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26 November 2025, Volume 44 Issue 6

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From “Center-Periphery” to “Interactive-Center”: Employing Empathic Understanding to Interpret East Asia

HUANG Dayuan, MA Yimin

2025, 44(6):  1-8. 

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Western-originated area studies have long been constrained by Western-centrism and a single-center optic, resulting in a center－periphery binary in interpretations of non-Western regions. The method of empathic understanding (as advocated by Paul A. Cohen), and drawing on the cross-civilizational dialogue practices of scholars such as Song Nianshen and Baek Young-seo are adopted to undertake a systematic reflection on the Western-centric construction of East Asian history by taking East Asian area studies as the object of inquiry to seek to transcend the temporal limits of traditional Sinocentrism. A research pathway oriented toward an interactive-center perspective is proposed to reassess the problematics and methodological foundations of China's area studies. The results found that empathic understanding is not exclusive to the West, but can be placed in dialogue with the Chinese historiographical notion of “sympathetic understanding”.

The Geostrategic Significance of the Wakhan Corridor and Paths for Regional Security Cooperation

MA Hebin

2025, 44(6):  9-15. 

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The unique geopolitical pattern of the Wakhan Corridor, shaped by its geographical features and historical background, along with the strategic interests of major countries, profoundly influences the methods and goals of regional security cooperation. The existing security cooperation mechanisms centered on the Wakhan Corridor and their effectiveness are studied to propose practical paths for cross-regional security cooperation. The research shows that as a crucial corridor connecting Central Asia and South Asia, the Wakhan Corridor holds great geostrategic significance and has attracted extreme attention from relevant countries. Non-traditional security threats such as terrorism, extremism, and transnational crimes can only be addressed by effective multilateral cooperation mechanisms and implementation of regional security cooperation among relevant countries to promote long-term regional social stability and orderly economic development.

Interdisciplinary Integration and Talent Cultivation of Thai Language Majors in Yunnan: An Area Studies Approach

YANG Li

2025, 44(6):  16-24. 

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Against the backdrop of global governance restructuring and the rising international influence of China, foreign language disciplines in Chinese universities are undergoing a transformation from being instrument-oriented to strategy-oriented. From the perspective of Area Studies, a new theoretical support and methodological guidance for the development of Thai language programs in universities in Yunnan is provided. The research argues that interdisciplinary integration can drive the transformation of Thai language programs from language-skill-oriented to language-region-discipline integrated models are provided to enhance students' strategic awareness and innovative capacity. Universities in Yunnan should deepen reforms based on national needs and regional realities, develop distinctive talent cultivation models, and contribute intellectual and human resources to the Belt and Road Initiative and Lancang-Mekong Cooperation.

Relations between Yunnan and Southeast Asia in Ming Dynasty: A Historical Study Based on Li Yuanyang's Wanli-era General Gazetteer of Yunnan

SHEN Qianfang, PENG Lingge

2025, 44(6):  25-31. 

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Li Yuanyang, a renowned historian and thinker of the Ming Dynasty, was hailed as “the foremost scholar of the Bai ethnic group” by later generations. During over a decade of official service, he developed profound “statecraft” thought and rich social practice experience. After resigning to return to seclusion, he dedicated himself to academic research—his major works such as Gazetteer of Yunnan (Wanli Reign) systematically elaborate on Yunnan's strategic status as a hub for the central dynasty's engagement with Southeast Asian countries, as well as its pivotal role in economic exchanges and cultural interactions.The local gazetteer substantiate that Yunnan was not only a bridgehead for China to connect with South and Southeast Asian countries but also undertook the crucial function of safeguarding national territorial integrity and border stability in the geopolitical pattern with Southeast Asian nations, holding significant historical reference value for Yunnan's accelerated construction of a radiation center facing South and Southeast Asia today.

Social Work Empowering Residents in Frontier Regions to Participate in Ecological Conservation Actions: A Case Study of X Village

LIN Jianyu, ZHOU Caiyun

2025, 44(6):  36-43. 

