Over the centuries, “rule of principle” 以理治国has been seen as the essence of the political thought of Zhu Xi 朱熹(1130-1200) from Song dynasty China, the most important stage that influenced later political discourse. In order to better examine the formation of this political thought, this paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective from poetry, the texts most reflective of the writer’s inner mind and personal feelings, aiming to rehabilitate poetry production of Zhu Xi as an individual literatus’ reflexive response to the outer world rather than treating it simply as a Neo-Confucian’s featured verse and reducing characteristics of poetry to the influence of his philosophy, or the intension to better serve the propagation of his philosophical ideas.

This paper suggests that the literati of the Wei and Jin dynasties broke the rules of drinking in Confucian rites, and affirmed the entertainment function and association attribute of drinking. Affected by the idea of self-so life, drinking became the activity confronting political pressure and expressing life experience. The distorted self-consciousness in drinking impacted upon the basis for Confucian moral psychology, while the recognition of personal desires and the collapse of ethic order turned into the important source of power emancipating suppressed human nature. Drinking poems also indicate that the literati of that time attempted to solve the latent body-mind conflict and pursued the self-so realm featuring the agreement between body and soul.

Reading useful books has a profound influence on children's healthy growth; thus, reading education is important for children to establish a positive outlook on life and cultivate values and good qualities. In this study, a two-semester reading education program was carried out for four classes of migrant children from Y private school for migrant children in Beijing. First, books were selected and purchased for the children according to their cognitive characteristics and reading interests. Then, three forms of reading education, writing postreading responses, storytelling sessions and skit performances, were adopted to promote the migrant children's reading comprehension and improve their writing skills. Finally, this study assessed the effectiveness of reading education for migrant children through an open-ended questionnaire survey and interviews with the teachers and children who participated in the reading education program. The results showed that the reading education program for migrant children over one school year improved their reading comprehension and writing level in relation to extracurricular books, enhanced their emotional expression, improved their behavior and character traits, and cultivated good reading habits.

In the essay I focus on theory and practice of political representation in contemporary China, analyze the meanings, manifestations and results of two modes of representation (descriptive representation and meritocratic representation) that try to transcend electoral representation, and, based on reflections on conventional representation theory, discuss the reassessment of the value of election for democracy and representation.

The attraction of the study of the Chinese revolution lies not only in its “path” of encircling the cities from the rural areas and finally achieving victory in the cities and even the whole country but also in the "path” of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. The construction of new China led by Mao Zedong has distinct characteristics of the times. The people, despite the shortage of material resources and low living standards, went into production and labor impassionedly and with fighting spirit. Dramatized labor scenes were once the reality. In villages, labor and production were organized by officials at the grass-roots level, and the morale that pervaded the time was stimulated by and cultivated through “political education” within the village system. It was a "politics-oriented" education for all. It was also through political education and its practical usage that a strong ideological tie was established between the Party and Chinese people.

The COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 became a “live webcast” disaster in China. With the rapid development of the Internet, millions of people could not only learn about the details of the disaster but also actively participate in the public discussion. By analyzing people’s opinions and attitudes, we capture a shift in social values. First, it is reflected in the emergence of an egalitarian perspective, which rejects the hierarchical categorization of people based on their status or occupation and downplays the elitist values that previously pervaded the public culture. Second, the old connotation of heroism in official ideology has been gradually discarded. Have accepted a more humane heroism, people would not like to see heroes and their daily life be mutually contradictory, and require complete self-sacrifice from them, as the old ideology used to do. Though the new values may not have fully taken root, it is certain that some changes are taking place, and the changes has made it possible to build a better society.