Technocracy or transformation? Mapping women's policy agencies and orienting gender (in)equality in the Canadian provinces

Canadian gender equality policy has taken a “technocratic turn” that favours bureaucratic expertise to monitor and measure (in)equality rather than participatory and consultative mechanisms. While the processes and impacts of this shift are well documented at the federal level, less is known at the provincial level. This article takes stock of provincial gender equality mechanisms, demonstrating variations in women's policy agencies (WPAs) across the ten provinces. It then links these variations to the discursive politics of gender equality within each province. We demonstrate that the potential for transformative orientations of gender equality emerges in WPAs with broad consultative mechanisms.     

《开罗宣言》考

格林威治时间1943年12月1日23时30分,"开罗会议公报"最早由美国政府在华盛顿公开发表,在之后的24小时内,英国政府在伦敦、中国政府在重庆相继公开发表了"开罗会议公报"。华盛顿、伦敦、重庆三座城市共同拥有这份公报的首发权。通过《波茨坦公告》,《开罗宣言》作为"开罗会议联合公报"的简称,首先为美英中三大国所确认,逐渐为国际社会普遍接受,并长期沿用,一直至今。"开罗会议公报"的最后,确实没有中美英三国领导人的签字,但这并不代表没有三国领导人的署名。"开罗会议公报"的署名采取将三国领导人姓名署于文件开头的方式,昭告天下。第二次世界大战期间同盟国发表的联合公报、宣言,有别于和平时期国家间的联合公报,故其名称、内容、措词、日期、签署、发表等,有其特殊性。     

党的建设制度改革的理论与实践

深化党的建设制度改革是中国共产党领导全面深化改革的重大战略举措,是完成全面深化改革任务的政治保证,是推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化、提高党的执政水平的内在要求。正确推进党的建设制度改革,需要准确把握党的建设制度的内涵及改革要求,在思想、组织和领导统筹等方面积极创建党的建设制度改革的良好环境和条件。     

保障当事人诉讼权利的基本课题

在司法文明指数报告中,考察当事人诉讼权利的基本思路,包括设计二级指标和测试题目两方面内容。通过分析指数报告,可以发现当事人诉讼权利的保障情况总体不佳。保障当事人诉讼权利,应当强调发挥法院的作用;而未来改革的基本课题,包括如何防止权力主体滥用自由裁量权,以及如何为权力主体依法行使职权提供必要的外部保障。     

The Coming Storm

正The Trump administration’s Jerusalem decision is of great consequence for the Middle East U.S.President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,and the subsequent decision to relocate the U.S.embassy there from Tel Aviv in December 2017,invoked a tempest of criticism from around the world.     

Rethinking on China-U.S. Relations

In the quarter-century since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the former Soviet Union＇s disintegration in 1991 and the end of the Cold War,China-U.S. relations have supported the trend of development. The two countries extensively and intensively have engaged in dialogue, close personnel exchanges, unprecedented economic and trade relations, and bilateral coordination on intemational and regional issues. The bilateral relationship has profound influence over the two countries and the world but, while total confrontation and crisis is not on the horizon, there is no guarantee that their future disagreements will not become serious or intractable. In this past quarter-century, the U.S. has repeatedly used and threatened to use force against China, a sign that military conflict between them, even a local or relatively large-scale war, is not out of the question. The U.S. global strategy has not changed, the basic content and goals of the U.S. strategy towards China have not changed, and the nature of the China-U.S. relationship is yet to be defined.     

对内外资企业所得税的法律思考

企业所得税作为我国直接税的第一大税种,在筹集财政收入,促进企业发展方向方面发挥着巨大的作用。然而内外资企业所得税两种税制给内资企业带来了不便和冲突,因此改革所得税制势在必行。     

Horses for courses: China's accommodative approach to food standard‐setting in response to the internationalization of regulation

This paper examines the evolution of China's food standard‐setting procedures from both domestic and international perspectives, particularly in the context of the internationalization of regulation. After the reform and opening‐up in 1978, state actors and leading enterprises monopolized the process of national food standard setting. With further participation in the global economy in the 21st century, China has become familiar with the international standard‐setting procedures and has modeled its domestic policymaking on these practices. This has resulted in a more transparent, inclusive, scientific, pluralized, and consensus‐based form of decisionmaking. By contrast, the standards of the strategic industries have been harmonized to the standards of international counterparts through a top‐down and authoritarian approach. This paper argues that China uses an accommodative approach, trichotomizing suitable standards and decisionmaking procedures in terms of inclusiveness and transparency, which suits the developmental needs of the domestic market, food export markets, and strategic industries.     

关于加强反腐倡廉制度体系建设的思考

加强反腐倡廉建设需要借助于科学的制度设计来实现,构筑完备的反腐倡廉制度体系是根本和关键.反腐倡廉制度体系应由独立权威的反腐倡廉机构、完善的反腐倡廉法规体系、完备的权力制衡机制以及严密的腐败惩戒机制组成.主体、保障、防御以及惩戒的有机统一构成反腐倡廉制馊体系的主线与灵魂.     

The social semiotic of homophone phrase substitution in Chinese netizen discourse

The paper addresses an ingenious way by which Chinese netizens manage to reach their intended audiences under the radar of censors surveying the Internet in China. One specifically Chinese social use of language in this respect is the option to express criticism by using inoffensive characters that share the same or similar pronunciation with politically sensitive phrasing. We identify this type of expression as homophone phrase substitution (HPS). The device has been part of Chinese since ancient times under the name political metaphor. We address the main constraints at work in HPS, especially the role of voice (prosodic contour) that guides the construction of two divergent kinds of aboutness. Leaving aside its critical function in contemporary society, by contrasting HPS with verbal irony, metaphor, and Australian rhyming slang, and by drawing on semiologie and semiotics, indirect speech acts and implicit deixis, we suggest that this linguistic option throws new light on the semantic/pragmatic distinction.