Material Civilization Research Articles

Study on the Modernization Measurement of the Coordination between Material Civilization and Cultural-Ethical Civilization in China

Based on data from 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2013 to 2022, this paper measures the modernization progress of material and spiritual civilization and their degree of coordinated development. The Dagum Gini coefficient and kernel density estimation are used to analyze regional differences and dynamic trends, while structural equation modeling and a spatial Markov chain model are employed to explore impact paths and development transitions. The results indicate steady improvements in various indices across the Yangtze River Economic Belt, with decreasing inequality, though regional disparities remain significant and the trend of polarization intensifies. Technological innovation has promoted cultural life and social progress, and although there is a phenomenon of status lock-in, there is potential for modest improvements. This research provides theoretical support and policy recommendations for the coordinated development of material and spiritual civilization.

Under the Image of Urban Identity and Non-mainstream Cities under the New Media

With the diversified development of media and media platforms, city brand building has entered a new stage, and some cities have achieved remarkable development results, while some cities with large development space in natural resources, humanities and culture have failed to achieve development leaps. In this paper, the city with beautiful urban environment, rich resources and good development conditions is positioned as "non-mainstream city". This paper aims to explore the recognition degree of "non-mainstream cities" with development potential in people's minds, and take Taiyuan City of Shanxi Province as one of such cities to understand and analyze their development status, the audience's cognition degree of brand positioning of these cities and the shortcomings of current development through questionnaires and other means, and propose corresponding solutions from the aspect of media communication. Guide such cities to improve the visibility and recognition of cities by clarifying brand positioning, making full use of their natural resources and historical and cultural resources to explore urban characteristics, strengthening the integration of culture and tourism, and improving communication strategies, and at the same time improve the quality and efficiency of urban brand construction. Through the influence of media platforms, increase the exposure of these potential cities in the public sphere, extend the urban characteristics and reach a wider audience, realize the three-dimensional communication of the city brand image, help the formation of a good urban spirit and the prosperity and development of a variety of cities, and provide guidelines for more cities in brand construction. This article has certain reference value for the media communication strategy, the perfection of government functions, the construction of social spiritual culture and material civilization, and the coordinated development of countries and regions.

Influence Path Analysis of Coordination between Material and Spiritual Civilization Based on the VAR Model

This paper quantitatively analyzes the degree of coordination between China's material civilization and spiritual civilization by establishing an entropy method-coupled coordination degree model. Based on the quantitative results, indicators of China's 1987-2021 tax policy, monetary policy, and open economy policy are introduced to construct a vector autoregressive model to deeply analyze the dynamic relationship between the level of coordination and these influencing factors from multiple perspectives. It is found that maintaining a robust monetary policy, optimizing the structure of foreign trade and exports, and optimizing the structure of taxation are conducive to further enhancing the level of the degree of harmonization between China's material and spiritual civilization, and promoting the high-quality development of China's modernization.

Pathways to Equity in Addressing Climate Change: A Bahá’í Perspective

According to current scientific consensus, anthropogenic climate change has become one of the most serious existential threats to human civilization. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Bahá’u’lláh warned of the dangers inherent in the unbridled advancement of material civilization if a parallel advance in the moral and spiritual dimensions of civilization were neglected.This article outlines a framework with three components for dealing with the crisis of anthropogenic climate change. The first component is to embrace justice and equity, rooted in an awareness of the essential oneness and wholeness of the human race. The second is the full embrace of sound science. The third is consultation at all levels of society regarding the technological and social measures to be taken, in which all have a voice and participate in forging solutions.It then outlines Bahá’í approaches to climate change in light of this framework. It first profiles the worldwide Bahá’í community, then discusses the concept of the three protagonists in the civilization-building process, and finally outlines the framework for action, which characterizes Bahá’í work at the neighborhood and community level.

