Teen Magazines Research Articles

Education, propaganda, and visual discourse in socialist Romania (1948–1989)

ABSTRACT The official discourse during the communist regime in Romania (1948–1989) has not been paid much attention by researchers and the official visual discourse, addressing adults and children, even less so. My study aims to address this research gap and identify the identity markers of the Romanian territory during socialism by exploring spatial representations and the territorial identity that were produced through official visual imagery. Using qualitative discourse analysis and critical visual methodology, I analyse the visual construction, through discourse, of themes and places created starting with the 1950s and were featured repeatedly during the 1970s and 1980s Romania (the period of national communism), and which constructed and highlighted traits of the country’s territorial identity. To achieve the research aim, I explore three types of research materials and ways of realising spatial education and socialisation through (propaganda) images or a visual pedagogy of space: (1) photographs in three textbooks about the Geography of Romania – a tool in educating people’s representations of their homeland, (2) official (state-produced and distributed) picture postcards reflecting progress during socialist Romania, and (3) comics about work and class identities in Cutezătorii [The Daring Ones] youth magazine – a tool in the edutainment of Romanian communist pioneers. These three official visual discourses were part of a coherent cultural visual discourse about the socialist nation, pervading representations about Romania, about its urban area, and about who the Romanians were meant to have been. This plural discourse was constructed through the visual intertextuality of these three widely distributed media.

Mexican Catholic Women and Their Gendered Racial Politics

This article examines pedagogical materials and Catholic youth magazines to uncover how, between 1926 and 1939, the Juventud Católica Femenina Mexicana (JCFM) pursued peasant moralization campaigns driven by young women’s shared distrust of Indigenous and mixed-race campesinas. It unearths the authoritarian dimensions of the group’s educational initiatives and exposes these efforts as fundamentally racial, gendered, and class-conscious political and religious projects. Moreover, this article traces how the JCFM, as an influential upper-class laywomen’s group, tried—and failed—to establish a nationwide educational curriculum grounded in Church doctrine to counter the influence of Protestant missions and Mexico’s nascent Secretariat of Public Education. It attributes these shortcomings to laywomen’s adherence to social hierarchy and their reluctance to offer meaningful solutions to peasant women’s economic hardships.

The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north: Cold War vernacular collecting and mining uranium, and its legacies

This paper explores the production of vernacular geological knowledge about uranium during the Cold War. In particular, it investigates uranium gathering practices in Siberia as a form of geopower exercised where Soviet citizens were encouraged to participate in geological exploration of the ‘bowels of the Earth’ for national benefits. This paper further discusses a novel theorization of the early Soviet understanding of the Anthropocene concept in its relation to the notion of nuclearity as formulated by Soviet scholar Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945). Finally, the Soviet nuclear project's legacies are analyzed through indigenous experiences of living near the uranium mine in Siberia. The material used for this research comprised a selected set of youth magazine articles and guidelines issued in the 1930s–1950s by Soviet geological agencies with the aim of promoting vernacular geological practices among Soviet citizens, as well as archival materials and field data collected from geologists and indigenous people in Transbaikalia, eastern Siberia, in 2021. This paper shows that Soviet citizens were a crucial part of the nuclear ideology and, at the same time, were treated as the means of nuclear production because of their ability to search for and extract uranium. It further shows how nuclear discourse in the Soviet Union and modern Russia has been shaped by Vernadsky's ideas about the role of nuclear power in the transformation of society.

Belonging to The Body of The Nation: Gender, Race, and The Volksgemeinschaft in Hitler Youth Magazines, 1933–1938

Abstract: This article examines how Nazi children's magazines used emotional narrativization to create and sell fantasies about gender, race, and the Volksgemeinschaft [people's community]. These magazines are neglected sources on Nazi print culture; their content and context add to our understanding of child indoctrination. Children's magazines had no Jewish characters in their stories, while dark-skinned, non-Aryan peoples were culturally appropriated and caricatured to create power fantasies. This article argues that through compelling narratives, hegemonic masculine traits were fetishized and glamorized to appeal to young boys in order to prepare them to serve in both the Volksgemeinschaft and the army.

Существует ли текстовая картина мира?

