Proceedings of the 2026 12th International Conference on Digital Humanities and Frontiers in Social Sciences (DHFSS 2026)

2026 12th International Conference on Digital Humanities and Frontiers in Social Sciences (DHFSS 2026)

📍Beijing, China🗓️ 29-31 May 2026
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144 articles
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Research on the Continuous Usage Behavior Mechanism of Digital Government Service Platforms: A Qualitative Analysis Based on Grounded Theory

Jingjing Sun, Yanxia Lu
Against the backdrop of Digital China construction, government data platforms are critical digital governance carriers. Addressing challenges like low satisfaction and insufficient stickiness, this study uses grounded theory with 24 semi-structured interviews. Three-stage coding identifies six core categories—platform...
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Distinctiveness of Common Law

Yang Liao
This essay examines the distinctive characteristics of the common law tradition. It first analyses the conceptual meanings of ‘common law’ from semantic, historical and comparative perspectives, demonstrating how common law emerged. The essay then explores the macro- and micro-level features that distinguish...
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The Cross-border History of “Media Capital”: A Probe into the Twin Cities Film Exchange between Hong Kong and Phnom Penh in the Early Cold War

Qianyao Mei
From the “Media Capital” theory perspective, this paper explores the relationship between Hong Kong and Phnom Penh in Cambodia in the early Cold War, revealing that it has both non-state nature and the packaging and export function of official ideology and showing the integration of political power and...
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Integrated Research and Future Development of Dark Matter and Modified Gravity Theory

Tingxuan Du
Dark matter, though undetectable through direct observation, has gained broad acceptance as the key component determining galaxy dynamics, large-scale cosmic structure formation, and anisotropy in cosmic microwave background radiation through gravitational effects. However, its fundamental nature remains...
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Does Disclosing a Digital Human’s Identity Mitigate the Negative Emotions that Anthropomorphic Endorsements May Elicit?

Muzi Li
Within the digital economy, virtual digital humans have become a prominent communication technology and are increasingly used in commercial practice. Centring on luxury-brand endorsements and drawing on the uncanny valley effect, this study employs a questionnaire survey and empirical analysis to assess...
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The Practical Manifestation of Kant’s Concept of Autonomy in Moral Behavior

Mingxia Sun
Kant’s concept of autonomy emphasizes that morality stems from the self-legislation of rational beings. In the form of “categorical imperative”, it requires that the maxims of actions have the possibility of universal legislation, and regards human beings as ends in themselves rather than means. This...
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From Text to ‘Tactile Text’: The Media Transformation and Aesthetic Shift of Traditional Literary Narrative by Micro-Short Dramas

Xin Ji
With the evolution of media technology and the popularization of short video platforms, micro-dramas, as a highly condensed and sensory-driven narrative form, have a profound influence on the communication and aesthetic reception of traditional literary texts, and the media change from “readable text”...
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The Application of Traditional Chinese Cultural Elements in 3D Digital Animation Visual Designs

Yunqian Yu
With the rapid development of digital technology, 3D digital animation has become an important carrier for cultural dissemination. This paper systematically studies the current status, methods, and strategies of applying traditional Chinese cultural elements in the design of 3D digital animation characters...
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Adaptation and Selection: A Study on the Eco-translational Writing of Michael Berry’s English Translation of the Novel To Live

Siye Chen
This paper takes Michael Berry’s English translation of the novel To Live as the research object, based on the core proposition of Eco-translatology that “translation is the translator’s adaptive selection to the translational eco-environment.” It conducts a systematic analysis on how the translator...
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Regulation, Visibility, and Invisibility: A Study on the Representation of Same-Sex Elements in Mainstream Chinese Films Post-2010

Jiwei Gui
This study systematically examines the representation practices of same-sex elements in mainstream commercial films of the Chinese mainland in the 2010s. This research finds that under the regulatory framework established by policies such as the “General Provisions for the Production of TV Dramas” in...
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The Entrepreneurial Scholar: Transformations of Masculinity in Contemporary Chinese Digital Media

Yijia Lin
Against the backdrop of the prosperity of Chinese online literature and its film and television adaptations, this study explores the transformations of the scholar image in contemporary Chinese popular culture and embeds the image in the context of the landscape of digital media. It compares the image...
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Dilemma and Breakthrough: A Study on Motherhood in China

