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	2018 Vol.35 Issue.1 Published 2018-01-20

	Creative Economy and Cultural Industry Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultural Comparison Special Zones and Chinese Road Economic Growth and Financial Innovation Higher Education and Smart Media Communication Humanities and Chinese Spirit Academic Information

Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultural Comparison

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		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 5-5 [Abstract] ( 46 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 264KB] ( 232 )

	6	The Challenge of East-West Comparative Studies
		ZHANG Long-xi
		“Eurocentric” claims not only demonstrate earlier European comparatists’ self-awareness of comparative literature as a research field across languages, cultures and disciplines, but also nurture a biased critical discourse of world literature, as formulated by Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova. The core idea of “ethnocentrism” in various forms is to see its own culture as unique and superior to other cultures. This misconception has impaired meaningful emotional connections, ethical resonance and the “consummate beauty of human nature” envisioned by Rabindranath Tagore. Parallel to this fallacy is the practice of ignoring or distorting shared humanity in much of contemporary Western scholarship, as manifest in the idea of Thomas Kuhn’s incommensurability, Jacquess Derrida’s différance, Michel Foucault’s China as heterotopia, the widely-discussed notion of untranslatability and the stereotyping of West, East or Asia. However, despite the professed differences, similarities and affinities shared by Mencius, Peter Singer and George Lakoff are surprisingly discernible in their discussions on moral principles, humanity and ways of philosophizing, which opens up the infinite possibility of sympathy and understanding. Thirty years ago, Claudio Guillen and René?Etiemble urged us to break with Euro-centrism and to fulfill the cosmopolitan ideal of East-West comparative studies. Nowadays, in view of political tension, escalated military conflicts and the lack of understanding, it is of utter necessity to promote cross-cultural understanding across East-West cultural-linguistic differences. It is not only the future of East-West comparative studies but also the promise of a better world.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 6-8 [Abstract] ( 47 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 509KB] ( 816 )

	14	Cosmopolitanisms in East and West: Greece, China and India
		Harish Trivedi
		Cosmopolitan and cosmopolitanism are two terms which conceptualize human being’s efforts of going beyond their given geographical, physical and cultural conditions. Historically, the civilizations of ancient Greek, Sanskrit and China have had different cosmopolitan influence on countries and regions in respective time, and their consequence can be reflected from the designation of mountains and rivers and existent architectures. But nowadays the term of cosmopolitanism is held in a bad fashion by professors and critics of modern Hindi literature. An analysis of two cosmopolitan novels in this paper also shows that the very concept of cosmopolitanism, as a mode of existence and thought has both its uses and its limitations in post-colonial India.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 14-23 [Abstract] ( 22 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 598KB] ( 679 )

Special Zones and Chinese Road

	24	Analysis on the Development and Evolution of China’s Provincial Opening-up since the Reform and Opening to the Outside World
		LU Zhi-guo, PAN Feng
		Based on the economic data of Chinese provinces from 1978 to 2015, we measure and analyze the historical performance and evolution of the opening-up degree of Chinese provinces. At the same time, by constructing econometric models, we empirically test the influence of five factors on China's provincial openness, such as economic development level, transport infrastructure level, market scale, government intervention in market and factor endowment level. It is found that in the past forty years since reform and opening up, in the process of China’s opening up, mandatory institutional changes intersect with induced institutional changes, and the government and the market are well integrated. In this process, due to the cumulative effect, the forerunners still maintain their superior position. The law of diminishing marginal effect exists in the transportation infrastructure, which is an important means to promote regional coordination and opening up. The influence of labor factors on the openness is gradually replaced by human capital factors. The impact of economic base conditions on China's opening to the outside world is highly unstable due to the disturbance of the international situation. These conclusions provide significant policy implication for the overall design of China’s opening up mechanism in the new era.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 24-32 [Abstract] ( 32 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 529KB] ( 1121 )

