The widespread penetration and rapid development of digital technologies have posed unprecedented challenges to global economic, social, and cultural structures, prompting in-depth discussions within academia and society on the issue of ″digital colonialism.″ Previous studies on ″digital colonialism″ have focused on aspects such as technological control and economic dominance, calling for new theoretical perspectives to establish a comprehensive and multi-dimensional analytical framework. Within the postcolonial theoretical framework, ″digital colonialism″ shares structural similarities with postcolonialism in terms of economic exploitation, cultural alienation, and the construction of the ″Other,″ signifying a new paradigm of global cultural and economic control. Postcolonial theory provides a theoretical framework and methodology for interpreting ″digital colonialism,″ emphasizing the value of indigenous cultures and offering theoretical tools for China to identify and reflect on marginalized voices within the context of globalization. A multi-dimensional research approach helps to understand the essence of digital colonialism, promote equitable global development of information technologies, and construct an open, inclusive, and diverse digital civilization ecosystem.

Currently, disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies are facing many challenges such as a sharp increase in the number of cases and the demand of high-quality handling of cases. Empowering the disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies with artificial intelligence is a crucial method and means for seizing opportunities and addressing challenges. Artificial intelligence technology has played a conspicuous role in the panoramic management of disciplinary inspection and supervision cases, tracking case clues, improving prevention effectiveness, and intelligent analysis of similar case handling information. However, the legal risks caused by artificial intelligence technology need to be urgently addressed, including the objectivity of results affected by shortage of information data and algorithmic defects, erosion of the exclusive nature of supervisory power due to the dependence of investigators on technology, and challenge of the traditional disciplinary inspection and supervision accountability mechanisms due to algorithmic decision-making biases. Therefore, measures should be taken to improve the use of artificial intelligence to assist disciplinary inspection and supervision in handling cases, including promoting centralized and unified data resources, improving algorithm security and transparency, constructing a reasonable labor division mechanism of ″human-machine coupling″, improving the technical level of disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies, and clarifying the boundaries and allocation of human-machine responsibilities.

Facing the memory crisis caused by the successive passing of Nanjing Massacre survivors and the dwindling number of living historical witnesses, the responsibility for sustaining and disseminating survivors′ memories has gradually shifted to their descendants. Due to the political situation and the ″unspeakable″ nature of the trauma, survivors remained silent about their traumatic memories for a long time until the 1980s, when the status of the Nanjing Massacre agenda was elevated. At the same time, the survivors′ active narratives catalyzed the internal transmission of massacre memories within their families. Through survivors′ oral testimonies and physical presence, supplemented by spatial sites and memorial installations beyond family settings, traumatic memories have been increasingly transmitted and embedded in the memories of their descendants. In this context, survivors′ traumatic memories constitute the cornerstone of their descendants′ autobiographical memory narratives, while the descendants achieve boundary expansion and re-contextualization of survivors′ memories through the collaborative shaping of multiple memory narratives.

Intelligent discipline inspection is not only to meet the needs of power supervision in the digital age, but also to adapt to the national anti-corruption goal. Compared with digital supervision, the concept of intelligent discipline inspection and supervision emphasizes the use of intelligent technology and the humanistic care shown by technology. At present, the intelligent discipline inspection and supervision shows the practice pattern of workflow type, early warning analysis type and auxiliary case handling type, the essence of which is to build an integrated, accurate, element-oriented and holographic discipline inspection and supervision system. However, the intelligent discipline inspection and supervision also presents the imbalance of the relationship between technology and system in the institutional dimension, the expansion effect of supervision power in the power dimension, the deconstruction of supervision procedures in the procedural dimension, and the closed problem of algorithmic technology in the technical dimension. In the future, the intelligent discipline inspection and supervision should clearly define the framework for the innovation of the discipline inspection system and mechanism promoted by technology empowerment and the ″technology-driving + legal guidance″, and construct the system in a dual way of wisdom and rule of law. Specifically, it includes improving the intelligent discipline inspection and supervision normative system at the institutional level, reshaping the relationship between power and rights of the intelligent discipline inspection and supervision at the power level, controlling the technology application process in the procedural aspect, and promoting the responsiveness and responsibility of algorithmic technology at the algorithmic level.