Junyan Zhou
This paper systematically reviews and examines the current situation, practical dilemmas and breakthrough paths of motherhood in China. In the era of low fertility, motherhood has evolved from a private issue into a public concern related to population reproduction and sustainable social development,...
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Eileen Chang’s Yuan-Nv and the Rouge of the North Creation Timeline Examination and Value Revaluation

Wenyi Li
During her time in the United States, Eileen Chang tried to open up foreign markets with English writing, and her creation was committed to retaining Chinese cultural characteristics while being close to the acceptance habits of English readers, which provided an important perspective for studying her...
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The Evolving Representation of the Three Kingdoms Period and Its Leading Figures in Chinese History, Literature, and Popular Culture

Tracing Cao Cao’s Influence from Historical Record to Contemporary Media

Mingyi Ma
This paper examines the evolution of the images of key figures from the Three Kingdoms period across different historical documents, classical literature, and modern popular culture. Drawing upon historical texts such as the record San Guo Zhi三国志 and folk novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms三国演义, as well...
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Language Inflation: A Research on the Abuse of “Meme Culture” on Short Video Platforms

Wenbo Li
By the end of 2025, China’s short video users reached 1.074 billion. The rapid spread of digital subcultures has fundamentally changed language norms, triggering a phenomenon of language inflation. This study explores the formation and abuse of memes on short video platforms, as well as the multi-layered...
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Research on the Path of Dong Zhongshu’s Cultural Integration into Digital Cultural and Creative Development under the Background of Digital Cultural Tourism

Yuan Gao
Under the background of digital cultural tourism, aiming at the problems of single dissemination and insufficient technology integration in Dong Zhongshu’s cultural inheritance, this study proposes a digital cultural and creative development path: through the creation of cultural IP, the construction...
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Emotional Narrative and Memory Reconstruction: Activated Communication Pathways of University Archival Documentary Heritage

Jiacheng Duan, Yibo Wang, Chenyu Wang, Linigeer Di
Against the backdrop of digital intelligence development and archival transformation, the activated communication of university archival documentary heritage has become a critical research topic. Existing studies predominantly approach this issue from technological empowerment and collaborative governance...
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Cognitive Gap and Differentiated Interpretation: A Comparative Study of Mainstream Media Frames in Belt and Road Initiative Co-construction Countries Based on Big Data

Yuanyuan Sun
Differences in internal perceptions among Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) participating countries are key variables influencing targeted communication and high-quality development, yet existing research largely treats these countries as a homogeneous whole. Drawing on cognitive divide theory, this study...
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An Empirical Corpus Study on Word-Formation and Translation Strategies in Chinese Medicinal Nomenclature

Xiaoqing Hu, Dechun Lu
This multidisciplinary study integrates linguistics, TCM, and computer science to explore the relationship between word-formation patterns and translation strategies of Chinese medicinal names. A large-scale, high-quality Chinese-English parallel corpus was constructed. Chinese medicinal names were classified...
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Digital Bonds in Long-Distance Relationships: A Study on New Forms of Intimacy Based on Suki

Lanxin Sun
Urbanization-driven mobility has made long-distance relationships increasingly prevalent, prompting the rise of vertical couple-oriented apps like Suki to sustain emotional bonds. Yet the mechanisms by which such apps construct virtual intimacy remain underexplored. Through semi-structured interviews...
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Emotional Calibration and Efficacy Evaluation of AIGC-Enabled Cultural Translation in Micro-Short Dramas

Ya Gao
Background: Breakthrough advances in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology are reshaping the paradigm of audiovisual content production. Micro-short drama, as an emerging audiovisual form, has witnessed exponential market growth during the 2025-2026 period. However, while AIGC enhances...
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A Study on the Contradictory Construction of Character Imagery in the Dance Work Chinese Mama

Rujingwen Gong
Focusing on the dance work Chinese Mama, this paper examines the contradictory construction of character imagery. It analyzes the work across three dimensions: action, psychology, and personality, to investigate the underlying mechanisms of character creation in dance art. Methodologically, the study...
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Digital Reconstruction and Interactive Communication of Bashu Inscription Characters Based on a Civilization Gene Repository: A Case Study of Taoist Inscriptions at Mount Qingcheng

