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	2025 Vol.42 Issue.4 Published 2025-07-15

	Dialogue on Civilization and Cultural Comparison Special Zones and Chinese Road Economic Growth and Financial Innovation Humanities and Chinese Spirit Innovation Economy and Cultural Industry Politics,Law and Social Governance

Special Zones and Chinese Road

	5	Driving Factors, Technological Framework and Practical Methods of New Cultural Productive Forces
		WEI Ze-sheng, YU Meng-qin
		Culture is the product of human spiritual labor, serving to meet the needs of human spiritual existence and development. Cultural productivity refers to human capacity for producing spiritual and cultural products. The technological upgrading of cultural productivity gives rise to new cultural productive forces. These new cultural productive forces, with internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain as their core technological clusters, reconstruct new paradigms for cultural production, consumption, and dissemination, forming new cultural fields. The endogenous driving force of new cultural productive forces comes from people's aspirations for a better spiritual life in the new era, while the external driving force comes from the need to enhance Chinese culture's international competitiveness in the era of globalization. Both promote the deep integration of new technologies and cultural development. The practical methods for developing new cultural productive forces lie in: promoting value integration, integrating ‘humanity' and ‘economy'; focusing on method selection, combining ‘universality' and ‘particularity'; optimizing resource integration, coordinating ‘stability' and ‘development'; and vigorously expanding the international discourse space of China's new cultural productive forces. The development process of new cultural productive forces not only follows the logic of capital-driven development but also requires value guidance. The all-round development of human beings and social progress are the value principles that new cultural productive forces always uphold.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 5-13 [Abstract] ( 11 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 534KB] ( 74 )

	14	Logic and Practical Path of New Quality Productivity for the High-Quality Development of China's Grain Industry
		ZHANG Heng-ming, ZHANG Xin-ting
		Food security is a crucial cornerstone of national security, as it is related to social stability and people's well-being. The high-quality development of China's grain industry urgently requires empowerment through new quality productivity. At present, a new round of global scientific and technological revolution is profoundly reshaping the modes of agricultural production. In the process of moving toward high-quality development, China's grain industry still faces many constraints, and there is an obvious imbalance in the application of new quality productivity in the grain industry. The lack of R&D investment in the scientific and technological entities has made some key technologies not yet self-controllable. Outdated traditional agricultural equipment restricts the improvement of production efficiency. Weaknesses in rural infrastructure reduce the industrial carrying capacity. The lack of integration between various links of the industrial chain has hindered the development of new formats. A time lag exists between policy implementation and industrial needs. These problems seriously restrict the grain industry from achieving high-quality development. China should solve the above problems from five aspects: technology-driven development, equipment empowerment, infrastructure development, industry integration, and policy establishment. Strengthen the driving force of scientific and technological innovation and enhance the promotion of agricultural technologies; upgrade agricultural equipment and enhance the level of mechanization; upgrade infrastructure and advance information construction; actively develop new formats and promote deep integration between different formats; improve the timeliness of policies and establish a sound supervision system. This all-around and multi-level collaborative promotion strategy not only follows the evolution logic of new quality productivity, but also meets the needs of industrial transformation. It proposes a practical path to ensuring national food security.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 14-21 [Abstract] ( 11 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 537KB] ( 24 )