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Social work empowerment of villagers in community ecological governance represents a significant practice in rural social work and an important pathway for engaging in community governance. The processes and mechanisms for social workers mobilizing residents in ethnic communities to participate in ecological conservation practices are systematically examined by focusing on Village X in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, and social mobilization theory. The strategic experiences and practical approaches to social work in promoting villager engagement in ethnic community governance are further elucidated. The findings reveal that social work effectively enables villagers in Village X to carry out tropical rainforest restoration through cultural, human, organizational, and resource mobilization. The social work, in participating frontier community governance, should establish a multi-dimensional interactive mechanism centered on Party building guidance, supported by elite feedback, grounded in endogenous motivation cultivation, and reinforced by multidimensional system empowerment through eflecting on these conservation practices.

Countermeasures of Integrating of Social Work and Grassroots Governance in Yunnan

SUN Guangling, GUO Yijian

2025, 44(6):  44-50. 

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The integration of social work and grassroots governance in Yunnan is the most importants suppart for the promotion of state gover nance in the grass roots units. The findings reveal that although Yunnan has achieved initial results in policy formulation and practice, constrained by structural contradictions, it still faces five major problems—the disconnection between policy design and grassroots realities, unresolved inter-departmental coordination barriers, mismatched resource supply and demand, poor connection between professional services and local needs, and contradictions between talent training and industry demands. A "five-in-one" countermeasure system—improving the institutional coordination mechanism to break down inter-departmental barriers, perfecting the service connection system and innovating characteristic social work models, establishing a resource allocation mechanism to solve the funding bottleneck, strengthening the talent training mechanism to stabilize the grassroots workforce, and constructing a supervision and feedback mechanism to ensure the implementation of policies and measures— is proposed, aiming to provide a reference for promoting the in-depth integration of social work and grassroots governance in Yunnan and other multi-ethnic regions.

Yunnan Literati's Image Inscriptions in Qing Dynasty and Their Significance in Literary History

LI Chao

2025, 44(6):  51-58. 

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Inscriptions on portraits, as a perspective and pethodological approach to text-image relations, are increasingly employed in literary studies, particularly in the field of ancient literature. Inscriptions on portraits depicting figures and capturing their likeness became a prevalent poetic theme during the Qing Dynasty. As elegance and refinement flourished in the Central Plains, a large number of poem inscriptions on paintings emerged in Yunnan's poetic circles. Among these, inscriptions on portrait paintings were particularly abundant, reflecting a vibrant literary network and a diverse artistic and cultural ecosystem. These inscriptions, inspired by the content of the images, elaborated on the demeanor and moral integrity of notable figures, revealing their individual temperament, aspirations, and family ethical character. As products of literati refinement, the inscriptions enriched the multidimensional interpretation of images, expanded the scope of literary exchanges among Yunnan's scholars, and enhanced their influences. Furthermore, portrait inscriptions carried forward the tradition of capturing spiritual likeness, contributing to the construction of regional celebrity genealogies and the documentation of local literary heritage.

Connotation of Image Narrative of Road as a Spatial Imagery in The Life Path

LI Minghui

2025, 44(6):  59-65. 

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Compared with the original work and the 1983 film adaptation, The Life Path , a TV drama, adds “road” as a spatial imagery to the title, making it core imagery in the image narrative. The repeated appearance of the road imagery becomes a symbol of specific emotions and ideas, and through interaction with characters, the imagery constructs a deep emotional network of the narrative. Directors and screenwriters grasp the creative spirit of the author, pursue the integration of the original work's spirit with contemporary culture, delve into the themes of the era, and endow it with core elements such as connecting social structures, injecting the voice of struggle, highlighting emotional choices, and a sense of national and family community in a specific historical context. Through the road imagery, Chinese youth continuously exert their personal strength in the realization of subjective values, make choices and strive in the journey of finding their “path”, and construct their own path of personal growth. Therefore, the narrative connotation of the road as a spatial imagery is reflected in three aspects. Firstly, through the repeated appearance of the spatially concrete road in terms of film and television aesthetics, the imagery brings an aesthetic lyrical effect of repeated emphasis, embodying the authors' and screenwriters' lingering intoxication with the primitive and stunning beauty of the Loess Plateau, as well as their longing for the urban life at the end of the road. Secondly, against the background of the urban-rural dual structure at that time, the road as a spatial imagery is also the path for rural youth to strive toward the city. Thirdly, from a moral perspective, the road also symbolizes the path of choosing between good and evil for the characters in the drama.

