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    Analysis of the Properties of Data Rights Along with System Building #br# in the Era of Big Data#br#
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2019, 36 (6): 13-25.  
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     With the advancement of the era of big data, the interest conflicts between data protection and data utilization have been increasingly prominent due to the chaotic competition in the data industry. The usercentered unilateral protection framework has been unable to meet the demand for data utilization and innovation in the current era of data economy. In the process of building data right system, we should distinguish the status and properties of data rights, take into account the bidirectional dynamics of data economy and regulate data users’ and business dealers’ respective rights and interests by identifying personal information from digital assets, so as to form a more diversified data management system and facilitate the most optimized protection and utilization of big data resources.

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    Analysis of the Properties of Data Rights Along with System Building #br# in the Era of Big Data#br#
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2019, 36 (6): 26-40.  
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    With the advancement of the era of big data, the interest conflicts between data protection and data utilization have been increasingly prominent due to the chaotic competition in the data industry. The usercentered unilateral protection framework has been unable to meet the demand for data utilization and innovation in the current era of data economy. In the process of building data right system, we should distinguish the status and properties of data rights, take into account the bidirectional dynamics of data economy and regulate data users’ and business dealers’ respective rights and interests by identifying personal information from digital assets, so as to form a more diversified data management system and facilitate the most optimized protection and utilization of big data resources.

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    On the Consumption, Supply and Policy of Screen Culture: Reflections #br# on the Market Trends and Industrial Policy of Screen Culture #br# Derivatives in 2018#br#
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2019, 36 (6): 41-54.  
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    By sorting out the macro backgrounds of screen industrial economy and its policies based on the analysis method of “PEST”, the paper cites the online database to conduct both comprehensive researches and indepth case studies of the development trends of the screen derivatives in six categories of three major forms: dramas broadcast through satellite TV channels and network dramas, TV and network variety shows, network films and films released in cinemas and theatres, and summarizes the industrial characteristics and trends of the development of screen derivatives under the macro backgrounds. Finally, the paper puts forward suggestions for the industrial development of China’s screen derivatives from the perspective of industry management.

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    What is Meant by “Community”? —Theoretical Support and Question Awareness of Chinese Film Community Aesthetics
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 29-38.  
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    “Community”, a means of satisfying individual needs, aims to enhance harmony  and peace among its members and organizational stability and acquires the traits of romantic ideals. The proposal of such an inclusive concept enables people to constantly reconstruct “community” by embedding it into new contexts, which has laid basis for our attempt to build connections between “community” and film aesthetics. Meanwhile, aesthetics of traditional Chinese art, including aesthetic thoughts on Chinese film theory, has always put emphasis on the importance of image text and its relationship with art types. In addition, Chinese film aesthetics emphasizes sensual pleasure, which can hardly be detached from ethical social emotions. In fact, we have failed to apply the community nature of Chinese film aesthetics to actual film shooting. However, this is the question awareness we should hold in exploring Chinese film community aesthetics. Still more importantly, we should seek solutions to current Chinese film predicaments from Chinese film community aesthetics.

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    Praxis and Limitations of Intersectionality in the US
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 118-128.  
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     The death of George Floyd has triggered the resurgence of discussion on racism. Yet we should not simply interpret this incident  as a racial issue, but simultaneously examine the resulted Black Lives Matter(BLM)movement in a holistic manner. Different from traditional civil rights movement in the past, the BLM movement is fundamentally a kind of identity politics led by “intersectionality”.In response to people’s challenge to the narrow group consciousness of identity politics, black feminists proposed the theory of intersectionality to integrate multiple identities to strengthen resistance.However, intersectionality has also encountered many problems in praxis. Because it fails to transcend identity politics’ mistake in disregarding economic issues, it remains essentially a reformist plan of capitalism,unable to effectively aggregate forces against capitalism. This enlightens us that new social changes should return to  the perspective of Marxist theory in the pursuit of eliminating the capitalist system.

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    An Empirical Study of the Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Debt Problems in Countries along the Road
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 88-104.  
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    The Belt and Road Initiative has made remarkable progress since 2013 as more and more countries have been joining in the effort to build a mutually beneficial global economic system. However, in order to protect their own status and benefits, some countries deliberately spread rumors that China seizes the opportunity to push a “debt trap”. Such rumors pose obstacles to the development of the Initiative. In view of this, the overall debt situation of the countries along the belt and road is studied with important indexes such as GDP, export of goods and services and stock of foreign debt of some countries along the route.The changes of liability ratio, foreign debt ratio and growth rate before and after the implementation of Belt and Road Initiative have been compared, followed by a econometric model to examine the specific impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on the stock of foreign debt and liability ratio of the countries along the route. It is concluded that although the stock of foreign debt has significantly increased under the Initiative, which means increased debt burden and existing debt problems of some countries, the impact of the initiative on liability ratio and growth rate of the countries along route is significantly negative, which means risk reduction of their debt. To sum up, the accusation of China of setting up “debt trap”is groundless since the results show China is not the main cause of their debt problems, nor has them fallen into a “debt trap”.