Dialogue on Civilization and Cultural Comparison

	22	Anthropological Exploration of the Origins of Agriculture and Culture
		WANG Hai-long
		The relationship between the starting of agriculture and the origin of culture has been a topic of common concern in natural sciences and humanities since ancient times. Since the rise of modern anthropology, it has applied its comprehensive advantages of the way of holistic and multi-angle scientific methods to start with archaeological/prehistoric evidence, examine human evolution and ancient ecology and paleogeology-climate and other factors, and use a large amount of ancient ecological scientific research evidence to decipher many problems that were difficult to solve for countless centuries. Another feature of anthropology's research on this topic is that it uses its new methodology to combine the results of ancient fossils and paleoclimate-biology research, and conducts comparative and parallel research in contemporary primitive tribal communities known as “living fossils”, thereby exploring the survival and living conditions of humans in prehistoric times and link up for the lack of data in fossils and written history. It connects the broken and missing links in the chain of evidence of human evolution and the origin of agriculture and civilization, thus putting this research on the right track. The anthropological method organically integrates the topics of the beginnings of agriculture and the origins of human civilization. It regards labor, tools making, and the evolution of human physique and intelligence as the premise and material-intellectual preparation for creating civilization, laying a solid foundation for the theoretical speculation of the successful evolution of mankind and the origin of material and spiritual civilization.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 22-32 [Abstract] ( 9 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 598KB] ( 21 )

	33	The Symbolic Image and Functional Expression of the Myth Narration in Stone Worship
		JIANG Nan-nan
		“Stone”, Exists between the sacred and the profane, as a secular object, under the empowerment of the specific myth narration, its sanctity is continuously highlighted and evolves into a unique hierophany. This sacredness emerging from the secular renders stone worship a religious expression of objects, it not only embeds symbolic signs of stone worship myth but also implies the functional characteristics of stone worship beliefs. As vital carriers of early human culture, stone worship and its associated myths have always been intertwined in cultural inheritance and religious practice, presenting a symbiotic relationship of mutual construction. From the perspective of beliefs characteristics, an examination of archaeology and exegesis about Shen, Zu, Shi, and She, which was related to stone, could reveal the primal religious connotations and symbolic imagery of stone worship. These symbolic images are intrinsically tied to earth worship and fertility worship. In the induction myth and creation myth related to “stone”, it is portrayed as a maternal entity that nurtures life and is endowed with mysterious and mighty powers. The integration of textual imagery fundamentally reflects primitive and simple sacred symbolic thinking and maternity and power jointly constitute the dual symbolic notation of stone worship. In terms of functional expression, the myth narration of stone worship demonstrates how the stone worship myth intervenes in real life through metaphors and ritual practices, to uphold social morality and ecological balance. Whether it is the livelihood support and ecological wisdom in using stones as tools, the need for protection in sheltering with stones, the reincarnation metaphor in returning the soul with stones, or the moral constraints in using stones as rules, all demonstrate the multiple practical significance of stone worship.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 33-40 [Abstract] ( 13 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 633KB] ( 44 )

Innovation Economy and Cultural Industry

	41	The Logical Mechanism and Practical Path of Cross Media Narrative in National Cultural Park
		QIN Zong-cai
		From the perspective of cross media narratology, National Cultural Parks are giant cultural spatial forms centered on the interpretation and dissemination of the historical and cultural significance of the Chinese nation. They are narrative carriers that tell Chinese stories well and highlight the prominent characteristics of Chinese civilization. From the perspective of logical mechanism, the National Cultural Park is based on the construction goal of creating an important symbol of Chinese culture in the new era. It relies on cultural heritage clusters in giant cultural spaces such as the Great Wall, Grand Canal, Long March, Yellow River, and Yangtze River, and uses modern media technology to construct a cross media narrative system with the types of“source text” meaning interpretation layer, “local dissemination” scene layer, and “extended dissemination” carrier layer. From the perspective of practical paths, the interpretation of the meaning of the“source text” should be strengthened through the design of a narrative discourse framework, focusing on the four narrative elements of “story, place, character, and theme” to enhance the interpretation of the meaning and narrative content of the“source text”. At the level of local scene dissemination, following the historical and cultural local characteristics, design cross media narrative texts for local scenes. By making local scenes the narrative subject and multiple media the bridge connecting people and regions, achieve cross media translation, symbolic reconstruction, and audience participatory“recoding” of local cultural prototype symbols, promoting the recognition, perception, and experience of Chinese civilization identity and cultural essence. The extensible spatial dissemination layer promotes the embedding of civilization symbols and cultural essence into mobile, digital, and networked media symbols/products, forming a narrative form that is mobile, digital, and networked.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 41-51 [Abstract] ( 10 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 558KB] ( 18 )

