The mirror motif of the“Narcissus”myth (self-other) and the duel motif of the“Thanatos”myth (life-death) together reveal the power dynamics underpinning human-machine relations both on and off screen. With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the AI figure has progressively extended from an“imaginative Other”within the screen to an“alternative Other”in the form of algorithms outside it. This collapse of the dual“mirror thresholds”has led to the merging of the formerly parallel“mirror-world”and“real world.”In today’s reality, we also enact a mythic creation of fact—thereby drawing ourselves into this
ontological game of being-in-the-world. As the created“Artificial Intelligence”escapes the screen’s Edenic enclosure, an ultra-modern“Myth of Garden”softly emerges through the logic of“substituted labor.”Though
differing in form, both the myth of garden and the myth of duel, by virtue of their urgent real-world relevance, compel us to confront the duel-motif of Thanatos head-on.
“The control and constraint of state power through law”constitutes the broadest concept of the rule of law. The general significance of the modernization of the rule of law is that both individuals and the state in modern society are bound by law, requiring their actions to be legally compliant. As a manifestation of this trend, the Chinese modernization of the rule of law inevitably shares common characteristics with global models while exhibiting its own unique traits: namely, the Party leadership and the running of the country by the people. In its historical process, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation serves as both the driving force and the ultimate goal. The Chinese modernization of the rule of law is grounded in a socialist society with Chinese characteristics
and upholds the unity between the Party leadership, the running of the country by the people, and law-based governance. The CPC leadership is the defining feature of this model. In the process of Chinese modernization of the rule of law, it is necessary to strike a balance between leveraging indigenous legal-cultural resources and drawing upon beneficial foreign legal achievements, which is the key to progressively approaching the ideal state of the universal rule of law as a rational concept.
Self-tracking technologies are reshaping individuals’identity perception, trust patterns, and behavioral decision-making mechanisms，thus putting forward the concepts of digital avatar and digital trust to elucidate how individuals, through the interplay of data, technology, and society, progressively construct a datacentric self-identity. The findings show that the digital avatar proceeds through a trajectory encompassing data externalization, self-datafication, and subsequent behavioral adaptation, ultimately leading individuals to adopt a“data-as-self”cognitive schema. Meanwhile, user trust evolves from verifying data veracity to relying on technological feedback and, ultimately, accepting algorithmic authority, thereby resulting in a relinquishment of judgment to systemic processes. While this trust paradigm optimizes health management and behavioral regulation, it also engenders risks such as cognitive offloading, social pressure, and privacy anxieties. With the growing integration of AI-assisted decision systems, the tendency to“trust technology and offload cognition” becomes increasingly prominent. To address these challenges, the study proposes reconstructing a more explainable and user-sovereign digital trust framework by enhancing data transparency, optimizing feedback mechanisms, and strengthening privacy controls.
Negative interaction events involving employees and customers in the service industry have become increasingly frequent, and the mechanisms of moral judgment among cyber-bystanders after witnessing such incidents and their subsequent behaviors—specifically online commentary—exerting a significant influence on the escalation of these events. Methodologically, this study first selected a typical negative interaction case. It then employed Python to crawl online comments from five related sample videos and conducted semi-structured interviews with 28 cyber-bystanders who had engaged in commenting. The combined qualitative data were then analyzed using a three-stage coding process guided by grounded theory. The findings reveal that the moral judgments of cyber-bystanders are formed through three distinct pathways: the direct effect of intuitive appraisal, the direct effect of moral reasoning, and an interaction between the two. These judgments, in turn, drive four typical categories of bystander behavior: moral reflection, moral assistance, moral punishment, and social interaction. Collectively, these behaviors contribute to a“destructive spiral effect”that exacerbates the development of negative interaction events.
While practical experience in aesthetic education may offer valuable feedback to aesthetics, the more crucial relationship lies in the enlightening and guiding intellectual force that aesthetics, as the foundational theory of aesthetic education, provides to both the understanding and practice of aesthetic education. It is essential to explore the theoretical connection between aesthetics and aesthetic education through methods such as logical analysis, categorization of intellectual resources, and cross-disciplinary analogies. Aesthetics contributes to aesthetic education in several key ways: it furnishes fundamental theoretical resources; it offers special analogical methods to strengthen the adaptability and validity of aesthetic judgments by means of cross-boundary insights between aesthetics and aesthetic education, among different aesthetic fields, and between aesthetic categories and educational practices; it provides feasible means of communication for aesthetic appreciation through metalinguistic discourse symbols and phenomenological analogies; and it opens up a broad cognitive space. Ultimately, aesthetics will assist aesthetic education throughout various practical processes in promoting and realizing the mind-body integrated personality growth of students as aesthetic beings.
The major contradiction currently facing the development of international Chinese language education (ICLE) is the conflict between a weak supply capacity and a rapidly growing demand for Chinese language instruction. Effectively and efficiently expanding supply constitutes the primary challenge at this stage. Increasing supply, however, does not depend on any single factor but hinges on the functioning of the entire supply chain of ICLE. A well-functioning supply chain can enhance productivity, mitigate the adverse effects of high teacher mobility, and unlock the potential of idle and inefficient resources, thereby enabling a substantial increase in supply. Building such a supply chain requires a content-based, scaling-up, and nodes-to-network strategy, implemented through an“unobtrusive integration”design. Essential to this process are capacity-building efforts such as developing evaluation systems, establishing sharing mechanisms, and providing professional development support for educators. Collectively, these measures can address the key obstacles in constructing a multilateral supply chain platform, including the cold start problem, cost concerns, and the protection of participant interests.
