The Four Crossings of the Chishui River during the Long March stand as one of the finest achievements in Mao Zedong's military command career. Through a series of strategic maneuvers, including repeated flanking movements, feints, and the flexible integration of deception and real operations, Mao led tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers across the Chishui River several times, successfully shaking off the pursuit and encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops and ultimately breaking through multiple layers of blockade. This campaign is widely regarded as a miracle in both Chinese and world military history. The key to its success lay in Mao's masterful application of materialist dialectics to military command. It represented not only a triumph of tactical leadership but also an exemplary unity of far-sighted strategic thinking and disciplined tactical execution. This paper examines the profound military philosophical ideas embodied in the Four Crossings of the Chishui River from several dimensions of dialectical unity, including strategic retreat and tactical offense, strategic deployment and tactical breakthrough, strategic engagement and tactical maneuver, the concentration and dispersion of military forces, and the combination of deception and surprise attacks. Through this analysis, the study seeks to reveal why the campaign became a crucial model for transforming weakness into strength and danger into security.

Taking the genealogy of the Hangzhou Huang silk merchant clan as the research material, this paper focuses on the visibility and invisibility of women in clan memory construction from a feminist perspective. By sorting out the recording methods, content differences and marginalized status of female members in Huang's genealogical documents, this study reveals the gender order hidden behind traditional family compilation logic. The research finds that in the male‑centered clan memory, men are fully recorded as the core of inheritance, while women are mostly anonymous, brief or even omitted, becoming "invisible people" in family history. Behind this writing difference lies the patriarchal system's restriction on female identity, right and memory expression. Even though women played an important role in family management, silk business inheritance and clan emotional bonding, their contributions are erased by the patriarchal genealogical discourse. This paper reflects on the gender bias in traditional family memory construction, and explores the hidden female history under the mainstream male clan narrative.

This research examined the role of fear of missing out and other correlated median factors in their influence to impulsive buying behavior among generation Z (people who were born in 1995-2010, age 15-30) by using online questionnaires. In the survey, participants self report their attitudes and personal experiences of fear of missing out and impulsive buying behavior. Other median factors (influencer credibility, comments of products, algorithmic personalization and marketing strategies) also were obtained. The findings generally show that influencer credibility and comments of products have no significant effects on leading to fear of missing out. Nonetheless, personalized algorithmic information and marketing strategies have positive effects on the phenomenon of fear of missing out, which also were possible reasons for impulsive buying behaviors in generation Z. The research indicates people nowadays should build awareness to identify the promotional information exhibited by social media, and be more rational when facing an impulsiveness of purchasing.

After the self-media short video industry experienced explosive growth, the homogenization of its content has become increasingly prominent, emerging as a key bottleneck restricting the healthy development of the industry. Based on a review of existing research, this paper analyzes the manifestations and underlying causes of the homogenization dilemma in self-media short videos, and explores effective differentiated communication paths from dimensions such as content verticalization, local cultural excavation, narrative innovation, and technological empowerment. The findings reveal that to break away from the homogenization trap, creators need to build distinct value positioning, organically integrating cultural roots, professional competence, and technological innovation to achieve sustainable development in the fierce competition for traffic.

Otome games have rapidly gained popularity among young women in recent years, yet existing studies mostly remain confined to binary judgments such as positive vs. negative or immersive vs. sober. Taking the Media Domestication Theory as the framework and combining in-depth interviews with 12 young female players, this paper examines how otome games enter players' lives and how virtual intimate experiences are transformed into real views on love. The study finds that players domesticate games into their daily lives through appropriation, objectification, incorporation and conversion, while games in turn domesticate players through idealized relationship scripts, forming a bidirectional domestication between the two. The two dimensions of "sense of identification" and "sense of boundary" determine the way and degree to which virtual experiences infiltrate real views on love, leading similar gaming experiences to diverge into different orientations such as learning, comparison, prudence and substitution.

Based on the pluralistic security community theory, this paper attempts to analyze the deep-seated drivers behind the transformation of Africa's security governance model. Long plagued by the interweaving of traditional and non-traditional security threats, Africa gradually broke away from the "state-led + external dependence" governance model after the Cold War and shifted toward regional autonomous and collaborative governance. Taking the Somali counter-terrorism as a case, Africa has gradually achieved an autonomous transformation of its security governance model, yet the academic community lacks a systematic explanation for this phenomenon. Employing the "three-step ladder" analytical framework within the pluralistic security community theory, this study identifies the "sense of community" as one of the key driving factors for Africa's security governance transformation. The urgency of collective action caused by transnational security threats, the enhanced practical feasibility through institutional construction such as the African Peace and Security Architecture, and the collective identity fostered by Pan-Africanism and the Agenda 2063 jointly constitute the "sense of community" among African countries, thereby generating the driving force for transformation. This transformation has been consolidated through practical cooperation, mutual benefit sharing, and the normative evolution from "non-interference" to "non-indifference."From the perspective of pluralistic security community, this paper will examine whether counterterrorism efforts in Somalia align with the logic of the shifting paradigm in African security governance.

