heterocycles with high atom economy. This strategy involves an effective cycloaddition of a free carbazolyl-aluminylene with unsaturated hydrocarbons, followed by facile cleavage of the N-Al bond. The aluminylene formally behaves as an [Al+] cation transfer reagent in a two-step manner, and the only byproduct is a carbazolide salt that can be utilized to regenerate the aluminylene. The carbazolyl Al-heterocycles show unique luminescent properties, one of which exhibits dual emission. Our approach not only has a significant impact on the future design of single-atom addition reactions, but also paves the way for emissive materials based on Al-heterocycles. Download figure Download PowerPoint Previous article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Issue AssignmentVolume 0Issue jaPage: 1-20Supporting Information Copyright & Permissions© 2022 Chinese Chemical Society Downloaded 261 times PDF downloadLoading ...

Runse hongye: Hanshu wenben de xingcheng yu zaoqi chuanbo

Runse hongye: Hanshu wenben de xingcheng yu zaoqi chuanbo

Transversing Sexualities and Critiques of Capital

This forum has come about through a series of conversations and discussions over a period of time in 2021-2022. Our ambition was to bring together scholars from different disciplines and perspectives, hoping for mutual curiosity and dialogue. We invited the participants to the forum to consider the following question:
 “How can we understand the complex and often contradictory ways through which sexualities and capital are related to, shaped by, and constitutive of each other?”
 Due to restrictions and exigencies of the corona situation together with time zone obstacles, the conversation had different modes. The fi rst part of the forum consisted of an online video-recorded conversation between M.E. O’Brien, Nat Raha and Grietje Baars. The conversation was moderated by Liu Xin and Mathias Klitgård. Laura Horn provided editorial support. Jin Haritaworn and Lisa Adkins then kindly sent their contributions to this conversation in writing. What you will read in the following is hence a conversation across three continents, which mixes synchronous and asynchronous elements, and which aims to show the strengths but also divergences and open questions in these different engagements.

Editorial – A new year and a new editor team

Editorial – A new year and a new editor team

Interpersonal Trust Repair of the First-time TV Argument between Chinese and American Anchors Based on Appraisal Theory

The Sino-US trade war has been in complicated disturbance since 2018, including tariff war, WTO complaints, technology blockade, Sino-US negotiations and other events, which gives rise to the detrimental trust relations between both sides. Taking the TV debate between Chinese anchor Liu Xin and American anchor Trish Reagan’s exclusive TV programme Trish Regan Primetime on May 30, 2019 as the corpus, the UAM Corpus Tool 3 as the marking tool and Martin’s appraisal theory as the theoretical framework, this study explores the use of attitude resources, engagement resources and graduation resources through the mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis method. This study aims to help guide the public to conduct correct attribution analysis and reassess its credibility in crisis events, especially in international discourse.

From Confrontation to Collaboration: Attitudinal Changes of Trish Regan on US-China Trade War in Commentaries and Debate

In her cross-border debate with Chinese anchor Liu Xin, Trish Regan, an American anchor, behaved differently than what she had done in her previous commentaries. This paper explores the attitudinal differences evinced by Trish Regan on different occasions from a linguistic perspective. Based on the Appraisal System, especially the Attitude subsystem (Martin and White, 2005), this paper examines the attitudinal resources utilized by Trish Regan in her two news commentaries and her online debate with her counterpart Liu Xin—a set of texts which provides a longitudinal account of how Trish has changed her attitude. By annotating the attitude resources used by Trish, positive and negative evaluations are expected to be clarified, with detailed analyses of subsystems in the Attitude System to be given. The results suggest that Trish’s attitude towards China has changed a lot in her commentaries and the debate with Liu Xin—from negative to partly positive. It also appears that Trish maintained a positive attitude towards the United States while she changed her positive attitude towards the trade war into a negative one in her debate with Liu Xin.

