Youth League Research Articles

TSIMONIS, Konstantinos. 2021. The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization. Amsterdam: Amste

TSIMONIS, Konstantinos. 2021. The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization. Amsterdam: Amste

Book Review: The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization by Konstantinos D. Tsimonis

Book Review: <i>The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization</i> by Konstantinos D. Tsimonis

Tackled by COVID in Italy: Do as the Brescians Do

Tackled by COVID in Italy: Do as the Brescians Do

Influence of Digital Technology on Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities under 5G Era

With the advancement of digital technology, new means and methods are being offered in education to enhance teaching-learning. The use of technology in educational interventions has a positive impact on the students’ functional, cognitive, and psychomotor skills. This study aims to improve the teaching mode of ideological and political education (IPE). The research work intends to enhance enthusiasm of college students for ideological and political course (IPC). Based on 5G technology, the rising virtual reality (VR) technology is proposed in this study to improve IPC in colleges and universities. To begin with, the background of IPE and VR technology is introduced. Next, the current college students’ attitudes toward IPE and VR technology are investigated by a questionnaire survey. Finally, based on the red hero culture, the VR system for IPE is designed. Results of the evaluation show that the students who have been the members of the Communist Party have the highest degree of interest for IPC in colleges and universities. Endorsing the fact, about 29.7% college students and 26.81% university students who were members of the communist youth league favored for IPC, while only 14.29% of the masses showed interest for IPC. As a whole, 25.2% of all the students participated in the survey showed their interest for IPC. One of the main reasons behind the results is the teaching mode and means that attract students for IPC. At present, 84.11% of the ideological and political teachers give a lecture of IPC via PPT, while 67.29% of the students prefer the Internet platform as a means of IPC. About 73.4% of the students know VR and are interested in the application of VR to IPC. They believe that VR can help them understand the knowledge of IPC and has broad prospects in improving the teaching quality of IPE. The designed VR system for IPE which is used in colleges and universities has four modules, namely, the preamble module of graphic history, the hero wall module, the hero art sculpture module, and the scene experience module. This system can help realize the objective of IPE in colleges and universities and provides a reference for the application of VR in enhancing IPE.

Research on the Ideological Guidance and Effectiveness of the Communist Youth League in the Micro Era

The emergence of carriers such as “micro video,” “micro channel,” and “micro film,” as well as the development of network information technology, have profoundly changed the social operation mode, learning and thinking methods, and interpersonal communication methods, posing new challenges to the Communist Youth League’s ideological guidance in the school in terms of content and form. The Communist Youth League’s ideological guidance at the school should be practical and realistic, and it should keep up with the times. Improve the Communist Youth League’s ideological guidance efficacy in the micro era.

The Triple Mechanisms on the Persistence and Innovation of the Educational Work of the Communist Youth League in Colleges and Universities Under the Perspective of Big Data

The Triple Mechanisms on the Persistence and Innovation of the Educational Work of the Communist Youth League in Colleges and Universities Under the Perspective of Big Data

Thinking and Practice of Strengthening the Ideological and Political Education of the Communist Youth League in Colleges and Universities

Thinking and Practice of Strengthening the Ideological and Political Education of the Communist Youth League in Colleges and Universities

Буддизм и социализм в философии Сэно Гиро (1890–1961)

This article discusses the philosophical views of Seno Giro (1890–1961), the founder of the movement “Shinko Bukkyo Seinen Domei” (“Youth League of the Revival of Bud­dhism”). The study shows that Seno Giro sought to develop his own original philosophy, combining a complex of Buddhist doctrines and the main aspects of socialism, which was popular in the liberal Japanese circles at that time. The paper analyzes the main trends of his movement, which was focused on the reformation of traditional Buddhist institu­tions and the creation of a Buddhism that would be more suitable for the requirements of the modern era. The evolution of Seno Giro’s views is traced from a simple adherence to the dogmas of Nitirenism to the idea that Buddhism, if it were reorganized on the basis of the ideas of Western philosophy, could be a solution to the social problems caused by capitalism. Thus, it is concluded that Seno Giro not only called for a complete reformation of Japanese Buddhism (as many Japanese intellectuals of that time did), but also sought its practical implementation, considering the synthesis of socialism and Buddhism as the most appropriate option. According to Seno Giro, the study of the political philosophy of socialism would help to awaken Buddhists from their “dogmatic sleep”, and Buddhism, in turn, would complement socialist atheism and materialism with humanistic ethics, due to the fact that it lacks the monotheism and creationism inherent in Christianity.

