The cultural dimension of ecological civilization theory critiques and transcends the mechanistic philosophical worldview and view of nature, the consumerist value orientation, and the materialist view of happiness inherent in industrial civilization. Instead, it advocates an organic and holistic worldview and view of nature, a modest and moderate outlook on consumption, and a happiness perspective grounded in productive labor. The distinctive nature of the cultural dimension determines the theoretical standpoint from which ecological civilization theory explores the root causes of ecological crises and seeks solutions, as well as the type of ecological governance model it adopts. The role and function of this cultural dimension lie in promoting the transition from spontaneous to conscious ecological civilization construction and in enhancing its endogenous driving force.

The regulation and management of life by power has always been the core concern of biopolitics, yet to some extent, biopolitics has overlooked capital as a power mechanism and its covert operation within capitalist society. Although Marx did not explicitly propose the term “biopolitics”, his critique of capital's modernity undoubtedly provides substantial theoretical resources for biopolitical studies. In Marx's view, capital embodies a socioeconomic relationship that includes exploitation and being exploited, domination and being dominated. The inequality in capital ownership signifies inequality among living beings, as capital asserts its will and status by extracting the life force of laborers. Contemporary left-wing scholar Slavoj Žižek adheres to Marx's critical stance on capital and employs modern psychoanalytic theory to reveal the hidden mechanisms of biopolitical power operation, that is, capital power, to conceal the structural imbalances of capitalist society, covertly permeates the entire capitalist system, forming its incessant drive mode. With the rapid advancement of the digital-intelligence era, behind technological progress lies the deeper operation of capital power, exacerbating the alienation issues within capitalist biopolitics. Taking capital power as a starting point to examine the dilemma of digital alienation of life in the digital-intelligence era can help deepen contemporary capital critique theory, thus advancing and enriching Marxist research on biopolitics.

The writing of the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right is a very complex process, and its relation to the writing of the Kreuznach Notebooks is not only a documentary issue but also a theoretical issue still being debated in the international academic community. From the viewpoint of literature, scholars such as Rabin, Taubert, Rumiantsyeva, and Jäckel have engaged in heated discussions regarding possible interruption(s) the writing once experienced, the sequence and chronology of the Kreuznach Notebooks, and the temporal relationship between the two works, and they have arrived at differing conclusions with historical and textual evidence. Theoretically, the historical studies in the Kreuznach Notebooks serve as crucial sources for Marx's shift toward materialist thought and an examination of the relationship between these two texts thus sheds light on the methodological origins and concrete process of Marx's first materialist transformation. When both philological and theoretical dimensions are considered together, it becomes evident that the writing likely underwent two interruptions and during the intervals, Marx partially excerpted the Kreuznach Notebooks. His sustained engagement with historical studies gradually led him to abandon the attempt to invert Hegel's philosophy of right from a juridical standpoint and ultimately to set aside the manuscript of the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right altogether.

The coordinated development of material and spiritual civilization is the core value of advancing Chinese modernization in a comprehensive manner. Based on the connotation of the two civilizations, this study constructs an evaluation index system for their coordinated development by employing the coupling coordination degree model, obstacle degree model, and DAGUM(Disproportionate Absolute Gini Index); with such an evaluation system, it measures the development levels and spatial disparities of material and spiritual civilization across China's 31 provinces from 2012 to 2021 with such findings as follows: from 2012 to 2021, China's coordinated development level of the two civilizations grew steadily, most provinces achieved basic coordination, three reached advanced coordination, and three remained uncoordinated; the material civilization subsystem is the key constraint on their coordination, with living standards, social infrastructure, technological advancement, and moral-cultural development being the primary obstacles; regional disparities in coordination have narrowed over time, with the western region exhibiting the largest intra-regional gap, while the eastern-western inter-regional gap the most pronounced, and nationally, inter-regional disparities contribute most to the overall imbalance. To promote the coordinated development of the “two civilizations” in Chinese modernization, the following strategies are proposed: Under new challenges, we must accurately grasp the evolutionary patterns and coordinated development features of the “two civilizations” in Chinese modernization, and properly handle their relationship with a dialectical, holistic, and balanced perspective; we should implement new development philosophy, optimize industrial layouts, advance new quality productive forces, and enhance high-quality development of both real and digital economies to strengthen the material-technological foundation of modernization; we should advance socialist core values and vigorously promote advanced socialist culture, thus elevating the spiritual civilization level of the entire population.