Research on the Modernization Construction of the Harmonious Coexistence between Humans and Nature in New Era

Since entering the new era, “beauty” has become one of the goals of China's modernization construction, highlighting the prominent position of ecological civilization construction in the entire modernization construction. This article attempts to systematically construct the writing logic structure of the modernization construction of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature through methods such as literature research, comparative argumentation, and comprehensive analysis. From different levels and perspectives, it proposes practical and feasible paths for building modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. The modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature in the new era reflects the harmonious unity between humans and nature, the harmonious unity between material civilization and ecological civilization, and the harmonious unity between Chinese style and modernization. In view of this, we can focus on establishing the concept of green economic development, accelerating the green transformation of development methods, strengthening the legal norms of ecological environment, building the system of green financial to further expand the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature in the new era. This article provides important theoretical reference for the modernization construction of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

Study on the Historical Lineage of the Evolution of the Socialist Cultural Construction System

Cultural construction has an important impact on advancing the construction of material civilization, and at the same time, it is also an important condition for improving the ideological and moral level of the people at large. This paper combs through the institutional history of socialist cultural construction, including the cultural system during the New Democracy period (1921-1949), the cultural system before the reform and opening up (1949-1978), and the cultural system since the reform and opening up (1978 to the convening of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee in 2019), and proposes that the Legalization is the road to cultural construction, and in conjunction with the instructions of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, it is clear to "adhere to and improve the system for the prosperity and development of advanced socialist culture, and consolidate the common ideological foundation for the unity and struggle of all people."

Legal Reasoning Judge's Decision in Civil Cases

Introduction: Civil Procedure Law is a legal regulation that regulates how to ensure compliance with material civil law through the mediation of a judge. If there is a person or several people who feel that their rights have been violated or have caused harm to them, then they can file a claim for their rights through the court. Objective: This research aims to know, understand, and discover the nature of legal reasoning (legal reasoning) regarding a Judge's decision in a civil case and to know, understand, and discover the juridical position of legal reasoning (legal reasoning) regarding the Judge's decision in a civil case; and to know and understand the factors that influence legal reasoning (legal reasoning) the Judge's decision in a civil case. Method: The method used by researchers here is: In this research, combining two types of research, namely in this type of research, the researcher conducts research by combining both Normative and Empirical research with a Qualitative approach related to legal reasoning of judges' decisions in civil cases. Result: The research results show that: 1) The nature of legal reasoning (Legal Reasoning) The Judge's Decision in Civil Cases is an effort made by using a scientific approach in seeking the truth regarding the upholding of norms based on Law Number 48 of 2009 Article 1 Paragraph 1 Concerning Judicial Power and in essence thinking, using, developing or controlling problems in the legal field by using reason, or what can be called legal reasoning. 2) Juridical Position of Legal Reasoning (Legal Reasoning) Regarding the Judge's Decision in Civil Cases, it can be seen from the aspect of justice that it is a logical implementation of legal norms in the sociological dimension of law, from the aspect of the truth of a decision, legal reasoning is a consequent form of the logical and analytical nature of law. 3) Factors that influence this include Legal Culture Factors, Knowledge and Understanding of the Law Factors, and Evidence Factors. Conclusion: The Essence of Legal Reasoning (Legal Reasoning) of Judges' Decisions in Civil Cases is an effort made by using a scientific approach in seeking the truth regarding the upholding of norms based on Law Number 48 of 2009 Article 1 Paragraph 1 Concerning Judicial Power and in essence thinking, using, developing or controlling a problem in the legal field by using reason, or what could be called legal reasoning.

