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Crafting National Image via Video Games' Fictional Universes and Implications for Digital Diplomacy: Portrayal and Perception of China and Japan through 'Reassembling' and 'Reterritorialization' of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Genshin Impact
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia. 2025. Vol. 24. No. 2. P. 136–162.
Varpahovskis E., Anastasiia Borisenko
Prominent video games such as Genshin Impact have been increasingly recognized asinstrumental vectors for the diffusion of information, possessing the capacity to shape attitudesand behaviors across diverse life spheres. This study employs a bifurcated methodologicalapproach involving primary and secondary data: firstly, a functional ludostylistic analysis ofthe game’s semiotic structures, and secondly, a series of in-depth qualitative interviews. Theinitial analytical phase elucidates the distinctive semantic characteristics of the game’sfictional universes that establish linkages to China and Japan. Subsequently, the second phasethrough a set of in-depth interviews (n=18) investigates how these fictional-actualcorrespondences are decoded and internalized by participating gamers. To interpret thesephenomena, the study adopts Penix-Tadsen’s theoretical constructs of ‘reassembling’ and‘reterritorialization,’ contextualized within frameworks of tangible and intangible natural andcultural heritage. Findings reveal that interviewees consistently identified allegoricalreferences to China and Japan within the game’s fictional realms and observed inherentrepresentational biases perpetuated by the game’s designers. Nonetheless, such recognitiondid not culminate in outright rejection of the game or its constructed universes. In conclusion,the study delivers a discussion around that national branding as well as soft power processesthat can be effectively activated within virtual environments through the deployment ofelaborately crafted fictional universes.
Garaeva A., Юго-Восточная Азия: актуальные проблемы развития 2025 Т. 4 № 4(69) С. 80–94
This article analyzes the Strategic Partnership between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a factor in implementing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The role of the ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement as a driver of promising economic practices is revealed, its adaptation to cooperation in the RCEP ...
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Karaganov S. A., Trenin D., Тебин П. Ю. et al., М.: Весь мир, 2026.
Стратегическая стабильность – понятие, рожденное в ходе Холодной войны в условиях противостояния двух ядерных сверхдержав. В те годы оно обозначало ситуацию, которая исключала возможность одержать победу над противником путем нанесения по нему массированного ядерного удара.
С тех пор ситуация в мире существенно изменилась. Исчез спасительный страх перед возможностью ядерной войны. Ядерное сдерживание, которое лежало в основе ...
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Романова В. В., Tkachuk A., Экономические науки 2026 № 2 С. 561–565
Актуальность статьи обусловлена трансформацией мирохозяйственных связей под влиянием
Китая. Степень разработанности отражена в полярных оценках экспансии КНР. Объект — экономическая экспансия Китая, предмет — модели взаимодействия со странами Глобального Юга.
Методология базируется на геоэкономическом подходе и концепции асимметричной взаимозависимости. Практическая значимость заключается в выявлении рисков долговой и технологической
зависимости и рекомендациях для стран-партнеров по выстраиванию сбалансированного сотрудничества. ...
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Izotov V., Кардаш Н., Современная Европа 2026 № 2 С. 108–119
The article examines the issue of hybrid wars in the context of the confrontation between Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus within the geopolitical subsystem of the Eastern Mediterrane an. The authors, relying in part on sources little known outside the Greek-Cypriot research dis course, describe and classify the methods of Turkey’s hybrid warfare against ...
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Routledge, 2026.
This book is a comprehensive study on how the national security sectors of China, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States have engaged the idea of climate change as an existential threat. Climate Change, National Security and Geopolitics examines the respective ways in which the five states have framed the issue of climate change in ...
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Долгина О. Е., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2025 № 1 С. 44–55
The Izborsky Club positions itself as a "synthesis of Russian statists <...> from socialists and Soviet pa-triots to monarchists and Orthodox conservatives" and aims to unite representatives from diverse statist nationalist movements. The internal heterogeneity of Russian nationalism presents a challenge to the Izborsky Club's goal of developing a "new tradition", which involves constructing a ...
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Соколова Е. Н., Рудаков А. Б., Repina E., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 522 С. 119–129
На основе анализа более двух миллионов сообщений в социальных сетях, практики патриотического активизма в социальных сетях, а также данных интервью с представителями «служащих» профессий, выявлены факторы развития деятельностной компоненты патриотической идентичности. Сделаны выводы о ключевых мотивациях, роли личностных факторов и социализации в формировании социального капитала, а также о связи служения со значимыми ценностями – семьей, ...
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Ignatyev G., Тетради по консерватизму 2025 № 4 С. 72–83
Political polarization is the phenomenon inseparably linked to Donald Trump's political activities since 2015. According to some researchers that polarization was the reason for Trump's victory in the elections. Others argue that polarization has grown because of Trump, and that the US population was much more united before his emergence on the political scene. In ...
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Будапешт всегда против: стратегия Венгрии в рамках китайского направления внешней политики Евросоюза
Shein S., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 161–174
Amidst the overarching imperative for a common foreign policy within the European Union, the long-term challenge to its implementation regarding the People’s Republic of China is the level of intra-Union unity. Special attention in this context is drawn to the case of Hungary, which not only contests the fundamental parameters of the EU foreign policy but also actively develops multifaceted relations with ...
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Бережная М. А., Novikova A., Кирия И. В., КноРус, 2026.
