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15 January 2025, Volume 42 Issue 1

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Reconstruction of Personal Information Rights from the Perspective of Hohfeld’s Theory of Rights

HUANG Pei

2025, 42(1):  1-14. 

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After being adapted to the Chinese legal context, Hohfeld’s theory of rights encompasses eight fundamental legal concepts. Among these, claim-rights, liberty-rights , power-rights, and immunity-rights constitute the broad concept of rights, while duty to act, duty to abstain, duty to obedience, and duty to laissez- faire constitute the broad concept of duties. Based on Hohfeld’s theory of rights, the internal structural forms of personal information rights under the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China can be categorized into three types: the right to personal information protection enjoyed by information subjects, the right to process personal information held by private processors, and the power to process personal information possessed by public processors. Although the specific content of the rights (or powers) within these three types of personal information rights differs, all of them can be explained through the eight fundamental legal concepts in Hohfeld’s theory of rights.


Theoretical Reflection and Reconstruction of Data Rights Confirmation

JI Leilei

2025, 42(1):  15-29. 

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Exploring the framework of the system of data property rights is the institutional prerequisite for ensuring healthy circulation and transaction of data. Currently, the practical challenges of data rights confirmation are often attributed to the inherent non-exclusivity of data, the limitations of the traditional labor theory-based system, and their conflict with the principles of equitable data utilization. Reflecting on the root causes of these challenges reveals that academia has overlooked the fact that digital society is the foundation for the existence of data value, has confused the intrinsic nature of data rights with their external effects, and has failed to uncover the complex legal attributes underlying the construction of data rights. Tracing the developmental trajectory of original data rights, from the algorithmic identification of data interests to their
judicial recognition and the technical practices of data rights confirmation, data rights have undergone a procedural transformation from interests to rights, thereby providing a legitimacy basis for data rights confirmation. On this foundation, the composite structure of data determines that data rights should be defined as limited exclusive rights realized through shared utilization. Accordingly, the interconnected design of data rights should be constructed across individual, corporate, and public dimensions.


The Conceptual world of Deleuze’s Cinema-Philosophy

LAN Fan

2025, 42(1):  30-49. 

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Foucault once jokingly commented on Deleuze’s philosophy by stating that the twentieth century would be known as the“Deleuzian era”. This profound observation stems from the contrast between their philosophical approaches: Foucault’s philosophy is an archaeology of thought, one that views the contemporary through the lens of history, while Deleuze’s philosophy is one of“creating concepts,”approaching the contemporary from the perspective of the future. Humans, unique among all beings on Earth and in the universe, perceive the world through their senses—constantly seeking differences, generating concepts, and escaping established views. For Deleuze, cinema is philosophy, and philosophy is cinema. Through cinema, Deleuze attempts to show us that what matters is not what we know or can verify, but what we believe in and
whether we still hold onto faith. The true significance of modern cinema lies in the fact that genuine thought is not defined by what is already known, but by what is latent or yet to be thought. Thinking is not about explaining; it is about creating. Here arises the perfect opportunity for modern cinema. Modern cinema, or the time-image, transcends all existing boundaries of thought and opens up for us the infinite possibilities of dismantling the closed“cogito.”In doing so, it allows us to rebuild our faith in the world and in humanity itself, inspiring us to pursue and strive for the freedom of thought. Humanity is both the slave and the master of time. The movement- image fulfills humanity’s dream of preserving the“activity”of action, while the time-image represents an attempt to completely“break free”from the limitations of the physical body, propelling human life toward infinite freedom.


The Cinematic Interpretation of“Sublime Beauty”in the New Era: A Focus on New Mainstream Films

HUANG Wenjie, HUANG Yerui

2025, 42(1):  50-62. 