Quantum information technology: Current status and prospects

In the early decades of the 20th century, the inception of quantum mechanics catalyzed the first quantum revolution, resulting in groundbreaking technological advances, such as nuclear energy, semiconductors, lasers, nuclear magnetic resonance, superconductivity, and global satellite positioning systems. These innovations have promoted significant progress in material civilization, fundamentally changed the way of life and societal landscape of humanity. Since the 1990s, quantum control technology has made significant strides forward, ushering in a rapid evolution of quantum technologies, notably exemplified by quantum information science. This encompasses domains such as quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum precision measurement, offering paradigm-shifting solutions for enhancing information transmission security, accelerating computational speed, and elevating measurement precision. These advances hold the potential to provide crucial underpinning for national security and the high-quality development of the national economy. The swift progression of quantum information technology heralds the advent of the second quantum revolution. Following nearly three decades of concerted efforts, China’s quantum information technology field as a whole has achieved a leap. Specifically, China presently assumes a prominent international role in both the research and practical application of quantum communication, leading the global domain in quantum computing, and achieving international preeminence or advanced standing across various facets of quantum precision measurement. Presently, it is imperative to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the developmental priorities in the realm of quantum information in China for the forthcoming 5 to 10 years, in alignment with national strategic priorities and the evolving landscape of international competition. This will enable the proactive establishment of next-generation information technology systems that are secure, efficient, autonomous, and controllable.

An empirical study of interactive experience and teaching effect of erhu performance in virtual reality environment

Abstract In today’s extremely rich material civilization, it is necessary to take the initiative to combine the inheritance of the erhu art with modern means, and in this regard, an immersive virtual erhu playing experience multi-channel interactive system is proposed. The multi-channel interactive system for an immersive virtual erhu playing experience is constructed by combining knowledge of erhu playing. The multi-channel interaction function module of this system consists of acoustic feedback, haptic perception, gesture recognition, and line-of-sight tracking interaction, while the virtual playing module contains two parts: dynamic guidance teaching and navigation menu distribution. Based on the research purpose, the system function and teaching effect are verified and analyzed. The results indicate that the system can recognize simple erhu-playing gestures with a recognition rate of 100.00% and can recognize relatively complex gestures with a recognition rate of more than 95.00%, thereby providing users with an enjoyable erhu-playing experience. The three aspects of erhu playing knowledge, rhythm ability, and improvisation ability show a significant difference between the traditional erhu teaching method and the system presented in this paper, with a P-value of less than 0.05. This difference clearly demonstrates the promotion effect of the interactive system on erhu performance teaching.

Continuity·Evolution: Exploring the development trend of Tujia hand-waving dance along the river in Guizhou

The Tujia people are famous for their bravery, hard work, and ability to sing and dance. Their long-term working life and migration have shaped their splendid history and culture. Among them, the most representative one is the "hand waving dance", which is often performed during festivals, sacrifices and prayer activities. With the rapid development of industrialization and modernization, the ideas and production methods of Tujia people in the Tujia area have undergone drastic changes . For example, the Tujia people along the river in Guizhou have gradually accepted new ideas and culture and abandoned their traditional way of life, resulting in the original material civilization. and spiritual culture are gradually fading out of the stage of history, including the hand-waving dance of the Tujia people , and they are also facing the risk of disappearing or being forgotten. In order to protect the sustainable development of hand- waving dance, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on its dance form, artistic style and future development trends to deepen people's awareness of the protection of hand-waving dance. It also has an important impact on China's cultural diversity and the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

Testamentul doamnei Agnes, văduva lui Petrus Moldner din Bistrița (1531)

The last will and testament, situated on the border between oficial and private, becomes a privileged source for the reconstruction of what is generically called „microhistory”. Less studied Transylvanian urban testaments from the medieval and pre-modern periods provide ample support for the identification of the testator's family cosmos, his community of residence, the ties he formed therein, etc. The testament of Mrs. Agnes (1531), the widow of Petrus Moldner, a merchant whose ascension ensured his access to the city council of Bistrița, becomes an important source for the restitution of some aspects of material civilization characteristic of the urban elite, of the interpersonal relationships that family members had established, and not ultimately for outlining the piety that was characteristic of the testator. Heiress to a sizable fortune, Mrs. Agnes donated it primarily to save her own soul at a time when the religious Reformation is also felt in Bistrița. This fact caused the „reaction” of 19th century historians, who were astounded by this woman's adherence to the values of the Catholic Church. Beyond the already existing rivalries, the magistrate's objection reflectes the lay authority's attempt to halt these donations pro salute anime, in accordance with the Saxon University's ruling in 1525 and the new reforming atmosphere.