The aesthetics of journalism is substantiated as a necessary component in the professional training of specialists in audiovisual media. The factors and trends of historical and current changes in the aesthetics of journalism are presented, and the aesthetic practices of audiovisual journalism are characterized in terms of their social functioning. Criteria for aesthetic evaluation are ...
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Монгуш В. Р., Novikova A., Креативные индустрии 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 23–41
This article analyzes the historical and cultural background, as well as the current situation and development prospects of the creative industries ecosystem in the Republic of Tuva. A comparative analysis of this remote, subsidized region and its neighbors, the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Krasnoyarsk Krai, revealed its strengths, vulnerabilities, and strategies of young creative professionals ...
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Krasnyak O., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Международные отношения 2025 Т. 18 № 4 С. 493–498
Понимание российского внешнеполитического поведения вновь обретает осо-бую значимость не только в рамках конфликта на Украине и взаимоотношений со странами мирового большинства и меньшинства, но и в контексте изменяющегося мироустройства. Прежняя глобалистская модель стремительно сходит с авансце-ны международных отношений, возвращая, по сути, мир к структурным базовым настройкам соперничества между несколькими крупными державами. Россия яв-ляется одной из ...
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IEEE, 2026.
The IEEE Russia North West Section, IEEE Russia Section and Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” are pleased to present the Proceedings of the 2026 Communication Strategies in
Digital Society Seminar (2026 ComSDS) held in St. Petersburg, Russia on April, 8, 2026. This Seminar is proudly hosted by Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”. The Organising Committee believes ...
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Шмитт К., М.: Праксис, 2026.
Классическая работа известного немецкого правоведа и политического теоретика Карла Шмитта, посвященная рассмотрению партизана как «фигуры мирового духа», начиная с его зарождения в ходе борьбы испанского народа против наполеоновских войск в 1808—1813 годах и вплоть до судьбы партизана в ходе «всемирной гражданской войны» ХХ века.
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Маленко Маро Янович, Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований 2025 Т. 7 № 2 С. 187–208
The article focuses on "ethnological video games", defined as video games which are developed on the basis of ethnographic and folkloric material. The particular focus is on the kind of ethnological games which contain representation or simulation of shamanistic practices. Among them are "Mooseman" based on Komi-Permyak and Finno-Ugric mythology, "Never Alone" based on Iñupiaq ...
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Strelnikova A., Калинычева С. Д., Фольклор и антропология города 2025 Т. 7 № 4 С. 18–44
The article examines the processes of cultural appropriation — the adoption of artifacts, forms of cultural expression, and other elements of a foreign culture, as well as various modes of adapting heritage and integrating it into everyday life. Using the example of the Kaliningrad region, it is shown how complex relations with German cultural heritage ...
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Victoria Dobrynskaya, Strelnikov V., Quarterly Journal of Finance 2025 Vol. 15 No. 4 Article 2640001
We study financial returns on videogame attributes as alternative investments, using CS:GO skins as an example. Using an extensive dataset of monthly returns on 4,565 skins for 2013-2024, we find that these niche investments outperform most traditional and alternative assets with the average return about 40% pa and provide diversification benefits. The time-series analysis indicates ...
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Polina A. Voronova, Varpahovskis E., Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Bulletin of International Relations 2025 Vol. 25 No. 4 P. 580–597
Despite the growing academic interest in the field of cultural diplomacy, research of how this phenomenon evolves and transforms in one of its most prolific users, France, remains limited. A review of the literature on cultural diplomacy reveals a paucity of attention to institutional aspects, despite institutional reforms having the potential to effect transformative changes ...
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Kosevich E., Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 2025 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 107–138
With the blurring of the boundaries between peace and war in their classical sense, confrontation is moving into the information space. This study traces the logic and main stages of the formation of the Russian information influence strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Russia uses various methods to wage its information wars in ...
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Nikiporets-Takigawa G., Филатов О. А., Политическая экспертиза: ПОЛИТЭКС 2025 Т. 21 № 2 С. 244–256
The "Taiwan issue" is becoming particularly relevant in terms of the current international situation, from the problem of relations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait it is transforming into the most important factor of the Sino-American confrontation and, thereby, security in APR. Taiwan also represents the example of the policies of national territorial entities ...
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Kirill Ilnitskiy, P.: UNESCO, 2016.
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Глобальный доклад ЮНЕСКО представляет собой первое комплексное международное исследование роли культуры в устойчивом городском развитии, подготовленное к Конференции ООН Хабитат III и в контексте реализации Цели устойчивого развития № 11. Доклад основан на масштабном ...
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Новгородов Е. А., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2025 № 4 С. 120–137
На фоне роста популярности видеоигр изменяется отношение к ним в публичном дискурсе власти ― от критики и обвинений в пропаганде насилия к признанию их пользы для воспитания молодежи и других социально одобряемых эффектов. К главным признакам этой комплексной трансформации можно отнести звучащие с высоких трибун заявления о необходимости финансовой поддержки разработчиков отечественных видеоигр в целях ...
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Shulgin P., Shtele O., В кн.: Мецаморские чтения II.: Yerevan: -, 2024.
The problem of the competent organization of the use of historical and cultural monuments is the most important from the point of view of realizing the potential of cultural heritage as a driver of the development of the local economy. In Russian conditions, an important role can be played by the territorial organization of the ...
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