International Communication Strategies of Yunnan Local Culture from the Perspective of International Chinese Language Teaching

LIU Hongjuan

2025, 44(6):  66-72. 

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The perceptions and interpretations of China's Belt and Road Initiative among people in different countries along the routes vary widely due to differences in cognition, attitudes, cultural backgrounds, and values. Misunderstandings about China's image among some international communities have seriously hindered the achievement of mutual understanding and the progress of international exchange and cooperation. Yunnan is the only province in China that connects both the “Belt” and the “Road,” boasting multiple advantages in geography, transportation, culture, and language. The international dissemination of Yunnan's local culture is a strategic necessity for promoting Chinese culture globally and enhancing the nation's soft power. From the perspective of International Chinese Language Education, the global promotion of local culture holds unique advantages over other forms of cultural transmission. Key areas for Yunnan's cultural internationalization—“Ethnic Cultures,” “Culinary Culture,” “Tourism Culture,” and “Economic and Trade Culture”—are identified, and strategies for promoting Yunnan's culture both within the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in China and through overseas Chinese education are studied.

The Enhancement of Thai Students' Willingness to Promote Chinese Films and Television Dramas

WANG Yan, CHEN Wei

2025, 44(6):  73-78. 

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Currently, the dissemination of Chinese culture has become an important component and a key pathway for building China's cultural “soft power” in the new era. Based on a survey of Thai students watching Chinese films and TV dramas, using these works as multimodal learning resources has a certain positive effect on improving Chinese proficiency, deepening a sense of Chinese cultural identity, and promoting intercultural adaptation among international students with different language levels. However, due to various factors, Thai international students have shown average willingness to spread these works. Therefore, multiple forces are gathered and multidimensional measures are taken to strengthen the willingness of Thai students to spread Chinese culture overseas, enhance the international recognition of Chinese culture, and promote Chinese culture “go global”.

Impact of Blockchain Trust Mechanism on Digital Supply Chain Finance from the Perspective of the Digital Economy

CHU Jihui, SIQIN Tana

2025, 44(6):  79-85. 

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With the development of the digital economy, digital trust technology has been widely applied in various fields of socio-economic activities. Blockchain technology, as a paradigm of digital trust technology, has been widely accepted and effectively utilized by a vast number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the supply chain due to its digital features such as distributed ledger, decentralization, and consensus sharing. Through digital supply chain management, core enterprises can conduct penetrative management and provide financing convenience to upstream and downstream enterprises under the condition of active confirmation of rights, influencing digital supply chain finance in terms of “re-intermediation trust”, “trustless credit”, and “from ‘interlocking’ to ‘parallel’”, strengthening financial institutions' tracking of enterprise transaction information and review of financing qualifications, and effectively reducing financing risks.

Data Elements Empowering Agricultural Modernization: Theoretical Mechanisms, Yunnan Practices and Development Pathways

LI Jian

2025, 44(6):  86-96. 

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As the core production factor in the digital economy era, data possesses significant economic characteristics and exerts a positive effect on optimizing factor allocation and promoting economic transformation and development. Relying on data, the development of digital agriculture is the essential path to agricultural modernization. Based on the provincial and agricultural conditions, Yunnan has accelerated the transformation of agricultural development mode, achieved remarkable results in agricultural modernization, and embarked on a path of agricultural modernization with Yunnan's practical characteristics. However, Yunnan faces shortcomings in agricultural modernization, such as low total factor productivity, low digitalization, low organizational innovation and service capabilities, and low-end whole industry chain. Therefore, it is necessary to fully leverage the characteristics of data, accelerate the cultivation of the data market, and drive Yunnan's agricultural modernization through agricultural digital transformation. Yunnan's agricultural modernization at the production, management, and industry system levels can be accelerated by harnessing the penetration, intelligence, innovation, and integration effects of data.

Intrinsic Mechanism, Practical Approach, and Path Selection of Digital Economy Empowering Qujing's Photovoltaic Industry to Improve Quality and Efficiency

PAN Xiaojun

2025, 44(6):  97-102. 