	33	From Special Economic Zones to Free Trade Zones: the Deductive Logic of the Path and Goal of China’s Reform and Opening Up Drive
		LUO Qing-he, ZHU Shi-yi
		The special economic zones are“windows”and“experimental fields”of China’s reform and opening up drive. Their “altruistic” background determines they aim to break through the conventional planned economy and explore a new socialist market economy system that is conducive to China’s economic and social development. Established in the new era of comprehensively deepening reform, the free trade zones aim to achieve “mutual benefits”on the basis of “self-interest”. The establishment of the special economic zones came as the breakthrough of China’s reform and opening up drive, and the establishment of the pilot free trade zones like that in Shanghai further advanced the reform and opening up drive, and the establishment of the pilot free trade zones like that in Shanghai mirrored the comprehensively deepening reform and opening up drive. Compared with the special economic zones, the free trade zones help deepen the reform of special economic zones and facilitate the further development of the latter, but they both keep progressing through exploration and “trial and error”. The free trade zones are the experiments China initiated in the global economic competition, and may be called “the updated version” of special economic zones. From the special economic zones to the free trade zones, we can trace the development path and deductive logic of China’s reform and opening up. China’s free trade zones develop along two paths: one is to establish pilot free trade zones at home so as to provide valuable reference for deepening reform. The other is to establish free trade zones across borders with important economic and trade partners at present and in the future in the fields such as trade and investment. Our goal is to take part in international economic and technological cooperation and competition with still greater depth, in still more areas, and at still higher levels with the opening-up policy of integrating “bringing in” and “going global”, and at the same time, China will, with the Belt and Road Initiative, establish free trade zones together with the countries along the Belt and Road so as to provide new platforms for bilateral and multilateral cross-border trade.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 33-41 [Abstract] ( 40 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 538KB] ( 1118 )

Creative Economy and Cultural Industry

	42	2017 Annual Report of the Studies on China’s Cultural Industries
		ZHOU Jian-xin, HU Peng-lin
		In 2017, we have made giant strides in the study of China’s cultural industries. The results mainly fall into three categories: academic papers, academic monographs, and annual reports of the industry. The studies of China’s cultural industries in 2017 show the following overall characteristics: the theoretical study of the cultural industry focused on the Western theories with an absence of original Chinese theories; the study of the cultural industry attributes emphasized economic attributes but ignored the dual attributes of “culture and industry”; the study of the formats of the cultural industry emphasized cross-border integration but ignored the innovation of cultural content; the study of regional cultural industry should attach more importance to the innovation and creation on the basis of cultural resources; the annual reports of the cultural industry should do further researches in cultural industries with specific characteristics and the structures of regional cultural industries; academic exchanges got increasingly frequent and the academic bases sprang up. Currently, China’s cultural industry has entered a new era, and become an important way to resolve the principal social challenge. The development of China’s cultural industry should boost cultural confidence and academic confidence, emphasize the study of cultural innovation, give more weight to the researches in cultural content, do further researches in cultural economy, attach importance to the emerging format researches, and promote the innovative transformation of traditional culture.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 42-57 [Abstract] ( 29 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 621KB] ( 1571 )

	58	Culture and the Cultural Capital of Producers
		ZI Shu-rong
		From the perspective of broad sense of culture, there are four forms of culture,namely, spiritual culture, behavioral culture, material culture and institutional culture,and they all possess static and dynamic attributes. Based on the economic significance of culture, Throsby proposed and explained the concept of the producer's cultural capital, which links economics with culture. As long as the cultural value is correct, four types of culture can all be transformed into cultural capital. The capitalization of culture, the production of cultural products or the provision of cultural services have promoted the realization of various cultural attributes. With the intervention of human capital, the capitalization of culture goes beyond collective. The spiritual culture, the behavior culture and the standard culture are more creative and imaginative in the process of capitalization, and they are the main part of cultural capitalization. Cultural capitalization should be constrained by culture authenticity, which is not contradictory to innovation in cultural production.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 58-63 [Abstract] ( 33 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 428KB] ( 686 )

	64	Digital Social Media and Cultural Creative Industries
		Terry Flew
		Digital social media technologies have significantly influenced cultural creative industries in recent years. However, the debates in these two areas often go parallel. To fill this blank, this paper has analyzed the impacts of digital social media technologies on creative cultural industries in three scenarios and concluded three findings. First, digital social media act as an amplifier to expand the market and influence of traditional media industry while the former also rely upon the latter to build a new business model. Second, digital social media have undermined the traditional business model of cultural creative industries, which is established on the basis of intellectual property. Third, by analyzing the comments and preferences of consumers, computational algorithm is potential to provide a new approach for cultural content production.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 64-71 [Abstract] ( 57 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 512KB] ( 1184 )