Research on the Influence of Communist Youth League Organization in College Students’ Ideological and Political Education

Research on the Influence of Communist Youth League Organization in College Students’ Ideological and Political Education

Optimizing the Construction of Multidimensional System of Entrepreneurship Education from the Perspective of the Second Classroom

Construction of the entrepreneurial ability evaluation system based on the Communist Youth League’s second class is presented in this paper. Drawing on the advanced experience of foreign countries and in accordance with the requirements of UNESCO, the objectives of innovation and entrepreneurship education should be integrated into school education and teaching objectives, and the content, curriculum, and atmosphere of social entrepreneurship education should be highlighted, with the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education as the focus of practice. Combining the characteristics and advantages of all disciplines and disciplines, we will create an innovative and pioneering education system that integrates interyear, interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and distinctive features and infiltrates the entire process of cultivating outstanding professionals in various fields. Through entrepreneurship education, general education courses to guide students to focus more on professional courses pay more attention to the latest developments in professional fields and innovation thus optimizing their knowledge structure and cultivating their innovative thinking, entrepreneurial awareness, and professional competence

Constructing the “Four in One” Second Classroom with Student Associations as the Carrier Education System

The second classroom report card is not only an important measure for colleges and universities to promote the comprehensive education reform of “three complete education”, but also an important way to realize “ten complete education”, and an urgent requirement to implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people. In order to meet the needs of all-round moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor development of contemporary young college students and improve the educational effectiveness of the “second classroom report card”, with student associations as the carrier, the Youth League Committee of the college promotes the improvement of students’ teamwork ability, communication ability and organization and coordination ability through professional education, innovative education, cultural education and practical education, so as to build a “four in one” second classroom education system.

The Chinese Communist Youth League, Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization, by Konstantinos D. Tsimonis

The Chinese Communist Youth League, Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization, by Konstantinos D. Tsimonis

Research on the effect of government media and users' emotional experience based on LSTM deep neural network.

Different government media have different communication effects and users' emotional experience. It carries on a comparative research on government media selecting three different types of government media which include China’s Police Online, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and China’s Fire Control in the context of public health emergencies. Based on the deep learning technique, the emotion classification model of long-term memory network is constructed to analyze the emotion of the users’ comments of different government media; taking the number of contents, the number of retweets, the number of praises, and the number of comments as evaluating indicators to do comparative analysis to cross platform government medias. Through the comparative results, it is found that different types and platforms of government media have great differences in users’ emotional experience; the emotion performance of users’ comments is strongly related to the information communication power and effectiveness of government media.

Brothers, Comrades or Competitors? The Communist Party and Youth League in Shanghai, 1925–1927

AbstractThe ‘Party and Youth League’ model in the Chinese communist movement was copied from Soviet Russia, but its practice by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Youth League has been little studied, especially at the local level. This article draws on a variety of sources to analyse the model's operation in Shanghai. My findings reveal a lasting rivalry between the Communist Party and the Youth League in Shanghai, which both experienced a rise and fall from 1925 to 1927. Despite efforts from leaders on both sides, this conflict went unresolved. The Youth League's transformation from a ‘younger brother’ to a ‘powerful competitor’ within the revolutionary communist community vividly reflects the fact that the Chinese communists were far removed from the iron rule of Bolshevism at that time, and highlights the complexities and difficulties of localizing the international communist movement.

Institutional Changes, Influences and Historical Junctures in the Communist Youth League of China

AbstractThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regards the Communist Youth League (CYL) as a critical and distinctive mass organization that acts as an “assistant” and “reserve army” for the Party. This article uses the analytical concepts of historical institutionalism and critical junctures to discuss the changes in the CYL during the post-Mao period. We focus on two critical junctures: 1982, when the CYL became a route to rapid promotion for cadres, and 2016, after which its cadres had fewer opportunities for promotion and the CYL was pushed back to its original role in youth United Front work. We also find that the CYL has refined its United Front methods to attract talented young people by offering them services. This reflects the efforts of the CCP regime to adapt to circumstances and ensure its survival.

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the ANC Youth League

In The Rise and Fall of the ANC Youth League, the author intends to revive the activism of South Africa’s African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and end ‘the perception that the organisation is a get-rich-quick scheme’. The book is a commendable effort to tell the story of the dying organisation and is written by an insider (the author is a former member of the ANCYL National Task Team). The ANCYL has an illustrious history, having been founded by such ANC luminaries as Anton Lembede, Nelson Mandela, and Oliver Tambo in 1944. Buoyed by youthful militancy, one of the founding impulses of the Youth League was to make the ANC more accessible to ordinary South Africans who felt, more keenly and direly, the racial injustices that preceded apartheid and were codified into law after 1948.

Land Reform in South Africa

For the past two to three decades, since the transition to democracy, policy orientation in South Africa has predominantly been centred on redressing the inequalities and legacies of the apartheid regime. This was broadly defined as social justice, with the land question often treated as a highly state-centric matter reserved for government, until Julius Malema became president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and then leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). This article explores some of the dominant narratives around the land question in post-apartheid South Africa and presents some recommendations on how the issue of land should be dealt with in the immediate future.

Konstantinos Tsimonis, The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization

Konstantinos Tsimonis, The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization

From Don Juan to Comrade Ivan

This article examines discussions of love and marriage in a regional newspaper of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) in the central Urals region. Although framed around the intention to communicate official communist morality and ideals about the family, these discussions included stories and readers’ letters that expressed a range of views that could both draw on and challenge Party ideals. While scholarship has emphasized the conservative elements of communist morality and the lack of support for men in the domestic sphere, these sources point to an understanding of love as central to a man’s life and comradely partnership as fundamental to Soviet marriage.

WITHDRAWN: Assessing the risks of teenagers' socialization and exploring the healthy personality development under the backgrounds of internet society and time-space transformation.

Ahead of Print article withdrawn by publisher.