Where ‘West Meets East’: the cross-cultural discourses regarding the Chinese arts collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Trauma-Informed Care: A Transcendental Phenomenology of the Experiences of International Faculty during the Delta and Omicron Variant Outbreaks in East China

“…TIC can also expand in cultural spheres because each national or culture-sharing group represents different ideologies, norms, beliefs, and life practices. Our empirical findings demonstrated that participants who came to China were well-respected as foreign talent scholars in the Chinese national context of Confucianism; scholars have long- developed moral and social systems [ 60 , 61 ]. However, these foreign talent scholars in the nation became vulnerable due to their foreigner status, language barriers, perceived discrimination, and cultural distance [ 31 ].…”

On-site Learning in Museums: Re-conceptualizations and Re-directions for Museum Education in the Post-pandemic Digital Age

“…The constant development of media technologies, coming with the COVID-19 situation, has largely empowered the extensive use of digital storytelling and encouraged a certain amount of latest research on topics like digital or virtual museums and the role of social media in museum education [34][35][36], which gives rise to another category of museums, discussed in recent literature regarding transformative and/or hybrid museums (for a discussion on the digital smart transformation of traditional museums, see Puspasari, [37]). With a focus on the instructional design of on-site learning, the author suggests that future studies concentrate on the digital resources and digital storytelling available in a physical museum setting (for Interaction Design, Interactive Storytelling and Artificial Intelligence in museum experience design, see Falco & Vassos, [38]), while leaving the virtual museum and social media part for interested researchers, as the latter could be better incorporated into the discussions on distance learning topics, such as "online (collaborative) learning", "e-learning", "technology-mediated learning", "virtual learning", and "web-based learning", to name but a few.…”

“…The cross-national context of museums is believed to be helpful to the construction of such understandings. Museums, although bound by national and local contexts, are genuinely transnational and multilocal, representing cultural heritages and identities which can transcend the structures of national particularity that demonstrate a positive social and cultural movement based on their government's political-ideological and politicaleconomic ends [36]. Besides, a museum is, by its very nature, a democratic institution, involving the public in its programs and thereby supporting target mechanisms [55].…”

Analyzing Identity Storytelling for On-site Learning in Museums

“…Besides, these three countries have been experiencing different types and degrees of international migration, statistically and empirically, which can be told from, to name just a few, data like net migration rate, press reports on migration issues, and even the author's personal experience of living in the three countries. Despite these differences, remarkably, the three countries are considered multicultural societies, though on different levels, and contain, in accordance with Bai and Nam [2], "diverse culture-sharing groups with different political-ideological and political-economic principles." People with diverse backgrounds will seek rootedness in metropolitan regions, and consequently the diversity of the urban population will be enhanced and call for more diversified representation of their cultures and identities [11].…”