Economic Growth and Financial Innovation

	72	The containment thinking in the evolution of American geopolitical strategy: from “selective containment” to “Indo-Pacific”strategy
		HUANG He
		The theory of geopolitical strategy in the United States is the theoretical foundation for the U.S. to formulate its foreign policy and global strategy. Containing potential adversaries in a geo-economic context is a need to safeguard the strategic interests of the United States. The thinking of "selective containment" runs through the entire course of the Cold War and is also used by the Washington-dominated China League. However, with the simultaneous rise of China and India in Asia and the historic shift of the global economic and geopolitical center from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indo-Pacific region, the Indo-Pacific region as a whole has been increasingly receiving the support of the governments of the United States, Australia, Japan and other countries s concern. In November 2017, at the APEC meeting, Trump put forward a new concept of Asia policy - the "Indo-Pacific Strategy." This strategy is not only the need of the Trump administration to adjust its foreign policy but also the possible pressure exerted by the United States in its response to China’s "Belt and Road" initiative or is it a carrier of the “induced” tactics used by the United States. It can be said that in the future, the strategic game of blocked and the breakthrough between China and the United States in the “Indo-Pacific” frontier will be more intense. “strategic triangle” pattern of China, the United States and India has formed,The security cooperation between China and India in the Indian Ocean is a win-win strategy for the two countries. How is difficult at present , Although there are difficulties at present to push the two countries for a big stride toward cooperation , there are still many ways to Reach a cooperation
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 72-78 [Abstract] ( 36 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 573KB] ( 1076 )

	79	Comparison between Official Aid from China and Japan since 1988 and its Revelation
		LUO Sheng-rong
		Since 1988, China and Japan have been the two countries which provided the most official supports to Myanmar, which is significant in promoting the economic and social development in Myanmar. Nevertheless, there are obvious differences in concepts of aid, forms of aid and fields of aid between China and Japan. In terms of concepts, China emphasizes on the of non-interference principle in internal affairs, while Japan insists on the principle that aid is connected with politics. In fields of aid, China focuses on large-scale infrastructure reconstruction, while Japan focuses on assistance to improve people's livelihood. As for forms of aid, China and Japan have little difference. China tends to provide supports on the governmental level and complete the supports mainly through enterprises, paying little attention to publicity; While Japan tends to offer governmental assistance to private sectors and meet their goals mainly through NGOs, paying much attention to publicity. By contrast, we find China and Japan both attach great importance to assistance to Burma and their assistance have their own characteristics. However, Findings from data analysis show that Japan’s aid generally has better effect on Burma than that of China. Therefore, in addition to maintaining our own advantages, China should also draw on Japan's experience, focusing on improving aid mechanism, shifting priority, enriching aid patterns, and making more publicity efforts to improve effect of our aid to Myanmar.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 79-86 [Abstract] ( 35 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 520KB] ( 703 )

	87	Railway Cooperation between China and Thailand under the “Belt and Road Initiative”: Positive Impacts and Potential risk
		ZOU Chun-meng
		Sino-Thai railway is an important going-out attempt for Chinese railways, and also an important flagship project for China to push the “Belt and Road Initiative” so as to make breakthrough in Mekong countries. Railway cooperation between China and Thailand not only helps strengthen Sino-Thai economic and trade relations, and promotes the interconnection between China and Mekong countries, and serves national strategy, but also helps push Thailand to upgrade its old obsolete railway transportation system so as to drive the economic development along the route. At the same time, the cooperation also contributes to reinforcing Thailand’s position as a transportation hub in Indo-China Peninsula and Southeast Asia, and boosting its regional influence, which coincides with Thailand’s national interest. After years of negotiations, railway cooperation between China and Thailand has made significant progress, but the process is not at all plain sailing, and the future advancement is also confronted with various risks in politics, economy and extraterritorial factors. In face of these potential risks in the cooperation, China can actively develop the traditional Sino-Thai friendship by pursuing a neighborhood diplomacy of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness, extend the international influence of “Belt and Road Initiative”, innovate new financing models, lower cooperation cost, and take measures such as establishing specialized investment management organizations for foreign infrastructures to prevent and respond to risks.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 87-94 [Abstract] ( 29 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 551KB] ( 1218 )

Higher Education and Smart Media Communication

	95	Behaviors and Habits of News Clients Users on the Basis of Technology Acceptance Model
		KUANG Wen-bo, JIA Yi-dan
		In recent years, with the rapid development and wide spread of the smart terminals of cell phones, both the Apple system and the mobile client system of Android have found favor among users and consumers. Users make intensive use of news clients and have huge demand for them. On the basis of the technology acceptance model put forward by Davis in 1986, with the users and consumers of news Apps as subjects for study, this paper attempts to probe into the characteristics of the users’ behaviors and habits and the influence factors. The findings show that the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of mobile clients are the most important premise for users to accept and use them. Moreover, pressure from social life and demand also have significant impact upon users’ habits, which means that in developing news clients great attention should be paid to users’ humanized experience and sense of belonging.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 95-102 [Abstract] ( 37 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 621KB] ( 1276 )

