Latest ArticlesNowadays, museum services and marketing strategies take an important proportion in museum evaluation. This research studies museum classifications, characteristics, marketing strategy systems based on theory of marketing and management science in an effort to prepare for the new era in coming of museum service and marketing.
As a new pattern of science communication, Café Scientifique is getting more and more popular in Europe and America. It provides a leisure space for scientists and lay public to discuss science and technology issues in an informal and friendly atmosphere. Café Scientifique is a sort of grass-root activity for public welfare, with self-organization, low cost, mutual equality and flexible form. Non-scientists are empowered to engage in science and envaluating science researches, which represents a trend of democratizing science. Although it still faces several problems, such as audience, location and cost, we believe that there is a bright future for Café Scientifique and it will inspire science communicators in China a lot.
The originality of exhibits is a hot topic receiving great attention among national sci-tech museums. By analyzing the status quo of research & development and originality of the science and technology museum exhibits, this essay reveals the relevant factors that restrict the originality of the sci-tech museum exhibits, carries out analyses and discussions of the source paths of the innovated sci-tech museum exhibits, and makes suggestions of advancing the originality of the exhibits.
Children's Rainbow Land is the first integral construction project after the setting up of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. This area is open to the public in the July of 2010. The advanced education concept, interesting and interactive ways of exhibits attract lots of public; also win high evaluation from the national and international science museums. This paper will review the process of construction of this project, analyze the model and trait of the management, and raise the question need to be considered during the reconstruction. These thinking could provide experience for reconstruction of other science museums.
This paper studies science popularization books published in the period of Republic of China. Through investigating the amount, categories, press, publishing region and authors, etc, it tries to describe the aspects of science popularization books in the period of Republic of China, and reflects the objective situation of science communication in modern China.
In the new generation of science fiction writers, Wanxiangfengnian is a very unique writer. In a specific narrative scenes, he is good at using imagination to spread out an almost incredible fantastic stories, and using pure clear language, simple, vivid and philosophical dialogues, to build a childlike fiction world. His fiction Three World, a fairy tales in the form, through the perspective of two small animals, perceives and contemplates the significance of the individual existence, examines the existence state of world and human, and reveals the environment for human. Moreover, the fiction tries to seek a new way to resist alienation and reconstruction of the world in the level of reflecting the traditional culture. The pursuing of the human's ideal world in the fiction expresses the common spirital dilemma of the modern people.
Wang Jinkang, one of the most important writers in the new uprising period of Chinese science fiction after 1990s, is still a leading figure in the current generation. As a frequent winner of the Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Awards, his science fiction stories like The Heavenly Fire (1994), The Song of Life (1995) have won him thousands of readers both juveniles and adults. His writing career has continued, even prevailed, in the 21st century, in creating more brilliant works like Act for God (2001), Living Like Ants (2006), The Cross (2007), and The Creator (2011). His works have followed some recent scientific developments in various areas like physics and biology, and are featured for its melancholy style, rich plot, and what is more, the philosophical speculation. While writing, Wang Jinkang puts forward his own definition of “Core Science Fiction”, which provides insight in the theory of science fiction writing. This thesis attempts to hackle Wang Jinkang's writing career from the beginning, and gives a compact study on his works and ideas.
As one of the most highly regarded Chinese science fiction writers of the 1980s, Liu Xingshi shows the spirit of enlightenment and the will of revitalizing China by positivism method and enhancement of science and technology in his fiction. Liu's work is influenced by his academic career and its “one subject, one article” stereotypy is somehow similar to a research report. Liu prefers to set the historical or geographic mysteries as the context of stories and make imaginative use of these materials with the applying of suspense and romanticizing. Liu's fiction establishes standards of hard science fiction in China and makes its own contribution to Chinese science fiction. The Columbus from America is normally considered as his classic and best fiction.
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