	52	Who Owns the Game： Context Collapse and the Practice of Boundary Repair in Platform-Based Games
		HE Jian-ping, JIA Xiao-le
		With the continuous penetration of digital culture, digital games have evolved into hybrid media that integrate social interaction, emotional experience, and platform mechanisms. As the boundaries between virtual and real, play and everyday life become increasingly blurred, the originally autonomous structure of the “magic circle” has lost its clarity. Players gradually lose control over the boundaries of gameplay and find themselves trapped in a state of context collapse. Based on participatory online observation and in-depth interviews with 19 players, this study identifies three types of context collapse: conflicts in visibility logic, conflicts in role performance, and conflicts in emotional norms. In response, players engage in boundary reconstruction through practices such as technical disconnection, social adjustment, affective withdrawal, and the rebuilding of the magic circle. These include using invisibility features to reduce social exposure, adjusting interaction frequency to renegotiate relational boundaries, emotionally detaching to alleviate psychological pressure, and reshaping gameplay experiences to regain autonomy and immersion. Such practices of contextual repair not only serve as coping mechanisms for social stress but also represent a form of soft cultural resistance. By actively managing visibility and identity boundaries, players achieve partial restoration of collapsed contexts and construct a dynamic balance in boundary negotiation within digital culture, thus enabling more effective governance of social boundaries in gameplay. The analytical framework of “context collapse—contextual repair” offers a new perspective for understanding how individuals resist platform discipline and actively reconfigure media use boundaries in highly mediated environments.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 52-62 [Abstract] ( 12 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 680KB] ( 79 )

Economic Growth and Financial Innovation

	63	The Historical, Theoretical, and Realistic Logic of the Dual Nature of Digital Capital
		DENG Chun-ling, GUO Zhi-juan
		Digital capital is a form of capital that is carried by digital production factors, created by digital labor, and realizes value growth. The dual contradiction between the general value appreciation of digital capital and the particularity of social production relations drives the development of social production modes. The historical logic of the duality of digital capital indicates that it gradually evolved from the initial form of currency to capital, and as a new form of capital, it is a product that adapts to the development of the technological revolution, which is the determining factor of productivity; The theoretical logic of the duality of digital capital indicates that the duality of digital capital exists in the contradictory movement of the unity and opposition between productive forces and production relations, and its value appreciation is generally manifested through the social production relations characteristics determined by the highly integrated digital productive forces with science and technology; The realistic logic of the duality of digital capital indicates that the digital capital in digital capitalist society constantly generates new contradictions with the social production relations it depends on. In the process of continuously strengthening value appreciation, it will inevitably reach the end point of capital logic and become a shackle to social development. In the primary stage of socialism in our country, digital capital, as a contradictory unity of generality and particularity, promotes the development of socialist market economy. We should construct a socialist digital capital market system with Chinese characteristics under the framework of the unity of new quality productivity and new production relations, deeply integrate AI technology to build a diversified data element trading platform for trading subjects, regulate the disorderly expansion of digital capital, empower the multiplier growth of new quality productivity through digital technology innovation, lead inclusive economic development, and achieve common prosperity for all people.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 63-74 [Abstract] ( 15 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 567KB] ( 12 )