The Electrification of the World

It is unlikely there is a more momentous event in the creation of modern civilization than the invention of the electric light and its handmaiden, the worldwide grid. The 21st century Green Economy rests firmly on the foundation of the electric grid. Few know that the dynamo, the electric light – both arc and incandescent – and the electric grid were invented and launched in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This essay describes how and why these inventions happened. It is divided into two parts, each with its separate references, for the sake of clarity, as a great many important discoveries and technicalities had to be worked out each step of the way. Part One covers the development of the arc lamp and its “engine,” the dynamo. Part Two covers the invention of the long-burning carbon-based filament of the incandescent light bulb, as well as more powerful dynamos to supply power to thousands and soon millions of these new bulbs, and Edison’s visionary and pioneering construction of the revolutionary first electric grid. These developments seeded the construction of the universal worldwide grid in the 1890s and early 20th century. Their origins and history are integral to understanding the basis of our 21st century material civilization.

Research on the Measurement and Coupling Coordination of the Development Level of Material Civilization and Spiritual Civilization under the Background of Chinese path to modernization

The modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization is an important feature of Chinese path to modernization. It is difficult for a nation without spiritual strength to stand on its own, and it is difficult for a cause without cultural support to last for a long time. Based on the background of Chinese path to modernization, this paper will build two subsystems of material civilization development level and spiritual civilization development level. Based on the panel data of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2006 to 2021, the two subsystems will be measured by entropy method, and then the coupling coordination degree model will be introduced to measure the two subsystems. Finally, the dynamic evolution of coupled scheduling for the development level of material civilization and spiritual civilization is studied through kernel density estimation method, combined with Gini coefficient and decomposition method Differential analysis of spatial regions. The study found that the overall evaluation value of the development level of material and spiritual civilization in the Yangtze River Delta region h as increased, and the gap between cities is significant. The coupling coordination degree of the two subsystems of material civilization and spiritual civilization development level is constantly rising, but the overall average value is low, with significant regional differences, and there is still great potential for development.

Analysis on the Living Situation of Chinese Intellectuals in Wang Mengs Novel Huo Dong Bian Ren Xing

In the new period of literary thinking, literary artists try to re-integrate the missing image of intellectuals into history through self-imagination. The reinvented older generation of intellectuals still have strong beliefs even though they suffer from physical and mental torture. Wang Meng, the author of Huo Dong Bian Ren Xing (Move-to-Turn into Human Forms), combines his personal experience to create a completely different image, showing a real individual. He boldly shows the actual living state of his fathers generation, with the protagonist Ni Wucheng as a failure in many aspects, including his career, family, and conduct. From the perspective of colonial culture, this paper explores the living situation of Chinese intellectuals between the 1940s and 1980s by analyzing the cultural background and structure of the characters in Wang Mengs novel Huo Dong Bian Ren Xing. It can be concluded that Ni Wucheng was affected by the colonial culture. He was addicted to the illusion of Western material civilization and ignored its spiritual essence. At the same time, he could not get rid of the deep-rooted bad habits of the Chinese nation, using a compromising attitude to avoid problems and failing to truly recognize himself until his death. Ni Zao, his son, who also belonged to the intelligentsia, was also unable to completely eradicate the colonial culture at the time of his fathers trial due to the lack of a genuine cultural theory system belonging to his own nation.