The theory of gradual institutional change represents a new development in historical institutionalism. This theory advocates “moving beyond the focus on temporal boundaries” and seeks to identify causal explanatory mechanisms for institutional change through long-term process analysis. This shift in the analysis of temporal elements within historical institutionalism aims to construct a reliable causal framework for explaining subtle, incremental institutional changes such as drift, conversion, layering, and displacement by uncovering their deeper interconnections. This theory, when explaining the causal mechanisms behind these four types of institutional change, highlights the suppliers and implementers of institutions as essential factors directly influencing institutional outcomes. The long-term process analysis and the focus on actors in the theory of gradual institutional change together form a unique analytical perspective namely the history of actors. This perspective shares a theoretical affinity with China's stable and efficient institutional practices over more than 40 years of reform and opening-up, as well as the dominant role of the Party and the state in institutional transformation. However, this affinity may be limited by the inherent shortcomings of gradual institutional change theory and the distinctive institutional characteristics of China.

After the stormy political revolution, to properly defuse the negative influence of backward culture and push ahead with the building of advanced cultural sector became major issues that economically and culturally underdeveloped countries must confront in their socialist construction practices. Following the October Revolution, Lenin addressed the cultural predicament characterized by the lingering backward cultural traditions and national psychology shaped by long-term feudal autocracy and capitalist exploitation, the relatively low cultural literacy of the working masses and the Communist Party members, and the rampant spread of bureaucratic tendencies within the Party. He made the crucial assertion that “the issue lies‘only' in the cultural strength of the proletariat and its vanguard.” Lenin elucidated the dialectical implications of party cultural construction from both destructive and constructive perspectives, systematically discussed its content framework in terms of ideology, value systems, ethics, and behavioral norms, and scientifically explored the methods and historical laws for advancing the cultural construction of the ruling party. Lenin's thoughts on the cultural construction of the ruling party reflect the theoretical logic of exploring its laws rooted in Marxism and embed a strategic consideration of leveraging party cultural construction to drive socialist cultural development. A profound understanding of Lenin's thoughts and their logical approach provides important insights for deepening the scientific comprehension of the laws of Party building and governance in the new era.

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the goal of modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity. Under such a context, here comes the question: can county, as a critical governance unit, driven by digital technology, transition from traditional governance to agile governance? Drawing on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework proposed by scholars such as Ostrom and the “Structure-Process-Function” theory, this study constructs an analytical framework for digital empowerment enabling the transformation of agile governance in counties. The findings tell that digital technology can strengthen multi-stakeholder participation, establish platforms for information interaction, and facilitate collective action; it can promote process re-engineering, accelerate information transmission, and enable inter-sector collaboration; it can also maintain social order, drive social development, and achieve social equity. An in-depth analysis of digital practices in different regions of China reveals that an application of digital technology can well shift county governance models from traditional to agile. In the future, it is essential to further enhance digital empowerment, establish and improve a collaborative governance framework involving multiple stakeholders, refine organizational systems that are well-coordinated and efficiently implemented, thus ensuring the stable and orderly operation of agile governance systems in counties.

The labeling obligations for generative artificial intelligence involve tripartite responsibilities among users, service providers, and technical supporters. Users, as primary content generators, bear the fundamental obligation of basic labeling; service providers, serving as core actors, must ensure the accuracy and completeness of labels; technical supporters should employ technological measures to guarantee effective implementation of labeling mechanisms. In terms of implementation pathways, labeling obligations should be tailored based on content types and application scenarios: A multi-tiered and differentiated labeling framework should be established for purely AI-generated content, human-AI collaborative content, and suspected AI-generated content; Stringent labeling requirements, guided by risk stratification principles, should apply to high-risk generated content, simplified mechanisms for low-risk content, and customized standards for industry-specific generated content. This approach facilitates the high-quality and sustainable development of generative AI technology within a compliance framework.

The development of emerging digital technologies has not only accelerated the digital transformation of government and society, but also established fundamental requirements for cultivating and enhancing citizens' digital literacy. Employing an analytical framework combining value rationality and instrumental rationality, along with the competency iceberg theory, this study constructs an assessment model for Chinese citizens' digital literacy. The model encompasses latent cognitive qualities, explicit skills and application abilities, comprising three dimensions (digital cognitive literacy, digital skills literacy, and digital application literacy), 12 secondary indicators, and 31 measurement items. With this indicator system, the study measures and systematically evaluates the overall digital literacy levels of citizens in Jiangsu Province, as well as disparities among demographic groups with an attempt to contribute insights for advancing related theoretical and practical endeavors.

