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• 2026 Volume 40 Issue 3
  Published: 15 May 2026

    

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  The Textual Logic and Legislative Arrangements for the Ecological and Environmental Code

  YU Wenxuan

  2026, 40(3): 1-11.

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  Reflecting a legal framework specifically adapted to the construction of ecological civilization, the textual structure of the Ecological and Environmental Code(hereinafter referred to as “the Code”) is developed on the basis of the historical and practical logic of the ecological rule of lawStructured around the threads focusing on preventing and controlling pollution, ecological conservation, and green and lowcarbon development, the layout of the Code directly responds to this legal logicDifferentiated arrangements have been made within the Code according to the distinct characteristics and substantive requirements of ecological, environmental protection across these three domainsSuch a structural design signifies a paradigm shift from a reductionistic to holistic way of environmental governanceConcurrently, by adhering to a moderate codification model and innovating legislative techniques, the Code facilitates a fundamental transformation in the paradigm of the ecological rule of lawRegarding the application of the Code and special laws, the Code establishes an innovative dualsources modelIn terms of the principles of codification, it follows the rule that a new general law prevails over an old special lawRegarding the norms of implementation, it adheres to the rule that a new special law prevails over an old general law.
  

  
  
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  On the Interpretation and Re-systematization of the Ecological Conservation Norms under the Framework of Dual-Legal Sources

  CAO Wei

  2026, 40(3): 12-27.

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  The compilation of the Ecological and Environmental Code(hereinafter referred to as “the Code”) follows an approach of codifying core principles and essential rules, and the core norms are extracted from the existing body of the ecological conservation legislation to constitute the normative framework of the Codes section of ecological conservationThis legislative strategy gives rise to a duallegalsources structure within the field of the ecological conservation law, which in turn engenders a dual interpretive meaning of the core norms and obscures the conceptual coherence of the corresponding normative system, thereby imposing additional tasks of doctrinal interpretation and systematizationRegarding the interpretive approach to the primary norms of the ecological conservation law, the Codes system should generally serve as the basis for normative interpretationHowever, under exceptional circumstances, interpretation grounded in individual statutes remains necessaryAs for the systematization of the ecological conservation norms, norms governing protection activities should be categorized as the general part of the normative system, while norms concerning protected objects should constitute its special part, thereby forming a generalspecial doctrinal structure.
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  The Positioning and Function of the Quasi-General Provisions in the“Legal Liability” Chapter of the Ecological and Environmental Code

  CHEN Haisong

  2026, 40(3): 28-39.

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  The enactment of the Ecological and Environmental Code(hereinafter referred to as “the Code”)  marks a new historical stage in legal construction of China's ecological civilization characterized by its systematization and codificationThe “Legal Liability” chapter serves as a core factor determining the implementation and effectiveness of the Code, requiring an indepth analysis of its intrinsic meaning and unique features to enhance the Code's systemic coherence and authorityThe “Legal Liability” chapter shares a similar overarching and holistic nature with the “General Provisions” chapter, and holds a quasigeneralprovisions regulatory position within the CodeThe Code adopts a fully centralized structure for the liability provisions, rather than dispersing them across various chapters, which facilitates effective implementation and meets practical enforcement and judicial needsFrom an applicative perspective, the general clauses in the “Legal Liability” chapter function similarly to the “General Provisions” chapter, and form a composite relationship of mutual guidance and supplementation between the twoLikewise, the “Legal Liability” chapter does not maintain a simple generalparticular relationship with the preceding four chapters, but collectively constitutes the comprehensive legal regulation of specific behaviorsThe “Legal Liability” chapter contains relatively extensive specialized provisions in the fields of ecological conservation and green and lowcarbon developmentIt also possesses corresponding normative efficacy in areas governed by the duallegal sources and necessitates systematic application.
  

  
  
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  On How to Boost the Consumer Service Consumption to Expand Domestic Demand:From the Perspective of Dynamic Equilibrium between Supply and Demand

  TAO Hu, SUN Yanhan, ZHUANG Shan

  2026, 40(3): 40-54.

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  Boosting the consumer service consumption is an important lever for expanding domestic demandTo effectively boost the consumption of consumer services, it is essential to achieve a higherlevel dynamic equilibrium between the supply and demand of consumer servicesThis article analyzes the data collected from 30 provinces in China between 2013 and 2022 as case samples within the TechnologyOrganizationEnvironment(TOE) analytical frameworkThrough the Panel FuzzySet Qualitative Comparative Analysis, it deconstructs the complex interactive mechanisms affecting the dynamic equilibrium between the supply and demand of consumer servicesThe study finds that no single condition can constitute a necessary condition for the dynamic equilibrium between the supply and demand of consumer servicesProvinces at different developmental stages with endowments of different resource show significant differences in their selection of paths, either marketdriven, governmentled, or governmentmarket collaborativeThis article explains the theoretical connotation and the measurement logic of the dynamic equilibrium
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  On the Reasonable Level of the Rate of China's Industrial Capacity Utilization

  LIANG Yongmei

  2026, 40(3): 55-68.