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    British Literature and Its Narrative Construction of National Identity
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 129-140.  
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    National identity is the collective identity of a nation, and it is the reproduction and reinterpretation by the members of a nation of its peculiar values, myth patterns, symbol systems and cultural traditions. Literature is the crystallization of national culture, and its production narrates and constructs the development of national identity in history. The literary works of different periods in the UK history narrate, copy and inherit the characteristics of its national identity. The Anglo-Saxon literature, the Renaissance, and the 17th century literature in the early English literature precisely represent the evolving Englishness in the national identity. The diversity of English literature, Scottish literature and Irish literature since the 18th century have constructed the characteristics of Britishness in national identity. The rise of Minority literature in the 20th century has expanded the narrative styles of British literature and parallelly constructed the cosmopolitan characteristics of British national identity.

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    Labor as Way Out—A Historical Study on the Issue of Mobilizing Primary andSecondary School Graduates for Agricultural Production in the Early Period of PRC
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 50-71.  
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    The People’s Daily published an editorial entitled “On the Issue of the Participation of Primary and Secondary School Graduates in Agricultural Production” on April 8, 1957. It pointed out that in 1957, only a small portion of high level primary school students (grade 5 and grade 6 students) and junior high school graduates could be admitted to a school of higher level while the vast majority were rejected. The main way out for the rejected was to participate in agricultural production in the countryside, which aroused widespread concern and discussion from all works of life. Taking the editorial as the departure of discussion, the paper attempts to present the historical and practical course of the CPC’s dedication in general education in primary and secondary schools and their adaptation to the needs of national governance in the early period of People’s Republic of China (PRC) by discussing the issue of mobilizing primary and secondary school graduates to participate in agricultural production in 1957. A prevalent view at the time held that the participation of primary and secondary school graduates in agricultural labor was an important issue on the agenda of “fostering the first generation of educated farmers in New China”. In view of this, how to make an epochal response to labor, especially manual labor, becomes the key to understanding this historical issue.

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    Practice Focus, Theory Integration and Tradition Inheritance: Revisiting Community Aesthetics in Three Dimensions
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 20-28.  
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    Community aesthetics, a new direction of film aesthetics, has three significant features. The first feature is the “focus on practice”, which means synchronously tracking the new development trends and new possibilities in the film industry, including the impact of the advancements and changes of social environments and cultural contexts on films, as well as how film technologies strongly influence, rewrite or even disrupt films, especially high technologies such as digital technology, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and big data. The second feature is “theory integration”, which means critically, creatively, constructively and integrally inheriting the valuable achievements in film theoretical researches and aesthetic theoretical researches. The third feature is “tradition inheritance”, which is not only the inheritance and transformation of Chinese traditional cultural thinking, but also the product of spiritual inter-connectivity with the global film industry. Therefore, community aesthetics has the potential to provide a theoretical method, a framework, and a model, capable of exploring inclusive, interactive and practice-oriented theoretical space, theoretical tension and theoretical height. 

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    The “Emergence and Flow” Mechanismof Rural Cadre Group Development in the Early 1950s—An Investigation of Farmers Associations
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 72-87.  
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     In the early 1950s, severe shortage of rural cadres was a common problem in the establishment of local governments in newly liberated areas of Southern China, which even posed impediments to their normal operation. Farmer representative conferences and farmers associations, which gradually came into being in the movements of grain requisition, rent and deposit reduction and land reform, created opportunities for new rural cadres to emerge in large number. Organizing farmers to “vent their grievances” at these meetings became an important means of mobilizing farmers to change their mindset of “fatalism”or “restoration of reactionary rule”. It was during this process of grievance venting that active participants were transformed into the backbones of farmers associations. Due to the rash decision at the early stage of farmers associations, some leading positions of the associations were often occupied by those whose class status and moral quality were flawed. With the advancement of such movements as rent and deposit reduction and the land reform, personnel replacement was launched.Seizing the momentum, the newly booming enthusiasts who were usually poor farmers or farmer laborers replaced those flawed,thus presenting a clear picture of rural cadre flow. In this process, a close coupling between governmental means of movements and theories of class struggle eventually prompted the “emergence and flow” mechanism of rural cadre group development in this period, laying an important foundation for the power transfer to the new regime in the rural society.