The article presents the most important opinions in Poland on the interdependence of the linguistic worldview and the text worldview. It tries to answer the title question on the basis of empirical examples. Establishing a text worldview is also a kind of discourse research. The paper proposes to refer to the lexicographic tradition (creating thematic dictionaries) and to the quantitative lexical analysis of the content. The empirical material used in the study consists of three text corpora of 250,000 words each. They contain texts taken from youth magazines from the 1990s. The views presented in the article oppose the findings of the Lublin school of ethnolinguistics.

Consuming Students: Advertisements and the Indian Youth Market, 1935–65

Advertisements for commodities offer a unique keyhole into the shifting consumption practices and media constructions of the youthful consumer. An analysis of five student and youth magazines foregrounds the gendered and materialistic idealisations of leisure invoked to promote branded goods in the Indian youth market. Analysing advertisements in these magazines allows us to trace the increasingly sophisticated way in which capitalist actors stratified the domain of advertising by life stages during the late colonial and early post-colonial periods in India. This finding runs contrary to the grain of historiography that contends that the Indian ‘market’ failed to respond to the interests of consumers prior to the media liberalisation of the 1980s and 1990s.

Consensual sexual selfies: everyday exposure in teen girl media

ABSTRACT Despite its everydayness, girls’ digital exposure is often conceived as scandalous. Concerns about the potential of leaked nudes to “ruin” a girl’s life are part of a long history of moral panics about girls and technology that mask fears about the public expression of female sexuality. Much teen media, however, counters this panic by exploring the social and technological dynamics at play in practices of sending sexual selfies. This article analyzes teen magazines and TV series to map the alternative mainstream discourse through which girls might frame their practices of self-exposure. Teen media incorporates the exposure built into everyday technological interactions in ways that allow girls’ consensual sexuality to exist, visibly, as everyday. Magazines like Rookie and Teen Vogue and series like Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars employ such discourses in ways that often protect the hegemony of white femininity, even as they defend girls’ right to privacy and expose the unique consequences of exposure queer girls. Teen media begins to offer alternative discourses of young women’s sexual selfies that are aligned with the social and technological realities of digital culture, and which girls can mobilize to deconstruct exclusionary norms of privacy and visibility.

The Ugly Mirror Avots

Latvia was under communist rule for almost half a century. The imposed regime brought not only deportations, imprisonments, grief, and fear, but also the pain of lost independence. The vision of the dreamland taken away, of prosperous and thriving Latvia, was kept alive through personal memories in many Latvian families. The spirit 232233Defence Strategic Communications | Volume 11 | Autumn 2022DOI 10.30966/2018.RIGA.11.8Defence Strategic Communications | Volume 11 | Autumn 2022DOI 10.30966/2018.RIGA.11.8of Latvianness that survived under the socialist regime and a longing for essential freedom were the main driving forces of the nation that stood against the enforced communist plan. Now, as the European Union faces threats of war, the story of regained independence offers a new perspective. It proves that the spirit of freedom does not cease to exist with the fact of occupation. Despite strict censorship and the control of communication channels in totalitarian political systems, it nevertheless finds its voice. This article looks back at the events of the 1980s that led to the restoration of independence in Latvia and investigates the role of the press, in particular the youth magazine Avots, paradoxically financed by the Communist Party. Could Soviet authority be undermined through artistic expression, and how could the magazine’s covers subvert official ideology? Moreover, could art and design have any impact on politics and foster events to shape the future of a nation?

