Main Abstracts

System Theory Solve to the Functional Explanation Puzzle of Analytic Marxism——on P. V. Parijs’s Defence of Functional Explanation

Gui Qiquan and Wan Ziqian 24

To Analytic Maxists, the functional explanation lies in the core of expressions in the history theory of Carl Marx. Fierce debate had been carried out within their group on the plausibility of the functional explanation. By introduce some ideas of system theory, P. V. Parijs argues that the use of functional explanation in social science is justi fi able, but his defence is somehow fl awed, and this is determined by his halfway usage of the system theory. It is hopeful that further studies on analytic marxism would make greater progress by the help of system theory.

The Protection of the Consumer’s Right to Know and Regulation of Food Science and Technology

Gao Qinwei 48

One of the notable characteristics of the modern food market is the change brought by the increasing application of science and technology, which is difficult for consumers to understand. Traditionally, food producers only publicize the health and safety information of food or raw materials in accordance with the law, and the consumers don’t know what new technologies are used in the production and processing of food.It is necessary for consumers to know the information in the process of food processing, so as to better protect consumers' demand for food safety.

On the Transformation of Regional Integration of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Zhang Jingen 58

In terms of economic volume and development conditions, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been quali fi ed to become the international fi rst-class bay area and world-class urban agglomeration on the material basis. However, under the “one country, two systems”, there are huge gaps of the economic,legal and administrative system among the bay cities,which has led to the real integration among the bay cities after the traditional labor cooperation division model of “ront shop, back factory”, has been weakened, and has severely restricted the expected collaborative development eあects. The existing research is still limited to the traditional model of regional integration patterns, even “old wine in new bottles”. During the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Due to the lack of transformation of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, including the construction of the bay area is facing obstacles. Therefore, the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area must change the mindset of “old wine in new bottle”, and shift from the functional regional integration to the institutional regional integration.

Understanding the Economic Function of the Enabling Government: A Review on the Theoretical Foundation and Practical Eあects

Zhu Fuqiang 87

With the rapid development of the market economy and the gradual maturity of social institution, the economic function of the government and its corresponding coordination mechanism have been becoming increasingly important. In fact, there are two aspects for the coordination mode of government: explicit coordination and implicit coordination, which is correspond to the two coordination mechanisms in firm. Furthermore, the explicit coordination of government mainly re fl ects two ways of economic planning and industrial planning,and which is the extension of enterprise planning and prospect project. Therefore, there is suきcient theoretical basis for government to undertake the economic function and coordination mechanism. At the same time,from the theory of history, economics has become a guide of government economic activity subjects since of the birth of economics or becoming an independent discipline; from the history of economy, the economic planning and industrial planning of government takes fundamental role in the take-oあ of economy as well as the modernization process of economy catch-up. Therefore, both theory and practice show that the government needs to take positive economic functions and can play a positive role in coordination.Summarization of Regular Route and Irregular Route among the Official Selection System of Qing Dynasty

Guan Xiaohong 111

The oきcial origin in Qing dynasty was divided into two ways, Regular route who selected from civil service examination and irregular route who selected by other ways. During the multi-approach and multi-kind selection system，the government wants regular route, which work on reading and understand the philosophy of Saint,can lead the ethos of society, oきce and people, as well as maintain the social order and imperial authority. Every emperors of Qing have taken many steps to make Regular route working well and control the Irregular route.Because of Qing dynasty’s oきcial selection system use multi-approach and one position divided by Han people and Man people, it made the work of regular route very diきcult, even in the fl ourishing age of Kang, Yong,Qian. After Jiaqing and Daoguang period Qing government was facing new situation needs much more talents and in this circumstance the selection system has been gradually changed. From Xianfeng to Xuantong period there were too many oきcials were in the waiting list, the oきcials’ capabilities to be a big problem. After the Sino-Japanese War , the status of western system was rising and school replace the civil service examination, in this situation traditional way has been given and government pay much attention to the professional knowledge.

Assigned Contribution and Financial Burdens of the Preliminary Civil Service Examination in Late Qing Dynasty: Focusing on the Baoning Prefecture of Sichuan Province

Zhang Liang 124

The preliminary civil service examinations, operated in the district-prefecture-province three administrative levels, were closely related to the society of departments and districts in Qing dynasty. The needs and functions of the preliminary examinations in each level diあered, which led to various ways of funds raising. Moreover,the practical operations were also different from the regulations. For instance, the expenditure of money on the examinations given by the provincial directors of studies, which was supposed to be reimbursed by the Board, was actually apportioned among departments and districts. With abrupt social changes in the late Qing period, the Baoning Prefecture was confronted by lots of difficulties in funding and administering the preliminary examination. By contrast, new schools, as products of the New Policies Reforms（1898-1911）,were quite successful in raising funds and developed rapidly. Such a contradiction not only exposed the fi nancial weakness of the preliminary examination system and the declining tendency of the whole imperial civil service examination system, but also indicated the fi nancial pressure and troubles that were imposed on the society of departments and districts by the New Policies Reforms（1898-1911）.

Conception and Program of the Study of Valuable Chinese Folklore Documents and Relics in Overseas Collections

Wang Xiaobing 145

Since western missionaries fi rst came to China in the 16thcentury, many Chinese folklore materials have been taken abroad. From the end of the 19thcentury onward western scholars did fi eldwork in China and collected folklore documents and relics to which Chinese at that time paid little attention. These collections spread in overseas museums and libraries and became a treasure of Chinese folk culture to be opened up. Many of these valuable materials do not exist in China any more. Most of them have never been published so that they were not accessible to scholars. The key research project “Cataloging and studying valuable Chinese folklore documents and relics in overseas collections as well as establishing a database”, authorized 2016 by the National Social Science Foundation of China, aims at investigating these materials comprehensively and systematically,producing catalogs and including them in a database. As a programmatic document this article lists the main types of such folklore materials and describes the purposes, approaches, focus and diきculties of the project.

The Research on Chinese Export Paintings: Review and Prospect

Chen Yaxin 154

Since the mid twentieth Century, as an independent research object, Chinese export paintings have been studied for about 70 years. Among the existing achievements, some works take the Chinese export paintings themselves as the research objects, and tend to either carry out a comprehensive overview and construction or only focus on the painters’ pedigree, the attribution of the paintings, a certain kind of the painting, paper, subject,collection organization or country. Some works take the Chinese export paintings as the main materials when they discuss the history of communication and trade between China and the West, the history of Guangzhou port, artistic theory and other related issues. The study of Chinese export paintings is still in its infancy and many important issues remain to be resolved. The investigation, cataloguing and research of Chinese export paintings within a collection organization or geographical area are still the important parts for future research.In the aspects of the basic historical facts, the painter, the origin of the art, the way of drawing, the way of inheriting drawing technology, and so on, are still need to be further tested and clarified through exploring Chinese and foreign historical materials. Chinese export paintings is multi-disciplinary research materials, and interdisciplinary research can bring new methods, perspectives for the research of Chinese export paintings, and many related fi elds. Database construction is another way to protect and research the Chinese export paintings.Building a specialized, large-scale and free database will promote the development of the research.