Ning An
Biographic Data
| ID | 330563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ning An |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ning |
| FAMILY NAME | An |
| SIGNATURE | AN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | South China Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6300-6368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Reimagining Africa on Chinese social media
This study examines representations of Africa in user-generated videos on Xiaohongshu , one of China’s leading lifestyle-sharing platforms. Drawing on critical discourse analysis of 156 short videos, it conceptualises a “horizontal gaze”: a mode of representation centred on pragmatic concerns such as work, travel, local knowledge, and everyday experience. Rather than treating Africa only as an exotic spectacle or a site of lack, this gaze present…
BiDepNet
Research has shown that facial expressions can effectively infer the severity of depression. Recently, depression assessment methods based on images or facial landmarks have gained widespread attention. However, existing methods have not fully considered the complementary and synergistic effects between facial landmark features and images in extracting depression cues. Therefore, this article proposes a bidirectional depression detection network,…
Uncertainty propagation of input–output and process-based life cycle inventories at different aggregation levels
Improving gerontological social work students’ digital competence
Digital competence is increasingly essential in gerontological social work (GSW), yet most curricula provide little structured preparation. This mixed-methods study examined changes in students’ self-rated digital competence across the duration of the course and explored how they perceived these developments. Thirty-two undergraduate GSW students from a Chinese college participated in this study. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed us…
Building Critical Geographers
This commentary argues for reconceptualizing academically-curated social media platforms (ASMPs) as relational pedagogical interfaces to foster critical thinking in geography education. Using the case of Barbecue Geographers—an influential geography-focused platform in China—we illustrate how such an interface creates a synergistic ecosystem. For instructors, it acts as a dynamic resource to democratize disciplinary frontiers and restructure peda…
Digital Storytelling for Educational Equity
This work presents and validates the digital narrative for educational equity double cycle activation model (DN-DEE) aimed at elucidating the function of digital storytelling (DST) in fostering educational equity in resource-disparate environments. The DN-DEE model integrates a macro policy-resource adaptation cycle with a micro learner activation cycle, connecting structural support to individual agency within a dynamic co-evolutionary framework…
Thinning improves timber yield and structure in Pinus Massoniana plantations
A 35-year study provides insights into seven thinning regimes’ long-term effects on plantations. • Optimal thinning treatments significantly enhance stand structure and economic returns. • Offers empirical guidance for tailored thinning intensity and timing for plantation. Thinning is a widely applied silvicultural practice in plantation forests, but its long-term effects on timber yield, quality, and stand development remain poorly documented, e…
Digital platform, state, and the reinvention of rurality
The Geopolitics of Transnational Higher Education
A Review of Chinese Aphasia Assessment Batteries
Aphasia is a language impairment caused by brain damage. Accurately assessing the language ability of aphasia patients is crucial for developing effective rehabilitation plans. This paper aims to explore the current status and improvement directions of the Chinese aphasia assessment batteries. Firstly, this paper reviews the main study on aphasia assessment batteries both domestically and internationally. Then, the widely used aphasia assessment …
Exploring essential digital competencies for gerontological social workers
In today’s digital society, digital competence is crucial for gerontological social workers (GSWs) to support the well-being of older adults and promote professional development. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding what essential digital competencies GSWs should have. This case study aims to explore the essential digital competencies for GSWs based on the DigComp 2.2 framework. Data were collected through reflective assignme…
Associations between sulfur dioxide exposure and mortality, with a focus on cardiovascular disease
The results highlight the importance of continued air quality improvements and targeted public health interventions to mitigate the burden of CVD mortality associated with SO 2
Parallel Multiscale Bridge Fusion Network for Audio–Visual Automatic Depression Assessment