Geopolitics, Migration, and Transcultural Processes

Geopolitics, Migration, and Transcultural Processes Regenia Gagnier (bio) My 2018 book, Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century, begins, "To study literatures in which global processes criss-cross distinct environments requires (1) translators and transculturalists who know diverse literary histories and history of genres, and (2) the disciplines relating to environments of nature (natural sciences), culture (the humanities), and technology (social sciences, engineering, and medicine)".1 Literature can give us precise, authentic accounts of life as felt or experienced in each specific niche of nature, culture, and technology at a particular moment. The study of global literatures therefore requires collaborators who know their own respective literary histories, genres, and styles within their specific environments. Since 2004 I have been cultivating such collaborations.2 This seems to point to a method adequate to a period of such extreme technological and geopolitical change as that covered by Cusp's remit c.1880–1920. Distinct cultures have their own temporalities, yet this period was transformative across many cultures. Before we return to methodology, it may be worth recapping a few of the features of the world at that time. Technical innovations gave rise to what is commonly called the second industrial revolution. Britain and the US saw the rise of Taylorism, Fordism, the first monopolies and corporate consolidation, trade unionism and strikes, the rise of consumer culture and women shopping rather than farming/gardening/cooking, eugenics, and social Darwinism (as noteworthy in China and Australia as in Britain). Metal detection, machine gun, AC motor, aeroplane, tractor, [End Page 96] sonar, electric ignition for automobiles, pop-up toaster, lightbulb, cash register, motion picture camera, electric trolley, and radio transformed private as well as public life; and even the spheres themselves, private and public, were transformed as more women worked outside the home up to and during the First World War. Multiple innovations enhanced railway safety, thus leading to more mobility, global time standardization, and a reification of "the working day." Britain saw the effects of massive immigration following on Russian pogroms, education became compulsory for children under ten, electric lights were introduced into homes, women won the franchise, the Boer wars, the National Insurance Act covered sickness and unemployment, the Easter Rising in Ireland, the "Spanish flu" epidemic, and the First World War. If Anglophone history reveals an interconnected world, interconnectedness is equally manifest elsewhere. From 1898, modern western thought entered China in force. The Hundred Days' Reform, the Boxer Rebellion, and anti-foreign unrest led to the fall of the Qing dynasty and the founding of the Republic in 1912. The New Youth magazine, and the New Culture and May Fourth Movements sought to liberalize Confucian culture, as did publication of Lu Xun's monumentally critical "Ah Q," amounting to the greatest rejection of a three-thousandyear-old tradition in world history. The Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded, with perhaps the greatest influence on China being the Russian October Revolution under Lenin in 1917. It is noteworthy that henceforth every major Chinese modernist was a professional translator: Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She, and Bing Xin. Meanwhile, in the US, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant restriction of free immigration in US history. In South Asia, other ancient cultures now subalterned to a British rule initiated by a trading company saw the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885; Nehru, Bose, and Ambedkar were born 1889–91; in 1905 Bengal was partitioned; in 1906 the Muslim League formed in Dhaka; in 1911 the capital was moved by the British from Calcutta to Delhi; in 1915 Gandhi returned from South Africa; the Bengal Renaissance flourished in the arts, literature, and spiritual guidance. [End Page 97] From 1881 to 1914, Africa and the Middle East suffered the New Imperialism under the so-called Scramble for Africa by seven western European powers, with 90 percent of their populations coming under European control, entailing a massive destruction of the continent's cultures. The Kingdom of Benin was plundered for the artworks that inspired Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Derain, and Klee. Central Africa, usurped by the Congo Free State, was plundered for ivory...

Структурно-композиционные приёмы инфотейнмента в медиатекстах региональных печатных СМИ

The novelty of the study is due to the need to systematize the techniques of infotainment used in the work of print media. The empirical research material for the work was the corpus of journalistic materials of the Belgorod regional youth magazine “OnOnas” for the period from 2013 to 2021. The relevance of the study lies in the need to theorize valuable empirical material and classify non-verbal methods of infotainment in relation to the practice of print media. The relevance and novelty of the study are also due to the insufficient study of the phenomenon of infotainment in relation to the practice of regional print media, since modern researchers still maintain a stable association of infotainment with television practices to the detriment of other types of media. The methods used in the course of the study include a system analysis with an emphasis on a constructive and structural-functional approach, and the typology method is also used. The conclusions are drawn that the use of non-verbal structural and compositional techniques of infotainment makes it possible to increase the visual appeal of journalistic material, include elements of entertainment for the purpose of informational unloading of the text, visualize statistical information or the semantic part of the text, captivate the audience with new forms of visualization and representation of journalistic information.