Screen bureaucrats have long been studied in contrast to street-level bureaucrats, yet their intrinsic operational logic has rarely been examined independently. As a result, available research on screen bureaucrats remains largely confined to perspectives such as decision-making and implementation. With the increasing personalization and diversification of management information systems (MIS), more administrative tasks are now being completed through screen-based interactions. Consequently, the traditional role of screen bureaucrats as virtual pipeline managers has been overshadowed by other functions, leading to conceptual ambiguity. By revisiting the narrative characteristics inherent to screen bureaucrats, this study reveals that, while they remain embedded within administrative systems, they now assume roles distinct from traditional bureaucrats: a personalized role with neither purely organizational rationality nor individual behavior within the system; an active role playing neither as traditional bureaucrat nor as street-level entrepreneur in multi-source information contexts; a mediating role subject to neither command-and-obedience nor discretionary judgment in discursive arbitration.

As virtual internationalization has emerged as a novel phenomenon and innovative form within the internationalization landscape of higher education in the digital era, further research in this field urgently requires effective support from international experiences and cutting-edge conceptual frameworks. A systematic review of relevant literature reveals that scholarly perspectives on virtual internationalization primarily focus on three dimensions: “Internationalization at Home and Curriculum”, “Internationalization Abroad and Delivery”, and “Comprehensive Internationalization and Process”. Regarding the relationship between virtual internationalization and “physical internationalization” in higher education, the two bear dual functions: substitution and innovation, as well as supplementation and complementarity. Existing studies predominantly articulate the value of virtual internationalization through national, institutional, and student-level analyses. Theoretical explorations of its practice concentrate on implementation motivations, operational frameworks, and methodological approaches. To address challenges in China's virtual internationalization of higher education, three strategic priorities are proposed: accelerating the conceptual transformation, expediting the technological adoption, and strengthening the discourse construction.

School-family-community collaborative education is a crucial chain in achieving Chinese-style educational modernization and high-quality educational development. International practical experiences can be broadly categorized into four types: the participation typology framework represented by the U.S. NNPS, the improved local participation typology framework 2.0 adopted by developed countries and regions such as Australia and Singapore, the parent involvement framework exemplified by the UK's home-school agreements and LSAs, and the organizational framework represented by Japan's PTA. The primary directions of school-family-community collaborative education in China can be summarized into five aspects: 1) to construct a “moral education network” through a collaborative system; 2) to implement a school governance approach of “management, operation, and evaluation”; 3) to establish and enhance a family education guidance service system with “parental responsibility” as the core; 4) to effectively develop a social resource allocation model that “integrates into community governance”; 5) to create a favorable educational public opinion environment through “exemplary cases”. The practice indicator system for high-quality school-family-community collaborative education in China, which embodies Chinese characteristics and global standards, consists of nine first-level indicators-conceptual synergy, role synergy, communication synergy, teaching synergy, management and decision-making synergy, family education synergy, resource synergy, collaborative environment, and evaluation synergy-along with 25 second-level indicators, including unified principles, role allocation, communication channels, learning guidance, management and decision-making systems, parental education training, resource integration, public opinion environment construction, and effectiveness evaluation.

In the context of globalization in higher education, the widespread adoption of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) has become a significant feature of global higher education reform. However, the effective implementation of EMI teaching faces dual demands namely disciplinary expertise and language teaching competence, along with potential linguistic challenges for both students and teachers. Thus, systematic EMI teacher training is essential to ensure teaching quality. With an analysis of the EMI teacher training systems adopted by leading international universities (e.g., the University of Oxford, the University of Adelaide, the University of Queensland, and Monash University), this study reveals that an integrated system encompassing goal orientation, content modules, and implementation pathways has been well developed for EMI teacher training abroad. In terms of content, it centers on “EMI awareness-language proficiency-pedagogy”, characterized by systematicity, practicality, and sustainability. In terms of training model, it adopts diverse approaches such as seminar-based teaching, concept-based instruction, and practice-oriented pedagogy. Such successful practices offer valuable insights: EMI teacher training in China should adhere to five dialectical principles: integrating logical construction with practical needs, balancing leadership guidance with participant engagement, linking short-term outcomes with long-term development, fostering mutual enhancement between practical wisdom and research reflection, and combining declarative knowledge with procedural knowledge.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs), private enterprises (PEs), and foreign-funded enterprises (FFEs) (collectively referred to as the “three types of enterprises”) have undergone dramatic fluctuations in the historical process of PRC. Currently, they have formed a layout with over 200,000 FFEs, more than 1 million SOEs, over 20 million PEs and other types of enterprises, serving respectively as the new force, main force, and auxiliary force of China's economy. Traditional socialist theory faces three dilemmas in interpreting the “three types of enterprises”: the realization of the idealized public economy, the inability to eliminate the private economy, and the organizational form of free labor associations. Although Hayek's neoliberal theory embraces rational elements of a market economy, it creates three myths that private enterprises are inherently more efficient than state-owned enterprises, that private enterprises bear an innovative spirit, and that mixed-ownership enterprises are economically unviable. The socialist enterprise economic theory with Chinese characteristics overcomes the theoretical limitations of the former and debunks the myths of the latter. To guide the healthy development of the “three types of enterprises”, their functions should be positioned based on the fundamental institutional attributes, their behaviors should be regulated according to market economy principles, their division of labor should be structured based on comparative advantages, their industrial systems should be formed with a focus on the security of industrial and supply chains, and tailored governance mechanisms should be established for each type of enterprise. Only by adhering to the socialist theory with Chinese characteristics can policy oscillations be avoided in guiding the development of the “three types of enterprises”.

