From the Editor

/ Joseph MURPHY

About Vol 18 and Acknowledgement

/ Tsui-O HUANG and Ming-I TSENG

The Miracle of “Kimetsu” During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Depictions of Illness, Love, Cruelty, and Mercy in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

/ Mei-Hsueh SHEN

Keywords： Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Oni/demon, illness, love, cruelty and mercy

Applying Problem-Based Learning Methods in an Intercultural Communication Studies Course: A Case Study Examining Teaching Activities Designed from Spanish Internet Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic

/ Tung-Men TU, Tzu-Yu LIU

Keywords： problem-based learning (PBL), intercultural communication competence (ICC), Intercultural Studies, pandemic, foreign language education

A Bibliometric Analysis of Intercultural Communication Research: 1950-2021

/ Jie LI, Fei LIN, Jie HUANG

Keywords： intercultural communication, intercultural communicative competence, Web of Science (WOS), Histcite, CiteSpace

Foreign Detective Fiction in Italy : Translations of Agatha Christie’s Three Act Tragedy

/ Giorgia SFRISO

Keywords： detective fiction, Agatha Christie, Fascism, retranslation, Three Act Tragedy

Isabel Allende and Her Novel Paula : Illness, Death and Hope

/ Miguel Ángel GONZÁLEZ CHANDÍA

Keywords： Isabel Allende and Her Novel Paula : Illness, Death and Hope

Fear of Death and Anxiety of Life: A Reading of Zhuangzi and De Rerum Natura

/ Catello CRISCUOLO

Keywords： Zhuangzi, De rerum natura, death, life, nature

Perugino’s Last Supper : Its Biblical and Artistic Sources and Judas’s Morsel as a Sign of Love

/ Paolo COSTA

Keywords： Last Supper, Perugino, Judas’s morsel, Christ’s love

Use of Information Technology and Its Application to the Teaching of Intercultural Italian to Chinese-Language Students

/ Yi-Ting CHEN

Keywords： Italian teaching, intercultural, Information Communication Technology, online teaching, multimedia teaching materials