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Ethnic Myths in Southwest China against the Background of the Construction of Modern Nation-State：Focusing on the Investigations and Research in the 1930s-1940s Pengcheng Zhu J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (3): 108-119.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.03.011 Abstract （1116）   HTML （8）    PDF（pc） （767KB）（666）       Knowledge map    Save During the 1930s and 1940s, as the Anti-Japanese War intensified and the development of the southwestern frontier progressed, scholars in the fields such as folklore, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics and literature collectively engaged in the investigation of myths among southwestern ethnic minorities. The construction of the modern nation-state and the formation of modern academic disciplines profoundly influenced the study of these myths. Researchers adopted rational perspectives and scientific methodologies to reinterpret these myths, transforming them from supernatural local knowledge into objectified ethnographic materials that could be systematically analyzed. Simultaneously, they sought to extract elements from these myths that could contribute to national community construction and the development of a new national culture, integrating them into an integral component of the national cultural identity framework. While this approach elevated the visibility of southwestern ethnic myths and cultures within mainstream societal discourse by converting localized knowledge into national public texts, it suffered from a lack of an active perspective from local cultural practitioners and a tendency to overlook the rich, multifaceted meanings embedded in indigenous traditions. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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A Critique of Political Economy of the Production of Space：An Interpretation of Lefebvre’s The Production of Space Yibing Zhang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (2): 43-54.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.02.006 Abstract （998）   HTML （18）    PDF（pc） （770KB）（4232）       Knowledge map    Save Space in the social and historical life of human beings is no longer merely a material property external to humans; rather, it is the spatial practice of human beings as well as its representations. Therefore, from the perspective of critiquing spatial fetishism, the common-sense spatial places and objects are penetrated by the flow of spatial practice and the supply and demand of energy for action. Consequently, the material space in the realm of “real estate” is inevitably transformed into a relational field that constrains the occurrence of social practice. From the critical perspective of contemporary bourgeois spatial production, the scientific methodology of Marx’s Capital can be employed to establish a new critical theory of the political economy of space. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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On the Shaping of Traditional Chinese Science by Confucianism Weiping Chen J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 1-8.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.001 Abstract （954）   HTML （9）    PDF（pc） （601KB）（51）       Knowledge map    Save For a long time, it was believed that Confucianism had a negative impact on the development of traditional science in China. Since the reform and opening up, many research results have showed that Confucianism had a positive impact on the development of traditional science. Both of these views have a certain degree of validity and historical basis. Whether positive or negative, these impacts reflect the shaping role of Confucianism in traditional Chinese science. From the following six aspects, that is, values, view of nature, methodology, epistemology, mutual learning and knowledge forms, we can understand how Confucianism shaped traditional science. There are both quintessence worth absorbing and defects that need to be overcome. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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Smell and Character：Smoking and the Moral Construction of Masculinity Dunfu Zhang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 118-129.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.011 Abstract （938）   HTML （9）    PDF（pc） （873KB）（39）       Knowledge map    Save Cigarettes are a proper example of expanding the sociological imagination of the smell in masculinity research. Data from semi-structured interviews of Shanghai residents show that the significance and mechanism of cigarettes in shaping men’s masculine traits have declined, while the medical mechanism of health and hygiene has risen and anti-smoking policies have strengthened. The smell of cigarettes has increasingly been regarded as a pungent and harmful odor, and has been despised and isolated in an institutional way. The regulation of smoking among women in romantic relationships, families and intimate partnerships, as well as the rise of the “new good man image”, have led to a negative evolution in the moral construction of men’s smoking. Being clean, fresh and odorless has been endowed with contemporary new values in the new male identity. This transformation not only indicates the dominant force of the healthy moral discourse in the current urban society, but also reveals the new appearance of male identity. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Theoretical Logic and Empirical Evidence of Bank Digital Transformation Fueling the Ascend of Export Values Yun Zhang, Xia Fang, Zhenyu Yang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 145-161.