Directed by Xin Shuang, The Long Season is set against the backdrop of the restructuring of China′s old industrial regions in the 1990s. Through an unsolved case, it interweaves the fates of different groups of people during the transition period, presenting a tragic picture of individuals struggling and traumatised by their existential dilemmas, and their misplaced values amid drastic societal changes. The social connotation of individual destiny and historical transformations expressed in the drama is illuminated by the theory of ″individualisation″ by German sociologist Ulrich Beck and the concept of ″modern tragedy″ by British cultural theorist Raymond Williams. Drawing on Sun Liping′s theory of ″transformation and rupture″, The Long Season reveals, in the form of a suspenseful narrative, the phenomenon of the ″founding generation″ in the process of Chinese ″individualization″: on the one hand, the separation of the individual from the unitary system, and on the other hand, the reintegration of the founding generation in the absence of a corresponding social support system. This unique process of ″individualization″ has led to a rupture in identity formation and a crisis of mental trauma, which emerges in the narrative through the death and revenge of the ″second generation″. Through the narrative strategy of suspense, the ″second generation″ retrospectively review their own growing-up experience, inadvertently touching on the hidden aspects of the transformation of the era in the 1990s, and displaying the process of ″non-individualistic individualization″ of this generation.

Michel Foucault and Agnes Heller were both prominent philosophers in the second half of the 20th century. The former had a profound impact on the latter′s theoretical transformation, specifically presented in the dimensions of biopolitics and ethical aesthetics. Foucault′s later thought exhibited a clear ethical turn. He included self-care in the prescription for addressing the crisis of modernity and creatively introduced the concept of ″existential aesthetics,″ thereby generating an aesthetics-infused self-ethics. Heller associated biopolitics with ethical issues, placing particular emphasis on Foucault′s self-care theory. She proposed a personal ethics that focused on individual autonomous choice, emphasized the subject′s sensual practice of emotional management, and identified beauty as the inherent content of ethics rather than mere decoration. From Foucault′s existential aesthetics to Heller′s personal-ethical aesthetics, both focused on the sensuous modes of ethical subjectivity, providing an important aesthetic path for the reconstruction of ethical subjects. They also offered a new opportunity for paradigmatic transformation in the bidirectional interaction between contemporary ethics and aesthetics, jointly advancing the ethical turn in contemporary aesthetics.

The various risks arising from acute urban events and the chronic impacts of ″big city diseases″ have significantly increased the pressure on communities on the front line of modern urban risk governance, compelling urban communities to seek more effective response measures. The application of digital intelligence technology expands the perception capabilities, application scenarios, and practice modes of community risk and resilience governance, and demonstrates effects such as simulation, scale, turbine-like, emergence, and correlation. In the digital intelligence era, from both practical and theoretical perspectives, the decision-makers, administrators, and participants of community risk governance urgently need to grasp the overall framework of digital intelligence empowerment for urban community risk resilience governance based on internal and external driving mechanisms, emergency operation mechanisms, capability enhancement mechanisms, and resource guarantee mechanisms. The focus should be on building an integrated community risk prevention and control system, expanding multi-dimensional community emergency response applications, fostering a multi-dimensional community security resilience ecosystem, and enhancing comprehensive community risk intelligence capabilities.

Urban social resilience is an important component of urban resilience. In contrast to the resilience of key urban facilities, the formation of social resilience requires more complex cross-boundary activities. The social governance reform guided by collaborative governance aims to enhance society′s capacity to mitigate and respond to risks from the perspective of overall national security. Urban social resilience governance needs to adapt to the characteristics of risk dispersion by conducting boundary connections and joint actions between government and society, among public sectors, and between online and offline domains to enhance social resilience. Boundary communication, boundary organizations, and boundary objects effectively reconcile the differences among actors. By leveraging digital technologies, diverse social entities can establish routine partnerships and generate multiple autonomous response networks under the activation of sudden emergencies. This meets the needs of addressing various types of social risks. Boundary perspective analysis elaborates the formation process of social resilience and provides a richer toolkit for urban resilience governance.

Artificial intelligence algorithms significantly shape discretion in grassroots governance. Automated, predictive, and generative algorithms each uniquely impact grassroots discretion. While automated algorithms may weaken discretion, predictive and generative algorithms can enhance decision-making capacity, albeit with new challenges. Further analysis shows that the impact of algorithms on grassroots discretion is complex, being moderated by individual cognition, organizational system, and organizational culture. At the individual cognitive level, grassroots staff may depend on or counter algorithms due to algorithmic or cognitive biases. At the organizational system level, the separation of algorithmic decision-making and execution affects autonomy, but internal feedback and supervision mechanisms help sustain discretion. At the organizational culture level, the control-oriented culture may restrict discretion, while an autonomy-oriented culture may enhance governance capabilities.

Since the second half of the 20th century, the study of the history of the War of Resistance against Japan in the English-language scholarly community has undergone a series of changes, from the traditional fields of revolutionary history and political history to the detailed examination of military history and social history, as well as grassroots Sino-American relations. At the same time, the global study of the history of the War of Resistance against Japan in English has also benefited from the discovery and compilation of English historical materials from various places. In addition to the military history of the Anti-Japanese War and the re-examination of the history of Sino-American relations, the new trend of the study of the history of the Anti-Japanese War in the English-language academic community since the beginning of the 21st century is mainly reflected in the relevant research on the social history of the War and the history of daily life such as refugees, suffering, women, children, and wartime medical care. Moreover, databases represented by the ″Anti-Japanese War Literature Data Platform″ have sorted out a large number of rare English newspapers and archives of the War in recent years, laying a solid foundation for the study of the history of the War of Resistance against Japan.