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    What is Wenke (Liberal Arts)? —Formation of Modern Knowledge System
    LIU Kang
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 1-19.  
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    Modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge have gone through a great deal of tension, ruptures, metamorphoses and transformations. This article traces the genealogy of modern European modes of knowledge under the rubrics of ‘liberal arts’ as the origin and basis for modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge, and then examines China’s ‘liberal arts’ as institution and modes of knowledge from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. The paper’s objective is to raise the China question of western theory, in order to open up new space for rethinking modern Chinese intellectual history.

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    ultidimensional Visions of Community Aesthetics—Analysis of and Reflection on the Trend of Chinese Film Development in Recent Years
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 39-49.  
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    Community aesthetics, a reflection of aesthetic emphasis on community vision, is not monolithic, but multi-dimensional in social, national and humanity respects. These dimensions are not only reflected in the development trend of domestic films in recent years, but also present complicated hierarchy and relationships inside community aesthetics. Although the films primarily featuring the vision of national community are dedicated to individual-state connections through community aesthetics, the triggering effect of social empathy plays a decisive role. On the other hand, although the films emphasizing the vision of social community can arouse the audience’s empathy by presenting images of social problems, they are often in tensions with the vision of national community. For those films with global community of shared future as the central theme which are a new trend of community aesthetics, despite their success in employing Chinese experience to tell the grand narrative of the shared future of mankind in good coordination with the vision of the national community, weak links with the vision of social community have been inadvertently exposed. Therefore, how to coordinate multidimensional visions within the community aesthetics so as to achieve the greatest cohesion is still a direction deserving great consideration nowadays in advancing community aesthetics.

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    Developing China’s Aging Industry and Defining Government Functions
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2021, 38 (2): 105-117.  
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    Throughout the development course of China's aging industry, the Government has held a clear and steady attitude towards the issue of elderly care and continuously adjusted its intervention in the issue from sole government responsibility to the shared responsibility by all sides of the society, from an athlete role to a dual role of both athlete and referee. This is the fundamental requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and determined by the particularity and importance of pension activities. However, problems still exist such as an incomplete pension system, inadequate policy measures, and unclear government and market functions. The pension security system should be further improved to clarify the boundary between government and market functions.

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    “Metaverse”: A Future Concept at the Initial #br# Stage of Its Basic Technology
    JIAN Shengyu
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 1-16.  
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     “Metaverse” is an inevitable product of the development of virtual reality technology. Humans need to build the “Embodied Internet”, so that the full-simulation of digital transformation in various fields can be achieved in a more integrated form. At present, despite being a future concept at the initial stage of its basic technology, “Metaverse” has demonstrated the necessity and feasibility of building the next-generation Internet. The basic infrastructures, relevant software technologies and application-side content production mechanism involved in “Metaverse” have already taken shape. The upgrading of virtual reality technology has brought human society unprecedented opportunities of transformation as well as potential risks. How to grasp the opportunities, meet the challenges and create new prospects are important targets of the times requiring prudent consideration.

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    The Effect of the Depth of FTAs on Domestic Value-Added Exports
    ZHAO Jinlong, ZHANG Runqi
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 82-97.  
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    Over the past three decades, the rapid development of global value chains and free trade agreements (FTAs) have become two new features of international trade. The deep FTAs which aim at strengthening “trade policy coordination” among members have gone beyond WTO authorization and exerted a profound influence on value-added trade driven by global value chains. Empirical analysis shows that the depth of FTAs has significant positive effects on both the total trade and value-added trade among member countries. Secondly, FTAs not only enhance the export levels of simple and complex global value-chain trade, but promote value-added export of each sub-items to various degrees. Further study shows gaps in economic levels among FTA members and FTA structures can lead to heterogeneous effects on domestic value added exports. Besides, from the perspective of FTA contents, WTO-X clauses have more important effects on members’ domestic value-added exports.

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    Narrative Dilemma of New Female Images in Domestic Animated Films
    SONG Yu
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 67-81.  
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     Influenced by feminist thoughts and cultural consumption market, the female images in domestic animated films have begun to change. In recent years, a number of animated films with women as narrative subjects have been released one after another, trying to create new female images that reflect the aesthetics of the times by subverting the traditional stereotypes and catering to the market female topics in the swim. However, an in-depth examination reveals that the female images in these films have not broken away from the traditional male discourse system, and the established gender stereotypes still exist. Hence it is still a long way to go for Chinese animation filmmakers to build a broader gender discourse system in the context of globalization, to explore new aesthetics of gender narrative that meets the needs of the times, and to create female images with both personality charisma and aesthetic tension.

