This study uses corpus linguistics to study the appropriateness of communicative culture in the American Chinese textbook Chinese: Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing 3. We find three communicative culture items: "yao fan", "pang", and "xiao jie". These items may cause cross-cultural conflicts. We use the Modern Chinese Corpus of the Ministry of Education to check if the textbook uses these words properly.We find that correct translation of word meanings and clear cultural notes are both important for proper language use. This study can help with textbook writing and Chinese teaching.

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Set against the backdrop of ecological and social crises in post-apocalyptic Thailand, Paolo Bacigalupi's science fiction novel The Windup Girl presents a world with a collapsed ethical order through the conflicts between genetically modified beings, transnational capital forces, and local cultures. Drawing on relevant theories of postmodern ethics, this paper examines the ethical dislocation between different human groups, the contestation over the ontological boundary between humans and genetically modified "machines", and the alienation of the relationship between humanity and nature in the novel. At the level of human-human relations, interests lead to ethical alienation, while empathy becomes the hope for symbiosis; at the level of human-machine relations, the awakening of genetically modified beings breaks the traditional binary opposition and promotes the establishment of an ethical system based on equality and symbiosis; at the level of human-nature relations, ecological retaliation forces humans to abandon the logic of conquest and turn to an ecological ethics of holistic symbiosis. Through this analysis, this paper reveals the novel's insight into the ethical dilemmas of postmodern society and its important enlightenment for the real world in handling diverse relationships and constructing a sustainable ethical system, thereby offering critical reflections on addressing contemporary technological ethics, ecological crises, and global conflicts.

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In the current era, where extended reality (XR) technology is prevalent, museums and visitors have experienced a huge breakthrough from passive viewing of "static objects" to active interaction with "living objects". Museums that utilize XR technology to create immersive exhibitions have received considerable attention. However, many technical issues have arisen, such as the adaptability of virtual content and the level of participation in the visitor interaction. To understand the immersive experience created by XR technology and its impact on visitors, this paper will analyze recent museum exhibitions that integrate XR technology with other theories to construct a framework. The paper ultimately concluded that the flow effect is the key to shaping immersive experience with XR technology, enabling visitors to achieve a high-dimensional immersive experience. Based on this conclusion, this paper argues that XR technology serving people should match with interaction and narration to shape immersive experience, and awaken people's emotions and cognition, as the primary focus.

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This research draws on Xinjiang-related writing as its background, responds to the daily experiences of women that are easily obscured by macro narratives in existing discussions, and puts forward the research theme of "how space generates experience". The article chooses Eighty-eight Cavalry, Centennial Blood, and Winter Ranch as the core text. It employs careful reading and comparative analysis of the text. Starting from the action details and physical feelings in the narrative, it examines how the living environment and community order specifically stipulate the boundaries of liveable, feasible, and bearable. The research results show that all three works write space as a condition for continuous pressure, so that the experience is gradually formed in the process of maintaining livelihood, travelling through migration and responding to discipline, and presenting the temporary order generated by night road deflection, survival maintenance, and boundary review in the context of disaster, and nomadic life respectively. The position change and language deformation brought about by "entering". From this, the study further concludes that Xinjiang women's frontier experience does not come from the thematic a priori generalisation, but is generated in the interaction between spatial conditions and daily practice. Therefore, "negotiation" has become a key entrance to understanding women's frontier writing.

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