As a vital force driving Chinese modernization, the private economy plays a significant role in fostering new quality productive forces. Based on the panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2023, this study empirically examines the impact of the private economy on new quality productive forces and its transmission mechanisms. The findings reveal that the private economy significantly drives the development of new quality productive forces; heterogeneity tests indicate that this driving effect is uneven, with a more pronounced impact in the eastern regions, areas with higher human capital levels, and regions with greater marketization;mechanism analysis demonstrates that technological breakthroughs, optimized factor allocation, and industrial structure upgrading serve as key transmission channels through which the private economy influences new quality productive forces. To enhance the private economy's role in empowering new quality productive forces, the following measures can be adopted: unwaveringly encouraging, supporting, and guiding the development of the private economy to accelerate the growth of new quality productive forces; promoting coordinated regional development as a focal point to steadily advance new quality productive forces; and leveraging technological innovation as the driving force, optimized factor allocation as the support, and industrial transformation and upgrading as the carrier to facilitate the emergence of new quality productive forces.

As the development of digital technology has reshaped the news communication ecology, its underlying logic has undergone significant changes: the professional boundary has been dissolved, the traditional definition of news has been rewritten, the food chain of news industry has been reconstructed, and news communication is changing from “professional activities” to “public life”. The change of the international and domestic macro environment, the low-level change of the news communication ecology, and the confluence of these tow macro forces have increased the pressure on social governance. Accordingly, China's national governance requires professional media to reconfirm their “mainstream identity”, and needs the media to rebuild a hard core ideological highland. The traditional journalism theory adheres to the “material ontology” and forms the thinking line of “epistemology-objectivity-professionalism-class nature”. After the reconfirmation of media identity, the theoretical chain guiding journalism has changed into “social practice theory-social relations theory-public life theory-social governance theory”.

The recently discovered cliff carving “Cai Yao Kun Lun” (Gathering Herbs on Kunlun) in the Heyuan region of Qinghai should be treated strictly as an archaeological site. Its studies should focus on the archaeological site and the textual itself. The former leans more toward natural sciences, involving issues such as the formation of the site (engraving of the inscriptions), erosion patterns, development of rock patina, micro-erosion dating, etc. The latter belongs to the humanities, focusing on comparative literature and textual criticism, addressing themes like “distant journeys”, “elixir of immortality”, horse-drawn chariots, and commemorative stone inscriptions. Through analysis of both the site itself and its textual content, it can be confirmed that the carving constitutes an exceptionally significant cliff inscription site from the Qin Dynasty, and reveals previously unknown historical information. In addition it corroborates or even challenges certain established historical understandings.

The preface to the English edition of Translating Theories: Bridging Chinese Literature and Culture with Western Theories revisits the publication background and the impetus for its translation into English, elaborating on its academic value and cultural significance. The author reviews the motivations, core themes, theoretical frameworks, and scholarly reflections behind each essay, emphasizing their shared approach of employing Western theories (e.g., Bourdieu, Kant, Adorno) to analyze Chinese literary and cultural phenomena while revising the universality of Western theories through Chinese experiences. This endeavor seeks to illuminate the complexities of Sino-Western academic dialogue. The book covers diverse topics, including literary theories and criticism, mass media, canonization, the distinction between high and popular cultures, and the end of art, with case studies on figures such as Lin Yutang, Lu Xun, Jin Yong, and Cui Jian, as well as reflections on the relationship between Chinese traditions and modernity. It traces the author's intellectual trajectory from essentialist conceptual analysis to a cultural materialist stance. The author also expresses expectation for inter-cultural theoretical dialogue, concluding with an allusion to The Book of Songs (“Cutting Wood”) as a metaphor for scholarly exchange, echoing the Confucian ideal of “meeting friends through literature”.