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  A scientific estimate of the rate of Chinas reasonable industrial capacity utilization is essential for the capacitygovernance policy design and has urgent practical relevanceA widely cited international standard considers a rate of about 80% as reasonableThis benchmark ultimately traces to the studies of the USnonaccelerating inflation rate of capacity utilization(NAIRCU) in the second half of the twentieth centuryUsing an empirical approach aligned with according literature, this article finds that the rate Chinas reasonable utilization is between 755% and 772%, well below the purported international standardThe benchmarks inapplicability reflects the differences of statistical measurement and stages of development between China and the United StatesMoreover, the reasonable level of the UScapacity utilization has shown a downward trend, also casting some doubt on the benchmarks relevance to the American caseAccordingly, the claims of Chinas overcapacity based on such international standard do not have empirical support.
  

  
  
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  On the Brand-Innovation Mechanism of Time-honored Enterprises from the Perspective of Spiritual Capital

  QIAN Minghui, XU Jiayuan, LI Hurong, WANG Chi

  2026, 40(3): 69-85.

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  This article takes the Peacock Watch as a case study to explore the dynamic evolution mechanism of its brand selfinnovation based on an integrated framework focusing on the driving force of environmental factors, the spiritual capital activation, the realization of brand selfinnovation, and the reconstruction of brand valueThis study finds that the spiritual capital that consists of the entrepreneurial spirit, the managerial spirit, and the craftsmanship spirit serves as the main internal driving force enabling the traditional timehonored enterprises to transit from technological imitation to selfinnovation, and ultimately to achieve the reconstruction of their brand valueThe brand selfinnovation includes three stages starting from exploration to growth and maturityIn the exploration stage, the entrepreneurial spirit makes the breakthrough strategies, while the managerial spirit enhances organizational execution and guides the enterprise toward original innovationIn the growth stage, the synergy of the entrepreneurial spirit and the craftsmanship spirit achieves integrated innovationIn the maturity stage, the craftsmanship spirit evolves into a cultural guiding force, achieving a certain comprehensive original innovation.
  

  
  
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  On the New Spatial Crisis of Digital Modernization:Navigating the Pathways to a Resolution

  LIU Yang, GE Tong

  2026, 40(3): 86-100.

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  The process of modernization characterized by number intelligence has profoundly reconstructed the production of global spaceThe spatial revolution in the digital age is reflected in the transformation of spacerelated domain, spatial communication, and spatial transfer, which brings about large growth of productivity, promotes the progress of production relations, and provides a new opportunity for the freedom and liberation of workersHowever, like a historical paradoxical phenomenon, the traditional geopolitical space hegemony has been upgraded to a system of digital space deprivation in a digital ageThis exposes a new space crisis that has become a common problem for human beings to solve urgentlyConfronted by the new crisis, Western scholars have introduced such countermeasures as suspension, subversion, and rerecognitionIt provides us with a theoretical framework to think about the internal tension between digital technology and spatial changeChina grasps the three major issues of the power relations, ownership foundation, and revolutionary subject based on the Marxist linkage of the power criticismsubject, the system of practice, and the institutional reconstruction to form another way to deal with the crisis in theoretical and practical innovationsTo fully promote the independent construction of a digital China and the narrative of a community with a shared future in cyberspace, it is necessary to create a practical possibility in ideological inheritance and theoretical innovation and to open a possible path in the digital age.
  

  
  
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  On the Digital Transformation of Western Political Parties:Organizational Changes and Strategies of Mobilization Driven by Technology

  WANG Xiang, LI Zhiheng

  2026, 40(3): 101-114.

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  The current global digital transformation is profoundly reshaping the organizational models and power structures of political partiesWestern political parties have evolved from the initial phase of oneway informational dissemination to that of datadriven precise mobilization, and are now advancing toward platformbased, intelligentgovernance modelsThe digital wave has transformed the strategies of electoral campaigns, voter mobilization, and policymaking, enabling political parties to achieve precise political communication and efficient policy responses through datadriven approaches and algorithmic supportWhile such transformation has enhanced the governance performance, it has also brought about the rise of populism, intensified social polarization, and deepened trust crises, and, accordingly, poses significant challenges to the legitimacy and structures of governance of Western political partiesHow to apply digital technologies to construct more legitimate and more inclusive models of governance remains a critical issue for the future development of Western party politics.
  

  
  
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  Becoming “We”: A Phenomenological Approach to the Constitution of the We-community

  ZHAO Meng

  2026, 40(3): 115-125.