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.013 Abstract （936）   HTML （2）    PDF（pc） （894KB）（8）       Knowledge map    Save The escalation of export values is a crucial guarantee for China in building a new system of high-level open economy and achieving high-quality development. The digital transformation of the financial sector has emerged as a new driving force for value addition in Chinese enterprises’ exports. By constructing a theoretical model incorporating digitally transformed banking sectors, this study deduces and analyzes the mechanism through which bank digitalization drives the growth of corporate export value, employing matched data from Chinese industrial enterprises and customs trade statistics for empirical testing. The research findings reveal that bank digital transformation effectively stimulates the growth in corporate export values, with underlying technology-driven aspects of digital transformation exhibiting an even stronger propelling effect. Mechanism tests uncover that bank digital transformation fosters a sustained rise in corporate export values by reducing firms’ credit costs and incentivizing technological advancements. Heterogeneity analysis uncovers that the driving effect of bank digital transformation on export values is more pronounced for firms with higher levels of digitalization and intelligence integration, those engaging in general trade, technology-intensive enterprises, and businesses located in regions with higher degrees of market segmentation. Further analysis reveals that bank digital transformation, by boosting export values, facilitates the optimization and upgrading of firms’ positions within the global value chain division of labor. The research findings provide a practical basis and policy implications for promoting the digital transformation of banks, facilitating the high-end upgrading of the export value of high-quality financial services, and achieving high-level opening-up. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Original Contribution of Chinese Modernization to Marxist Social Development Theory Youfu Jiang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 33-41.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.004 Abstract （925）   HTML （5）    PDF（pc） （571KB）（43）       Knowledge map    Save Theoretical innovations by the Communist Party of China (CPC) have unequivocally established Chinese modernization as a new form of human civilization and proclaimed the theory of Chinese modernization as a major, latest achievement of scientific socialism. However, it is not easy to provide profound and concrete scholarly and intellectual interpretations commensurate with this status. The historical myth of “modernization = Westernization” persists not only unquestioned in the minds of those generally advocating “Westernization”, but also among dogmatic Marxists. Since classical Marxism was essentially developed as a general historical and social development theory centered on the examination of modern Western society, i.e., capitalist society, it has long inclined us theoretically and practically to view capitalist society— a form of modern civilization— as an insurmountable stage in the overall development of human history. Even after embarking on the socialist path, we still felt compelled to undertake a historical “remedial stage” in a specific manner. The key to the success of Chinese modernization lies precisely in its steadfast adherence to the scientific theories and social ideals of Marxism on a social and civilizational foundation entirely distinct from that of the modern West, thereby pioneering and practicing a socialist path with unique civilizational connotations in its own distinct way. This should neither be interpreted as an “error” of classical Marxism nor as China’s “deviation” from classical Marxism due to its specific realities. Instead, it should be profoundly understood as the original contribution of Chinese modernization to classical Marxism. It’s our academic task to re-identify our genuine social foundation and civilizational tradition by deeply comprehending this original contribution. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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From Large Industry to Large Models：A Contemporary Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value Xu Wen J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 55-65.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.006 Abstract （904）   HTML （8）    PDF（pc） （613KB）（107）       Knowledge map    Save Since the technological revolution triggered by ChatGPT in 2022, generative artificial intelligence large models have pushed digital production into a new stage of digital and physical transformation. With its intensity comparable to the machine revolution of the industrial age, this transformation has given rise to AI-capitalism. Taking the dual capital composition of core architecture as fixed capital and dynamic data as circulating capital as their carrier, large models are essentially technological entities of digital materialized labor. This existence is neither an independent value-creating entity nor a technological autonomous entity; rather, it is a tool through which capital realizes its reproduction by reconfiguring the process of digital labor. Digital labor is the main reliance for human-machine interaction, and productive digital labor is the direct source of value creation. The production of large models enhances the capital organic composition. Embedded in the capitalist value reproduction system, this production further expands the source of surplus value. The high value-added of large models is deceptive; the value that seems to be autonomously produced is actually the old value of the core architecture and dynamic data of digital intelligence, as well as the value created by the physical labor of digital intelligence workers through the addition of new value. The source of surplus value has always been the living labor of digital workers, and the core law that “labor is the sole source of value” has not fundamentally changed due to the technological form of large models. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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Romanticism or Realism?