The Spread of the Post-Industrial Islamism in the Russian Federation

Radical Islam as a political phenomenon has undergone significant changes during the first decades of the 21st century. This process was accompanied, firstly, by the strengthening unification trends in the ideological field, and secondly, by the development of a specific “Jihadi Cool” subculture that combined the features of the consumer society (modern music, stylish clothes, Islamic merch, youth magazines, etc.) and jihadist agenda. These factors, in combination, form a new version of religious radicalism - post-industrial Islamism, which poses a significant threat to international security. Questions regarding the degree and the nature of post-industrial Islamism in the Russian Federation have not yet been scrutinized in academic literature. The article is the first attempt to understand this problem, which exists in a complex socio-economic and ethno-confessional environment of Russia. The theoretical framework of the study was the works of leading domestic Islamic scholars dealing with the problems of Islamic radicalism. In the indicated paradigm, the authors made an attempt to give their own definition of radical Islam, to identify the characteristic features of the phenomenon, to separate religious extremism from fundamentalism. Work with the empirical base was carried out through the methods of descriptive statistics, as well as the use of qualitative and quantitative content analysis. It was made on the basis of Google Trends data, cross-checked through the Wordstat.yandex system. In conclusion, the team of authors came to conclusions regarding the spread of post-industrial Islamism in Russia. There is an increase in the activity of radicals in the Internet space, their work to expand the base of support for the movement, based on knowledge of the algorithms of social networks. Also, elements of the ‘jihadi cool’ have been identified too. It is important to note that all the trends listed above originated outside the Russian Federation and were borrowed by the radicals. In general, this only confirms the idea of the peripheral nature of Russian Islamic radicalism, which throughout its history has been an alien element on the national ethno-cultural environment.

‘Listen to your fear’: how fear discourse (re)produces gendered sexual subjectivities

This article explores the interrelations between gender and fear, based on the hypothesis of sexual fear being produced as a feminised emotion in discourse. Empirical analyses of historically contingent constructions of sexual fears from 1961–2021 in the advice pages of the popular German youth magazine Bravo show how fear has been produced as a central technique governing feminine sexuality, by far surmounting the importance of either feminine love or desire. The results point to historically specific constructions of feminised sexual dangers, developing from premarital pregnancy in the 1960s, emotional suffering because of premature coitus in the 1980s and 1990s, to digitalised sexual practices in the 21st century. Feminised constructions of sexual risks and fears render feminine subjects as passive, vulnerable and in need of protection while simultaneously producing masculine subjects as actively sex seeking and potentially dangerous. The results also indicate that discursive delegitimisation of feminine sexual fear may equally contribute to re-establishing sexual inequality by pressuring girls to be sexually available. I argue, therefore, that it is not sufficient to analyse constructions of gendered subjects as being either fearful or fearless. Instead, the reconstruction of discursive model practices governing subjects to manage sexual fears is key to disentangling the complex nexus of gender and fear. The investigation of historical transformations of sexual fear discourses contributes to tracing both dynamics and continuities in gendered power relations, thereby illustrating the central role of fear in classic sociological research themes of inequality and power relations.

The Role of Youth from Diversified Cultural groups in Peace Building: Insights from the Fellowship Program on Peaceful Coexistence 2021, at University of Peshawar

The University of Peshawar, Department of Philosophy in collaboration with the Mirror of Society, a youth magazine and with the support of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) organized a fellowship program on Peaceful Coexistence. The participants were from the different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with diversified educational backgrounds and knowledge expertise. This research study was carried out, based on the responses of the participants of fellowship program. In this study, the participants of the fellowship program were asked close-ended questions. The questionnaire was emailed to the participants, of which 45 percent filled and sent back the questionnaire. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the findings with the existing body of knowledge on peaceful coexistence. The results show that regardless of age, gender, department, affiliation, and diversified background, they were committed to peacebuilding, tolerance, empathy, and peaceful coexistence. The recommendation from this study is that in future young people with less or no formal education may be accessed of their understanding of the concept of peaceful coexistence.

New Left without Old Left: The 70’s Biweekly and Youth Activism in 1970s Hong Kong

Taking the radical youth magazine The 70’s Biweekly (hereafter The 70s) as the main thread, this article investigates how the content of the magazine in tandem with its activism created an “in-between” subjectivity and a “dissent space” by and in which were broken down the binaries in the grand narratives of the Cold War and Left–Right politics in Hong Kong. The article first offers an overview of the magazine’s content. Next, it elaborates on the two most historically important protest campaigns that The 70s was involved in: the “Chinese as an Official Language Movement” (1970–1971) and the “Defend Diaoyutai Movement” (1971). Both campaigns illustrate The 70s’s significant role in the history of Hong Kong’s social activism. In the generally politically apathetic social atmosphere of the 1970s, The 70s illustrates an alternative “New Left” approach of social thought and activism that complicated relations between Hong Kong and its colonizer and understandings of the nation, imperialism, and the Global South.