The Subjectivity and Objectivity Construction in Trade War Reports via Transitivity System

US president Donald Trump has accused China of unfair trading practices and intellectual property theft. Consequently, there is a trade war between America and China by means of imposing tariffs on each other’s goods ("A quick," 2020). As the war develops, more and more American and Chinese audiences are trying to investigate the root issue through news reports and other media channels. However, the main problem for audiences is whether or not the news reports from both American and Chinese perspectives deliver the information concerning the negotiation process objectively. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate further into the construction of objectivity and subjectivity in related reports. In total, two reports are selected: one is from the FOX Business Network in the U.S. and the other is from the CGTN (China Global Television Network) in China. Via Michael Halliday’s Transitivity System in Systemic Functional Linguistics, the frequency appearance of each process types is counted and explained. Also, the qualitative approach is applied while scrutinizing each clause word by word. This paper discovers that Trish Regan, an American journalist, preferred to illustrate the circumstance about the trade war as if she was part of the negotiation team while Liu Xin, a Chinese anchor, focused heavily on attacking Regan personally. In addition, this thesis also reminds viewers and journalists to be aware of the subjective language use in reports. Last but not least, it has proved the applicability of the Transitivity System in news reports analysis.

Abstract PO-35: Prognostic significance of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 colocalization at single-cell resolution in DLBCL

Abstract MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 are commonly used markers for immunohistochemistry of Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL). Coexpression of MYC and BCL2 in particular constitutes a subgroup of “double expressor lymphomas” (DEL) with a distinct poor clinical outcome. However, it is not known if MYC and BCL2/BCL6 coexpression occurs in the same cell or in different cells within the tumor, as traditional immunohistochemistry (IHC) is limited by the number of markers that can be simultaneously assessed within formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples. We set out to discover the clinical significance of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 colocalization at single-cell resolution using multiplexed quantitative immunofluorescence (qIF) based on sequential OPAL-TSA staining and spectral microscopy on the Vectra platform. The initial discovery cohort comprised 90 cases of DLBCL from NUH Singapore with adequate clinical follow-up after R-CHOP therapy. We stratified each DLBCL tumor into 8 “clonal fractions” based on the possible permutations of MYC (M), BCL2 (2), and BCL6 (6) colocalization: M+2+6+, M+2+6-, M+2-6+, M+2-6-, M-2+6+, M-2-6+, M-2+6-, and M-2-6-. Interestingly, even within cases that fit traditional IHC criteria for “positivity” of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6, only a subset of cells within each case expressed multiple markers concurrently. Using the fraction of each of these clones as a continuous variable, Cox regression analysis revealed that the percentage of M+2+6- cells in a case was most predictive of poor survival. Importantly, the same clonal fraction (M+2+6-) was a significant poor prognostic feature in 2 smaller validation cohorts from SGH Singapore (n=41) and MD Anderson Cancer Centre USA (n=36). The single-cell staining pattern of these markers revealed a stark contrast between healthy tonsil tissue and DLBCL tissue. In the tonsil, colocalization of each marker was nonrandom (mutually exclusive BCL2 positivity in B cells outside the germinal center and BCL6 positivity inside the germinal center), whereas in DLBCL samples the mutual exclusivity pattern noted in the tonsil was lost, leading to a random distribution of colocalization of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6. The random nature of this colocalization allowed us to mathematically predict the “extent” of these 8 subclones from any data set with quantitative data of each single marker (MYC, BCL2, and BCL6). We therefore attempted to evaluate this model in RNA expression datasets of DLBCL cases with clinically annotated data. Remarkably, in concordance with our IF data, the “predicted” M+2+ 6- subgroup consistently was associated with an unfavorable prognosis in 3 independent mRNA datasets (GSE10846 n=233, GSE117556 n=469, GSE32918 n=140). In summary, we have for the first time assessed the expression of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 at the single-cell level in DLBCL. These results may explain the apparent protective function of BCL6 expression in prior cohort studies of DEL, and provide a quantitative tool for the identification of DLBCL cases with poor survival on R-CHOP. Citation Format: Michal Hoppe, Shuangyi Fan, Patrick Jaynes, Phuong Mai Hoang, Liu Xin, Sanjay De Mel, Li Mei Poon, Esther Chan, Joanne Lee, Yen Lin Chee, Choon Kiat Ong, Tiffany Tang, Soon Thye Lim, Nicholas Francis Grigoropoulos, Sheng-Tsung Chang, Shih-Sung Chuang, Joseph Khoury, Hyungwon Choi, Wee Joo Chng, Siok-Bian Ng, Claudio Tripodo, Anand D. Jeyasekharan. Prognostic significance of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 colocalization at single-cell resolution in DLBCL [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Virtual Meeting: Advances in Malignant Lymphoma; 2020 Aug 17-19. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Blood Cancer Discov 2020;1(3_Suppl):Abstract nr PO-35.