The proposal and practice of the ″Resilient Cities″ concept have driven the evolution and renewal of urban disaster response strategies. A resilience-based urban disaster response strategy recognizes both the importance of ″robust″ measures and the uncertainty of disasters while seeking to establish a dynamic and compatible disaster perception model. This approach alleviates many issues associated with traditional ″high-confrontation″ strategies. Given the multifaceted important role of emergency rescue force construction in enhancing urban resilience, its concept should be updated based on ″resilience″ and advanced through institutionalized means. The resilience-oriented construction of emergency rescue forces is reflected in the pursuit of robustness, redundancy, and recoverability. Specific pathways for institutionalization include: strengthening the planning of emergency rescue force construction, particularly by clarifying the division of labor mechanisms among various forces; facilitating autonomous cooperation channels and obligatory complementary mechanisms among these forces; and enhancing evaluation mechanisms for the effectiveness of emergency rescue force construction.

Aesthetic philosophy of time is one of the most important dimensions in aesthetics. The core of Marxist aesthetic time philosophy is the aesthetic temporality of a communist life. The revolution of Marxist aesthetics in Western aesthetics is primarily the revolution of aesthetic temporality. Starting from this, they regarded aesthetic wealth as one of the forms of wealth, restored and criticized the capitalist time system and time exploitation as the main forms of aesthetic wealth distribution inequality, and used communist aesthetic life as a timely basis for future social construction. From the perspective of restoration, they conducted field investigations into the actual situations of work and life among the working class, preserved these conditions through the lenses of interpersonal aesthetics and work aesthetics, and obtained first-hand materials. From a critical perspective, they argue that the root of the capitalist time system lies in private ownership, and the exploitation of aesthetic wealth is primarily based on time exploitation. In terms of construction, they criticized the asceticism of religion and capitalism based on the communist aesthetic time system, especially the relationship between the free time system and aesthetic life, and depicted a beautiful blueprint.

Through interactive narratives, AI literature reconstructs the creative paradigm of traditional literature, whose core value lies in transcending the anthropocentric model of literary production. In the era of digital intelligence, AI literature adopts the theoretical framework of ″silicon-based socialism″, redefining the symbiotic relationship between carbon-based intelligence and silicon-based intelligence, thus endowing literary creation with new characteristics driven by data logic. This innovative literary form not only surpasses traditional literature’s limitations in textualizing human experiences, but also dissolves the subject-object dichotomy inherent in conventional literary frameworks by constructing ″virtual entities″ and ″prosthetic constructs″. AI literature reshapes the egalitarian dynamics of human-machine interactions, and facilitates the emergence of a new type of human-machine community through an intersubjective communicative paradigm. This transformation involves not merely formal innovations within literature, but also profoundly interrogates existing boundaries of human subjectivity, cultural diversity, and social ethics.

In recent years, as precarity in China′s economic environment has intensified, people have become increasingly eager to build a sense of reliance and continuity in the everyday crises. Closely tied to precarious experiences, the ″1990s″ has emerged as a popular theme in China′s cultural and academic fields. Beyond literature and film, video games have also become a new medium participating in this wave of nostalgia. Retro nostalgia games like Bad Kids mediate the figure of the ″Child Flâneur,″ which simultaneously serves as a game avatar, a nostalgic paradigm, and a mode of adaption. Its repertoires of ″finding joy in hardship″ and ″turning over a new leaf″ evoke two contrasting imaginations of everyday life: one that critically seeks to master and redefine everydayness amid precarity, and another that finds security through a conservative return to conventions and ideologies. The dialectical tension between these two gestures suggests that as the middle-class ideal of a ″good life″ becomes increasingly unattainable under the new normal, nostalgia serves as both a response to and an adaptation to the anxieties and uncertainties in the historical present.

In the Paris Manuscripts, Marx explored the path from human nature to aesthetic liberation. This dimension of aesthetic-political emancipation has found strong resonance in the thought of contemporary philosopher and aesthetician Jacques Rancière. Marx posited that human essence lies in free and conscious life, and that the objectification of human essence represents the objectifying activity of all human life forces, embodying the freedom and joy of life. From the perspective of sensory liberation, the realization of communism, defined as the comprehensive emancipation of human free life activities, also constitutes a form of aesthetic liberation. Rancière, however, diverges from Marx by extending the notion of sensory deprivation caused by alienated labor to encompass the unequal sensory distribution imposed by society upon the ″part of those that have no part″. He further concretizes Marx′s concept of species-being liberation by reinterpreting it as the aesthetic liberation of the oppressed within social hierarchies. Through his inheritance and development of Marx′s early theories on sensory and aesthetic liberation, Rancière, as a reader of the Paris Manuscripts, has effectively modernized and contextualized Marx′s dimension of aesthetic-political emancipation.

