ABSTRACTS

(1)Thesignificanceof“ethic”discourseinthehistoryofcivilization

FANHao·5·

The “ethic” discourse and the Chinese ethics it creates take on immense significance in the history of human civilization. Firstly, it is a discourse representation of a “national” civilization with a distinctively collective nature and an ethically orientated culture, which is characteristic of the ethos of the Chinese nation. Secondly, it is a spiritual philosophy where ethics and morals are taken as a whole with priority given to the former. The time-honored ethical tradition has made China not only a country of etiquette and righteousness, but also the birthplace of ethics. Thirdly, it provides a world outlook, an “ethical world outlook” based on ethics and ethical spirit, thus creating an “ethical society” totally different from the “civil society” in the West.

(2)Virtue,valueandreallife

YEFang-xing·17·

The reason why virtue is desirable lies in the relationship between virtue, value and real life.Humanity-based values are the essence of virtues; virtues and values both originate from and are embodied in real life. The value principles and value ideals merge into virtues which, as an important part of human spirituality, is vital in real life. With the happiness of life as the ultimate goal, virtues in life are the continual realization of values. This explains why virtue is desirable.

(3)ResearchprogressofrobotethicsinEnglishliterature

LINJin-ru·24·

The study of robot ethics in English literature includes three aspects. The first is about robot ethics. It focuses on the ethics in robot design and people′s interaction with robots. With regard to these questions, researchers have discussed realism, relativism and the value-sensitive designing. The second is about machine ethics, which examines the possibility of the robot being a moral agent and taking moral responsibility, and the necessity of moral restraint on robot. The third is about robot applications. It studies the problems that might arise in the robot development and use, such as human safety, dignity, privacy and freedom in using nursing robots. The three aspects are believed to steer the development of robot ethics in the right direction though opinions are divided at present. While most attention has been paid to the possible negative effects of robot ethics, its positive role also deserves our attention.

(4)Researchontheadvertisingregulationsoninfluencemarketingintheeraofsocialnetworks

MAHui·32·

In the era of social networks, influence marketing advertisements are characterized by decentralized communication, hierarchical audiences, and community identity. The advertising law, starting in the era of mass media, finds it difficult to effectively regulate this brand-new advertising communication model. The confusion of the information dissemination behavior of influential marketing with personal speech or sales behavior makes it impossible to classify these behaviors. Besides, the subjects of information dissemination also differ from those in the era of mass media in terms of their functions. This also causes problems for the imposing of administrative liability and civil liability. This paper suggests that in influence marketing the advertising law should work towards the goal of protecting consumer autonomy, re-classify the advertising subjects based on their functions, examine celebrity endorsement, and give a cooling off period to avoid the impulsive consumption in live commerce.

(5)Internationalexperienceintheregulationofrobot-adviser

ZHUZi-han,YUTao·41·

Business scope of robot-adviser covers the investment advisory and asset management in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. In the U.S. and Canada, robot-adviser is regulated under the traditional investment adviser regulation system, which focuses on the information disclosure that facilitates the relative parties to fulfill fiduciary obligations while in Britain it can be summarized by the formula of “general system + exception rule”. The former is stipulated by MiFID II, and its core is to solve conflicts of interest through information disclosure system. The latter is regulated by FCA′s “regulatory sandbox” and “advisory authority” to balance financial innovation with financial security (investor protection). For China, the international experience that we can borrow includes: in terms of business scope, China can expand the business scope of robot-adviser to cover the business of investment adviser and asset management; as far as regulatory design goes, China can borrow the British regulatory system, and as for the goals, China should protect investor′s benefits.

(6)Tradepolicyuncertaintyandregionalmigration

ZHAOChun-ming,GUJun-yi,LIHong-bing·52·

As a distinct characteristic of the opening-up, regional migration has greatly facilitated China′s foreign trade. However, trade policy uncertainty(TPU for short) can adversely affects it. Based on the natural experiment of the U.S. granting China permanent normal trade relation after China′s entry into WTO, this paper investigates the impact of TPU on population migration by means of constructing the index of regional trade policy uncertainty and a double difference model. We find that TPU reduction significantly promotes regional population inflows, which is largely based on job-related migration. At the same time, the impact also has regional distribution effect, i.e., inter-provincial impact is greater than intra-provincial one. In addition, based on the mechanism test, it is found that TPU promotes population migration by increasing job opportunities and the average wage. Furthermore, TPU reduction greatly promotes the urban productivity, which is primarily resulted from population mobility. The results are expected to help minimize the negative impact of TPU, for instance, the Sino-US trade friction on population migration, optimize labor area allocation, and emphasize the importance of trade in economy.