The making and screening of independent films in the absence of radical Revolution: An interview with Augustine Mok Chiu-yu on social movements, technology, and censorship

This is a wide-ranging interview with Augustine Mok Chiu-yu. It focuses on topics including film exhibition in Hong Kong of political films from across the globe and the making of independent and experimental cinema in Hong Kong. This contributes to an assessment of Hong Kong left-wing cinema in the 1970s that transcends and moves beyond the limiting boundaries of the US-Soviet Union Cold War discourse. Mok discusses his own role and history in producing and screening of progressive films in Hong Kong during this period. Augustine Mok Chiu-yu was a founding member of The 70’s Biweekly, an independent youth magazine first published on the first day of 1970. He was a social/political activist in The 70’s but he became more a cultural activist involved in writings and cultural work in subsequent years. He moved into theatre, performance art and community cultural development work and has performed in the US, UK, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Kathmandu, Bangla Desh, Myanmar Republic, South Korea etc. He has organized many cross-cultural projects that toured in Asia and Europe. He won the first ever Award for Theatre of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for the year 1998 and has been a great promoter in arts and disability, community arts and community cultural development in Hong Kong. He helped to found the Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival and has been its hearing organizer for the 12 editions of the Festival. He was the producer of the 35 mm film entitled An Open Letter to Hong Kong’s Literary Youth and the documentary Black Bird - A Living Song. He has acted in Life and Times of Ng Chung Yin (Evans Chan), Ordinary Heroes (Ann Hui), Port Unknown (Mamunur Rashid), and N+N (Mo Lai).

The Effect of CICADA English Youth Magazine on Secondary School Orphans' Vocabulary Mastery

The low English vocabulary mastery has caused Baitul Hijrah Orphanage’s orphans poor achievement of English. Regarding the issue, this research was conducted to find a breakthrough to help the orphans’ vocabulary improvement. In term of boosting their vocabulary need, the researcher explored English youth magazine as a media to be used. Thus, this study was aimed to examine and compare between the effects of using English youth magazine and English textbook on students' vocabulary mastery. This study assigned true-experimental research design to test the hypothesized relationship between variables. The sample of this study was 28 orphans at second grade of senior high school that were divided into control and experimental group by systematic sampling method. Data collection was vocabulary test scores results consisted of 100 multiple choice questions. The result showed that the English youth magazine usage as media could significantly improve vocabulary mastery; thus, students who were taught vocabulary using English youth magazine obtained higher scores than those who were taught vocabulary using English textbook. In conclusion, English youth magazine is a teaching aid that can be used to gain the students' vocabulary mastery.

Quantitative Analysis of the Word Spread Dynamics as a Factor in Identifying of the Youth Mass Media Significance

This study examines the role and place of youth media in changing the vocabulary of the Russian language. For a comparative analysis, three words were used, the factors of popularity of which are political propaganda, the frequent use of the word in a certain youth magazine and the widespread prevalence of the word on the Internet. A wave-like dynamics of an increase in the frequency of the word, which has become popular thanks to publications in the youth media, has been revealed: matured readers of the magazine, after 20-25 years, begin to actively use the word introduced into their vocabulary by the authors of the publications. The question is raised about the significance of the mass media for the dynamics of changes in the vocabulary of the language. A method has been developed to prove the influence of the mass media on the dynamics of changes in the vocabulary using the tools of quantitative linguistics. The history of the frequency of use of the analyzed words in the Russian language allows us to speak about the importance of youth mass media as determining the worldview and linguistic picture of the world of the text. Moreover, for other words in which the frequency correlates with the historical setting, the contexts of use themselves indicate the connection of the increased frequency with the personality of a particular publicist or writer and with the texts he generates.

