Museum industry has a long history of development, and its exhibition creation mode also has established a kind of mature theoretical system both in the traditional pattern of “horizontal cooperation” mode and “vertical division of labor” mode, and in the “curator” mode which was originated in the western world. In recent years, Chinese museums have introduced the “curator” system and restructured and optimized it gradually, that move has improved the quality of exhibitions remarkably. Science center started late in China, because of the fact that there remains a large gap in organization and team construction, still, the exhibition creation mode hasn’t been formed fully. In the paper, based on the the analysis and comparison of the exhibition creation mode between museum and science center, the author hopes to promote the level of scientific exhibition especially in the aspects of organization system, curator team collaboration, and implementation of project management by taking the museum curator system for reference.

The Chinese Science Fiction only has a history of over one hundred years, but its development has experienced twists and turns. During a few rounds of new upsurges, there come several generations of science fiction writer groups in sequence. Based on the result of periodization of the Cenozoic and Pleistocene era writers by the Chinese science fiction theoretical cycle, this study sequentially analyses the characteristics of the times for the works and writers in different periods, the ideas guiding creation in the literature, and the kinds of content categories. It concludes that the Chinese science fiction writer groups can be divided into the Paleozoic era, the Mesozoic era, the Cenozoic era, the Pleistocene era and the Holocene era, 5 eras in total.

The manifestation is always presented for a magnificent beauty of technology to achieve the purpose of the typical paradigm of hard science fiction in Liu Cixin’s Novels. Whereas, in Dawn on Me the author shows the endless beauty of technology as well, a more metaphysical concept over the technology, setting a keynote for the novel. Just like the title, Dawn on Me presents a kind of sublime and detachment beauty both in character shaping, story structuring, even in expression of the connotation of the novel. All of this is based on a praise of human’s endless spirit to explore knowledge and the unknown.

The Outline of Science is a senior science popularization book edited by John Arthur Thomson (1861—1933), a British biologist, a naturalist as well as a famous writer of science popularization. Its Chinese translation KexueDagang was published by the Commercial Press in the 1920s. It could be used as a typical study case of science communication in the Republic of China. In this paper, the concepts of science communication in The Outline of Science and its influence are discussed by studying the text of The Outline of Science, its Chinese translation and reviews at that time. It comes to the conclusions that the Chinese translation and its selling price could not satisfy the readers at that time, which had some adverse impacts on the science communication. In addition, the scientific interest, which gains focus on in Thomson’s works, was emphasized in science communication, but the importance of the way of scientific understanding and the dynamic development of science have not been fully disseminated.

Science museum is a gradually developing public cultural and educational facility during the period of the Republic of China, which exerts substantial and positive impacts on the popularization of science and people’s science and education during the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Guizhou Provincial Science Museum, as the typical one among many museums in the Republic of China is worth studying. The paper mainly focuses on the following aspects including construction process, organizational structure and scientific popularization of Guizhou Provincial Science Museum, which explores its influences on the popularization of the social sciences, and makes further discussions and reflections on the science popularization and education function of science museum.

Science and technology museum (STM) is virtually an embodiment of human wisdom on science, and also an enlightenment area where science is translated into popular culture. Its leading goal is to seek truth for the universe, pursue happiness for the general public, explore the unknown, and create a better future for the mankind. STM serves as a palace for science where people with different ages, life experiences and backgrounds could acquire new knowledge, touch upon aspirations, and bask in a pleasure of exploring the world. STM chooses a number of principal themes relating to exhibit and display from a vast sea of knowledge, those themes shall be enshrined in the core and pivotal position in the knowledge system for human beings. Efforts shall be made to attract multi-layered interactions from visitors when it alludes to STM exhibits and displays, those are the sensory, logic, emotional and thinking interactions. To build STM is for a re-fabricating and innovating process whereby science is endowed with humanistic significance and the public can virtually feel the essence of science during their short stay there. STM is a place where people could find aspirations and enlightenment from a perspective of intellectual history. To build STM system penetrating the whole country could help science popularization work in China be extensively and profoundly reachable both in time and in space. Science is both plain and profound, it is also true for STM. In general terms, people are fond of this kind of STM which is of simplicity, profoundness, as well as geniality.

Public Understanding of Science is a prestigious journal which covers all aspects of interactions between S&T and public. This paper takes all published papers on Public Understanding of Science during 2005—2014 as an example based on literature and content analysis. According to the data collection and analysis, This paper discusses the hot features and trends during the last decade from perspectives of scientific issues, methodology, authors and countries, citation and cited sources, co-citation network, etc. This paper offers information and references that help the further analysis and researches on public understanding of science in China.

Content analysis and statistical analysis are utilized in the paper to gain an analysis of some related reports about Shandong vaccination case. In the paper, the author intends to analyze the interaction of the theme of report, report frequency, public participation degree in news reports. Through the research, we can find that there still exist some problems for the current situation of health risk communication for Chinese media, and it influences the reception effect of the targeted directly. In order to solve this problem, the author gives three suggestions: enrich the theme of report, pay attention to the follow-up reports, and attend more to the interaction between the public and the media to further popularize the health knowledge and promote an effective communication of health risk.

This paper reviewed some literature mainly on evaluation indicators for science popularization capacity, indicators weighting, evaluation model and so on by searching related keywords or topics, which provides a reference for designing national science popularization capacity evaluation indicators and its effect evaluation for the purpose of forming the national science popularization capacity monitoring and evaluation system. The four findings are as following: (i) the current studies on science popularization capacity still focus on regional level, and studies based on national level are still lacking; (ii) evaluation indicator system usually depends on the survey data from China Science Popularization Statistics but excludes some qualitative indicators such as science popularization organization construction and science popularization policy; (iii) the current papers generally use the cross section data but do not take into account the variable of time; (iv) there are short of quantitative researches analyzing the correlation between national science popularization capacity and civic scientific literacy and the effect of science popularization capacity factors on civic scientific literacy.

With the controversies over climate change between developed countries and developing countries in recent years becoming increasingly heat-debated, scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields have paid attention to environmental issues, thus environmental communication has become an independent discipline. In the paper, the authors firstly define the concept of environmental communication, and subsequently map out the background and process in which how environmental communication research is developed, and finally, figure out its research interests, theoretical foundation and methodology by analyzing papers published in the journal Environmental Communication (2007—2014).