TheoreticalInnovationandPracticeProgressinStrengtheningtheConstructionoftheParty’sLong-TermGovernanceCapacityintheNewEra

Tang Huangfeng/Xiao Rongzhi

Strengthening the Party’s capacity long-term governance in the new era is a necessary requirement for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and advancing the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in a coordinated manner. It is of great strategic significance to effectively resolve major social problems and respond to major risks and challenges in national governance. Xi Jinping’s important remarks on the construction of the Party’s long-term governance capacity have promoted the CPC’s scientific understanding of its own governing law at the theoretical level and straightened out the internal relationship between the party’s overall leadership and its long-term governance. It is a scientific summary and systematic extraction of the law of political Party building in the wave of new technological revolution. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, with political construction as the overarching task, ideological construction as the basic link, organizational construction as the fundamental guarantee, building intra-Party laws and regulations as the key support and upholding and improving the Party’s governing system and governing method as the important channel, we have exercised full and rigorous governance over the Party and ensured its advanced nature and purity through self-revolution, which is an important strategic measure to strengthen the construction of the Party’s long-term governance capacity in the new era.

AchievingSolidProgressinEstablishinganIndexSystemforCommonProsperity:TheoreticalLogic&PreliminaryDesign

Jiang Yongmu/Dou Xiaolei

Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and the common aspiration of the people. To establish an index evaluation system for steadily promoting common prosperity in theory?is of great significance in making more tangible progress in the common prosperity of all the people. To establish such an index system, it is necessary to base it upon the existing literature research, clarify its foundation, purpose, principle, basis and standard from a perspective of theoretical logic, provide basic theoretical basis for establishing four index dimensions in terms of affinity with the people, share of benefits by the people, development for the people and security of the people and further set specific indicators centering on the key and difficult points of promoting common prosperity and its value purport. All these will contribute to an all-round and multi-dimensional response to the practical and theoretical requirements of common prosperity and continuously deepen our understanding of the path of common prosperity under socialism with Chinese characteristics.

TheOriginalFormofHistoriographyandtheEvolutioninItsFormandContent

Li Hongyan

To strictly keep “history” separate from “historiography” is of basic and original significance in constructing the epistemology of historiography and the theory of historical interpretation. However, the original Chinese character “SHI” (history) only means “historiography” while the another word “SHI” (event) expresses objective history. The definition of “history” by ancient historiographers inherently contains the system of epistemology of historiography with distinct subject attributes and profound hermeneutic implications. In ancient times, it was the general rule for the emergence and evolution of world historiography to record events with poetic thinking and poetic style. According to the information revealed in the pre-Qin literature, the transformation of Chinese historiography from keeping a record of events by poems to keeping a record of events by history took place between the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties. This is a process to get rid of witchcraft and poetic essence and develop towards humanization and scientization.

TheHouseholdNatureandContemporaryValueofTraditionalChineseLaw

Xu Yong/Zhang Huihui

As a part of the superstructure, law is based on economic and social foundations and serves the economy and society. Traditional China is a typical agricultural society due to social division of labor. The household system for one family presents its prominent features, which determine the household nature of traditional Chinese law. It includes protecting the rights and status of parents, strengthening the filial piety of respecting the old and cherishing the young among family members, paying attention to the mutual responsibility of family members, consolidating and maintaining the household system with household registration system, giving full play to the self-regulation function of households as well as home affairs not being readily intervened by state laws. Since modern times, the household nature of traditional Chinese law has been radically reinvented, and modern law has its individualized characteristics. With the drastic increasing trend of individualization,?it is necessary to have a new understanding of the household nature of traditional Chinese law and explore its contemporary value.

TheMoralityofActorsfromaRiskSocietyPerspective

Zhang Kangzhi

Morality is an indispensable factor in human social life, but it is a theme of frequent complaints in the industrial society. Indeed, under the condition of low complexity and low uncertainty in the industrial society, social order can already be achieved with a perfect system of rules to regulate people’s behaviors and actions. However, when human beings fall into a risk society and the society presents a high degree of complexity and uncertainty, any behavior and action without morality may be very harmful. In terms of moral formation, what happens in an agricultural society might be incorporated into a naturalistic explanatory framework, but in the industrial society, although Hayek pointed out that morality was not the result of design when criticizing the abuse of reason, the enlightenment thoughts have opened up a huge space for the generation of individualistic morality of industrial society. Generally speaking, the epistemological thinking of industrial society excludes morality but the intuition and intuitive cognitive approach under the condition of high complexity and high uncertainty in a risk society provide a cognitive basis for moral reconstruction.

CulturalIncorporationofBeautyfromaCross-CulturalPerspective

Wang Yichuan

An examination into cultural incorporation of beauty in cross-cultural studies is helpful in understanding how one culture deals with multi-cultural beauty in its interaction with other cultures. Cultural incorporation of beauty is not to merge or unify beauty of a variety of different cultures but to recognize that each has its own independent value, and it just bunches them up while at the same time maintaining their independence. The origin of the phenomenon of cultural incorporation of beauty rather than that of the identity of cultural beauty lies in the fact that all things in the world are full of differences and from time to time violate, resist or reject the identity. Cultural incorporation of beauty can be expressed as the incorporation of national cultural beauty, ethnic cultural beauty, structural cultural beauty, social cultural beauty and interesting cultural beauty as well. At the same time, there are plenty of paths to achieve it, such as cultural dialogue by communication, trans-cultural recognition of cultural diversity, compliance with human common wishes, seeking common ground and reserving difference as well as mutual harmony between different cultures. There are various possibilities in the process of cultural incorporation of beauty, such as the rule of acknowledging beauty of one culture among its own members, the rule of acknowledging beauty of different cultures, the rule of acknowledging the coexisting pattern of beauty of different cultures, which will move towards the coexistence of diverse beauty and mutual harmony of diverse beauty.