Trial by Media in the Context of Online New Media: An Analysis Based on "Death of Jiang Ge"

<p align="justify">At the end of 2017, Chinese student Jiang Ge was murdered in Japan. With the help of the online we-media Mi Meng and others, there is widespread attention in China. The moral condemnation by online we-media of Liu Xin, another victim of the case, and online violence has become another case that the media makes the judge before the judiciary. Trial by media is not a new subject, and in the cyber age, especially with the increasingly prosperous development of online media, the “trial by media” power cannot be underestimated. This article, taking the “Death of Jiang Ge” as a perspective, briefly analyzes the causes and characteristics of the trial by online we-media in the Internet age, and puts forward some thoughts on the prevention and control strategies of the “trial by media” in the future.</p>

The Adoption of Neo-Confucianism in Discussing Legitimacy Dispute

Lipset (1960) denotes legitimacy as “the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society.” All political powers, including Chinese dynasties in history, needed legitimacy to ensure their governance. In general, Western thinkers who discuss political legitimacy could be identified into two groups (Habermas, 1979). The “empiricists”, likes Max Weber, studies legitimacy in an empirical method, focusing on the types, constitutions, functions, and evolutions of legitimacy. The second group consists of “normativists”, such as Plato and John Rawls, who tend to base legitimacy on various normative values such as justice or democracy. Pre-modern Chinese views on political legitimacy have the similar approaches like west. The first one pays attention to different empirical factors of legitimacy. For instance, the pre-Qin philosopher Zou Yan (305-240 BCE), and Western Han thinker Liu Xin (50 BCE-23 CE) view a dynasty’s legitimate by its adoption of rightful dynastic phase (Wang 2006). The Song Dynasty (960–1279) historian Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072) argues that the just position and the unification of China make a legitimate dynasty (Rao 1996). The second approach bases legitimacy on normative values. For example, Confucius (551-479 BCE) indicates that the rightfulness of a ruler relies on his properly practicing both “benevolence” (ren ), and “rites” (li ). Many present scholars give us their studies on the legitimacy in Chinese history. For instance, Rao Zong (1996) provides the general overviews of legitimacy in the Chinese tradition, with an extensive collection of relevant primary sources. Hou Deren (2009) introduces most relevant present-day Chinese studies on that issue. For English readers, general studies of traditional Chinese views on legitimacy can be found in the writings of Hok-lam Chan (1984) and Richard Davis (1983). Nevertheless, it is notable that the question of legitimacy became pressing from the 13th century onwards in China, when China was ruled by non-Chinese ruling houses, such as the Yuan Dynasty 元 (1272-1368) and Qing Dynasty (1889-1912). Scholars during that period showed a great interest in discussing the question of what makes a legitimate ruler of China. In general, these scholars approached that question in two ways; they introduced the prevailing Neo-Confucianism to define the virtuous rule as the principal value of legitimacy (Bol, 2009), or they defined a Chinese ruled dynasty as legitimate. To reveal these scholars’ distinct views on legitimacy, this paper investigates two of them, the Yuan literatus Yang Weizhen (1296-1370) and the Ming (1368-1644) scholar-official Fang Xiaoru (1357-1402). For English readers, only Richard Davis (1983) gives a brief introduction on Yang Weizhen’s views on legitimacy. Few studies focus on Fang Xiaoru’s relevant views. Following the text analysis way, this article proves that Yang Weizhen and Fang Xiaoru acted as two representatives of scholars in the late imperial China. Both of them adopted Neo-Confucianism to discuss legitimacy, viewing the discussion of legitimacy as a moral evaluation of the dynasty and monarch. They also shared the idea that Chinese ruled dynasty should be viewed as legitimate.

The Collating Literature Work of Liu Xiang and Liu Xin and The Construction of ‘Xin Wang Guan Xue’

The Collating Literature Work of Liu Xiang and Liu Xin and The Construction of ‘Xin Wang Guan Xue’

上元积年本原探索

依据数论发展的内在逻辑，本文分析公元前7年刘歆三统历的起因和计算，指出古代中国流行1500多年的上元积年，本原就是约4400多年前尧舜的“岁三百有六旬有六日”。 On the base of the inner logicality of the Number Theory, this article examines the source and calculation of the Santong Calendar (7 B.C.) by Liu Xin, and points out that the origin of the Shangyuan Jinian Period-Since-Grand-Epoch, used during 1500 years in ancient China, is just that “there are 300 days plus 6 periods of ten days and plus 6 days in one year” in the time of Yao and Shun about 4400 years ago.

