Home virtuality and the platformized life of Chinese international students in the United Kingdom

This article examines a nascent phenomenon in which a cluster of digital platforms mimicking popular Chinese apps has popped up in various cities in the United Kingdom (UK). They have been eagerly adopted by a strong clientele composed mainly of Chinese international students and young working migrants from China. Drawing on data we gathered from the British city of Manchester, one of the most popular destinations for Chinese international students, we propose the concept of home virtuality to illustrate how Chinese student migrants’ frequent surfing of these Chinese-style digital platforms has created a ‘virtual home’ that is quite reminiscent of the platformized lifestyle in China, and that thus offers them a sense of connection to home. We argue that this ‘home virtuality’ does not only imply a virtual connection but is also a home environment materialized through the familiar app services of the new Chinese platform businesses in the UK.     

Geographic distribution of cardiovascular comorbidities in South Africa: a national cross-sectional analysis

Objectives: We sought to estimate the spatial coexistence of hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and hypercholesterolaemia in South Africa. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. Participants: Data were from 13,827 adults (mean±SD age 39±18 years, 58.4% women) interviewed in the 1998 South African Health and Demographic Survey. Interventions: N/A. Primary and secondary outcome measures: We used multivariate spatial disease models to estimate district-level shared and disease-specific spatial risk components, controlling for known individual risk factors. Results: In univariate analysis, observed prevalence of hypertension and CHD is was high in the south-western parts, and low in the north east. Stroke and high blood cholesterol prevalence appeared to be evenly distributed across the country. In multivariate analysis (adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, education, urban-dwelling, smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity), hypertension and stroke prevalence were highly concentrated in the south-western parts, whilst CHD and hypercholesterolaemia were highly prevalent in central and top north-eastern corridor, respectively. The shared component, which we took to represent nutrition and other lifestyle factors not accounted for in the model, had a larger effect on cardiovascular disease prevalence in the south-western areas of the country. It appeared to have greater effect on hypertension and CHD. Conclusion: This study suggests a clear geographic distribution of cardiovascular disease in South Africa, driven possibly by shared lifestyle behaviours. These findings might be useful for public health resource allocation in low-income settings.     

陶渊明对“魏晋玄学”的别样演绎——田园与玄学渗透融合的真境再现

陶渊明与玄学的关系历来探讨者甚多,但真正要将二者关系梳理清楚又说明白,还需将渊明的田园生活与玄学更好的融合在一起研究。田园生活及其田园生活理想是陶渊明玄学思想的主要依托和体现,渊明通过这两方面将农村田园与玄学交融渗透、完美融合,从而演绎出了玄学新境界——农玄。渊明以农村田园生活的实际行动回应并且完善了魏晋玄学,更为完整、更为透亮地诠释了玄学的要义。     

Gendering of success: fashion designers in designer stories in the Finnish lifestyle magazine Gloria*

Fashion journalism is part of the fashion system that legitimizes and reproduces the creativity, celebrity status, and symbolic power of fashion designers. This article examines the gendering of the success of fashion designers in designer stories in the Finnish lifestyle magazine Gloria. The material consists of 21 stories about designers published in 2013–2014. They are analyzed by applying a multimodal close reading that takes into account the dialogic relationship between written text and images. The analysis highlights the gendered representation of success: male designers emerge differently from women designers as glamorous personas and successful professionals. First, male designers are related to a grand tradition and presented as designers in the own right, whereas women designers are mostly depicted as continuers of a man’s work or a family business; second, many women designers are presented as designers of one particular hit item; third, women’s designership is presented as work and business instead of genuine creative art; and fourth, women designers are presented as more approachable and communicative human beings than men both in verbal and in visual expression. Hence, success is produced in a way that emphasizes the male designers’ visionary characteristics and decreases the grandeur of the women’s designership.     

低碳经济视角下的山东外贸增长方式转变策略

随着低碳经济的发展,一些发达国家借此推行"碳壁垒"的贸易保护主义,对山东外贸发展带来不利影响。山东外贸增长方式具有粗放、高碳的特点,必须采取措施,降低产业中间链的碳排放,扶持低碳新兴产业发展,推动加工贸易转型升级,推进贸易市场多元化,以使山东外贸出口产品符合资源、环保等方面的国际标准,增强其国际竞争力。     

国内外生活方式研究的新进展

随着人们生活水平的普遍提高,对生活方式的研究也成为流行病学、社会医学和社会学等领域的研究热点。目前国内对生活方式的内涵、类型和结构还未有统一的认识,但普遍认为生活方式是一个内涵丰富、结构复杂的概念,对其测量大多采用《生活方式量表》和《生活方式自评量表》。国外对生活方式的研究主要集中在特色人群的生活方式、肥胖与生活方式的关系、生活方式病的治疗和预防、生活质量等。国内主要关注学生体质及生活方式的影响、生活方式对成年人体质状况的影响、体育生活方式与体质和健康的影响、亚健康问题、健康生活方式与身心健康的关系等。但目前还存在着实证研究少、研究对象和工具局限、心理学视角研究较少等不足。应通过实证研究,深入探讨生活方式与体质或健康的关系、健全人格与健康生活方式的关系、生活方式与经济发展和健身条件的关系等。     

甘肃扶贫移民生活方式适应性研究——以H村为例

从迁出地转向迁入地,移民原有的生产方式丧失,而新的生活方式未能形成。移民生活方式的适应将面临着忘记过去与重建未来的艰难选择。通过对甘肃H村的移民生活方式适应性的因素论析及现状解释,研究显示随着迁移时间的延长,大多数移民的生活适应性在增强,消费支出因素对生活方式的适应性带来重要影响。     

基于饮食生活型态的大学生餐饮消费市场细分研究

在食品相关生活型态(Food-Related Lifestyle,FRL)量表的基础上,针对中国大学生的实际情况设计出大学生饮食生活型态量表,通过问卷调查和因子分析,将大学生饮食生活型态分为7个构面,并以结构方程模型验证了该划分的可信性和有效性,在此基础上采用集群分析方法,将大学生按不同的饮食生活型态划分为五个集群,即五个餐饮消费细分市场,分别为:饮食保守型、饮食现代型、饮食冷漠型、传统居家型和饮食享受型。统计分析显示,相对于各因子变量,74.3%的集群之间具有显著的差异;通过不同饮食生活型态集群在人口统计变量上的差异性分析发现各集群仅在性别上存在显著差异。     

生活方式变迁对法律演变的影响

生活方式变迁对于法律有着重大的影响。生活方式的变迁会使法律发生重大变化,生活方式能刺激法的产生,引起法的变化,导致法的消灭,引导法律价值转换,改变法律思维。