The external dimension of Chinese modernization is characterized by its commitment to“the path of peaceful development,”engaging with international law as an emerging power through a two-fold interaction in the process of development. On the one hand, the rise of emerging powers has challenged the hegemonic status of traditional great powers, destabilizing the established international political and economic order. On the other hand, the motivation and capacity of emerging powers to advance international law have come under scrutiny, highlighting the need to move beyond both the great power-dominated model and the predicament of fragmented development. With the sustained enhancement of their national strength and international influence, emerging powers represented by China have acquired greater voice in the construction of international order through legal, institutional, and systemic participation and innovation, consistently providing public goods to the international community and promoting the democratization of the international order. Chinese modernization transcends the paradigm of international law of great powers embedded in the traditional Western path to modernization, propelling international law toward a more equitable and reasonable direction.

The World Bank’s new Business Ready (BR) framework mandates that corporate management assumes the obligation to preserve business value, avoid bankruptcy where possible, and, if bankruptcy becomes unavoidable, to file for bankruptcy in a timely manner before the commencement of formal insolvency proceedings. The absence of corresponding provisions in both the Company Law and the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law constitutes a potential point deduction in the BR assessment and reveals a legislative gap that urgently requires addressing within the legal framework. When a company faces financial distress and enters the zone of insolvency, management’s fiduciary duties should no longer be confined to the company and its shareholders

but should extend to include creditors. This shift represents not only a breakthrough in the scope of traditional fiduciary obligations but also an essential adaptation to market development aimed at protecting creditor

interests. The framework for management’s obligations prior to bankruptcy proceedings should be constructed by addressing the relevant parties, timing, required measures, and legal liabilities. Such a system aligns with the trends of Company Law reform by reinforcing accountability under the board-centric governance model, meets

the objectives of Bankruptcy Law by facilitating the rescue of viable enterprises and enabling market-oriented liquidation, and further promotes the development of the pre-reorganization regime. Collectively, these reforms are of profound significance for improving China’s bankruptcy legal system and enhancing the overall quality of the business environment.

The 1980s marked a turning point in French film theory. Jacques Aumont conceives cinema asan art of moving images. In the 1990s, he articulated a manifesto for image studies, rejecting content-basedanalysis and the application of pre-established theoretical frameworks. Instead, he argues that analysis shouldfocus on the image itself, advocating concrete analysis and an internalist approach. This methodological shiftplayed a decisive role in the rise of image-centered aesthetic research. Aumont broke away from the mimeticparadigm by defining images as "objects produced by socially constituted human beings, which are referentialand exchangeable. As a semiotic system, the image generates meaning and thought. Film analysis, therefore,should address the essential level of the imagenamely, the problem of expression and its internal operationalmechanisms. By placing the image at the core of film analysis, Aumont returned to the aesthetic reflection onsensation, thereby constructing a knowledge system of cinema and cinematicity through image analysis. Thisapproach represents an ontological mode of film studies and delineates a pathway from sensibility to rationality.

Since the advent of the digital age, the mediatization of the body has become a prominent themeworthy of deep reflection. This issue can be broadly approached in three steps. First, it is necessary to clarify therelationship between the body, image, and media. This will reveal the close connection between the body andmedia while also enabling a deeper understanding of the central concept af body image. Second, throughouthuman history, the body image has faced the risk of abstraction and symbolization. This tendency is cleadyevident in the critiques of consumer and digital societies by Baudrillard and Bordo. Third, although turning to amore comprehensive body schema may appear to offer a solution, the binary opposition between the normal andthe pathological presupposed within it further limits this potential. Thus, within the phenomena of fragmentationand distraction produced by technological mediatization, within the oscillating ecart between humans andtechnology, and within the negative dimension opened up by the unthought, we can further reflect on the body'salternative"uses”.

 So far, the mediumistic study of media has gone through a series of turns, including the formalturn and the material tumn that emerged in recent years. The formal tum is somewhat ambiguous. It is not somuch interested in revealing the fomal cause of each medium as in viewing each medium as a fomal cause,thereby articulating its psychic and social impact. The material turn is a response to and a criticism ofimmaterialism, and a reaction against the trend of virtualization. The difference between material andnonmaterial is a difference in energy levels. What exactly is the essence of media? Perhaps the fomal turn andthe material turn are both off the mark. French phenomenologist Michel Serres takes us back to humanism andinspires us to understand media using the human body as the point of departure. He puts fonwardexternalizationism," which is distinct from MeLuhan's "extensionism." This view gives a new meaning to theancient Greek maxim, "Know thyself." The human body is both the source and the destination of myriad media.Our pure and simple body appears in all media. All media return to our pure and simple body. In an era whenaction is increasingly becoming tele-action, when social interactions are increasingly disembodied, bringinginto focus the corporeality of media and investigating the multifaceted relationship between media and the bodyconstitutes an "untimely" (in a Nietzschean sense) theoretical intervention. In this sense, the corporeal turn inmedia theory is veritably going against the fashion but has been willed into existence by the total situation.

