Social Sciences in China, No. 9, 2025

A Correct Historical View of WW II: Key to Comprehensively Understanding the War’s Multiplicity and the Chinese Theater’s Status as the Main Battlefield in the East

Wang Fusheng • 4 •

The Spatial Thought of Marx and Engels

Dong Hui • 24 •

The Polyphony of Modern Rationality—The Encounter between Kant and French Philosophy

Li Kelin • 42 •

Expanding Contemporary Labor Process Theory under Flexible Accumulation

Wang Jianhua and Zheng Guanghuai • 62 •

The Realization of Institutional Opening-Up through Competition Law

Sun Jin • 83 •

Machine Consciousness and the Causal Self-Model

Wu Xiaoan • 103 • 

Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of AI-Generated Art

Ouyang Youquan • 123 •

The Diversity and Integration of Bronze Cultures in Southwest China

Shi Jinsong • 145 •

The “Dual-Track Fiscal System” in the Qing Dynasty and State Fiscal Capacity: An Analysis from the Perspective of Credible Commitment

Hao Yu and Liu Zhengcheng • 163 •

The “Neo-Colonialist” Discursive Essence of the US Open Door Policy

Ma Jianbiao and Xu Gao • 185 •