Depression is a prevalent and severe mental illness that significantly impacts patients’ physical health and daily life. Recent studies have focused on multimodal depression assessment, aiming to objectively and conveniently evaluate depression using multimodal data. However, existing methods based on audio–visual modalities struggle to capture the dynamic variations in depression clues and cannot fully explore multimodal data over a long time. I…
Er-C3d
Behavior detection receives considerable attention in real-life human–computer interaction, where the complexity of background information and the variable durations of movements are two major factors affecting the accuracy of behavior detection. To overcome the inadequacy of these factors, this article proposes an enhancing region convolutional 3-D (ER-C3D) network with adaptive shrinkage and symmetrical multiscale for behavior detection. The im…
Renarrating China-Africa relations
Drawing on China’s rising population outflows and the theory of everyday geopolitics, this study discusses how the daily international encounters of emerging Chinese immigrants (re-)write international relations. The study was conducted through fieldwork with new Chinese immigrants in Zimbabwe and reveals two findings. First, Zimbabwean political elites have been knitting a geopolitical discourse through the well-known nationalism and patriotic h…
Navigating the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of Higher Education, necessitating a rapid shift from in-person to remote teaching and learning. This study investigates the experiences of doctoral students in an online Sino-Nordic summer school on aging, implemented during the pandemic. A survey was conducted to collect and analyze data on participants’ experiences and perspectives. Findings reveal three thematic areas: doctoral …
Mobility as Capital
Since the raising of China's ‘Going‐Out’ policy, the number of Chinese residing in Africa has increased dramatically, providing these families with greater convenience in cross‐border mobility. This article empirically examines this emerging transnational population of Chinese families in Zimbabwe, focusing on the social reproduction of this relatively understudied group. We identify an educational migration strategy used by these families as a ‘…
Understanding China’s infrastructure activities in Africa through artistic practice and exhibition
The infrastructure-led development model initiated by China under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has faced domestic and international challenges. By focusing on a national travelling art exhibition featuring Chinese railway construction in Africa in 2023, this paper examines the role that curatorial and exhibition practices can play in (re)shaping public geopolitical understandings of China-Africa relations. Exhibiting over 200 artworks colle…
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China
The 'darkest history' must live
While scholar have increasingly focused on the intersectional analysis on tourism and geopolitics, the material and affective dimensions underlying the geopolitical implications of tourism remains underexplored. This paper analyses the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (MH-VNM-JI) in Nanjing, China, focusing on how it sustains and intensifies geopolitical narrations of militarism, fascism, and massacres inflict…
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals
Adopting a cross-language long-term repetition-priming paradigm, the current study systematically investigated number representation in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals. The study focused on three types of numerals: Arabic digits, Tibetan numerals, and Mandarin numerals. Experiment 1 examined lexical representation; participants performed a lexical decision task in the cross-language repetition-priming paradigm. Experiment 2 used a parity judgment tas…
On the possibility of the 2022-like spatio-temporally compounding event across the Yangtze River Valley
During July–September 2022, heatwaves, droughts, forest fires and floods hit the Yangtze River Valley successively, constituting a spatio-temporally compounding event. Understanding its risks matters to disaster preparedness. Through searching for event analogues in single-model initial-condition large-ensemble climate simulations, we report that the 2022 unprecedentedly widespread and intense hot drought might have occurred as early as in the 19…
Social media reconstructions of urban identity during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected people in urban areas. This article reports on a comparative empirical study of the pandemic in Guangzhou and Xi'an in 2021 and analyses how residents responded to social media during the crisis. Using Baidu's hot search time machine to search for hot topics related to the spread of disease during each outbreak of COVID-19, we collected 35 and 41 hashtags for Guangzhou's and Xi'an's epidemics, respect…
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific
This introduction to the special section focuses on the geopolitical relevance of tourism in the Indo-Pacific region. We first review the literature on everyday geopolitics, or Popular Geopolitics 2.0, elaborating the trend of attention to tourism activities in political geography. We then turn to tourism studies and find the divergence and convergence between these literatures. Finally, we argue that a focus on the Indo-Pacific offers new points…