	103	Challenge and reconstruct:How to enhance “shaping power” of the main stream ideology journalism in the New Media Era?
		LIU Wen-hui
		New online media redefine human concept of time and space, and subvert the established order of journalism and communication. Once highly efficient main stream ideology journalism has to face its weakening “shaping force”. It is not only surrounded by clamorous diverse ideology, but also encounters a race for power conspired by traditional media and new media. The once “main stream consensus” built upon the monopoly of opinion market by the main stream ideology journalism encounters the crisis of “social consensus”. However, for the audience who have changed from “the silent majority” to “a clamorous crowd”, to enhance its “shaping power”, the main stream ideology journalism needs to not only focus on the methodological adaptation of the dimension of journalism and communication, but also focus on the sociological construction of political dimension and the innovation of ideological discourse. We need to take the former for “practical application” while the latter as “basis”. Only with the integration of both can the main stream ideology journalism break through diverse ideology and recapture audience and reconstruct the new scenario of media power.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 103-110 [Abstract] ( 41 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 523KB] ( 797 )

	111	Relation between Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Ideological and Political Education
		WANG Zhan-ren
		As a new field of research in recent years, innovation and entrepreneurship education needs to build a scientific interactive relation with ideological and political education. Innovation and entrepreneurship education is the content and a new carrier of ideological and political education of this era. It is an effective way to enhance the effectiveness of ideological and political education, and serves the function of inheriting and developing ideological and political education. For innovation and entrepreneurship education, ideological and political education serves the function of value guidance, guiding the scientific trend of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” with the core value, and thus forming and establishing the value of innovation and entrepreneurship that goes along with the nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the features of current era. Ideological and political education and innovation and entrepreneurship education have shared goals, similar content, compatible methods, and conforming functions, and they thus can help each other in the process of development.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 111-115 [Abstract] ( 26 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 390KB] ( 540 )

	116	Four Dimensions in the Construction of an Integrated Moral Education System with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era
		LI Jian
		Educating people is based on moral education, to which integrity and integration is the key. The integrated moral education system covering colleges, secondary and primary schools, and kindergardens refers to the integrated moral education practice system covering colleges, secondary and primary schools, and kindergardens, which takes the objects and organizations of moral education as a whole and is conducted in accordance with the law of moral education. This is a continuous integrated unity of moral education, and can also be called a moral education community covering colleges, secondary and primary schools, and kindergardens, The construction of this moral education system concerns both the idea of moral education and the practice of moral education. To construct such a system, we have to study and follow the law of the generation and development of human nature, of moral cognition, and of moral behavior. Only in this way can we carry out student-oriented, stratified, classified, interconnected, and ever-ascending moral education, turn moral education into cultivating morality, turn educating people into people’s self-improvement so as to bring up a new generation of socialist people taking on the great mission of national rejuvenation in the process of constructing the new integrated moral education mode with Chinese characteristics.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 116-121 [Abstract] ( 35 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 419KB] ( 928 )

Humanities and Chinese Spirit

	122	2017 Annual Report on China’s Philosophy Studies
		KANG Yu
		In the year 2017, China’s philosophy studies again tried to "trace back to the origin and be creative" and construct meaning, focusing on such themes as cultural confidence and tradition revival. In classic development and interpretation, researchers tried to seek breakthrough from details, emphasized objectivity and history of literature interpretation, and integrated interpretation and construction. When exploring and interpreting philosophies of great figures, researchers tried to make comprehensive studies, focusing on “looking for supplementary materials” and the development of “heretic” and “unpopular” thoughts. The clarification and development of concept categories are much closer to real life. With strong “root consciousness”, academics stick to the rationality of traditional concept categories. Their category interpretation is often linked to “metaphysics” construction, and they do not forget the thinking tradition of “intuitive comprehension”. The methodological construction reflection is based on both epistemology and humanism, emphasizing the overall concept and also taking dialectical logic analysis into account. In their studies, academics face up to problems, and highlight discussions of political philosophy. They are more “inclusive” than “critical”, and advocate more “improvements” than “reforms”. It can be expected that the future development of Chinese philosophy will attach more importance to the connection with the classics, balance between China and West, global perspective and personal style of academics.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 122-133 [Abstract] ( 43 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 619KB] ( 646 )

