Social Sciences in China, No. 3, 2025

From Cohabitation to Syncretism: Population Dynamics in Central-Southern Inner Mongolia during the Eastern Zhou Period

Zhang Xu • 4 •

Leapfrog of Underdeveloped Agricultural Regions amid Industrialization—Investigation of Agricultural Transformation in the Farming-Pastoral Ecotone

Wang Juan • 22 •

Fundamental Social Contradictions and Driving Forces of Social Development in the Intelligent Era

Sun Weiping • 42 •

Industrial Chain Risks and Indigenous Innovation by Chinese Enterprises

Zheng Shilin and Zhang Rongjia • 60 •

The Relationship between Department and Local Government Rules and Contract Validity

Liang Shangshang • 79 •

Grassroots Policy Implementation in the Context of Institutional Complexity

Wang Shizong and Yang Yu • 97 •

On “What Makes Governance Work” in Global Governance

Ding Huang • 111 •

The Humanistic Tradition of Chinese Literary Criticism and Its Modern Transformation

Li Zhen • 128 •

The Practical Philosophical Implications of “Concrete Universality”

He Lai • 149 •

The Predicament and Shift of the First-Person Perspective—Reflections on Kant and Heidegger

Zhang Zhiwei • 167 •

Colonial Discourses and Anglo-American “Jurisdictional Politics” in Modern China

Qu Wensheng • 184 •