Modern technology has transformed pre-modern linear time into accelerated or rapid time, making the speed dimension and dynamic mechanism of time important aspects of modernity. Drawing on phenomenology, Rosa replaces abstract time with perceptible time and identifies the essence of modern society as acceleration in the temporal aspect. He addresses various aesthetic issues in the age of acceleration from the perspective of changes in the perceptual relationship between humans and the world. The new acceleration model disrupts the original depiction of the perceptual connection between the subject and the world as portrayed by phenomenology, thereby altering the subject's experience of existence in the world. Faced with perceptual alienation and the de-temporalization of life caused by acceleration, Rosa proposes sensory resonance based on phenomenological embodiment, offering a potential aesthetic solution to the issues arising from social acceleration.

This article provides an in-depth textual interpretation of Mo Yan′s novels, revealing the complex attitudes of farmers in the Jiaodong Peninsula towards the impact of modernity over the 20th century since the Anti-German War: drawing resources from local cultural traditions, seeking and obtaining the true essence of ″folk music″, and achieving positive creative results between the modernity and localization of literature. To create a new Chinese style sensory fiction with a rich and unfamiliar sensory description, to resist the harm of asceticism to human nature, as well as the alienation of human nature caused by capitalist instrumentalism, and to treat ″one-dimensional people″. Amidst the ups and downs of modernity, we pour out the suffering of farmers and the decline of rural areas, and focus more on shaping the image of ″ruthless people″ in rural areas, playing the final swan song for the heroism of farmers.

Henri Lefebvre′s early and mid-period critique of everyday life focuses on two central themes, with the ″revolutionary vision of restoring the aesthetic essence″ constituting the core objective of his theory of human liberation. The recovery of the richness and totality of everyday life through momentary practice most exemplifies the poetic and creative dimensions of Lefebvre′s critique. However, this conception is not mystical or abstract but rather tangible and specific. It is only within Lefebvre′s framework of ″rediscovering true Marxism″ that the relationship between the ″revolutionary conception of transforming the moral order″ and the ″revolutionary vision of restoring the aesthetic essence″ can be fully understood. The former relies on agents of social-historical transformation, while the latter is rooted in authentic individuals within everyday life, drawing its substance from the materials provided by daily existence. The ″revolutionary vision of restoring the aesthetic essence″ is essentially a path towards human liberation, where individuals continually transcend their alienation and ultimately achieve unity between man and society. Lefebvre proposes two paths to liberation: the Sisyphus-like path, where alienation is progressively overcome in everyday life through the accumulation of knowledge and experience, bringing one closer to the ideal of the ″total man″; and the Dionysian path, where, in moments of festivity or special instances, the alienated aspects of the self are reintegrated.

For a long time, the study of modern visual media technologies, represented by film, television, and digital archives, has often fallen into the trap of a linear view of history centered on media perception and temporal experience of humanity: The history of visual technology development is frequently viewed as a continuous and homogeneous narrative of progress. However, with the rise of the discourse around archives in the late 20th century and the increasing normalization of archival practices, visual media technologies are no longer seen as passive carriers of text and symbols but are recognized as having their generative capacities. This shift has introduced a materialist perspective to visual studies that moves away from anthropocentric approaches. Media archaeologists who hold archives in high regard employ archival theory as a method to emphasize the discontinuities, contingencies, and similarities caused by the lag in human sensory perception among the three modern visual media technologies. At the same time, from the perspective of visual archives, they highlight the disintegration and reconfiguration of traditional archival theories and storage spaces against the backdrop of technological transitions from analog to electronic and digital.

Previous studies of facial representation have mainly focused on static faces, with one approach being the analysis of the power mechanisms underlying the shaping and production of facial images. Currently, the relationship between digital faces and real faces is becoming increasingly strained, and the faces of the vulnerable are at risk of disintegration. ″The faceless″ refers to individuals who have lost control over their faces. They are horrified to find that their faces are being appropriated, distorted, and obscured in the digital realm. The disintegration of faces in the digital age is a result of the pervasive visual regimes driven by digital media technologies. The various forms of resistance by ″the faceless″—expressing genuine emotions to reclaim their faces, suspending technological mediation to restore their faces, and wearing digital masks to conceal their faces—pose both a challenge and a critique to these visual regimes. The face signifies the individual's position of subjectivity in social relations and interactions. When the face is vibrant, visible, and autonomous, ″the faceless″ will regain their subjectivity and reclaim their freedom and dignity.