	75	How Does the Debut Economy Promote the Development of New Consumption: An Investigation Based on the Perspective of Innovation Activity and Industrial Spatial Agglomeration
		GONG Zhi-min, LEI Qin
		As a new economic form driven by innovation, the debut economy is a powerful driving force for stimulating new consumption vitality. The article is based on panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2015 to 2023, examining the mechanism and impact of the debut economy on the development of new consumption. The study found that the debut economy has a significant promoting effect on the development of new consumption, and endogeneity and robustness tests confirm that this conclusion is reasonable and reliable. Compared to the central and western regions as well as low marketization areas, the positive impact of the debut economy on the development of new consumption is stronger in the eastern region and high marketization areas. The debut economy mainly promotes the development of new consumption through two mechanisms, enhancing innovation activity and industrial spatial agglomeration level. Further analysis shows that there is a single threshold effect based on resource allocation efficiency on the impact of the debut economy on the development of new consumption. That is, after the resource allocation efficiency crosses the threshold value, the promotion effect of the debut economy on the development of new consumption is significantly enhanced, showing an increasing marginal effect. In order to better play the enabling role of the debut economy in the development of new consumption, on the one hand, we should take industrial spatial agglomeration as the driving force and promote the cultivation and development of the debut economy according to local conditions; on the other hand, we need to clear the channels for the debut economy to promote the development of new consumption, remove obstacles to the flow of factors, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of resource allocation.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 75-85 [Abstract] ( 16 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 558KB] ( 13 )

Politics,Law and Social Governance

	86	Governance Dilemmas and Institutional Responses to Information Cocoons of Algorithmic Consumers
		GUO Ming-rui, LOU Yi-hua
		Algorithms have transformed the landscape of consumer rights protection, and the information cocoon has emerged as a key factor affecting the realization of consumer rights. While the information cocoon exacerbates the risk of mismatched information needs among consumers, it also alters operators' competitive strategies of offering high-quality and low-cost products and their business model of same price for the same product. However, relying solely on consumers' right to know, right to independent choice, and right to refuse automated decision-making cannot fully meet the governance needs of the information cocoon. In addition to insufficient institutional supply, the governance of the information cocoon also faces obstacles such as the failure of information disclosure models, the lack of legal basis for technical supervision, and blurred governance boundaries in interactive decision-making. Based on this, there is an urgent need to construct a specialized governance system for the information cocoon to bridge the gaps in protection. The construction of the information cocoon governance system should follow the idea from the abstract to the specific. When determining the institutional framework, the governance purpose should be to enable consumers to control the transaction field, take the platform's information pushing behavior as the governance object, and solve the existing governance problems through a risk-responsibility collaborative model. When formulating specific measures, it is necessary to rely on the institutional framework of information cocoon governance, resolve governance obstacles by adjusting the information empowerment model, promoting the integration of algorithm ethics and legal obligations, and clarifying the forms of harm and liable subjects, so as to provide an effective way for algorithmic consumers to break free from the cocoon.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 86-95 [Abstract] ( 15 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 566KB] ( 41 )

	96	Economic Construction of Digital Identity System: Concepts, Content, and Models
		AI Shang-le
		The digital identity system is a key component of modern society's digital transformation. Its design and construction require significant cost investment, and it is essential to ensure the system's long-term security and stable operation while considering economic feasibility. Continuous optimization of the economic construction of digital identity systems, including the refinement of economic principles, economic frameworks, and economic tools, can help achieve the goals of security, efficiency, and fairness. The design philosophy of digital identity systems should adhere to economic principles, balancing data security with cost efficiency and aligning privacy protection with data utilization. Additionally, fostering a competitive market environment to prevent monopolies and maximize economic benefits is critical. The design of digital identity systems should be guided by standards such as the uniqueness of digital identities, the security of authentication and authorization, and the collaborative sharing of identity information. This can be achieved through data storage systems, data quality management and monitoring systems, incentive-privacy balance mechanisms, and internal system collaboration. The economic structure of digital identity system design involve constructing data property rights models through distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and data trust networks. Furthermore, data transaction models should be established by defining participant roles, creating fair data trading platforms, and implementing data governance incentives. Compliance-oriented data usage models should also be enhanced through privacy protection for users, compliance with data usage regulations, and data value assessment.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 96-108 [Abstract] ( 15 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 597KB] ( 30 )