：On Paterson and Lawson’s Nationalist Implications in Their “Jungle Debate” Jiasheng Zhang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 109-117.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.010 Abstract （899）   HTML （2）    PDF（pc） （721KB）（18）       Knowledge map    Save The prevailing nationalist thoughts in the end of the 19th centuries is the driving force of Australian nationalist literature. As the jungle poets at that time, A. B. Paterson and Henry Lawson created poems around the Australian jungle respectively from romanticism and realism, expressing their construction and imagination of Australian literature. Their distinct jungle landscape writings gave rise to the famous “jungle debate” in the history of Australian literature. Taking this jungle debate as a starting point, one can deeply explore the national (literary) orientation behind the “jungle debate” of Paterson and Lawson in the context of Australian nationalism at the end of the 19th century. The “jungle debate” between Paterson and Lawson not only created a spectacular jungle literary landscape at the end of the 19th century in Australia, but also marked a leap for Australian literature in breaking away from the British colonial literary tradition, making jungle literature a unique genre highlighting the characteristics of Australian national literature. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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Whose Civilization? What Standard?：On the Origin，Evolution and Hegemonic Logic of “the Standard of Civilization” in International Law Ge Zheng J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (2): 31-42.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.02.005 Abstract （894）   HTML （13）    PDF（pc） （895KB）（1950）       Knowledge map    Save Perry Anderson is not original in combing the history of modern international law with “civilization” as a clue, nor is it his initiative to critically discuss the occidentalist core of “civilization”. Nevertheless, his paper “The Standard of Civilization” reveals to us the core of imperialism and colonialism in the underlying logic of the discourse system of international law, as well as the integrated role played by the concept of “civilization”. By demonstrating how a parochial concept masquerading as universalism can define, suppress, and even eradicate the uniqueness of diverse human groups, this seminal work stimulates the imagination for a more equitable and progressive international order. Such an order would respect cultural differences and distinctiveness, and it would be constructed through multilateral dialogue mechanisms. On the one hand, this paper seeks to engage in a critical dialogue with Anderson’s work to reinforce the missing elements of his historical narrative; on the other hand, it also aims to complement the construction efforts that critical theories intentionally overlook, by proposing a theory for building a “human community with a shared future”. This proposition is grounded in the concept of civilization inherent in the Chinese cultural tradition as a guiding thread. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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From Free Trade to Social Revolution：A Critique of Pan-Protectionism in the Context of Marx’s Theory of World History Shun Liu J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 42-54.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.005 Abstract （873）   HTML （5）    PDF（pc） （713KB）（25）       Knowledge map    Save In Marx’s era, free trade primarily referred to capitalist free trade. He had already clarified its dual historical role: while serving as the economic medium for the transition to world history, it became distorted and alienated under the capital logic, degenerating into a political weapon and a negative variable in the evolution of world history. Politicized free trade defies market principles, amplifying the spatial expansion of capital power and catalyzing the universalization of class antagonism. This serves as the economic prelude to social revolution. It is through the evolutionary process of expanding from the contest between genuine and pseudo-free trade to social revolution that world history has been gradually cultivated and shaped. Marx’s theory of world history profoundly reveals the logic of this interplay and evolution. Far from being outdated, it has continuously opened new practical domains amid a century of transformation, thereby retaining formidable theoretical vitality and practical guidance. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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Contexts，Themes，and Trends in Overseas Studies of Traditional Chinese Folk Beliefs Jian Wang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (3): 51-61.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.03.006 Abstract （842）   HTML （9）    PDF（pc） （711KB）（1777）       Knowledge map    Save Since the 19th century, with the maturation of Western Sinology, traditional Chinese folk beliefs have been no longer dismissed as mere “superstition” but regarded as objective subjects of academic inquiry. Over the past century, as research deepened, overseas scholars have increasingly recognized that folk beliefs, as an organic element of traditional Chinese society, played a vital role in the historical process of socio-cultural integration in China. Multifaceted and multidisciplinary investigations beyond Western religious frameworks have been conducted. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of novel research topics of and innovative approaches to Chinese folk beliefs, demonstrating vigorous scholarly momentum. Such academic achievements also hold referential value for understanding civilizational diversity. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Standard of Civilization and International Law：A Lecture at East China Normal University Perry Anderson, 丁雄飞/译 J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (2): 1-6.