BODY is a core concept that runs through various stages of the development of ecocriticism theory, and its changing connotations reflect the shifts in research focus. Ecofeminism and postcolonial ecocriticism focus on the political nature of the body, examining the complex relationship between the body and ecological crisis from the perspectives of essentialism, constructivism, and performativity, with an emphasis on analyzing the identity differences of the body and their causes. Material ecocriticism views the body as a trans-corporeal material with narrative capacity, positing that bodily diseases and environmental pollution have an isomorphic relationship, and reveals the close connection between humans and nature from a negative perspective. In the turn toward the non-human and the posthuman, the rights of non-humans are increasingly recognized, the autonomy of the human body is undermined, and technological objects and animals challenge and subvert the hierarchical order between humans and non-humans, leading to a diversified and differentiated view of the body. The evolution of the concept of the body is not a linear process but a rhizomatic one, characterized by de-territorialization and re-territorialization, forming a rich matrix of meanings.

This paper mainly takes some memoirs and oral materials of history published since the new century as the primary sources to reexamine three types of narratives about the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression from three dimensions: the personalized narrative of suffering, the narrative of cultural-oriented resistance against Japanese invasion, and the historical reflection transcending the boundaries of nation-states. From the perspective of life stories and life experiences of individuals, it intends to interpret how the Chinese intellectuals, students and the common people personally experienced, witnessed and reflected on the collective experiences and national traumas caused by the Anti-Japanese War. Furthermore, it attempts to discuss the contents presented in these memoirs and oral materials from multiple perspectives, including those of individual and state, history and memory, experience and rationality, nationalism and humanism.

From the beginning of the 20th century to the 1920s and 1930s, evolutionary theory became increasingly dominant in Chinese literary studies. However, many scholars questioned and challenged the concept of ″evolution″. In the early 1920s, Mei Guangdi, Hu Xiansu, Zhang Shizhao, Liang Qichao, and Qian Jibo expressed doubts about the evolution of literature, arguing that the assumption that the latter is superior to the former and that vernacular is superior to classical is not valid. Later, Lu Jiye proposed the ″metamorphosis theory″ of literature, asserting that literature is neither evolutionary nor degenerative but only metamorphic. In addition to ″metamorphosis″, other literary history narrative modes such as ″transformation″, ″flux″, and ″developmental trajectory″, which differed from ″evolution″, also emerged. These narrative modes challenged the mainstream concept of literary evolution, yet they maintained complex relations with it. This historical segment of 20th-century literary studies offers valuable insights for the methodological reflection of contemporary literary research.

Unlike any other events and battles of the Anti-Japanese War, the Nanjing Massacre was an atrocity committed by Japanese soldiers against civilians and a crime against humanity. It should be remembered in human history like the Holocaust against Jews committed by Nazi Germany, which has received worldwide concerns for 80 years. Poetic justice is more profound than legal justice. In the contemporary narratives of the Nanjing Massacre, the novels of YE Zhaoyan, FANG Wei and HA Jin, as well as the documentary of ZHANG Chunru, employ different narrative forms and exhibit different writing styles, but all point to the ultimate and unending question of human destiny or condition revealed by Malraux and Arendt.

In the 1930s, the Nanjing Nationalist Government, which had successfully completed the Northern Expedition, issued a series of regulations prohibiting the production and screening of dialect- based sound films in line with the political goal of ″unifying the national language″. However, due to de facto administrative autonomy, Cantonese-language films de facto administrative autonomy in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions of southern China for a long time. Consequently, the retention or abolition of Cantonese-language films gradually evolved into a complex game between the film industries in southern China and Shanghai, and the Kuomintang ″Central Film Censorship Committee″. Ultimately, with the intervention of high-level officials of the Nationalist government, the ″prohibition on Cantonese-language films″ was extended until 1940 and a ″Central Film Censorship Committee Office″ was established in Guangdong. However, this policy was left unsettled amid the Japanese military 's full-scale invasion of China. Drawing on the regulatory arbitrage theory used by Canadian sinologist Michael Szonyi in his historical research, this article analyzes the strategic interactions of the three parties strategic interactions, thus providing a fresh perspective on this period of history and deeply analyzing the underlying causes of regulatory arbitrage stemming from central-local tensions, why the film industry in southern China defended its vested interests in regulatory arbitrage, and the game psychology of the film industry in Shanghai as an anticipator of new regulatory arbitrage.

The proactive work and entrepreneurship of local governments are key to China′s remarkable economic development achievements. However, the inadequacy of past supervision and accountability mechanisms has also posed high risks of corruption due to power abuse, affecting the smooth progress of Chinese modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized the need to ″persist in governing the Party with a reform-oriented spirit and strict standards.″ Therefore, how to effectively supervise and constrain the exercise of power while motivating local governments to work and engage in entrepreneurship has become an urgent issue for the Party and state governance. Consequently, this paper constructs an analytical framework for the integration and coordination of incentives for local work and entrepreneurship with supervision and accountability, revealing the internal logic of changes in local behavior through two core variables: incentives for delegation of power and accountability for control of power. It also proposes moderately relaxing the regulation of residual rights under the mechanism of digital technology-enabled supervision and accountability to motivate local governments to actively work and engage in entrepreneurship.