(7)Theroleofdevelopmentfinancialinstitutionsinpublichealthandepidemicprevention:acasestudyoftheWorldBankandChinaDevelopmentBank

HUANGMei-bo,DUANQiu-yun·64·

After the Second World War, the development financial institutions have been playing an irreplaceable role in the world economic growth. The fact that development finance is a quasi-public product determines that it can also play a part in the global public health and epidemic prevention. In recent years, multi-lateral institutions have participated in global public healthcare governance through project loans, knowledge banks and consulting services to promote public health and epidemic prevention in developing countries, and to solve global public health emergencies. National development financial institutions are interfering, too. We suggest that national institutions set up health and epidemic prevention systems, and multilateral ones focus on the problems such as the strings attached that may decrease the efficiency of the health sector.

(8)OpportunitiesandchallengesforChinainpromotingthereforminglobaleconomicgovernancemechanisminthedigitalera

MAShu-zhong,GUOXue-yao·77·

The paper analyzes the factors in China′s promoting the reform in global economic governance mechanism from the perspectives of economy, politics, culture, technology and resources. After that, it discusses the opportunities and challenges China is facing from the angles of digital technology, digital trade, digital finance, digital government and digital security. At last, it offers suggestions on the priorities for China′s efforts in hope of thoroughly analyzing China′s situation in digital economy.

(9)AhousingsociologystudyonthehousingpatternsofthefloatingpopulationinBeijing

LIXiao-zhuang,LISheng·90·

Housing sociologystates that the housing patterns of the floating population in megacities are determined by factors of social structure. Based on the survey data analysis of the dynamic monitor of China′s floating population in Beijing in 2017, this paper studies the impact of different factors of social structure on the housing patterns of floating population. The results are as follows: the proportion of floating population getting collective consumer housing supported by policy is low, which indicates the exclusiveness of urban housing system; various factors of social structure significantly affect the pattern such as the private consumption or collective consumption. To eliminate the inequality caused by these factors, the paper suggests that authorities pay more attention to the housing differentiation, innovate the government housing redistribution, improve the rental and purchase mechanism, and optimize the structure of the floating population.

(10)Historicalsociologyandsocialhistory:anexplorationintothedisciplinaryboundaryandinter-disciplinaryresearch

YANFei,ZHUYu-qing·102·

Historical sociology and social history both interact with sociology and history. After studying the 46 papers on historical dimensions or historical events published on “Sociological Research” and “Chinese Journal of Sociology” from 2010 to 2020, we divided them into three types of studies on traditional Chinese society before Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ming and Qing history, and the modern history. The first two focus on social history, while the last type mostly is about historical sociology. We argue that historical/temporal dimension and social/relational dimensions help the two academic fields improve their inter-disciplinary research.

(11)Theinfluenceoftechnologicalprogressontheinteractionbetweenartisticcreationandaestheticappreciation

CHUXiao-qing·111·

Art history tells us that subject and technology advancement have been adapting to each other. Technology supports art, in particular, the objective and material of art creation, meanwhile art breaks the restriction of technology for a better spiritual representation, aesthetic appreciation and value judgement. This adaption brings about the changes in art creation, appreciation and aesthetics. Impact of technology upon the relation between creation subject and aesthetics can be found in the prominence of art subject and objective things in primitive period, the popularization of art in industrialization, and the idea that everyone can be an artist or an art appreciator in the digital era where the boundary between the two blurs so much that the form of artworks turns intangible.

(12)TheoriginandevolutionoftheChinesefamilypreceptsculture

JIANGXue-lian·128·

The Chinese family preceptsfalls into types: verbal ones and written ones. Verbal ones originate from the oral disciplines or objects, songs, dances in rituals about clan affairs. Judging from the admonition concerning the clan affairs such as political marriage among tribes and imperial successors, and the “five ethical teachings” in the period of Yao and Shun, we believe that this period witnessed the earliest verbal percepts in China. The earliest written family precepts ever known were the royal family precepts in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, including admonition of political affairs or decree, succession to the throne, and admonishments to children. The family precepts later spread to common people and accordingly developed into an education which outperformed family schooling, formal schooling, or administrative governance. This culture had a great development in Japan after its introduction to this neighboring country. Japan′s innovation of traditional precepts in modern times deserves a comparative research.

(13)HanyuandLiuZongyuan’sdivergenceonMenciusanditssignificanceinhistoricalthoughts:astudyfromtheperspectiveoftherelationshipamongConfucianism,BuddhismandTaoism

ZHANGYong·140·

Hanyu and Liu Zongyuan argued on Mencius’ ideasonYiXia, morality and interests, and mind-nature theory. Han hailed Mencius as the rightful successor to Confucius and therefore insisted that Mencius be included in “Confucian Orthodoxy of Dao”. Liu, on the other hand, disregarded Mencius on the ground that he went against the Dao of Confucius and for this reason strongly opposed his inclusion in “Confucian orthodoxy of Dao”. This divergence resulted from their interpretations of the relationship among Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and the connotation of “Confucian Orthodoxy”. The well-known debate between them actually were answers to the question “what is Confucius?” raised in the Middle Tang Dynasty, which also shaped the development of Confuciunism in the Song Dynasty.