This research aims to explain the high level of electoral violence targeting candidates in hybrid democracies. Adopting a comparative perspective, this research project examines the contributing factors to the prevalent electoral violence targeting candidates (EVTC) in Mexico and the Philippines over the past decade. Given that two countries have vastly different political institutions and cultures, the findings from this research are expected to apply to hybrid democracies in general. The effect of impunity experienced by local elites on the number of electoral violence cases targeting candidates was investigated. Impunity, in turn, would be impacted by factors such as political dynasty, subnational authoritarianism, and local state capacity. Using mixed method of quantitative and qualitative analysis, this research finds sufficient evidence supporting the hypothesis that increased impunity, in the context of hybrid democracy, of local elites will contribute to electoral violence, as they would leverage these conditions to safeguard their interest. This paper contributed to the growing body of research in the field of electoral violence by branching beyond region- or country-studies, stressing the important roles of local elites and subnational authoritarianism in electoral violence.

The newly revisedCompany Lawof 2023 introduces the shareholder forfeiture mechanism (Article 52), aiming to address the problems of capital dilution and inadequate creditor protection arising from shareholders' failure to fulfill their capital contribution obligations under the subscribed-capital system. Through a self-governing procedural framework of "demand for contribution–forfeiture–disposition," the mechanism seeks to strengthen capital discipline and corporate governance. Based on the methodologies of legal doctrinal analysis and empirical research, this paper systematically examines the legislative rationale, normative structure, and practical controversies surrounding the forfeiture mechanism, revealing its three core functions within the company law framework: restoring the symmetry between shareholders' rights and obligations, reducing corporate governance costs, and safeguarding capital credibility as well as creditors' interests. The study finds that significant ambiguities remain in the current regime regarding the determination of substantive requirements and the coordination of procedural rules. Representative controversies include the legal boundaries of valid demand notices (such as the effectiveness of electronic service), the absence of explicit statutory provisions on the recusal obligations of interested directors, and procedural conflicts between equity disposition following forfeiture and the rules governing capital reduction. In response to these issues, this paper explores flexible mechanisms such as partial forfeiture of shareholder rights and advocates a governance transition in company law from "capital credit" to "behavioral credit," thereby providing institutional support for optimizing the business environment and promoting high-quality economic development.

Corruption governance in the Chinese context bears both political and social attributes. As a pivotal carrier in the realm of public services, public hospitals see their corruption issues not only erode public interests but also undermine the ecosystem of the medical industry and the government's credibility.Taking a corruption case from a tertiary Grade A hospital in China as the research subject, this study systematically examines the manifestations and generative mechanisms of corrupt practices within the case and further analyzes the institutional environment and practical dilemmas of corruption governance in China's healthcare sector. The research finds that the core cruxes lie in the absence of supervision caused by power concentration, institutional circumvention triggered by the solidification of interest chains, and insufficient coordination among governance mechanisms. On this basis, the paper constructs a corruption governance framework from three dimensions: political logic, institutional logic, and technical logic, and puts forward a systematic approach that includes strengthening the leadership of Party building, improving the internal control system, advancing digital empowerment, and establishing a collaborative supervision network. It is expected to provide practical references for corruption governance in the field of public services.

With the rapid development of the Internet, short videos have become deeply embedded in people's daily lives, and users' reliance on them has been steadily increasing. At the same time, the negative impacts brought by technological advancements, such as the deepening of loneliness, are increasingly recognizedand are causing growing concern among more users. This paper employs a literature review to analyze existing studies on short video use, finding that they predominantly employ single-effect models, either from a positive or negative perspective. Building on existing research, this study aims to extend the exploration by examining the mechanisms underlying the impact of real-life social inhibition and Parasocial Interaction (PSI) on emotional and social isolation among short video users, using a competitive mediation model. It reveals the double-edged sword effect of the algorithm recommendation mechanism, providing empirical evidence to better design "anti-addiction" features for platform operators and digital health tips for users. Additionally, it helps users promote reflective use of short videos and enhance their media literacy.