The public′s sense of gain in anti-corruption work is a key index for evaluating the effectiveness of anti-corruption work, and there is a close relationship between government information disclosure and public′s sense of gain in anti-corruption work. By constructing an analytical framework based on the social interconstruction theory and conducting an empirical analysis of the CSS2019 survey data, it is found that disclosure of government information helps to resolve the problem of information asymmetry in the principal-agent relationship, and has a significant positive impact on the sense of gain in anti-corruption work. Meanwhile, exposure to online information will increase the negative impression of the public about the effectiveness of the government′s anti-corruption work. From the perspective of intermediary effect, disclosure of government information helps to improve the public′s perception of social equity, enhance the public′s institutional participation, thereby improving the public′s sense of gain in anti-corruption work. Looking to the future, we should prioritize the public demand-driven transparency, establish a government information supply system that meets the heterogeneous needs of individuals, reasonably allocate anti-corruption work attention, and regulate political participation forms, so as to continuously and effectively enhance the public′s sense of gain in anti-corruption work.

There are a lot of literary works, especially in Southeast Asia and North America, on the Anti-Japanese War in the Sinophone literature. Due to their identity transformation from ″overseas Chinese″ to ″Chinese″, the Southeast Asian Chinese writers experienced an ideological evolution from the Chinese nationalist stance to the identity of the emerging nation-state when they wrote about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which had a profound impact on their narrative form from the traditional chapter-by-chapter style to the modernist/postmodernist narrative style. When creating literary works on the Anti-Japanese War, Sinophone writers in North America tended to, in a way of ″response″ and ″recalling″, describe stories of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression by incorporating democratic ideas, reviewing the history of the Anti-Japanese War, expressing female trauma, and focusing on identity recognition, and form a global vision through cross-domain writing and universal expression. The narrative form of the anti-Japanese War themes in North American Chinese literature showed a trend of evolution from traditional simple realism to refined realism.

Sun Yu′s last film was the drama film Qin Niangmei, which has long been ignored by film historians. The movie Qin Niangmei was adapted from the Qian drama Qin Niangmei, which was born from the Dong oral art ZhuLang NiangMei. Director Sun Yu omitted the storyline of the heroine in ZhuLang NiangMei in the second half of her life, such as remarrying and having children. The film Qin Niangmei reflects the mutual interaction and coupling of Dong culture and Han culture, as well as the director′s romantic spirit and folk aesthetic preference. It shows the director′s continuous exploration of poetic national style and his persistent pursuit of idyllic paradise, folk spirit, and rural femininity. The intermediality of the film Qin Niangmei reflects the director′s artistic ideal of attempting to bridge the boundaries between poetry, music, dance, drama, and cinema. The gains and shortcomings of the movie Qin Niangmei reveal the tension between Sun Yu′s later artistic pursuits and the emotional structure of the ″Seventeen Years″ cinema.

The essence of interest expression on the Internet is characterized by dissemination. In different contexts of interest infringement, interest holders, guided by instrumental rationality, adopt differentiated dissemination strategies. When public interests are undermined, they tend to adopt a fragmented narrative mode to achieve group mobilization and action integration. When minority interests are undermined, they are more likely to resort to a narrative of suffering to achieve media mobilization through emotional resonance. The common goal of these strategies is to shape public opinion and thereby maximize the realization of their interests. An analysis of the psychological motivations and strategic interactions behind the dissemination mechanisms on the Internet provides theoretical support for media guidance and policy formulation, and has significant implications for advancing the modernization of national governance and fostering collaborative governance between the state and society.

In a broad sense, digital justice encompasses investigation, prosecution, adjudication and judicial administration. Within this framework, digital justice serves both as an assistive system for human judicial tasks and, potentially, as an algorithm capable of autonomous adjudicative reasoning. Accordingly, a broad-sense methodology for studying digital justice must critically review the entire case-handling process through a threefold lens: technical, doctrinal and adjudicative methods. Technically, embedding AI in adjudication promises objectivity, neutrality and efficiency. Yet it risks alienation via “algorithmic black boxes” that may frustrate fair adjudication.. Such black boxes stem from the inherent technical features of algorithms. Hence, algorithmic bias in the digital judicial process is hardly avoidable, and the verifiability of outcomes produced by digital justice remains uncertain. Doctrinally, the advent of digital technology does not subvert legal doctrine; classic categories, including the legal subject, remain valid. Doctrinal issues in the digital realm often manifest as issues within specific branches of law. Adjudicative scholarship must confront three key limitations. First, digital tools offer limited aid in fact-finding and in bridging the distance between case facts and legal norms. Second, digital justice gravitates toward uniform, similarity-driven decisions, hindering differentiated treatment of distinct cases. Third, the operational logic of digital technology may diverge from the judicial duty to decide in accordance with the law.