Research of heat metering development situation and application effect evaluation model in China

In spite of over 10 years of heat metering promotion in China, there still lays a certain gap between actual application and expectation. In this paper, the author conducts a comprehensive carding of China's current situation of heat metering in the aspects of policy, price, application area, technical roadmap, product quality and so on. An application effect evaluation model is established based on the geometric mean weights method. Assignments and weighs of factors in the model are achieved via multi-agent wide range of questionnaires. Comparisons are made among model results, results published by Liu Xin and the results released from the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development of the People's Republic of China (MOHURD), which proves rationality and high accuracy of the model established in this paper. Evaluation results show that application of heat metering in 2012 requires improvement with the score pegged at 60.7. It is suggested that policy support from national government should be strengthened, the impact of policies released by provincial government be curbed and heat metering pricing be increasingly reasonable. Application conditions of different metering techniques routes need to be clarified and relevant standards need to be revised to improve the operation.

The Narrative Structure of Amy Tan’s ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’: Myth as a Critical Element

The article explores Amy Tan's use of ghosts and spirituality in her novel 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. The author studies how the belief in ghosts functions in the novel as an alternative perspective through which to understand life, social relations, and the cosmos. The spirit of Gu Liu Xin, the Chinese grandmother, plays a critical role in developing the psychological integrity of Ruth Luyi Young, the American-born Chinese granddaughter. It also helps guide Lu Ling, Liu Xin's daughter and Ruth's mother, out of the hazardous situation in China and sustains Lu Ling in times of alienation and hardship in America. The article concludes that spirituality is essential for a subjugated woman character to achieve her personal and political freedom as well as her physical and spiritual wholeness.

Ban Gu: copyist, creator and critic

AbstractBan Gu's compilation of theHan shumay be seen in the context of a number of intellectual and religious developments. By his time the idea of theTian mingand the theory of theWu xingwere being applied to imperial times. Officials were quoting the sayings of Kongzi to support their arguments, and the writings of distinguished scholars such as Jing Fang, Liu Xiang, Liu Xin and Yang Xiong were well known. The religious controversies that had begun in the reign of Chengdi had died down. The pursuit of scholarship had received a new impetus thanks partly to the discussions held in 79ce. Ban Gu drew somewhat freely on existing literature, being prudent to select material that would not arouse enmity; his sister called on official documents to complete her part of the history. As an innovator Ban Gu introduced chapters on subjects that had not been treated in theShi ji, such as bibliography and the laws. Ready to criticize the actions of officials or the character of an emperor openly, he also contrived to do so implicitly.

The Creation of Daoism

This paper examines the creation of Daoism in its earliest, pre-Eastern Han period. After an examination of the critical terms “scholar/master” ( zi 子) and “author/school” ( jia 家), I argue that, given the paucity of evidence, Sima Tan and Liu Xin should be credited with creating this tradition. The body of this article considers the definitions of Daoism given by these two scholars and all of the extant texts that Liu Xin classified as “Daoist.” Based on these texts, I then suggest an amended definition of Daoism. In the conclusion, I address the recent claim that the daojia 道家/ daojiao 道教 dichotomy is false, speculating that disagreement over this claim arises from context in which Daoism is considered: among the other pre-Qin “schools of thought” or among other world religions.

Mussel-inspired chemistry and Stöber method for highly stabilized water-in-oil emulsions separation

Download options Please wait... Supplementary files Supplementary information PDF (1013K) Article information DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA05075D Article type Communication Submitted 25 Sep 2014 Accepted 06 Oct 2014 First published 06 Oct 2014 Download Citation J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 20439-20443 BibTex EndNote MEDLINE ProCite ReferenceManager RefWorks RIS Permissions Request permissions Mussel-inspired chemistry and Stöber method for highly stabilized water-in-oil emulsions separation Y. Cao, Y. Chen, N. Liu, X. Lin, L. Feng and Y. Wei, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 20439 DOI: 10.1039/C4TA05075D To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page. If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page. Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content. Social activity Tweet Share Search articles by author Yingze Cao Yuning Chen Na Liu Xin Lin Lin Feng Yen Wei