A long hope: the Prometheus Counter-Project

By offering a reading of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, and of the post-Aeschylus tradition of the myth of Prometheus which highlights its revisions as imagined by Karl Marx and Percy Shelley, among others, this paper seeks to explore how to grasp, amid our danger and despair, the prominent poetic and cognitive view of a similar cataclysm from the past, as a lesson to the present. The route to do so encompasses a revisitation of the connections between theatre and democracy in ancient Greece; a consideration of the variations of the themes of knowledge, injustice and tyranny, material civilization and its control and the unbowed personal will to resist oppression, all evoked by the myth of Prometheus; and teasing out the main lineaments of a meaning for the play for an endangered Athenian democracy, as staged around 440 as well as for authors who have recycled its main theme throughout centuries, and finally for us today. It ends by giving pride of place to a Promethean hope, a long hope, arisen from suffering and wedded to cognition, which has crossed centuries and reached our times in urgency. The work is, of course, a provisional statement: a contribution.

Postmodernism and Logo Design: Take the Memphis Style as an Example

In the context of the post-industrial era, the comprehensive development process of transforming the design purpose into a design concept is particularly prominent in terms of breadth and depth of the impact on product design. Its postmodernism aims to better adapt to the material foundation and spiritual needs of human spiritual and cultural development, and between manufacturing and design. the intersection of the product is the core, so that the performance between the product and the design becomes more and more profound. Using the literature research and analysis method, the comparative research method is used to analyze the changes in the performance of art symbols in postmodernism and summarize the expression methods of Memphis design. The humanization, diversification, personalization, color, etc. of the performance have the characteristics of Memphis style, which fully reflects the needs of human life diversity. The pursuit and performance are also in line with the characteristics of the popularization of art ubiquitous in society. At the same time, the logo performance constantly draws on and adopts the orthogonal spirit of humanism, which closely combines traditional art theory and real cultural life, and closely combines the theory of traditional art with the actual life of modern art, so as to fully oppose Reflecting the pursuit of the universal life of mankind and the increasing needs of social material civilization and real cultural survival.

(Technological) Globalization and Anthropogenic Heritage

The concepts of culture and civilization have been directly linked to the process of social construction since the dawn of human history. A philosophy of civilization presupposes a history of human evolution that would seek to highlight humanity’s achievements through which we have reached the modern age. Now, even more so after the middle of the 20th century, the relationship between material civilization and technology has also been emphasized in the context of the protection of a “global cultural heritage”. Part of this new general concern is the well-known debate about the return of the Parthenon “marbles”. In this article, we will initially focus on the influence of the anthropogenic object heritage on the evolution of societies, arguing that it determines our collective experience and social memory to an important extent. We believe that such an analysis could beneficially contribute to a more meaningful understanding of a crucial topic of our modern technological era, an era that combines the clash of civilizations with globalization. We propose that the vision of a culture as a common possession of all humanity presupposes the respect of each country’s right to possess and care after its own cultural tokens.

An empirical study of Thailand cities' color landscapes

Color landscapes are important parts of cultural landscapes. Cities are cradles of human spiritual and material civilizations. As a city changes, its unique cultural context also changes. One of the most significant features of a city is its color landscapes, which help to convey the culture and spirit of a city in a deeply intuitive way. The color landscapes not only shape a city image, highlights a city personality, and transmits cultural information but it is also an important aid in helping people to perceive regional cultural values and experience folk customs. With these concepts in mind, the researchers of this study have selected three typical tourist cities in Thailand as the basis for an empirical study. Three main findings are discussed: (1) Thailand's city color landscapes tend to consist of pure colors with high saturation, and colorful colors have been integrated into Thai people's daily life, which reflect Thailand's different history and culture. (2) The clearer the attributes of the color landscape, the more pertinent they are to the images of the tourist destination. (3) The geographical environment, local religious beliefs, and tourists' expectations are the main motivating factors in choosing the main colors of a city. City color landscapes have become an important part of Thailand's city tourism “industry” and would promote the development of sustainable tourism.