Since 2018, the body as a communicative interface has gradually become a focal concern incommunication studies, bringing the study of gestures into renewed view. This line of inquiry can be traced backto Darwin's theory of evolution; building on this foundation, Mead developed symbolic interactionism, placinggestures at its core. However, by overemphasizing the primacy of symbols and language, Mead failed torecognize the technologized dimension of gestures. From the perspective of embodied phenomenology, VilemFlusser identified the role of technical objects within gestures. In today's era of digitally intelligent media,digital technologies permeate every facet of social media users gestural exchanges. In this process, the bodyretreats, occluded by digital interfaces, and human communication is subsumed into vast digital infrastructures.Although Flusser hoped that apparatuses would enable freer communication among people, it has becomeinereasingly evident that individuals are, to a growing extent, communicating primarily with the apparatusesthemselves.

In the era of visual culture, urban public screens have emerged as a distinctive urban medialandscape through modes of visual performance and visual presence. Functioning as a "visual nexus" insocialist cities, they reconfigure the visual field of urban public space in contemporary China. These screens notonly constitute a crucial component in the visual -cultural construction of Chinese urban public spaces, but alsoembody the spatial practices and media characteristics of cultural identity under socialism with Chinesecharacteristics. By shaping collective affective identification within Chinese cities, urban public screensoperate as a paradigmatic manifestation of the affective regime intrinsic to socialist culural identity, therebyoffering a distinctive model and experiential reference for the construction of public space in global urbancontexts.

Creators' continuous content generation detemines the activity level and ecological health ofcontent platforms. However, the accelerated expansion of platform power and the frequent occurrence ofresponsibility-related incidents pose threats to the protection of creators' rights and interests, which maynegatively affect their willingness and capacity to engage in continuous content generation. Drawing onaffordance - actualization theory, this study conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 20 creatorsfrom content platfoms such as Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and bilibili. The findings indicate that creatorsperceptions of the digital responsibility of content platforms primarily encompass three core dimensions:responsibility for data privacy risk governance, responsibility for governing the alienation of algorithmicmechanisms, and responsibility for content ecosystem governance. Trust, emotion, and traffic mechanismsfunction as key mediating mechanisms through which the digital responsibility affordances of content platformsexert their effects. Creators who experience deficiencies in the digital responsibility af content platforms tend toadopt coping strategies such as content "desensitization," transformation, and psychological adjustment.

In contemporary society, the digital transformation of labor forms is reshaping the foundationallogic of global production relations. Digital labor, deeply entangled with capital and technology, has becomealienated into a novel regime of power and discipline. Within the capitalist mode of production, the decline oflabor allocation in the presence of intelligent machines, the hegemonic monopolization of digital means ofproduction, the savage effects of digital capital, and the institutional failure of data-factor income distributionhave together led to an exponential exacerbation of polarization between capital and labor, inflicting systemicdamage on frameworks of social fairness and justice. As a socialist country, China has consistently taken the joyand purpose of labor, as well as the advancement of common prosperity for all, as the compass of distributivejustice. By constructing a "labor-led" legal framework for human-machine distribution, clarifying the publicownership attribute of digital means of production, developing a responsive regulatory model for digital capital,and advancing the reforms of "labor empowermen" in the data-factor contribution and data property rights,China offers an institutional paradigm for global digital economic governance that coordinates fairness andefficiency.

In the digital era, the expansion of digital monopoly capitaldriven by the dual logic of profitmaximization and geopolitical power contestation-poses significant challenges to China's ideological securitythrough capital accumulation, technological empowerment, and international political rivalry. Under the guiseof "technological neutrality," digital monopoly capital penetrates, fragments, and manipulates ideologicaldissemination in China. This article proposes a three-dimensional framework to counter such risks: institutionalregulation, intelligent governance, and civic literacy cultivation. At the level of institutional regulation, Chinashould strengthen antitrust oversight of digital capital, clarify regulatory boundaries for sentiment analysistechnologies, and establish risk classification and collaborative supervision mechanisms. At the level ofintelligent governance, mainstream media must enhance the humanistic and participatory dimensions of publicopinion communication, constructing an intelligent, human-centered, and synergistic discourse ecosystem. Atthe level of civic literacy cultivation, the cultivation of digital citizenship requires tripartite empowerment acrossstate, society, and individual actors, foming a co-govemance framework for digital competence.