	109	The Attribution Dilemma and Judgement Logic for Identifying Causation in Economic Crimes
		Zhu Qi-wei
		The question of the identification of causation in economic crimes has long been overlooked. Although the conditional theory, theory of adequate causation, and objective imputation theory demonstrate limitations in this context, these theoretical shortcomings merely reflect superficial causes of causal confusion, which can be resolved by selectively applying different causation theories based on typological application. The root causes lie in three logical fallacies in judicial identification. First, the overextension of presumptive reasoning leads to circular inference, presuming both the existence of subjective elements and the establishment of causality. Second, arbitrary fragmentation and aggregation of causal chains leads to the conflation of modifying causes with associative causes. Third, there is an internal contradiction in asserting a distinction between normative evaluation and factual identification, while simultaneously allowing normative standards to selectively filter factual elements, thereby undermining the objective basis for causal attribution. The proper logic for identifying causation in economic crimes should be based on the unity of the legal order, and rigorously delimit perpetrating acts for criminal evaluation, and exclude those grounded in civil rights, those that merely superficially resemble civil entitlements without embodying criminal unlawfulness, and those that can be avoided through lawful alternatives by others. On this basis, a typological causation model should be constructed to distinguish modifying causes from associative ones, enabling precise evaluation of each act's causal contribution and preventing erroneous causal attribution.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 109-118 [Abstract] ( 13 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 537KB] ( 14 )

Humanities and Chinese Spirit

	119	The Conceptual Implications, Spatial Innovations, and Cultural Mechanisms of the Sci-Fi Cyborg City
		JIANG Yu-qin
		The concept of the sci-fi cyborg city refers to an emergent model of intelligent urbanism shaped by the dynamic interaction among the human body, science fiction imaginaries, virtual technologies, and material urban environments. Specially, it encompasses the integration of human external operating systems with urban networks in the context of ecological development, as well as the epistemological shifts brought about by the hybridization of body and city. Rooted in cybernetic theories and enriched by the cultural metaphor of the cyborg, sci-fi cyborg cities exemplify the convergence of embodiment, technology, space, and urban form-particularly within the framework of smart city development and speculative science fiction narratives. These urban forms deploy virtual reality and artificial intelligence to generate innovative spatial configurations and urban ecosystems, characterized by body-technology landscapes and ecological-humanistic environments. They illustrate how technologically enhanced bodies are embedded within urban infrastructures, connecting individual embodiment with economic processes and sociocultural dynamics. The cultural mechanisms of sci-fi cyborg cities are organized around the interface between body, space, and city, constituting what can be understood as an interface culture. This culture foregrounds the operations of visuality, surveillance, and disciplinary power at the intersection of virtual-real environments and body-technology systems. Through the production of new urban landscapes, it constructs a dynamic field of technological power, sensory perception, and spatial meaning----reshaping memory, affect, and authority within contemporary urban life. Ultimately, the development of sci-fi cyborg cities offers new imaginaries of digital civilization and deepens critical understanding of human agency within technological mediated urban realities.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 119-128 [Abstract] ( 14 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 578KB] ( 24 )

	129	The Semantic Field and Theoretical Misinterpretation of the Concept of “Prejudice” from the Perspective of Hermeneutics
		LUO Chong-hong
		The semantic field of the concept of “prejudice” has undergone a transformation from Descartes' “cogito”, Kant's “transcendental”, Husserl's “transcendental consciousness” to Heidegger's “pre-structure”, evolving from epistemology (as logical and rational premise of knowledge) to ontology/being (as the “pre-structure” of the being of beings). If viewed from the knowledge context of Western philosophy, "prejudice" is not a “preconception” before reading a text, but rather the core issue that modern hermeneutics, especially German hermeneutics, must confront - the highest, true, and ultimate meaning constructed by Parmenides' “Being”, Heraclitus' “Logos”, Plato's “Idea”, and the Bible. Unlike the biblical hermeneutics that interprets God's words as absolute truth, Dilthey's hermeneutics of life, Husserl's suspended transcendental concept, and Heidegger's ontological hermeneutics all aim to “deconstruct” (Destruktion) the unshakable metaphysical “meaning” (Sinn) of the West. Thus, Heidegger's analysis of the “temporality” (Zeitlichkeit) of “Dasein's” “being-in-the-world” (In-der-Welt-Sein) and “being-with-others” (Mitsein), that is the ontological horizon of Dasein - the “pre-structure” (Vorstruktur). However, the misinterpretation of “hermeneutics” (Hermeneutik) and “understanding” (Verstehen) in the domestic academic circle, as well as the misinterpretation of the concept of “prejudice”, not only confuses in domestic hermeneutics research but also confuses the core concepts of hermeneutics with the interpretation theory of text meaning in “reception aesthetics” and the “author” theory of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, thereby reducing hermeneutics (philosophy) that takes the encounter of “meaning” (Sinn) as its object to a literary criticism theory that takes text interpretation as its object.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 129-140 [Abstract] ( 13 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 555KB] ( 15 )