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The concept of the“sublime,”as a fundamental category in aesthetics, has undergone continuous evolution in both content and significance across different historical periods. Within the context of the new era, the manifestation of the“sublime”in new mainstream films reflects the inheritance of a collective- oriented mainstream ideology and a hero-centered aesthetic framework. By integrating fresh feminine experiences and perspectives, upholding a people-centered value system, and embodying an internationalist vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, this redefined notion of the sublime has emerged as a pivotal theoretical cornerstone in constructing a new aesthetic paradigm for Chinese cinema in the new era.


The International Image of Chinese Language: Historical Review,Formation Causes, and Reconstruction Strategies

HUANG Wenjie, HUANG Yerui

2025, 42(1):  63-75. 

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The formation of the international image of Chinese language is deeply influenced by European Sinology studies. In European sinological literature, Chinese language is depicted as a difficult language to learn, characterized by multiple ontological features such as Chinese characters, phonetics, and grammar. This stereotypical international image of Chinese as a difficult language is inextricably linked to the solidification of the Western understanding of the Chinese knowledge system, the limitations of Chinese international image dissemination, and various historical, social, and political factors. The reconstruction of the international image of the Chinese language in the new era should revolve around four core elements: economic dividends, technological empowerment, cultural appeal, and Chinese identity. Based on the overall improvement of China’s national image and leveraging China’s positive contributions and increasing influence in global governance, the
reconstruction should address the core demands of international Chinese education, guide learners to experience the unique charm of the Chinese language, construct an academic discourse system for Chinese language research and dissemination, enhance the contribution of the Chinese language to world language research, and expand the application and influence of the Chinese language internationally.


Post-Apocalyptic Speculative Fiction from the Lens of New Materialism

DU Lanlan

2025, 42(1):  76-86. 

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As one of the major narrative modes of English climate fiction, post-apocalyptic writing began to flourish in the twenty-first century. Post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, as a literary response to climate change in the Anthropocene, reflects on the dire impacts of Anthropocentrism on humans, non-humans, nature, society, and the Earth, placing increasing emphasis on the entangled relationship between humans and non-humans in the globalized risk society. Taking global climate change and the unequal distribution of resources into consideration, twenty-first-century English speculative fictionists use the dystopian narrative mode to caution readers and emphasize the importance of interdependence among humans and non-humans. This
article first discusses the three turns of New Materialism and then interprets three post-apocalyptic novels, i.e., Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven respectively, from the lens of New Materialism to explore the ethical messages conveyed in their envisioning of the future world.


Rebuilding New York: Post-Apocalyptic Metropolitan Narratives and Criticism from a Perspective of Development Ethics

LIAO Wang

2025, 42(1):  87-97. 

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As one of the most renowned metropolises and economic centers in the world, New York has inspired countless writers throughout literary history and has frequently served as a prototype for urban imagination in the construction of post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction. Adopting a literary-economic interdisciplinary perspective, this study employs development ethics as a theoretical framework to examine the spatial narratives and economic storytelling across five American post-apocalyptic novels: Cities in Flight, The Blister, Terminal World, Zone One, and New York 2140. It explores the processes of agglomeration, transfer, and reconstruction of developmental factors as portrayed in the“rebuilding of New York.”When urban space, macroeconomics, financial capital, and individual residents are situated within a post-apocalyptic context, the developmental expectations and ethical dilemmas faced by various subjects reflect American science fiction’s
relentless critique of unsustainable development models as well as its sharp satire of the inescapable historical cycles of capitalism.


Concealment/Unconcealment: Relation Between Technological Anxiety and Science Fiction

ZHAO Siqi

2025, 42(1):  98-110. 