	134	WANG Yang-ming’s Life Concern and Ecological Wisdom
		GUO Qi-yong
		The Confucian thoughts of Confucius, Mencius and Cheng Hao are the source of WANG Yang-ming’s deep life concern and superb ecological wisdom. WANG Yang-ming claims that the human mind is identical with the pattern of the universe, and as such it forms “one body” (yiti, one substance) with “Heaven, Earth, and the myriad creatures” of the world, emphasizing all creatures spiritually form one body as they all possess Liangzhi (innate knowing) and Lingming (innate wisdom). Such natural objects as mountains and rivers, birds and animals, grass and trees, and tiles and stones also possess their own spirit and value. Why can humans take advantage of everything in the world? “It can be attributed to the natural order of human liangzhi”, said WANG Yang-ming. This is Confucian “love of differentiation”—that is, love for intimates, love for people, and love for all things in this world are different. “The benevolence that forms one body with Heaven, Earth, and the myriad creature” is “universality”, while “love of differentiation” is particularity. Yangming’s thought is permeated with deep concern for life. Everything in the universe has life, and forms an integrated life body. Therefore, we should care for them all. Knowledge and action can be united as everybody without exception has the innate knowledge of good and evil and one can activate it anytime to properly respond to any situation. It is xin (mind) and also “intuitive knowledge and ability” as “xin (the mind) is li (principle). “The mind is principle” indicates this innate knowledge of good and evil is the principle of legislation, and “intuitive knowledge and ability (liangzhi liangneng) ” indicates human’s innate knowledge of good and evil is also principle of morality and practice. Only by returning to the original state of the mind and distinguishing the goodness that reflects the original state of the mind from the badness that stems from selfish desires can we achieve the unity of knowledge and action. If we fail to do so, we do not understand it thoroughly. With thorough understanding we are sure to make it.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 134-140 [Abstract] ( 45 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 539KB] ( 594 )

	141	Love Affairs between Royal Gardens and Literature in Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties
		WANG Li-jian
		The love affairs between royal gardens and literature in Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties have distinctive features and show three phenomena: One reflects the course of history. The group creation tradition evolving from the cultural activities at the banquets in West Garden had far-reaching impact on the entertainments and poetry composition activities in the royal gardens in Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. Xuanwu Garden (Lake) and North Garden presented stories about Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties through literary works. The second reflects the partition between south and north. The northern Hualin Garden was mostly for royal banquets and thus had little affinity with literary activities, while the southern Hualin Garden was closely related to literature, especially the Chunxi poems, which mostly mirrored the activities in Hualin Garden. The third reflects difference in literary styles. The poems and verses of Shanglin Garden displayed the affluent luxury of royal houses, but also the aesthetic trend synchronous with the literary world. They played up the sexual flavor of imperial harems, and could equal the popular palace poetry in Southern Dynasty in terms of their florid and exotic style. Xuan Garden in Jiankang was like an intellectualized royal garden. Moving away from a flowery and lush style, the poetry for Xuan Garden by the poets in Liang and Chen Dynasties were natural and fresh. The key factor to the affinity between royal gardens and literature is intellectualization. The royal family and intellectuals, and emperors and officials visiting gardens and having banquets together became the norm in royal gardens, and group creations like writing poetry upon the emperor’s order or for responsory also became a common practice.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 141-149 [Abstract] ( 28 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 822KB] ( 794 )

	150	On the Appearance of “Mini-narration”
		TANG Qi-yun
		In response to the spiritual crisis of enslaved humanity and mental domestication (which Foucault calls the appearance of standard men) brought about by rationalism worship, contemporary writers leave behind grand narration and turn to take “mini-narration”, making literature no longer statements of knowledge or philosophy, but individual discourse of writers to express their sentiments and perception. Therefore, “mini-narration” is a way of expression for writers to approach this “absurd” and “illusive” world and restore their own existence, which also reveals their attempts to look anew at their efforts in a new symbol relation structure. Thus, innovation of literary narration is not only a so-called experiment on narrative tactics or forms, but also an anti-entropy narration based on belief of formalism. Mini-narration allows the writer to “intrude into” the script, and make the script his personal utterance to the world and time, but objectively redefines literature and even the world.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 150-155 [Abstract] ( 33 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 446KB] ( 477 )

Academic Information

	156	The Political Logic of China’s Big Power Diplomacy in the New Era: a Framework from International Perspective
		JIANG An
		Building a community with a shared future for mankind is the core mission for China’s big power diplomacy in the new era. It is a positive response to plights and challenges on human development, a fundamental reflection of China’s diplomatic philosophy, and a Chinese blueprint for the world’s future. Weighing diplomatic strategy with consideration of time and space, strategic roles, and directions is the logic premise to big power diplomacy. More global perspective, stronger national strategies, and more confidence and courage in handling foreign affairs are the engine for China’s big power diplomacy. We must stay alert about diplomatic strategies and strategic planning: A prosperous and stable China of self-assurance and self-consciousness is of significant importance to China and the world at large.
		2018 Vol. 35 (1): 156-160 [Abstract] ( 33 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 370KB] ( 335 )

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