	141	Road Narrative: Travel Representation and Geographical Imaginary in Web Literature
		JIN Fang-ting
		The“road narrative” is a subgenre within web literature that focuses on narrating characters' travel experiences. Set against the backdrop of road journeys, these novels partially inherit narrative elements from road movies and travel literature. During their dissemination within the online literary sphere, they have gradually developed distinctive and paradigmatic narrative modes centered around character development, gendered perspectives, and spatial circularity. This type of fiction weaves a series of fabricated tales centered around the geographical landscape of “counter-urban” spaces, narrating how individual souls achieve harmonious unity with the untouched natural world during their journeys. It crafts a homogenizing approach for individuals to envision solutions for “urban maladies” across diverse scenarios. Even though road novels expand the geographical imaginary of web literature and respond to the spiritual crises of modernity through fictionalized romantic plots, their narrative focus remains persistently fixed on themes of emotion and sexuality. As a result, the diverse geographical landscapes featured within these novels are often reduced to mere backdrops serving the construction of emotional stories. Potential political, social, and historical issues inherent in the road-trip theme are thereby simplified and obscured. The critical potential and imaginative capacity of road narratives to engage with the dilemmas of modernity thus become superficial, thus exposing a profound contradiction between the thematic subgenres of web literature and their dominant narrative modes.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 141-151 [Abstract] ( 16 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 627KB] ( 54 )

	152	The Generation, Structure, and Characteristics of Value Thinking
		Li Jiang-ling, Yang Gui-sen
		Value thinking is a thinking paradigm in which the subject grasps the relationship between value and efficacy based on activities and plays an important role in cognition. Understanding of value thinking in Western philosophy has evolved through three stages: virtue ethics, subjective thinking, and value philosophy. Regarding the generation of value thinking, there are three theoretical paradigms: a priorism, empiricism, and constructivism. Apriorism holds that value is a kind of transcendental existence, and empiricism argues that value originates from sensory experience, and constructivism claims that value is a product constructed by power, language, and culture. From the perspective of Marx's practice, value thinking is grounded in biological neurology, intrinsic psychology, and social interaction. It is a historical process generated by the force of neural responses, cognitive construction, culture shaping, and practical feedback. On the one hand, the generation of value thinking is the result of historical and cultural transmission from a diachronic perspective. Specific value thinking is transferred from the generations via particular cognitive frameworks, ethical norms, and social institutions. On the other hand, the generations stem from practical activities in value-based life in a synchronic perspective. Value thinking exhibits not only a horizontal structure comprised of the subject, object, and medium of value thinking, but also a progressive structure consisting of value cognition, value evaluation, and value selection. With the object being the relationship to value and the goal grasped to efficacy, the essence of value thinking is relational. Whose logic involves value judgment, value justification, value conflict, and value resolution. Meanwhile, the evaluation criterion is rationality. The social functions of value thinking are value cognition, value assessment, value guidance, value motivation, and value regulation.
		2025 Vol. 42 (4): 152-160 [Abstract] ( 15 ) [HTML 1KB] [ PDF 504KB] ( 17 )

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