FRONTIERS IN ASIA-PACIFIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE STUDIES
2025 Volume 4 Issue 1
Contents
INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES
SPECIAL SECTION ON SOUTH PACIFIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE STUDIES
01 Introduction to the Special Section: South Pacific Language and Culture Studies
Guojie Liang
04 Linguistic Diversity in the French South Pacific: Historical Evolution and Current Status
Jing Zhang and Tiantian Zou
17 Bislama at the Crossroads: Language, Power, and National Identity in Vanuatu
Xinyue Tan and Bo Qin
27 A Multidimensional Presentation of South Pacific Indigenous Cultures in Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Marine Space, Folk Rituals and Linguistic Symbols
Hanchuan Hu and Guojie Liang
TRANSLATION STUDIES
39 Multiple Identities and Textual Reconstruction: A Study of Cultural Transference in Translator Behavior in English Translations of Zen Poetry
Qi He, Yuxuan Mi and Leping Huang
LINGUISTIC STUDIES
48 The Portrayal of Chinese Female Athletes in Chinese Media During the 2022 Asian Games: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Yanwei Jiao
LITERARY STUDIES
66 Asian Futurism and the Dialectics of Speculation in Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Ruqi Li
78 Female Images of Pacific Islands in Selina Marsh’s Poetry
Guohua Duan and Qian Yang
CULTURE, ARTS AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
88 Beyond the Battlefield: Humanizing the Hero and Inspiring Empathy in New Century Chinese War Films
Tian Pu
98 Mi Wu’s Confucianization of New Humanism: A Case Study of Tradition and Confucian Ritualism
Chaohai Xue and Shengbing Gao
BOOK REVIEW
111 A Comprehensive Exploration of Atwood’s Ethical Tendency
—Book Review of Poetic Justice: Research on Margaret Atwood’s Ethical Thought
Qian Zhao
