Connotation

Abstract: In China, the Chinese subject is called “the mother of the encyclopedia.” Learning Chinese well is the basic condition for learning other subjects well. Therefore, Chinese education has always undertaken the important task of teaching the mother tongue and cultural inheritance and has a great influence on the development process of China’s education. Society is facing new opportunities and challenges since the 21st century, and all the mobile Internet, cloud computing, and Internet of Things achieve great development. Using the increasingly mature technology of data information collection, analysis, and processing can realize a more comprehensive evaluation of students in teaching activities. In the current upsurge of big data, it is more and more widely used in the field of education, such as learning analysis, network education platform, education information management platform, education AP, and smart campus. In this context, Chinese teaching needs more open courses, which requires us to organically integrate the existing information technology and Chinese teaching, and on this basis, integrate modern educational data sets and learning analysis technology into Chinese teaching and learning, to promote the improvement of the quality of language teaching and learning. The development of information technology in the intelligent era provides an opportunity for the establishment and application of an intelligent classroom. This paper constructs an intelligent and efficient new classroom equipped with smart devices teaching mode based on defining the concept and connotation of a classroom equipped with smart devices. The proposed model is combined with the current situation and the development of classrooms equipped with smart devices. It also analyzes the difficulties and pain points of traditional College Chinese teaching. The research results can provide a reference for the implementation of intelligent classroom teaching mode in College Chinese and other general courses in higher vocational colleges.

Abstract: This paper argues that ordinary people often contest rather than submit to the powerful elites to gain material interests and political favoritism. Ordinary people are both shrewd and critical in making judgments and evaluations on politicians as well as the (unequal) relation of powers. Based on fieldwork interviews in the Philippines, this paper identifies the perception of (local) politics from ordinary people’s point of view in a seemingly mundane political environment. If the political economic imperative of tulong, or help, is decoded to include its social meanings, functions, and cultural connotation, it reveals the Janus-facedness of patron-client ties that allows for a negotiation of power relations between clients and patrons.