The stable supply of meat is crucial for social welfare and livelihood protection as well as for economic stability and smooth operation. As a strategic resource for responding to major emergencies, the reserve meat supply chain faces challenges such as weak resilience and limited emergency supply capabilities. With the frequent occurrence of emergencies and the evolving interplay among risk types, traditional classifications of emergency types are no longer sufficient to fully reflect the complexity of risk propagation and impact mechanisms. Under emergency conditions, the reserve meat supply chain exhibits distinct response characteristics, such as short-chain characteristics and bottom-line support functions. The risk formation mechanism can be systematically analyzed through a supply chain deformation model based on ″points of action—direction of action—magnitude of action.″ The study shows that the resilience of the reserve meat supply chain can be summarized into 14 key factors, covering four capability dimensions: prevention, response, recovery, and learning. This forms a practical and operational resilience assessment framework. In the process of systemic resilience building, supply chain visibility, coordination efficiency, and response flexibility serve as critical elements. Promoting the transition of the reserve meat supply chain from passive risk management to systemic resilience building is an essential pathway for enhancing national food reserve governance and improving emergency response capabilities.

The perception that Chinese characters are difficult to learn is widespread within the international Chinese language teaching community, and Chinese character input has been a persistent challenge in Chinese language research. In the context of the digital and intelligent era, there remain perceptual and application issues in the field of international Chinese education concerning how to view the role and impact of Chinese character input. Findings from a survey of 358 international students indicate that Chinese character input methods are gaining popularity within the international student community. The surveyed students exhibit a tendency to rely primarily on pinyin input with handwriting as a supplementary method, demonstrating an attitude of ″preferring digital writing while acknowledging the value of handwriting″ in learning Chinese characters. There are differences in the acceptance of different input methods at different stages of Chinese language learning. Nationality distribution, linguistic background, and ethnic Chinese identity have marked influences on the preferences of international students in selecting Chinese character input methods. Chinese character input methods have a positive and constructive impact on the Chinese language learning of international students, with pinyin input offering more advantages than handwriting. A preference for pinyin input helps students with their Chinese pronunciation, vocabulary, and reading, leading to positive learning perceptions that increase with the duration of study. A tendency to use handwriting input can reduce the interference of stroke order and character components in Chinese character learning for international students, helping them with their writing. We should attach importance to the opportunities and challenges brought by Chinese character input methods in the digital and intelligent era and formulate corresponding strategies in multiple areas, including the development of international Chinese education resources, updating Chinese character teaching programs, researching Chinese character input, and expanding the language industry, to promote the effective integration of Chinese character input methods with international Chinese education.

In the postwar period, Japan propagated the Hiroshima memory centered on the suffering of the weak, strategically employing the imagery of ″womanhood″ to construct an innocent victimhood narrative in the context of the atomic bombing. Within atomic bomb literature and arts, gendered representations are conspicuously foregrounded—figures such as the ″Hiroshima maiden″ and the ″Hiroshima mother″ are deliberately emphasized as political tropes. The ″maiden″, as a symbol of nuclear victimhood, seeks to evoke an international perception of Hiroshima as a helpless sacrifice, while postwar discourses surrounding the ″mother″ further reinforce the historical memory of ordinary Japanese citizens as victims of militarist aggression. By instrumentalizing this framework of memory domination, Japan extends the archetype of women as ″pure and blameless″ peace advocates to the entire populace, thereby obscuring its wartime perpetration and resisting national accountability. Women thus become fully enmeshed in sustaining the myth of Japanese collective victimhood, spanning both wartime and postwar narratives. Simultaneously, the trope of ″womanhood″ operates not only as a metonym for Hiroshima but also as an allegory for Japan itself—a nation rhetorically recast as passive, wounded, and morally untainted.

In June 1920, the murder of Wang Lianying, a famous prostitute, by Yan Ruisheng, an unemployed young man in Shanghai, triggered a wave of cross-media cultural production in early 20th-century China. Initially, as a piece of social news, the case sparked urban panic. Subsequently, led by tabloid writers, it was reinterpreted through popular literary forms such as drama, Yuan-Yang Butterfly novels, and films, quickly becoming a popular cultural consumer product in Shanghai. Surrounding the film ″Yan Ruisheng,″ nationalist sentiments and concerns about its negative social impact rapidly fermented in the public opinion, leading to a suppressive and resistant dynamic in the media discourse. This further sparked disputes between Chinese and foreign authorities over the banning of the film, reflecting micro-level power game between Chinese and foreign administrations. The process of media production and dissemination of the ″Lianying Case″ demonstrates the logic of media capital production, the disciplinary process of media ethics under the influence of political forces, and also revealed the complex power relations between the Chinese and foreign administrations in Shanghai and mass media consumption.

