Lying, Self-deception and the Reconstruction of Honesty Education

(by WANG Zhan-kui)

Abstract：As a complex social phenomenon, lying has two kinds of purposes behind it, good or evil. Lying can be used not only as a means of deceit aimed at “deceiving”, but also as a means of achieving moral ends such as “self-protection” and “helping others”. In addition, it may also be used as an immoral means of “flattering others”. Therefore, we can divide lying into three categories: lying based on custom in the field of culture, lying based on profit in the field of economy, and lying based on power in the field of politics. Among them, lying based on custom is an amoral behavior generally accepted by people, while lying based on profit is an immoral behavior that people generally resist, while lying based on power is an immoral behavior that may force people to deceive themselves. Since modern times, under the impact of nationalism and economism, the Confucian tradition of “sincerity” self-cultivation based on “no self-deception” has gradually evolved into a concept of “credit” that abandons “sincerity”. It not only leads to the era of habitual lying, universal lying and even institutional lying, but also gives birth to an imperfect concept of “credit” based on “self-deception”. To reconstruct a kind of honesty education which can effectively avoid personality “self-deception”, this paper holds that we urgently need to do a good job in the following three aspects: first of all, we should be tolerant of those who speak the truth, thus create a moral atmosphere of telling the truth; secondly, in the case that there is no full institutional guarantee for telling the truth, we should also tolerate the lying acts forced by the bottommost survival needs, with the premise that we must be on guard against the self-deception personality trap; finally and the most fundamentally, we should cultivate people’s spirit of pursuing facts and enhance their capacity of recognizing different types of lying with different characters.

Key words: sincerity; honesty; credibility without honesty; institutional lying; self-deception; moral education

On the Three-Pronged Institutional Construction of Remaining True to Our Aspiration and Keeping Our Mission Firmly in Mind

(by HUANG Ming-li, CHENG Lu)

Abstract：Remaining true to our aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind are the political beliefs of the Communist Party of China, the institutionalization of which is a major innovation. Constructing the institution of remaining true to our aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind is to build a system of institutional norms according to the nature, purposes and goals of the Communist Party of China, develop actionable and evaluable standards, and thus make all the Party members firm their ideals and convictions. The significance of constructing the institution of remaining true to our aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind is that it is the institutional guarantee of anticorrosion, the important objective of the modernization of state governance and the theoretical sublimation of the successful construction experience of the Communist Party of China. The inevitability of constructing the institution of remaining true to our aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind is that it is the inevitable requirement of the Party spirit, the positive conformity to the law of historical development and the creative application of the ideological motivation principle. The basic paths of the institutional construction are increasing the awareness that remaining true to our aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind are the eternal tasks of strengthening the Party construction for all the Party members, standardizing the learning system of Marxism, the history of the Communist Party of China and national conditions, and establishing working mechanisms and evaluation systems that can carry out the institution practically, meticulously and specifically.

Key words: remain true to our aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind; institutional construction; theoretical logic; historical logic; realistic logic

Psychological Assistance of COVID-19 Epidemic Situation and Analysis of Its Typical Cases

(by ZHAO Jing-bo, FAN Fang)

Abstract：The Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19) is still raging, which has caused a huge psychological impact on people. Based on the characteristics of psychological stress and assistance under epidemic circumstances, this paper puts forward an intervention strategy which takes help seekers as the center, focuses on the goal, and questions in an integrated way with orientations of evaluation, empathy and positive resources. Through the analysis of four psychological assistance cases, the effective intervention strategy was further interpreted.

Key words: COVID-19 epidemic situation; psychological assistance; typical case

On the Intergroup Discrimination during the Outbreak of COVID-19

(by ZUO Bin, WEN Fang-fang)

Abstract：During the spreading of COVID-19, the phenomenon of intergroup discrimination against “Wuhan residents / Hubei residents” has received much social attention. Intergroup discrimination in the epidemic period is mainly manifested in verbal contempt, transitional avoidance, diffusion of information, labelling stigma and rough treatment, which is due to the influence of individual psychological factors and social group normative factors under the combination of geographical discrimination and disease discrimination. Based on the analysis of the manifestations and causes of intergroup discrimination in the epidemic condition, we believe that increasing accuracy of information to guide the public cognition, focusing on the common identity of “Chinese” and understanding the multiple identities of individuals, adjusting the social classification clues to promote the cross-categorization effect of groups, and integrating the true feelings of human nature into the “rational” social role norms would be important psychological paths to eliminating intergroup discrimination in epidemic periods.