Yuqi Fang, Qiao Sui, Fuli Lu, Siyu Dong
Bashu stone inscriptions are important carriers of Chinese cultural heritage, linking local history, Taoist belief, calligraphic form, and spatial memory. Taking Taoist inscriptions at Mount Qingcheng as a case, this paper introduces the concept of a civilization gene repository into the digital reconstruction...
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Ba-Shu Totem and Chinese Cultural Symbol — Cultural Interpretation of the White Tiger Motif on the “When the Five Planets Appear in the East, It will Benefit the Central States” Brocade

Jingyi Lin, Yuxin Li, Weigang Feng
Since the excavation of the brocade inscribed with “When the Five Planets appear in the East, it will benefit the Central States”(五星出東方利中國), remarkable achievements have been made in multi-angle research and interpretation. However, the cultural interpretation of the brocade patterns still needs to be...
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From Language Appeals to Consumer Trust: A Comparative Case Study of TikTok Cross-Border Live Streaming

Yuting Zhao
Cross‑border live‑streaming e‑commerce on TikTok Shop relies heavily on anchors’ language to build consumer trust. This study investigates how rational versus emotional language appeals influence trust formation in TikTok English broadcasts. Integrating the Stimulus‑Organism‑Response (S‑O‑R) model and...
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From Philosophical Vocabulary to the Bureau of Terminology

Two Paths of Logical Terminology Standardization in Modern East Asia

Can Hu
Against the backdrop of the modern eastward transmission of Western learning, how to accurately and uniformly introduce the Western logical system posed a common academic challenge for both China and Japan. In 1880, Japan published the Philosophical Vocabulary, which rapidly achieved the standardization...
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How Dance-Based Somatic Training Shapes Aesthetic Judgment: The Mediating Role of Kinesthetic Empathy

Shiyue Bi
The role of dance-based somatic education in changing dancers’ perceptions and assessment of movement has been widely considered, although empirical evidence regarding its dimensional specificity and dose-response relationship is still inconclusive. In the present study, we aim to investigate the influence...
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Information Management and System Clustering and Time Trend Analysis in the AI Era Based on Citespace — Taking WOS Data as an Example (2017-2026)

Xing Guo
With the rapid development of the AI-driven information age, information management and information systems, as the management hub, play a crucial role in information collection, processing, and storage. However, current research on management information systems is extensive and highly overlapping....
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Materiality and Divine Construction of Liangzhu Jade Artifacts—An Aesthetic Path from Mineralogy to Sensory Anthropology

Qi Chen, Ping Li
The jade ritual object system of the Liangzhu Culture, with tremolite jade (nephrite) as its core material, is the prehistoric source of the Chinese civilization’s aesthetic tradition of “using jade to convey the Dao”. This article uses the theory of material agency and sensory anthropology as the methodological...
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From “New versus Old” to “Nation”: The Historical Construction and Cultural Logic of the Modern Concept of “Chinese Poetry”

Yuxin Li, Liren Zhang, Yanan Sun
In traditional Chinese literature, “poetry” conventionally denoted verse composed in classical Chinese. In the early 20th century, Liang Qichao articulated the concept of the “Chinese nation”. This triggered a modern transformation for the term “Chinese poetry”. This transformation involved not merely...
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Commodified Self-Compassion and the “Ai Ni Laoji” (Love You, Good Old Self) Narrative in Critical Discourse Perspective

Zhen Zhao
This paper examines the emotional functions and consumerist transformation of the online trending expression “Ai Ni Laoji” (Love you, good old self) through critical discourse analysis of 13 Douyin comments, and links the cases to broader patterns of youth digital affective practices. The study finds...
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The Existentialist Turn in Le Corbusier’s Architectural Thought and its Social Significance

Boyang Zhang
Social upheaval not only affects the economy, military and social structure, but also gives rise to new cultural and ideological theories. These theories not only influenced the direction of design, but also had a profound impact on design creation and development, and even changed people’s lifestyles...
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Analysis of the Creative Features of Alexander Ekman’s version of “Swan Lake”: Deconstruction, Medium and Spatio-temporal Reconstruction