Chairs for research on the Holocaust were established in only two universities in Germany: the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where the first professorship has been created since 2017, followed by the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Of all the courses on the Holocaust taught in German universities, only one-third focus on the actual historical events. Currently, there are no German universities offering a Master of Arts program on the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is an international field of research, there are no appointments of international scholars to senior positions in German academia, which remains parochial and inward-looking. This article provides a critical review of the current state of university teaching, institutional infrastructure, memorial sites and historical research on the Holocaust in Germany, and the future challenges facing the field.

Zhu Guangqian's early thought formed a philosophical view of the ″organic personality theory,″ characterized by three elements: ″organic, holistic, and creative evolution,″ and integrating three aspects: ″art, life, and the universe.″ From this basic standpoint, Zhu Guangqian's ″aestheticization of life″ refers to revealing the authentic understanding of the self and the universe through aesthetic contemplation. Zhu Guangqian shifted from the study of scientific psychology to the study of literary psychology and from following the formalist aesthetic ″mechanical view″ to forming his own ″organic, holistic, and creative evolution″ philosophical view, constituting two intellectual turns. It was during the latter turn that Zhu Guangqian, based on the long-term intellectual fermentation, absorbed Croce's concept of ″intuition as lyrical expression,″ Bergson's concept of ″life as the creative evolution of personality,″ and Nietzsche's concept of ″redemption through form.″ He integrated these concepts into his philosophy of ″organic personality theory″ on the basis of traditional Chinese philosophical views of ″Tian-Ren″ (Heaven-Human), ″Knowledge-Action,″ and ″Dahua″ (Great Change).

In modern Yue dialects, the common interrogative pronouns for questioning people are ″biange″ (边个), ″mieshui″ (乜谁), and ″mieren″ (乜人). Their geographical distribution is characterized as follows: ″biange″ has the widest distribution range and is concentrated in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong and along the Xijiang River in Guangxi; ″mieshui″ is relatively common in coastal areas of Guangdong and is sporadically distributed in the central and northern parts of Guangdong and eastern Guangxi; ″mieren″ is mainly distributed in southeastern Guangxi and sporadically found in western Guangdong. Their diachronic evolution in Cantonese is roughly as follows: ″mieshui″ appeared as early as the early Qing Dynasty, was the dominant term from the early 19th century to the 1880s, and was replaced by ″biange″ from the late 19th century to the early 20th century; ″mieren″ has been in a secondary role since its appearance in the mid-19th century. The geographical distribution pattern of interrogative pronouns in modern Yue dialects corresponds to their diachronic evolution in Cantonese. The commonly used terms ″mieshui″ and ″biange″ are derived from ancient Chinese and include innovations within the dialects themselves. One important reason why ″biange″ replaced ″mieshui″ is the influence of the regional linguistic environment. It is likely that the earliest interrogative pronoun in Cantonese was shui (谁).

As a generative framework of meaning, ″space″ differs significantly from ″geographical region″ and ″indigenousness″. Since the mid-20th century, influenced by phenomenological ontology, humanistic geography and interpretive anthropology have positioned the concepts of place and placeness as central topics in modern humanities. While ″place-basedness″ is a concept rooted in meaning theory, its interpretive validity is limited in epistemology and truth theory. However, in literary studies, which center on meaning-making, place and place-basedness serve as critical interpretive tools. Place bridges the gap between ″situation″ and ″space″, combining the particularity of situation with the universality of space. The exploration of meaning generation in literary texts through place-basedness focuses on distinguishing textual meaning from the historical interaction between the subject and their dwelling. Place-basedness is one of the sources of the uniqueness of literary meaning, yet it is often misunderstood as a knowledge-based representation of regional cultural spirit, thereby obscuring the individuality of literary meaning

Digital twin technology, as an emerging digital concept and technical tool, has been widely recognized for its immense potential in disaster management. A case study from Shanghai demonstrates that by enabling a high-precision digital mapping of physical cities, this technology drives a paradigm shift in resilient urban governance. While significantly enhancing urban resilience and adaptability, its application also faces structural risks. These can be addressed through a five-pronged action strategy to systematically enhance city digital resilience. Research shows that digital twin technology markedly strengthens modern urban resilience through scenario reconstruction, structural transformation, and action empowerment. Future urban development requires deep integration with urban cultural and geographical context, supported by scalable urban system architecture for technological iteration. With safety-centric resilience as the core objective, cities can progress from localized optimization to city-wide synergy in resilience building.