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  Collective intentionality represents a prominent area of inquiry in contemporary social ontologyPhenomenology has contributed fruitful insights to understanding the constitution of the WecommunityEmploying a phenomenological methodology, this article elucidates a typical approach through which the Wecommunity emerges from the perspective of individual subjectThe analysis focuses on the constitution of communal intentionality, the genesis of the objectified“we”,and the subsequent transformation from a weobject to a wesubjectThis study systematically examines how the self, as a singular individual subject, participates in constituting the“we”as a plural subject while preserving its relative independenceFurthermore, it demonstrates that, as an integral part of the wecommunity, the individual self can adumbrate the collective“we”as a whole through its own firstperson perspectiveThis study proposes a phenomenological approach grounded in intentional and firstperson experiential analysis for the understanding of the constitution of the wecommunity.
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  From Ideal Models to Indigenous Practices:On the Contextualized Extension in Climate Justice

  TENG Fei

  2026, 40(3): 126-136.

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  The climate justice theory is an ethical framework for advancing a just transition in global climate governanceIts development must address the inequalities in how climate changes and impacts are distributed across different regions and different groupsThis requires theoretical studies to engage with contextual, diverse local conditions and practicesThis article focuses on the growing trend of contextualized orientation in the study of climate justiceIt traces the development of this approach and evaluates its theoretical contributionsBy comparing the “inclusive climate justice” and the “critical climate justice” theoretical approaches, this study argues that the climate justice theory should enhance its practical relevance, reflexivity, and intersectionality with a robust, normative foundationNormative commitments and contextual perspectives should coexist in a balanced, multidimensional mannerTo further strengthen the theory in relation to local climate action and policymaking, the integration of different theoretical perspectives and local knowledge is essential.
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  A Metaphorical Theory of Aesthetic Experience

  LI Minghui, ZHANG Jin

  2026, 40(3): 137-149.

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  Phenomenology of perception and embodied cognitive science have driven the structural shift in aesthetic issues from disembodied to embodied, raising questions about metaphorical interpretation in aesthetic experienceThe embodiment concept breaks through the dichotomous predicate logic of languages representation of the world, elevating metaphor from a poetic and linguistic tool to an ontological element, and making it a methodological tool to explain the coherence and structuring of experienceIt also transcends theories that analyze the unified, living experience gained from existing in the world by spatially dividing it for analysisAesthetic experience is redefined from the perspectives of temporal Ekstasis and the emergence of the subject, ie., “aesthetic experience becomes the moment when we create coherence for ourselves” Aesthetic experience is a new metaphor capable of creating new meaning and new reality, possessing eventfulness and transformative potentialsAesthetics has become a discipline studying the production and experience of meaning with the potential of first philosophy.
  

  
  
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  On “Modern Drama” and Modern Chinese Drama

  FAN Fangjun

  2026, 40(3): 150-159.

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  “Modern drama” is a term used in the early Twentiethcentury Japanese Shingeki(New Theatre) movement to designate the then emerged modern European and American dramas represented by such playwrights as Henrik IbsenDuring the same period, a range of terms circulated in China to describe theatrical forms influenced by European, American, and Japanese new dramas, including xin xi(new drama), wenming xi(civilized drama), aimei ju(aesthetic drama), and hua ju(spoken drama). Japanese scholars have often argued that “modern drama” is a theatrical term unique to Japan, and that China possessed only the analogous concept of hua juHowever, historical evidence shows that from the very outset of the Japanese New Theatre movements advocacy of modern drama, the concept attracted the attention of Chinese students in Japan, including members of the Chunliu She(Spring Willow Society). Subsequently, with the Japanese New Theatre movement serving as an intermediary, a continuous trajectory of reception of modern drama emerged in China—from the Chunliu She to the Chuangzao She(Creation Society) and later the Nanguo She(Southern China Society). This process exerted a significant and lasting influence on the formation of the concept of “modern drama” in China, as well as on the literary creation and practices of modern Chinese theatre.
  

  
  
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  The Dissemination and Cultural Impact of Bronze Mirror Inscriptions of the Han, Wei,Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties in Japan

  SHI Jiayi

  2026, 40(3): 160-169.

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  From the burial sites of Japans Yayoi to Kofun periods, a considerable number of bronze mirrors dating back to the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties periods in China have been unearthed, alongside bronze mirrors produced locally in JapanChinese bronze mirrors exerted a profound influence on the development of early Japanese cultureJapan continuously imported bronze mirrors from China, while Chinese craftsmen traveling eastward to Japan also cast Hanstyle bronze mirrors there, consequently promoted the dissemination of mirrorcasting techniques and crosscultural exchange, and contributed to Japanese mirror artisans making indigenous Japanesestyle bronze mirrorsImported mirrors, Hanstyle mirrors, and Japanesestyle mirrors exhibit distinct differences in form, imagery, and inscriptions, revealing the trajectory from absorption to adaptation in the Japanese bronze mirror cultureThe emergence of bronze mirrors with Chinese inscriptions in Japan through Baekje marked a breakthrough in the adoption of Chinese characters and the making of mirror inscriptions out of ChinaThe con