The geopolitics of a female Chinese migrant charity network in Zimbabwe
This paper focuses on Love in Africa, a female Chinese migrant charity network in Zimbabwe and examines its geopolitical influence. It makes two vital finding by drawing on the theories of critical geopolitics, feminist geopolitics and public diplomacy, as well as the criticism for the lack of attention to transnational geopolitics and insufficient conceptualization of the links between state and non-state actors in existing studies. First, this …
Politics of urban renewal
Popular geopolitics of Chinese Nanjing massacre films
This article attempts to deconstruct the masculinised contract among the war narrative, popular culture, and Chinese nationalism by exploring the roles of women in Nanjing Massacre films with war narratives and Chinese audiences' emotional ‘readings’ of these women. Based on the analysis of City of Life and Death (2009) and The Flowers of War (2011) and audiences' comments on these two films from Douban Movie, this article has mapped a popular ge…
Towards a Confucian geopolitics
In this article, we argue that Confucian philosophies are vital to understanding contemporary Chinese geopolitics. Existing Western geopolitical frameworks, we contend, are insufficient for grasping the complex theories and historical legacies that underpin China’s foreign policy. This issue becomes particularly salient as scholars and the public alike try to manage complex and changing geopolitical ideas underpinning the Belt and Road Initiative…
A Geopolitical Analysis of Popular Songs in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, 1983-2013
Based on the notions of ‘popular geopolitics’ and ‘practical geopolitics’, this article explores how China’s geopolitical strategies are represented and reproduced by the popular songs in the CCTV (China Central Television) Spring Festival Gala during the past thirty years (1983–2013). Drawing on the (con)textual and visual analysis of 539 popular songs, how geopolitical knowledges are represented and reproduced by these songs and how these songs…
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific
This introduction to the special section focuses on the geopolitical relevance of tourism in the Indo-Pacific region. We first review the literature on everyday geopolitics, or Popular Geopolitics 2.0, elaborating the trend of attention to tourism activities in political geography. We then turn to tourism studies and find the divergence and convergence between these literatures. Finally, we argue that a focus on the Indo-Pacific offers new points…
Gaps in Chinese geopolitical research
The Duality of Political Geography in China
This paper reviews the genealogy of ‘Chinese’ political geography, which, to a certain extent, can be read as a national report of the status of political geography in Chinese scholarship. It begins by outlining the short duration of the development of political geography in China, compared to the longer history of western political geography. Looking at the extant studies related to political geography in China, this paper suggests an existence …
The Everyday Chinese Framing of Africa
This paper conducts a discourse analysis of Chinese tourist writings about Africa on the most popular Chinese online tourist forum, Mafengwo (hornet’s nest). By examining 2,950 travelogues collected online, our research finds that Chinese tourists’ conceptions of Africa are mainly built through 5 frames, including the exotic frame, the adventurous frame, the poverty frame, the China’s engagement frame, and the affection frame that describe Africa…
Language learners as invisible planners
Despite the predominant position of global English, teaching and learning of languages other than English (LOTEs) are gaining increasing attention in foreign language planning in China. This study aims to showcase the development of an elective Arabic language program in a Chinese university through the lens of agency as a spatial, temporal, and dialogical construct. We investigated how 24 participants representing three groups of actors—people w…
Confucian values and Chinese geopolitical discourse on terrorism
This paper studies articles about terrorism in the representative Chinese newspaper People’s Daily in order to analyze how traditional Chinese political culture, in particular Confucianism, permeates contemporary Chinese geopolitical discourse. Specific attention is paid to articles on terrorism and the U.S. “war on terror.” The author argues that, instead of interpreting terrorist actions and U.S. counter-terrorism politics as binary opposites, …
Conceptual and theoretical debates in modern geopolitics and their implications for Chinese geopolitics
An outline of modern geopolitics identifies its development as a critique of classical geopolitics, linking international political action to the subjective production of geographical knowledge and points to its intellectual roots in the Foucauldian notion of ‘discourse’. Three sub-fields of formal and practical geopolitics, popular geopolitics, and non-representational geopolitics are summarized. A consideration of the location of geopolitical e…