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    The Genre Film as the Synthesis of Synchronic System and Diachronic Process—Investigating the Formation of the Classical Research Approach to Western Genre Films
    GUI Lin
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 45-55.  
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    The study of Western genre films started after World War II, pioneered by Bazin who initiated the research of the genre of American westerns. In the 1970s, Thomas Schatz took genre only as a synchronic system, leading to predicaments. After the 1980s, an integrated approach came into being, upholding that genre films must be regarded as the synthesis of synchronic system and diachronic process. In the late 1990s, Film/Genre by Rick Altman and Hollywood Genres by Steve Neale were almost published at the same time, signifying the maturity of the integrated approach. Up till now, the two representative works have still been the most frequently cited books in the study of Western genre films, indicating that it is the classical approach to studying Western genre films from the dual perspectives of synchronic system and diachronic process. Its formation process is a clearer and more profound choice for western researchers to understand genre film as a complex research object, which can also shed light on China’s genre film research. In the current era of intertwining factors of literature, arts, commerce, science, technology and media, the genre film research has still much room to expand.

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    “Bodies-in-Space” as Symbols:  Rural-Old-Fathers as “a Mob of Illiterates”  in the 1980s’ Chinese Films from the Perspective of Visual Narrative
    YU Wanting
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 56-66.  
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     In Chinese rural films many symbolic rural-old-father images were created to elaborate various rural social relationships, human-land and rural-urban relationships. In the 1980s’ films, rural-old-father images departed from the wise-old-man cultural archetype, changing from heroes of revolution and construction to backward, conservative and need-to-be-enlightened “illiterates”. The symbolic images were made more prominent as the visual narrative was enhanced while language narrative was decreased. As the center of the images of rural-old-fathers, “bodies-in-space” reflected various human-environment contrastive relationships, extending to gender, class, individual/collective, public/private dimensions. Three types of images were portrayed as starting points of analysis: bitter portraits, “bodies-in-workspace”, and “bodies-in-interpersonal space”. Different from Chinese visual tradition, portraits of rural fathers shared such features as large areas of shadow, silence and hidden facial expressions. “Bodies-in-workspace” were images emphasizing bodies in work, while ignoring individual subjectivity. “Bodies-in-interpersonal space” placed “father-son”relationship in a reversed “up-down” spatial one, depicting the rural old fathers as onlookers without discourse power in the opposite position who needed to be enlightened by their sons. “Bodies in space” as symbols facilitated the portrayal of “rural old fathers” as a mob of illiterates, visualizing relevant culture, experience, ideologies and values into the narrative of enlightenment, and as “silent work machines” who contributed to demarcation of the rural-urban boundaries, thus setting examples for cultural geography on the screen. 

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    A Chinese Approach to Currency Governance in the “Metaverse”
    YUAN Zeng
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 17-28.  
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    “Metaverse” is a virtual digital space parallel to the physical world established under the conditions of new science and technologies. “Metaverse” differs from the traditional Internet in that its behaviors in the space have real connections with the real society. The value exchange provided by currency is an important logical basis to provide cross-space connections. Currently, digital tokens issued for data platform enterprises to settle transactions in the “metaverse” have certain monetary functions such as price identification, payment and settlement, but due to the decentralized issuers and lack of national credit endorsement, digital tokens always face insurmountable defects such as unstable value, inability to regulate and limited scale. Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the digital form of RMB, is backed by Chinese national credit, advantageous in advanced digital technology and data market, credible for its recognition and protection of data rights and interests and in line with the currency governance of the metaverse. To determine the standards of currency governance in the metaverse, it is necessary for China to actively participate in international cooperation, to carry out bilateral and multilateral cooperation on digital currency governance in the form of soft law, and to clarify key compliance standards such as supervision and data protection in the issuance and circulation of DCEP. By strengthening the restrictions on the power of the data platform, we can gradually modernize the DCEP governance system and capacity, so as to seize the commanding heights of the “metaverse ”economic development.

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    Judicial Blockchain: Values, Goals and Approaches to Realization
    HAN Xuzhi
    Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)    2022, 39 (2): 29-44.  
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     Judicial blockchain, a new type of trust mechanism, has shown unique value in promoting “governance at the source of litigation”, improving trial efficiency, realizing judicial convenience, deepening judicial openness and strengthening supervision and management. As an important link of “smart justice”, judicial blockchain must inherit the humanistic foundation of traditional justice, adhere to the essential attributes of justice and take the realization of digital justice as its goal. Examining the application scenarios of judicial blockchain from the three dimensions of application value, construction goal and necessity, we can find its problems and risks, such as system security risk, possible new litigation burden, “duplication of construction” and “disconnection between construction and use” to a certain extent. Moreover, some application scenarios are not conducive to rights protection; it may conflict with the attribute of passive neutrality of justice; and some applications can be replaced by other trust mechanisms. Only by adhering to the decentralized and open architecture design, focusing on the protection of human rights, regulating and limiting the multi-dimensional applications of judicial blockchain, and aiming at the benign synergy between judicial blockchain and other trust mechanisms, can we finally realize the values and goals of judicial blockchain.

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