(1)OnFormationLogicandInnovationalConnotationofXiJinping’sThoughtofEcologicalCivilization
JinYaomei· 5 ·
A sudden epidemic urges us to reconsider the relationship between man and nature. Combining with the present condition of China and the newest development of epidemic around the world, further combing the logical path generated by Xi Jinping’s thought of ecological civilization, and comprehensively grasping rich innovational connotation, is very helpful for us to handle correctly the contradiction between man and nature, to strengthen the idea of community of common destiny for all mankind which includes ecological dimension, and to promote the construction of ecological civilization both in China and in the world. The formation logic of Xi Jinping’s thought of ecological civilization mainly includes three aspects: historical logic, theoretical logic and practical logic. Its innovational connotation is embodied in four aspects: opening up the new era of promoting the construction of ecological civilization to the national development strategy, constructing the green social governance and the overall innovation mode, creating the new ecological direction of “two communities”, and opening up a new path for the construction of ecological civilization in developing countries.
(2)ArtificialIntelligenceforImprovingPublicHealthSecurityRiskManagement:WhyIsItPossibleandWhatCanBeDone
ZhangZhihuaJiKaiZhaoBo·13·
AI technology plays an important role in enhancing governmental, social and individual capacities of risk management. Public health security risks are characteristic of suddenness, complexity, proliferation, conflict, and destructiveness, and AI can effectively address many predicaments in risk management practice. From the responding to the outbreak of Covid-19, AI still faces many constraints in technology, policy, management and application. Therefore, emphasis should be placed on AI technological research and development and industry layout at the strategic level. The guarantee of AI technology implementation should be strengthened at the institutional level, AI data sharing platforms should be interconnected to achieve interoperability at the application level. AI collaborative innovation mechanism between the state, government, enterprises and scientific research institutes should be constructed at the system level.
(3)PracticalExplorationandPathSelectionofWithdrawalofResidentialLandAccess:BasedonInitialStageofRuralRevitalization
WuJing·84·
The withdrawal of residential land access is essential to guarantee the farmers having their own houses, to improve the efficiency of land utilization and to support the rural revitalization. In the initial stage of rural revitalization before the overall realization of rural modernization, the urban-rural gap is still large, the long-term mechanism for farmers’ rights and interests is still imperfect, and the residential land access is still the guarantee for farmers to live in peace, therefore, the withdrawal should avoid eagerness for quick results. According to the features of rural revitalization in the initial stage, it is important in future to strengthen the rural planning, to refine the land management, to improve the social security, and to suit differential measures according to local situations and to make various policies for the withdrawal.
(4)TheConstructionoftheLogicandPathofTalentDevelopmentGovernanceSystem:BasedonAnalysisFrameworkof“Subject-Element-Process”
XuJunhai·91·
After years of practice, China’s reform of development governance of talented people has achieved remarkable results, but there are still many constraints such as fuzzy governance boundaries, loose governance resources, and inefficient governance operation. The construction of a modern talent development governance system (MTDGS) is not only the internal requirement to solve the real dilemma of talent development in the new era, but also the cornerstone to realize the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity. By using the collaborative governance framework of “subject-element-process” constructed by the theory of public governance for reference, it helps us to deeply understand the internal logic of building a MTDGS. To build a MTDGS, it is necessary to accurately grasp the measurement standard of the modernization of the talent development governance system, and systematically to explore the corresponding promotion paths.
(5)Cisgender:MatchbetweenSexandGenderandItsImplications
ZhouPeiqin·97·
Driven by feminism, the concept of sexual distinction has been divided into sex and gender. The mismatch between sex and gender embodied by an individual is viewed as transgender, an abnormal phenomenon, while their match is considered as cisgender, a normal phenomenon. Transgender was first concerned by pathologists, while the concept of cisgender emerged gradually in the process of constructing transgender as “the other”. Many studies have confirmed that social construction plays an important role in the formation of cisgender. The introduction of this concept may be inspiring to gender studies in China from at least two aspects: to start the research on transgender people; to create a new perspective for the study on cisgender people.