Accounting for the Influence of the Superposition of Cycles of Economic Activity in the Transformation of Management Institutions in Modern Conditions

The article deals with the problem of the influence of many factors and conditions on the processes of transformation of management institutions expected in the short term (2020s). The aim of the presented work is to study the influence of cyclic patterns of technical, technological, economic, social and political development of society on the processes of transformation of management institutions. As research methods, the work uses the tools of TESP-analysis of the impact on the transformation of management institutions of short-term business cycles by J. Kitchin, business cycles by K. Zhuglyar, construction cycles by S. Kuznets, technological cycles by N. Kondratiev, formational cycles by M. Evans, political cycles J. Modelsky, F. Braudel’s cycles of material civilization, J. Forrester’s resource cycles and E. Toffler’s cycles-epochs. As a result of the research, the inducing influence of the dynamics of the listed cycles on the processes of transformation of management institutions in society has been established. In particular, the influence of the accumulative effect of accumulation of changes within the short-term business cycles of J. Kitchin, business cycles of K. Zhuglyar, construction cycles of S. Kuznets on the technological cycles of N. Kondratiev and the accompanying processes of transformation of management institutions in society, which are multiples of each other in duration, has been demonstrated. In a similar way, the inducing influence on the processes of transformation of management institutions in a society of approximately equal in duration cycles of material civilization by F. Braudel, formation cycles of M. Evans and political cycles of J. Modelsky is shown. It is shown that from the point of view of the transformation of managerial institutions in society, it is necessary to take into account the influence of the totality of the cycles of economic activity under consideration as a superposition of waves of different duration and amplitude. It has been demonstrated that the cluster of influence of a number of considered waves of economic activity on the activities of management institutions will fall on the 2020s. Proposals are formulated to take into account the influence of the superposition of cycles of economic activity in the transformation of management institutions in modern conditions.

What are the principles for measurement and estimation of accident sequelae? : Development and function of the reduction in earning capacity (MdE) tables in the statutory accident insurance

The evaluation of permanent dysfunction after injuries to the musculoskeletal system is one of the core activities of a trauma surgeon and orthopedists. Based on the knowledge of the injury and an accurate description of the dysfunction, the medical expert then makes aproposal regarding the amount of the reduction in earning capacity (Minderung der Erwerbsfähigkeit, MdE). The amount is based on the MdE tables, which have been derived from adecade-long harmonization and coordination between administrative authorities, courts and the medical profession. They have been published in the fundamental guidelines for evaluation. Individual recommendations are subject to change; however, the benchmark figures for amputations have not changed significantly since the introduction of the statutory accident insurance in 1884, although the treatment with prostheses has continuously improved. The benchmark for the MdE is the labor market which becomes unavailable to the insured person due to the dysfunction. In the Social Code for Employment Accident Insurance (Sozialgesetzbuch für die Unfallversicherung, SGBVII), the reduction in earning capacity is defined and the amount "…is based on the extent to which job opportunities are available as aresult of the impairment of the physical and mental capacity across the entire area of the working life". The article traces the history of this central instrument for measuring the sequelae of accidents. In this context it is shown that the MdE values did not in fact arise concurrently with the introduction of statutory accident insurance at the end of the nineteenth century but date back to the millennia-old principle of the law of talion (ius talionis). This is the basic form of material civil liability law, according to which the injuring party must compensate the injured party in the case of aculpable impairment of health for the resulting material loss. Here the loss of earnings, the impairment of the capacity to work or, in other words, the reduction in earning capacity is of paramount importance. In the middle of the nineteenth century, private accident insurers developed dismemberment schedules based on the principle of ius talionis. These dismemberment schedules were adopted by the professional organizations after 1884. The highest competent instance for social security matters, which was the Imperial Insurance Office (Reichsversicherungsamt), redefined the dismemberment schedules: the values for the dismemberment schedules then became the benchmark for the reduction of capacity to work (Erwerbsminderung, EM) and subsequently the reduction in earning capacity (MdE). The fact that the MdE values have remained stable over more than 100 years support the view that they not only grant legal certainty but are also regarded as appropriate and fair by both the persons affected and society.