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With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the rapid development of modern technology has triggered unprecedented technological anxiety. As a literary form closely tied to technological development, science fiction has a unique relational mechanism with technological anxiety. However, academic research on this topic remains insufficient. The essence of technological anxiety lies in the“entanglement of possibilities”caused by“enframing,”wherein“enframing”unconceals the real world while simultaneously concealing its authenticity with infinite possibilities. Science fiction, often based on speculations about technological novum, represents“possibilities that have not occurred.”By unconcealing surreal worlds, it materializes possibilities and thereby responds to the technological anxiety of the real world. The technological
novum in science fiction as a way of revealing is in the sense of“technê,”which not only constructs surreal worlds but also reflects upon the real world. As an“art of possibilities”oscillating between concealment and unconcealment, science fiction exhibits diversity and complexity, with its ability to alleviate technological anxiety, albeit relatively and limitedly.


Market Potential, Institutional Environment, and Urban Common Prosperity: An Exploration Based on Spillover Effects and Attenuation  Boundaries

WU Baijun, XU Yonghui

2025, 42(1):  111-129. 

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Using data from cities at the prefecture level and above from 2005 to 2020, this study employs a spatial Durbin model to examine the direct impact and spatial spillover effects of market potential and the institutional environment on urban common prosperity within a unified analytical framework of market potential, institutional environment, and common prosperity. The study explores the spatial attenuation boundaries of market potential and the institutional environment and the threshold moderating effect of the institutional environment. The findings are as follows: Expanding market potential significantly promotes the process of common prosperity through three transmission mechanisms: material capital allocation, industrial structure optimization, and foreign direct investment, with industrial structure optimization having the most
prominent intermediary effect. The promotion effect of market potential on common prosperity exhibits a threshold effect of the institutional environment; the more improved the institutional environment, the stronger the promotion effect of market potential on the development of common prosperity. Under the classification of city sizes, the promotion effect of market potential on the process of common prosperity shows significant heterogeneity. Compared with large and medium-sized cities, the promotion effect of market potential on common prosperity is more pronounced in megacities and super-large cities. The effective boundaries for the spillover effects of market potential and the institutional environment on common prosperity are 650 kilometers and 950 kilometers, respectively. Within this range, the spillover effects of both on common prosperity exhibit a rise-and-fall pattern of attenuation.


A Study on the Impact of Innovation Speed on Income Gap from the Perspective of Common Prosperity

YU Liping, LI Wen

2025, 42(1):  130-145. 

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Maintaining a certain innovation speed is conducive to building an innovative country in China, and the innovation speed will affect the income gap among residents in multiple ways. Based on vector autoregressive model, panel regression model, and panel threshold regression model, this paper comprehensively studies the relationship among them. The results show that: (1) The speed of innovation, affected by various factors, has both linear and non-linear effects on the income gap. (2) The speed of innovation is generally conducive to narrowing the income gap. (3) When the innovation speed is low, increasing the speed is not conducive to narrowing the income gap. (4) When the income gap is moderate, increasing the speed of innovation will widen the income gap. Finally, some policy suggestions are put forward to optimize the industrial and spatial pattern and adjust the innovation speed accordingly.


Risk Structure and Characteristics of China’s Commodity Prices under Extreme Event Shocks

LIU Yinglin

2025, 42(1):  146-161. 

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The correlation structure breakpoint model is utilized to pinpoint the structural breakpoints of three major extreme events: the 2008 financial crisis, the 2014 oil crisis, and the 2020 oil crisis. CoVaR-based network topology and PAMAE clustering are employed to investigate the risk characteristics and risk structure of 23 types of domestic commodities under extreme events. The research uncovers several key findings: First, the three extreme events differentially impact the risk exposure of China’s commodity markets, exhibiting both anticipatory and delayed effects. Second, there is notable heterogeneity in the risk structure within the commodity futures market. Third, different commodity types exhibit diverse risk patterns, with energy and industrial products showing the highest inherent risks, metal commodities displaying high sensitivity to external
risks, and agricultural products demonstrating considerable variations among different varieties. Furthermore, downstream products within the supply chain exhibit a more pronounced level of risk exposure compared with upstream products. These insights serve as crucial guidance for regulatory bodies and market participants in the realms of risk management and investment decision-making.