Key words: COVID-19; intergroup relationship; intergroup discrimination; social identity; group cross-categorization effect

Regional Peer Effect of Dividend Policy of Listed Companies

(by DING Zhi-guo, LI Bo-yi)

Abstract：The dividend policy of listed companies has a significant regional peer effect, and there are significant differences in the level of corporate dividend payment among provinces and regions. Based on the logical imitation rate and the law of imitation series, learning imitation and competitive imitation are the internal mechanisms of the group effect in the dividend policy area of listed companies, and the level of regional dividend payment has a more significant impact on the non-leading firms, low-growth firms and under-valued firms. The degree of regional marketization and the level of regional economic development have positive effects on the regional peer effect of dividend policy of listed companies. It is suggested that the supervisory authorities should conduct targeted guidance and standard management, and appropriately enhance the guidance for non-leading, low-growth and under-valued enterprises with more significant regional peer effect, so as to facilitate the rational decision-making of their dividend distribution behavior. Meanwhile, attention should be paid to standardizing the dividend distribution behavior of the leading enterprises in the region, creating an orderly regional environment and market atmosphere, helping investors formulate a scientific and rational portfolio of investment strategies, and urging the enterprise managers to perfect the governance ideas, the external governance mechanisms as well as the internal governance structures.

Key words: listed company; dividend policy; peer effect; region; clustering behavior

Personal Information Utilization and Legal Regulation in Emergency Response——Approach the Topic with COVID-19 Outbreak Response

(by LIN Hong-chao, ZHAO Yi-xuan)

Abstract：In emergency response, personal information can be used for prediction and early warning, emergency decision-making, trend study, hazard identification and control, etc. The COVID-19 outbreak response reveals the government’s inadequacy in the use of personal information, and the root cause lies in the defects of the legal rules. The privacy-centered personal information protection model is inherently inadequate, and the specific rules for the use of personal information in emergency state are missing, while the government information disclosure rules can not be applied to the use of personal information in most cases. In order to establish a legal system for the government to use personal information in emergency response, we should adhere to the principle of priority-of-use, the principle of proportionality which can be moderately adjusted, and the principle of basic-rights protection. In the legislation and amendment activity after the epidemic, the administrative organization should be clearly authorized to use personal information in emergency response, the cooperation obligation of individuals and units should be stipulated, and meanwhile the administrative organization should be required to follow the principle of proportionality and meet the substantive protection of basic-rights of citizens.

Key words: emergency response; personal information utilization; legal regulation

Evolution of the Relationship between “Literature” and “Scholarism” from the Perspective of Compiling Individual Collections

(by HE Shi-hai, HU Zhong-li)

Abstract：The compiling style of individual collections was established during the Six Dynasties and the Sui-Tang era, according to which only single poetry and prose were included, and academic works were excluded. Meanwhile, the core status of poetry in the genealogy of literary form was also established during this period of time. All of these above reflect the progress of the independence and consciousness of literature and its separation from scholarship. This traditional style was broken to different degrees after the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, there were even numerous individual collections which specially collected academic works. These changes provide a valid field of vision for the investigation of the development and evolution of ancient literary ideas, such as the rise and fall of the status of poetry and prose, and the separation and reunion of “l(fā)iterature” and “scholarism”.

Key words: individual collections; style; poetry; prose; academic works

On the Self-record of Ancient Prose in the Individual Works in the Qing Dynasty

(by YU Zu-kun)

Abstract：Many ancient prose writers were fond of attaching their own notes (or self-knowledge) to their individual works, which was a prevailing and particularly noticeable phenomenon in the Qing Dynasty. Of course, the application of self-record was not limited to a certain style, but it was most common in ancient prose creation. It is not only a sign of the academic creation of ancient prose under the influence of the strong academic atmosphere in the Qing Dynasty, but also an outcome of the efforts of ancient prose writers in the Qing Dynasty to promote the dissemination of their works in order to be known and valued under the strong practical purpose and fierce creative competition at that time. As a kind of paratext, the self-record of ancient prose in the Qing Dynasty provides us with a large amount of first-hand information for understanding the authors’ concepts of writing, and grasping the writing motivation, backgrounds, processes, content, characteristics and the readers’ acceptance condition.

Key words: individual works in the Qing Dynasty; self-record of ancient prose; academic ancient prose; cultural diffusion; writing skills of ancient prose