Ideal Men and Dream Women: Computer Matchmaking in twen during the West German Sex Wave, 1967–1970

Abstract Between 1967 and 1970, the West German youth magazine twen embarked on an ambitious experiment to match young heterosexual pairs using computer programming. Named Rendezvous, the program emerged during a moment of particular promise and transformation in West German history. The so-called ‘sex wave’, an emphasis on self-discovery and the reconfiguration of social relationships, had produced both new possibilities and pressures for how young West Germans should ‘get to know’ each other and what they should find meaningful in their romantic relationships. Rendezvous promised to take the guesswork and disappointment out of finding an ideal partner through a rational, scientific assessment of habits, attitudes and desires. This article uses Rendezvous as a lens to examine early interactions between technology, media cultures and value change long before the internet age. Through an analysis of questionnaires, first-person accounts and photo reports, the article argues that Rendezvous evidences the centrality of mass media to the reorganization of courting and romance around notions of personal fulfillment and self-discovery during the late 1960s.

Strategies of Eliciting Young People’s Affective and Quick Participation in a Youth Magazine’s Instagram Community

ABSTRACT Traditional media have merged with social media and pursue to produce engaging content and form relationships with online audiences. At the same time, social media has allowed young people a venue to practice their basic needs of interaction, identity, and self-expression, and provides communities of shared issues and social/political aspirations. By analysing the Instagram post caption data of the largest Finnish (girls’) youth magazine, this case study investigated what posting strategies used by the magazine elicited youth participation, and how do the strategies and participation align with young people’s media and online communication preferences. The study found the magazine to use various strategies; mostly affective topics and emoji/tag suggestion appeals. From those perceived as general posting strategies, affective topics and contests and ballots, and from more specific framing choices, a positive approach and topics providing information, peer-support and close topic angles for young women, elicited the most participation. Additionally, a suggestion to comment with a quick emoji/tag was the most engaging appeal suggestion. Young people preferred the image-dominated expressive participation towards both everyday/personal and civic/political topics. The study produces valuable, detailed information regarding young people’s online participation preferences and the potential of traditional media in engaging with online youth audiences.

Dedication Poems to Ukraine. Transl. from Chinese by T. Reheshuk

Deng Kangyan (邓康延), a well-known Chinese poet, film director, and documentary filmmaker, was born on August 5, 1958, in Xi’an. In 1977 he passed exams and entered Xi’an Coal Institute, the faculty of Geology, where he studied and worked at the same time. After graduating, in 1982 he became a geological engineer at the Xi’an Academy of Coal Sciences. In the same year, Deng Kangyan began his literary career. In 1977 first works of the writer began to appear in periodicals. Deng Kangyan did not limit himself to poetry, he also turned to prose and essays. In 1992, the writer left the research institute and moved to Shenzhen to pursue more creative work there. There, he served as Shenzhen Youth’s Managing Director for 8 years and was the Editor-in-Chief of Phoenix Weekly. In 2007, Deng Kangyan was the head of Shenzhen Yuezhong Film & TV Co. At the same time, he worked as a curator of multimedia exhibitions on the history of China. In early 2010, along with six fellow documentary filmmakers, Deng Kangyan flew to the National Museum of Washington in America to collect material for war films in Chinese and English. Deng Kangyan’s work has had a significant impact on the history of modern Chinese poetry and documentaries. He has won numerous literary and cinematographic awards and honorary titles, including the Outstanding Producer Award. This title was awarded to him by the Chinese Documentary China Association “Documentary China”. After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in late March 2022, Deng Kangyan wrote a series of poems dedicated to Ukraine and its heroic people. This is very valuable for understanding the attitude of Chinese intellectuals to the war in Ukraine. Deng Kangyan, on behalf of the Chinese intelligent people, expresses his support for our country’s pursuit of freedom and independence. Deng Kangyan a well-known Chinese poet, film director, and documentary filmmaker, was born in 1958 in Xi’an. He studied at the Faculty of Geology and worked as a geological engineer. Later he was the editor-in-chief of Shenzhen Youth and Phoenix Weekly magazines. In 2007, Deng Kangyan was the director of Shenzhen Yuez-hong Film & TV Co. The company produced documentaries in Chinese and English. At the same time, he worked as a curator of multimedia exhibitions devoted to Chinese history. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at the end of March 2022, Deng Kangyan wrote a series of poems dedicated to Ukraine and its heroic people.