(6)PersuasioninGrassrootsGovernance:AnalysisofInformalGovernanceActions
LuBin·124·
The common occurrence of persuasion action in grassroots governance practice has not received due attention. Persuasion action is a kind of behavior mode that the subject of grass-roots governance guides or changes the behavior of governance object in the form of interactive dialogue by relying on the existing relationship structure and comprehensively applying the resources and rules of grass-roots governance. Its emergence is influenced by cultural factors, social factors and institutional factors. In practice, the operational logic of persuasion is presented as the mode of “informal operation under formal system”. On the premise of being restricted and encouraged by formal system, grassroots cadres can achieve the goal of governance by using informal system, informal resources and informal relations.
(7)DisputeResolutionandGoodLife:PoliticalConnotationofTransitionalChineseJudicature
FangLe·138·
In face of the increasingly sharp contradiction of “more cases and fewer people”,the current Chinese court system not only strengthens the overall goal orientation of the judicial policy of substantive dispute resolution,but also highlights the weight and status of “results” in the evaluation of dispute resolution. Thus,the reverse shaping of the court dispute resolution practice not only brings about the phenomenon of “rule retirement” in the process of dispute resolution,but also weakens the ability of judicial judgment to output value identification and meaning resources. Obviously,it is not conducive to the improvement of the current judicial credibility and authority in China,nor to the practice of the ability to build a better life through justice. Thus,China’s judicial system in transition should not only deal with disputes effectively and restore the public order of social life,but also reach the basic consensus of multiple values and interests through the handling of disputes,and then integrate the basic social resources needed for order reconstruction.
(8)ComprehensiveCommentsonContentionsamongScholarsinPre-QinTimes
LiRui·161·
Contentions among Pre-Qin philosophers and all schools of thought, is a character of “golden age” in ancient Chinese intellectual and philosophical history. However, nowadays, that relevant literature is very scarce, and there have been some discussions about philosophers’ schools and about what they argued about at that time, but there are still many problems that are not researched, such as the common knowledge that philosophers and all schools of thought need to know, their mutual evaluation and criticism, invisible assimilation and integration of thought and their methods of discussion and contention. Unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts in recent years provide an opportunity and material for us to explore these problems. According to the unearthed material, numerology and classics are Pre-Qin philosophers’ common knowledge. The philosophers’ argument mostly used the words of the sage, historical events and analogies, but rarely logical inference.
(9)SettingBoundarieswhileBreakingBoundaries:NarrativesandCulturalImplicationsofRighteousSacrificesandIllicitSacrificesinYuanFu
DingHan·219·
Both the governmental and non-governmental sacrificial activities were quite popular in Yuan Dynasty. However, the documents of the sacrificial rites during this period of time are fragmented and scarce. Aside from the historical records, gazetteers, religious texts and folk literature, the Yuanfuplays an important role in documenting and judging the righteous and illicit sacrifices. These works, not only demonstrate the sacrificial characteristics of the times and regions, but reflect the differences in people’s attitudes towards sacrifices. In contrast with the clear stance held by the government on the issue of sacrifices, the stance held by authors of the Yuanfuis relatively ambivalent. Although to some degree the glorifications of righteous sacrifices and denouncements of illicit sacrifices are typically seen in the Yuanfu, the situations of the righteous and illicit sacrifices in thefutexts can be reverse under certain circumstances. The conflict and compromise between power and culture as well as the satiric and eulogistic functions of thefupoetry genre manifest themselves in the complexity and fluidity of people’s attitudes towards sacrifices in Yuan Dynasty.
(10)TechnicalDependenceofGovernmentGovernanceandItsRiskControl
YiLongfeiTaoJianzhong·236·
The iterative IT provides the effective tool for the government to upgrade the governance capacity and reach the governance goal, and the technical feature of governmental governance is more and more obvious. However, in practice, the excessive technical feature of governmental governance is conducive to the tendency of technical dependence, and may bring forth risks for governmental performance, decision-making, data safety and social justice. Thus, in the process of transformation of governmental digitalization, it is necessary to achieve the technical and organizational match, to intensify the systematic empowerment to the region or group with weak informatization, to regulate the responsibility relation in the process of data share, and to enhance the endogenous technical capacity of the governmental departments, so as to avoid the risks, and to let the technical tool serve the governmental transformation better.