The geopolitics of a female Chinese migrant charity network in Zimbabwe
This paper focuses on Love in Africa, a female Chinese migrant charity network in Zimbabwe and examines its geopolitical influence. It makes two vital finding by drawing on the theories of critical geopolitics, feminist geopolitics and public diplomacy, as well as the criticism for the lack of attention to transnational geopolitics and insufficient conceptualization of the links between state and non-state actors in existing studies. First, this …
The effect of emotional experiences in fieldwork
Emotion has become an important topic in fieldwork courses of higher geography education. This study attempts to provide embodied evidence of the important value of emotional experiences in fieldwork and clarify that the teaching effect produced by fieldwork in a real environment is difficult to achieve in a virtual environment. Using eye-tracking , this study captured the eye movement data of 16 fieldwork participants and 15 nonparticipants gazi…
Seeking Lost Memories
A society's cultural heritage is its inheritance of physical artifacts and intangible attributes, and their maintenance, protection, and continuation for future generations. The meaning of cultural heritage is, however, constantly changing in light of globalization and rapid urbanization. To better understand interactions between people and cultural heritage in daily life, and return cultural heritage to its sense of "place," we present a visual …
The 'darkest history' must live
While scholar have increasingly focused on the intersectional analysis on tourism and geopolitics, the material and affective dimensions underlying the geopolitical implications of tourism remains underexplored. This paper analyses the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (MH-VNM-JI) in Nanjing, China, focusing on how it sustains and intensifies geopolitical narrations of militarism, fascism, and massacres inflict…
Social media reconstructions of urban identity during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected people in urban areas. This article reports on a comparative empirical study of the pandemic in Guangzhou and Xi'an in 2021 and analyses how residents responded to social media during the crisis. Using Baidu's hot search time machine to search for hot topics related to the spread of disease during each outbreak of COVID-19, we collected 35 and 41 hashtags for Guangzhou's and Xi'an's epidemics, respect…
Still a long journey to decentralize geopolitics
In this brief response paper, we respond to the insightful commentaries that critically engage with our original article in this forum. First, we discuss whether Confucian culture is fundamental to Chinese geopolitics, emphasizing how and why culture is part of a wider epistemic resource. We also note that our model is not normative, but an analytic framework for understanding complex non-western situations. Second, we discuss the geographies and…
Urban Theory Between Political Economy and Everyday Urbanism
As human society enters an 'urban age', the need to interrogate the nature of cities and urbanization processes has become more imperative. To advance this endeavour, this article suggests that the entrenched epistemological distance between the political economy and everyday urbanism approaches must be addressed and bridged. It furnishes a theoretical approach which examines how political economic changes are shaped and contoured by sensibilitie…
Reading China’s Self-Definition of International Politics From Intergovernmental Conferences
The investigation of intergovernmental conferences is an important lens to examine international geopolitical issues that seem to remain understudied in the existing literature, especially from the perspective of how emerging countries shape their discourse, image, and geopolitical imaginations through such conferences. This paper aims to read China’s relationships with the outside world from both its holding and participating in intergovernmenta…
Popular geopolitics of Chinese Nanjing massacre films
This article attempts to deconstruct the masculinised contract among the war narrative, popular culture, and Chinese nationalism by exploring the roles of women in Nanjing Massacre films with war narratives and Chinese audiences' emotional ‘readings’ of these women. Based on the analysis of City of Life and Death (2009) and The Flowers of War (2011) and audiences' comments on these two films from Douban Movie, this article has mapped a popular ge…
A Geopolitical Analysis of Popular Songs in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, 1983-2013
Based on the notions of ‘popular geopolitics’ and ‘practical geopolitics’, this article explores how China’s geopolitical strategies are represented and reproduced by the popular songs in the CCTV (China Central Television) Spring Festival Gala during the past thirty years (1983–2013). Drawing on the (con)textual and visual analysis of 539 popular songs, how geopolitical knowledges are represented and reproduced by these songs and how these songs…