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.02.001 Abstract （834）   HTML （37）    PDF（pc） （707KB）（749）       Knowledge map    Save The history of international law begins with the works of Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria in the 1530s, who laid the foundation for the “law of peoples” when discussing Spain’s right to possess American lands and defending Spain’s imperial conquest. Subsequently, a system of justification for European imperial expansion was formed by the end of the 17th century after the arguments of Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and others from different perspectives. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 introduced a hierarchy of states, leading to the emergence of the “Concert of Five Powers”. After 1873, civilization became the standard for dividing the world, and the doctrine of “the standard of civilization” categorized countries into civilized, barbaric, “semi-civilized”, senile, or incapable groups, with respective treatments for each category. Although international law has been fully institutionalized, it remains discriminatory. For instance, liberal powers like the United States often violate international law without suffering from punishment. Overall, while containing some universally applicable elements (such as diplomatic immunity), international law is neither international nor legal from a realist perspective, and it is essentially an opinion or ideology, serving as a tool for powerful entities. Finnish scholar Martti Koskenniemi argues that international law is a hegemonic technique in the Gramscian sense and it is subject to appropriation and subversion. While defenders believe that international law is better than nothing, critics consider it an evil tool in the disguise of good. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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Ritual and Music Culture and Chinese Traditional Aesthetics Yongjian Guo J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (2): 109-120.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.02.012 Abstract （832）   HTML （9）    PDF（pc） （687KB）（1498）       Knowledge map    Save Chinese traditional aesthetics is rooted in ritual and music culture, which makes Chinese aesthetics manifest itself as the aesthetics of embodying the Dao, the aesthetics of literati, and the aesthetics of cultivation. The Dao is the interpretation and development of the ritual and music culture, and literati are intellectuals born from the social situation of the collapse of the ritual and music, and the cultivation of one’s character is essential to the ritual and music culture. The aesthetics of embodying the Dao is different from the aesthetics of knowledge in the West. Western aesthetics focuses on understanding/cognition, whereas Chinese aesthetics emphasizes experience/sensation. The aesthetics of embodying the Dao is mainly manifested in the “writings as the vehicle of the Dao” in Confucianism and the “unity of the Dao and art” in Daoism. Literati “aspire to the Dao” and use the Dao to fight against “power”, thus demonstrating the spirit and strength of character of literati. The aesthetics of literati differs from the Western aesthetics of the elites, embodying the spirit of literati and revealing their strength of character. Chinese aesthetics places special emphasis on “taste”, which is probably due to the implicit influence of the spirit of literati. The strong cultivation tradition among Chinese literati has also made Chinese traditional aesthetics synonymous with the aesthetics of cultivation. The concepts of “jingjie (realm) and gongfu (effort)” in the philosophy of cultivation are also core concepts in traditional Chinese aesthetics. Cultivating oneself before practicing art is the basic spirit of Chinese aesthetics. The aesthetics of embodying the Dao, the aesthetics of literati, and the aesthetics of cultivation are integrated into one cohesive whole. Nevertheless, if we have to make a distinction, then we might say that the first one demands sudden enlightenment and highlights jingjie, the second one emphasizes the strength of character, style and taste, and the third one relies on the effort to cultivate qi (vital energy). Enlightenment, jingjie, strength of character, style, taste, effort and qi – all of these have constituted the key terms of traditional Chinese aesthetics. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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China-Japan Cooperation in Infrastructure Construction in Southeast Asia as the Third Market：Models and Challenges Liqin Wang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (2): 167-177.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.02.016 Abstract （809）   HTML （7）    PDF（pc） （752KB）（826）       Knowledge map    Save China and Japan primarily adopt a “business-to-business” (B2B) model for infrastructure cooperation in the third-party market in Southeast Asia. This long-standing model, which predates the “government-to-government” (G2G) approach, has primarily focused on sub-sectors such as energy and takes on various forms. However, this model faces several challenges. Firstly, Japanese private enterprises prioritize economic rationality, whereas Chinese state-owned enterprises partly undertake national geopolitical objectives, leading to difficulties in aligning goals. Secondly, China tends to engage in bilateral cooperation with individual Southeast Asian countries, whereas Japan prefers regional-level cooperation with ASEAN as a bloc, resulting in misaligned cooperation levels. Finally, differences in standards, especially in sectors such as transportation, further complicate cooperation. These challenges significantly hinder the progress of China-Japan cooperation in Southeast Asia, leading to delays, terminations, or the absence of cooperation in some projects. To address these challenges, China and Japan should appropriately increase the G2G component while deepening strategic B2B cooperation. Additionally, China should remain vigilant about Japan’s influence in Southeast Asia and the comparative advantages of Japanese financial enterprises’, carefully managing competition throughout the cooperation process. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Rising Expectation Effect of Public Policy：Poverty Alleviation and Subjective Status Identity Juan Du, Xufeng Zhu J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 130-144.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.012 Abstract （806）   HTML （2）    PDF（pc） （895KB）（19）       Knowledge map    Save Status identity is the foundation of individuals’ national identity, yet how public policy affects subjective status identity has been largely overlooked. Drawing on social comparison theory from a social cognitive perspective, this paper constructs a theoretical model of “rising expectations— value expectations— value capability” to elucidate the mechanism through which public policy influences subjective status identity. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, which encompasses over 70,000 nationally representative samples of urban and rural residents from 2012 to 2018, this study finds that poverty alleviation policies have stimulated individuals’ aspirations for self-development, while the gap between these self-expectations and actual capabilities has induced subjective status pressure. Further analysis indicates that poverty alleviation has led to a differentiation in subjective status identity within social groups, with pronounced effects among those with high prior expectations and policy beneficiaries. This study delves into the governance root underpinnings of status identity and sheds light on the impact of macro public policies on micro social cognition of the public. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Construction of the Yellow Emperor Mythological System in Early Periods Qi Liang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (3): 97-107.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.03.010 Abstract （805）   HTML （19）    PDF（pc） （700KB）（1379）       Knowledge map    Save The important stage in the evolution and stereotyping of the myth of the Yellow Emperor was from the pre-Qin period to the early Western Han period. In the pre-Zhou period and the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the myth of the Yellow Emperor was a cultural reminiscence, focusing on the imagination of his divinity and natural attributes. In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the scholars, out of their ideological motivation of “learning from the past to understand the present”, adopted the paths of fictionalization, concordance, and reinterpretation of the classics to portray the Yellow Emperor as a wizard, a man, a god, and an immortal, resulting in the flourishing spectacular with “hundreds of schools’ discourses on the Yellow Emperor”. Whereas, the importance attached by the Warring States scholars to the reconstruction of ancient history prompted the Yellow Emperor to shed his mythological hue and become an earthly saint aided by his four ministers or seeking talents around the world, which was an important step in the transformation of the myth of the Yellow Emperor into the legend of ancient history. Against the background of political unification and ideological pluralism in the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian, following his predecessors and taking the paths of disenchantment and re-enchantment, reconstructed the multiple identities of the Yellow Emperor such as the bloodline progenitor, the first emperor, and the mythological images respectively. Since then, the Yellow Emperor has been widely and persistently revered as the progenitor of the Chinese bloodline and the first emperor in history. We should primarily examine the mythological ideologies and cultural values embodied in the mythological system of the Yellow Emperor. Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Conditional Sovereign Lending Model under Western Dominance：Critique and Reflection Kuang-ran Li, Qiu Zhu J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 180-195.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.015 Abstract （801）   HTML （2）    PDF（pc） （816KB）（17）       Knowledge map    Save Under the dominance of the United States and other Western countries, the international practice of sovereign lending has long taken the form of conditional sovereign lending— loans tied to reform conditionality— which has operated as a key instrument for exporting Western institutional paradigms and embedding influence in the governance structures of debtor states. Grounded in the Law and Development Movement and neoliberalist theory, this model employs lending conditionality to compel institutional reforms in debtor states, thereby generating in practice a quasi-legal order with externally constraining effect. Long-standing experience, however, shows that conditional sovereign lending has not effectively strengthened debtor states’ debt-servicing capacity; to the contrary, it has deepened structural problems such as institutional dependency, governance weakening, and erosion of sovereignty. Debtor states’ right to development and policy autonomy are subject to structural constraints, and the injustice and imbalance of global debt governance have become increasingly salient. Therefore, it is necessary to build a new model of sovereign lending that is more inclusive and development-oriented. In this regard, China should, consistent with the principles of sovereign equality and developmental autonomy, promote a new paradigm of sovereign lending centered on capacity-building, using soft law as the principal modality and procedural justice as the safeguard; drawing on loan practices that do not attach political conditions, China can offer a more inclusive and sustainable proposal for the reconstruction of international law and contribute Chinese insights and institutional models to global financial governance. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Impact of Policy Bank Credit on Total Factor Productivity of Enterprises：Empirical Analysis Mediated by the Development of New Quality Productivity Xinru Wu, Siyan Ai J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 162-179.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.014 Abstract （796）   HTML （1）    PDF（pc） （930KB）（92）       Knowledge map    Save In the stage of China’s high-quality development, policy banks help cultivate new quality productivity with their institutional advantages. Based on the loan contract data of A-share listed firms from 2012 to 2022, this paper manually constructs firm-level policy bank credit indicators, examines their impact on firms’ total factor productivity, and explores the mechanism path, heterogeneity characteristics and structural allocation effects with the theory of new quality productivity. The study finds that policy bank credit significantly enhances firms’ total factor productivity. The mechanism test shows that this effect is mainly realized through technological innovation, green transformation and human capital structure upgrade, which fits the development path of new quality productivity. Heterogeneity analysis shows more pronounced positive impacts in commercial state-owned firms, technology-intensive private firms, highly competitive industries, and regions with relatively insufficient financial supply. Furthermore, policy banks’ implementation of industrial policy and regional coordination in structural allocation demonstrates stronger TFP promotion effects for firms with composite attributes such as manufacturing, high-tech, and green, and those in central and western regions. Therefore, the positioning of policy-based finance should be improved and its role in structural transformation, efficiency improvement and inclusive financial services should be strengthened. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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On the Compilation of the Bibliography of Overseas Sinology during the Period of the Republic of China and Its Implications Yuanyuan Wu J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (6): 66-79.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.06.007 Abstract （783）   HTML （5）    PDF（pc） （845KB）（58）       Knowledge map    Save Since the first half of the 20th century, the academic community of the Republic of China had compiled the bibliography of overseas sinology under the dual circumstances of national crisis and academic transformation. In the period of the Republic of China, Chinese scholars compiled and published 50 bibliographies of overseas sinology and translated 13 bibliographies of overseas sinology compiled by foreign scholars. A careful reading of these bibliographies will find that there were three aspects worth paying attention to: firstly, the compilers or translators were scholars from different research fields; secondly, the compiled bibliographies focused on studies related to transportation between China and foreign countries, as well as research on China’s borderlands; thirdly, Japanese writings of sinology made up the majority of them. This kind of compilation was caused by the inherent needs of academic development on the one hand, and the cultural sovereignty struggle and the national salvation mission of the times— “competing with outsiders” and “saving the country through scholarship”— on the other. Today, the construction of a systematic catalog of world Chinese studies serves as the foundation for a comprehensive understanding of Chinese studies abroad, as well as an important pathway to present “academic China” to the world. This is also an important step to bring the “Sinology Center” back to China and establish a self-reliant knowledge system in China. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）

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The Impact of Regional Trade Agreement Networks on Value Chain Control：A Comparison between China and the United States Han Gao, Minqi Shen, Yajie Chang J. East China Norm. Univ. Philos. Soc. Sci    2025, 57 (2): 133-152.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.02.014 Abstract （772）   HTML （14）    PDF（pc） （1167KB）（646）       Knowledge map    Save This paper examines the dependence of countries’ exports on upstream products and downstream markets from a global perspective, constructing a value chain control index to thoroughly explore the theoretical foundations of how regional trade agreement (RTA) networks influence this index. Based on an empirical analysis framework and theoretical hypotheses, this paper utilizes country-level data from 2006 to 2018 to empirically test the impact of China and the United States’ RTA networks on value chain control. The results reveal that China’s external RTA networks primarily affect value chain control through intermediary positioning, whereas their influence in terms of breadth status, provision depth, and provision integration is weaker than U.S. networks. Furthermore, the mechanism analysis demonstrates that U.S. networks more effectively enhance value chain control through trade cost reduction and technology spillover mechanisms relative to China’s external RTA networks. The research provides inspiration for China’s RTA strategy: China should take the initiative to align high-standard international economic rules and improve the status of its network, leading and integrating the RTA network with “Chinese rules”. At the same time, the industry orientation of regional trade agreements should be strengthened to provide a stable, transparent, and predictable institutional environment for the mechanism. Table and Figures | Reference | Related Articles | Metrics | Comments（0）