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The empowerment of the digital economy to the photovoltaic (PV) industry is not only an inevitable path for the upgrading of the PV industry, but also a core engine for promoting energy transition and achieving the “dual carbon” goals. Qujing, known as China's “Capital of Photovoltaics”, needs to leverage the empowerment of the digital economy to achieve quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and high-quality development of its PV industry. The digital economy drives quality and efficiency improvement in the PV industry through four dimensions: the reconstruction of factor inputs, the transformation of production methods, the reshaping of industrial chains, and industrial innovation. Driven by the construction of “Digital Qujing”, the digital economy has boosted the production efficiency and benefits of Qujing's PV industry by empowering PV product manufacturing, PV project construction, operation and maintenance management of PV power generation systems, and the extension of the PV industrial chain. E fforts should be made in the following aspects-continuing to enhance the construction of new digital infrastructure in Qujing, accelerating the digitalization process of Qujing's PV industry, advancing the intelligent transformation of the PV industry, and cultivating digital interdisciplinary talents for Qujing's PV industry, to further strengthen the role of the digital economy in empowering the development of Qujing's PV industry.

The Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on High-Quality County-Level Economic Development in Yunnan Province: Evidence from 103 Counties

CHEN Qiuju, SHI Xuelin, WANG Jinhui, WU Xiehuang

2025, 44(6):  103-112. 

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The causal impact and the transmission channels through which digital inclusive finance fosters high-quality development at the county scale are indentified by employing county-level panel data covering 103 counties in Yunnan Province from 2014 to 2023, and combining baseline regressions, robustness checks, heterogeneity tests, and a mediation-effects framework. The findings reveal that accelerating the construction of digital inclusive finance invigorates endogenous growth drivers in Yunnan's counties and fully unlocks digital dividends; and that digital inclusive finance boosts county economies by propelling industrial transformation and upgrading, with this linkage operating through a significantly positive mediating channel. Accordingly, the policy that policymakers expedite the extension of digital inclusive finance to the township—village periphery while aligning it precisely with local industrial restructuring, thereby leveraging digital financial tools to catalyze industrial upgrading and deliver a region-wide qualitative leap— is recommended.

Quadruple Alliance of Schools, Government, Enterprises, and Industry Associations: Building and Practicing an Agricultural-Commerce-Oriented Vocational Education- Industry Integration

CHENG Li, LAI Yuxin, GONG Yunhong

2025, 44(6):  113-120. 

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The construction of industry-education integration communities in vocational education is a crucial initiative to deepen school-enterprise cooperation and enhance the quality of skilled talent cultivation. The “school-government-enterprise-industry”, four-in-one collaborative education logic is adopted as the main thread by focusing on the building and practice of such integration communities in the agricultural and commercial sectors to analyze the model characteristics of four-party collaboration. Concrete pathways and practical mechanisms and suggestions for constructing an agribusiness industry-education integration community are proposed to and examine the current problems. This study highlights the “agriculture-commerce industry-education integration” features and adheres to the multi-stakeholder collaborative education logic of schools, governments, enterprises, and industry. The study demonstrates the practical significance of such communities in cultivating high-quality “new agribusiness” talents and serving rural revitalization and industrial upgrading, providing theoretical and practical guidance for building industry-education integration communities in the agricultural and commercial domains.

Cultivation of Digital Economy-Driven Undergraduate of Agricultural and Commercial Management

WANG Ruihong, YANG Zizhou, ZHUANSUN Longen, LIU Jihua

2025, 44(6):  121-128. 

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The transformation of rural economy in the digital age has led to a more prominent supply-demand contradiction in supporting agriculture, promoting agriculture, and strengthening agricultural talent. The problems in the traditional business talent cultivation are the emphasis on urban areas over rural areas, disciplinary fragmentation, disconnection between theory and practice, weak digital skills, and lack of agricultural and rural sentiments. The "problem positioning model path" is employed to analyze the cultivation of undergraduates of agricultural and commercial management to establish the training objectives of agricultural and commercial management talents, define their core characteristics of "understanding technology, good management, and loving rural areas", and construct a three-dimensional ability model of "digital technology+agricultural and commercial management+agricultural and rural sentiments". The implementation paths from five dimensions—adjusting training concepts, reconstructing teaching systems, innovating teaching models, improving quality standards, and deepening industry university cooperation—are proposed to provide reference for the cultivation of agricultural and commercial management talents in ordinary universities, the training of upstream and downstream units in the agricultural and commercial management talent chain, solving the talent supply-demand contradiction under the digital transformation of agriculture, and compositing professional talents for rural revitalization.