Jiangsu Ocean University

Bridging, Destabilisation, and Simulacrality: The Visual Rhetoric of Travel-Related Live Images on Xiaohongshu

As a visual form on contemporary social media platforms, Live Images transform the photographic instant into a short dynamic event through micro‑temporal extension and looped playback. When applied to travel imagery, this format doesn’t simply preserve a frozen scene, but foregro...

Crafting beauty: a semiotic analysis of rural women’s labor in China’s wearable nail industry

Alongside the growing emphasis on beauty among women, wearable nail art has emerged as a handcrafted form that integrates practical use with aesthetic value and has quickly attracted widespread consumer attention. As a form of fingertip art, the production of wearable nail art co...

Ultraviolet-enhanced oxidative activation of pre-oxidized coal during storage: radical evolution and mechanistic insights into low-temperature oxidation

Coal exposed to air and solar radiation during open storage and transportation undergoes progressive low-temperature oxidation; however, the molecular mechanism by which ultraviolet (UV) irradiation activates the radical network of pre-oxidized coal remains unclear. In this study...