Gaps in Chinese geopolitical research
Conceptual and theoretical debates in modern geopolitics and their implications for Chinese geopolitics
An outline of modern geopolitics identifies its development as a critique of classical geopolitics, linking international political action to the subjective production of geographical knowledge and points to its intellectual roots in the Foucauldian notion of ‘discourse’. Three sub-fields of formal and practical geopolitics, popular geopolitics, and non-representational geopolitics are summarized. A consideration of the location of geopolitical e…
Confucian values and Chinese geopolitical discourse on terrorism
This paper studies articles about terrorism in the representative Chinese newspaper People’s Daily in order to analyze how traditional Chinese political culture, in particular Confucianism, permeates contemporary Chinese geopolitical discourse. Specific attention is paid to articles on terrorism and the U.S. “war on terror.” The author argues that, instead of interpreting terrorist actions and U.S. counter-terrorism politics as binary opposites, …
What Motivates L3 Learners’ Investment and/or Divestment in Arabic? Understanding Learning Motivation in terms of “Identity”
The study extends our understanding of the relationship between identity and Arabic learning in the Chinese context from a sociolinguistic perspective. Drawing on Darvin and Norton’s (2015) model of investment, the study explores the interplay between identity and investment in the context of Chinese learners’ motivation to learn Arabic. The sample population comprises 25 adult Arabic learners with Chinese as their first language, English as thei…
Retracted Article
Prenatal and childhood excessive fluoride exposures may impair the intelligence development of school children. Furthermore, children with prenatal fluoride exposure had lower IQ scores than children who were not prenatally exposed; therefore the reduction of IQ scores at higher levels of fluoride exposure in childhood does not become that evident
Towards a Confucian geopolitics
In this article, we argue that Confucian philosophies are vital to understanding contemporary Chinese geopolitics. Existing Western geopolitical frameworks, we contend, are insufficient for grasping the complex theories and historical legacies that underpin China’s foreign policy. This issue becomes particularly salient as scholars and the public alike try to manage complex and changing geopolitical ideas underpinning the Belt and Road Initiative…
China’s Responses to the US War on Terror
Drawing on ‘popular geopolitics’ and ‘Internet geopolitics’, this study examines China’s responses to the US war on terror by comparing print narratives with Internet discussions. The results indicate that Chinese print media embraces a different but unanimous narrative strategy than the Anglo‐American discourses on the war on terror, which rejects a binary construction between terrorism and the US but instead portrays both as playing violent and…
Reading China’s Self-Definition of International Politics From Intergovernmental Conferences
The investigation of intergovernmental conferences is an important lens to examine international geopolitical issues that seem to remain understudied in the existing literature, especially from the perspective of how emerging countries shape their discourse, image, and geopolitical imaginations through such conferences. This paper aims to read China’s relationships with the outside world from both its holding and participating in intergovernmenta…
Confucian Geopolitics
This book presents an essential non-western geopolitical landscape and draws on the conceptual framework of critical geopolitics to discuss the views on terrorism held by various groups of Chinese people, including the elite, middle class, and masses. After investigating these views, the book posits that these Chinese geopolitical imaginaries cannot be fully understood using the extant geopolitical theories, including communism, nationalism, and …
Seeking Lost Memories
A society's cultural heritage is its inheritance of physical artifacts and intangible attributes, and their maintenance, protection, and continuation for future generations. The meaning of cultural heritage is, however, constantly changing in light of globalization and rapid urbanization. To better understand interactions between people and cultural heritage in daily life, and return cultural heritage to its sense of "place," we present a visual …
The Duality of Political Geography in China
This paper reviews the genealogy of ‘Chinese’ political geography, which, to a certain extent, can be read as a national report of the status of political geography in Chinese scholarship. It begins by outlining the short duration of the development of political geography in China, compared to the longer history of western political geography. Looking at the extant studies related to political geography in China, this paper suggests an existence …
Social Technology
Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help address the growing demands for care facing many aging societies is both a challenge and an opportunity for innovation. We propose a social technology approach that promotes use of te…
Evaluation study on social work intervention after an explosion disaster in China
Since the “5.12” 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, disaster social work has been developing gradually in mainland China. This study evaluated a university-led, project-based social work intervention following the “8.12” 2015 Tianjin explosion disaster. Document analysis, participant observation, and in-depth individual interview methods were used. Three types of interviewees ( N = 14) recruited via purposive sampling participated in semistructured interv…
Still a long journey to decentralize geopolitics
In this brief response paper, we respond to the insightful commentaries that critically engage with our original article in this forum. First, we discuss whether Confucian culture is fundamental to Chinese geopolitics, emphasizing how and why culture is part of a wider epistemic resource. We also note that our model is not normative, but an analytic framework for understanding complex non-western situations. Second, we discuss the geographies and…
Language learners as invisible planners
Despite the predominant position of global English, teaching and learning of languages other than English (LOTEs) are gaining increasing attention in foreign language planning in China. This study aims to showcase the development of an elective Arabic language program in a Chinese university through the lens of agency as a spatial, temporal, and dialogical construct. We investigated how 24 participants representing three groups of actors—people w…
The effect of emotional experiences in fieldwork
Emotion has become an important topic in fieldwork courses of higher geography education. This study attempts to provide embodied evidence of the important value of emotional experiences in fieldwork and clarify that the teaching effect produced by fieldwork in a real environment is difficult to achieve in a virtual environment. Using eye-tracking , this study captured the eye movement data of 16 fieldwork participants and 15 nonparticipants gazi…
Politics of urban renewal
Urban Theory Between Political Economy and Everyday Urbanism
As human society enters an 'urban age', the need to interrogate the nature of cities and urbanization processes has become more imperative. To advance this endeavour, this article suggests that the entrenched epistemological distance between the political economy and everyday urbanism approaches must be addressed and bridged. It furnishes a theoretical approach which examines how political economic changes are shaped and contoured by sensibilitie…
Research on the dynamic mechanism of group emotional expression in the crisis
Numerosity sense correlates with fluent mathematical abilities
Although a great deal of research has shown a relationship between numerosity sense and mathematical ability, some studies have failed to do so. The main source of this inconsistency could be the varied ways of measuring mathematical abilities. The current investigation explored several types of mathematical ability, from basic number processing and arithmetic computation to numerical reasoning and arithmetic learning. We hypothesized that the co…
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals
Adopting a cross-language long-term repetition-priming paradigm, the current study systematically investigated number representation in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals. The study focused on three types of numerals: Arabic digits, Tibetan numerals, and Mandarin numerals. Experiment 1 examined lexical representation; participants performed a lexical decision task in the cross-language repetition-priming paradigm. Experiment 2 used a parity judgment tas…
On the possibility of the 2022-like spatio-temporally compounding event across the Yangtze River Valley
During July–September 2022, heatwaves, droughts, forest fires and floods hit the Yangtze River Valley successively, constituting a spatio-temporally compounding event. Understanding its risks matters to disaster preparedness. Through searching for event analogues in single-model initial-condition large-ensemble climate simulations, we report that the 2022 unprecedentedly widespread and intense hot drought might have occurred as early as in the 19…
Social media reconstructions of urban identity during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected people in urban areas. This article reports on a comparative empirical study of the pandemic in Guangzhou and Xi'an in 2021 and analyses how residents responded to social media during the crisis. Using Baidu's hot search time machine to search for hot topics related to the spread of disease during each outbreak of COVID-19, we collected 35 and 41 hashtags for Guangzhou's and Xi'an's epidemics, respect…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · China (23 works) · Law (18 works) · Geopolitics (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Geography (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works)