Jinyi Guo
This paper takes “Swan Lake”, created by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman for the Norwegian National Ballet in 2014, as the research object and deeply analyzes its subversive creative characteristics. The research focuses on three core dimensions. First, through the dissolution of the gender relations...
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The Evolution of the Political Status of Historians from the Pre-Qin Period to the Western Han Dynasty and Its Causes

Enqi Wang
The official historians of ancient China held the authority to compile historical records and played a pivotal role in the nation’s political life. However, from the pre-Qin period to the Western Han dynasty, the political standing of historians fluctuated with the times, exhibiting an overall decline....
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Applying GIS in Underwater Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from the Grotta Naxos and the Eunostos

Leqi Wang
Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) is an extremely valuable resource but yet increasingly threatened. The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is significant in the process of monitoring the UCH. This study will involve a comparative examination of two different case studies: Grotta Naxos...
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Research on Cross-contextual Communication Evolution of Core Ideas in The Communist Manifesto Based on BERTopic and Temporal LDA

Danqing Xu, Jiawen Wang
This study focuses on the cross-contextual communication evolution analysis of The Communist Manifesto. First, it elucidates the historical significance of The Communist Manifesto as a Marxist classic and its core ideological framework, while examining its impact on modern society. The research underscores...
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The Impact of Deepfake on Chinese Female Social Media Users

Qiaoqi Chen
Non-consensual deepfake face-swapping pornographic material has inflicted significant harm on women globally. Given China’s distinct culture, legislation, social media platform systems, the discussion and distribution of deepfakes is not coordinated with other countries. This lag presents a unique challenge...
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The Formation Mechanism and Enhancement Strategies of Consumer Brand Identity in the Context of China-Fashion

Xiuhai Li
With the continuous enhancement of national cultural confidence, China-fashion consumption has become the dominant trend in the domestic consumer market, as local domestic brands rapidly rise and profoundly reshape consumers’ brand preference choices. The core competitive advantage of China-fashion brands...
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“A Single Sentence Worth Ten Thousand”: From the “Dilemma of Expression” in Text to the Visual Representation of “The Group's Silence”

Dan Yang
Liu Zhenyun’s Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning novel *One Sentence Weighs Ten Thousand* and its film adaptation directed by his daughter Liu Yulin both center on the theme of the “dilemma of speech.” As two distinctly different media forms, the novel and the film exhibit notable differences in their...
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Research on the International Communication Paths of Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Based on Knowledge Ontology

Baiyan Liu, Jie Hu
The internationalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has entered an in-depth stage of service export and standard implementation. Nevertheless, the cross-cultural transmission of its cultural core remains the core bottleneck restricting its transformation from “going global” to “taking root...
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From Table to Throne

Social Stratification and Culinary Culture in the High Medieval German-Speaking Lands 1050–1350 CE

Yihang Zhong
This article examines the relationship between dietary practices and social hierarchy in the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire during the High Middle Ages (circa 1050–1350 CE). Drawing upon archaeological findings, manorial records, sumptuary legislation, and vernacular culinary manuscripts,...
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Integrating Big Five Personality Theory and Self-Determination Theory: A Conceptual Framework for FOMO and False News Sharing on Social Media

Hong Yu, Mumtaz Aini Binti Alivi, Linkai Wu
The spread of false news on social media has become a complex psychological and communicative phenomenon that cannot be fully explained by technical or algorithmic factors alone. Although previous studies have examined personality traits, social media motivations, and misinformation sharing, these factors...
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Girlhood on the Edge: A Comparative Study of Adolescent Female Experience in Elena Ferrante and Eileen Chang

Xiangyin Lyu
Although Elena Ferrante and Eileen Chang wrote within the contexts of postwar Italy and the Republic of China respectively, both authors display sustained attention to the experiences of adolescent girls. This article departs from existing scholarship by tracing each writer’s trajectory independently...
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An Affect-Theory-Based Discourse Analysis of Interview Talk: A Case Study of An Exciting Offer 7

Jingyi Yu
This study examines how interview discourse operates as an affective communication practice in the mediated context of reality television. Taking two interview tasks in An Exciting Offer 7 as cases, namely the interview tasks involving Zhelai Nv and Fly, the paper draws on affect theory and the concept...