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This paper calls for a paradigm shift in studying academic dependency, toward the paradigm of brokered dependency. Using Chinese academia as an example, I demonstrate how the neocolonial condition of academic dependency is always mediated through blockage-brokerage mechanisms. The two most salient blockage-brokerage mechanisms of dependency in the Chinese context are linguistic barrier and authoritarian malepistemization, and the effects of the latter consist of three layers: institutional, informational, and incorporational. On top of their domestic impacts, those mechanisms jointly exacerbate spectacularized postcoloniality in anglophone-hegemonic global academic publishing. The paradigm of brokered dependency not only represents a more nuanced approach to the study of academic dependency, but also underscores the fact that the dismantling of the neocolonial condition cannot be conceived and pursued in isolation from comprehending and confronting the authoritarian condition, especially when the latter pertains under the disguise of anticolonialism.

This article examines the puzzling phenomenon that many Chinese liberal intellectuals fervently idolize Donald Trump and embrace the alt-right ideologies he epitomizes. Rejecting 'pure tactic' and 'neoliberal affinity' explanations, it argues that the Trumpian metamorphosis of Chinese liberal intellectuals is precipitated by their 'beacon complex', which has 'political' and 'civilizational' components. Political beaconism grows from the traumatizing lived experience of Maoist totalitarianism, sanitizes the West and particularly the United States as politically near-perfect, and gives rise to both a neoliberal affinity and a latent hostility toward baizuo. Civilizational beaconism, sharing with its nationalistic counterpart—civilizational vindicativism—the heritages of scientific racism and social Darwinism imported in late-Qing, renders the Chinese liberal intelligentsia receptive to anti-immigrant and Islamophobic paranoia, exacerbates its anti-baizuo sentiments, and catalyzes its Trumpian convergence with Chinese non-liberals. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

Chinas e-commerce industry has went through 21 years since Chinas first e-commerce enterprise established in 1996. With the rapid development of Internet and communication technology, e-commerce has penetrated into enterprises production and peoples life, and continued to exert its great potential when combining with traditional manufacturing industry. There is no doubt that e-commerce has greatly increased the efficiency of society functions. This paper cards the courses and policy environment of e-commerce development in China, identifies four stages for Chinas e-commerce development, which are initial stage, accelerated stage, standardization stage and globalization stage. At the same time, this paper describes three different characteristics of current Chinas e-commerce and also summarizes five policy focus for e-commerce. Based on the previous analysis and descriptions, this paper puts forward conclusions that China's e-commerce sector will usher in a new round expansion on global scale, and the Chinese government will play a key and active role in promoting it. In addition, this paper warns these Chinas e-commerce enterprises to actively prevent unknown risk from home and abroad in their business expansion, the government ought to listen to e-commerce companies to deal with their specific difficulties.

The Internet came to China in 1994, and in the past about 20 years, it has penetrated the country's industry andcommercial sectors. Fundamental changes brought by the Internet have been incorporated in the operations oftraditional industry markets. In recent years, China's cross-border e-commerce has demonstrated an explosive growthmomentum with the open strategy of "Going global strategy and bringing-in", which has become a new engine ofChina's economic development. However, there are still some bottlenecks in the development of China's cross bordere-commerce. The major one is the mismatch between the traditional business supervision measures and thecontinuous innovative business models. The paper reviews the status of China's cross-border e-commerce;summarize the policy environment of cross-board e-commerce cooperation in China; analysis the bottlenecks andkey problems in the development of ross-board e-commerce and proposes the policy recommendations for thebottleneck problems.