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Over the past decades, the China–Russian energy partnership has become firmly established. Significant milestones such as the 2009 oil and the 2014 gas deals demonstrate the geopolitical impact of this partnership. The article finds that the China–Russian energy cooperation uses a partnership-based relational approach that eschews rulemaking by treaty. Instead, the legal framework of this partnership is multi-layered and has distinct features. It relies heavily on bilateralism, pragmatic cooperation, and non-binding commitments. A range of instruments applies at the bilateral level, including a bilateral investment treaty, energy cooperation agreements, intergovernmental agreements on significant energy deals, and many joint communiques and statements of a soft law nature. Regarding regional energy governance, China and Russia prefer different approaches, as reflected in their participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Belt and Road Initiative. While these regional mechanisms contribute to the energy partnership, their impact on the legal framework is limited.

AbstractThe natural resource‐based view suggests a relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and corporate financial performance (CFP), because intangible assets accrued by a firm constitute competitive advantages. However, the role of corporate reputation as a valuable intangible asset in the CER–CFP link has yet to be examined. We fill this gap by examining the effect of a firm's reputation in terms of prominence and favorability in interactively mediating the CER–CFP link. Using a sample of 10,995 firm‐year observations in China, we find that CER enhances a firm's prominence and favorability, through which CER indirectly improves CFP. Additionally, the results of moderated mediation analysis indicate that the indirect effect of CER on CFP via improving prominence (favorability) is more positive and significant in high levels of favorability (prominence) than in low levels.

The article describes the history of research on the works by poet Valery Pereleshin in Chinese literary studies in the 2000s-2010s. Chinese literary critics Li Meng, Wang Yamin, Li Rennian, Li Yanling, Gu Yu, Wang Jianzhao, Rong Jie, Su Xiaotang, Zhao Ting, etc. studied his work in the context of Russian diaspora literature in interaction with the traditions of the Russian Silver Age and classical Chinese literature, paying special attention to the images and motifs associated with China. It is concluded that in the first two decades of the 21st century, Chinese scientists studied the works by Pereleshin in four directions: 1) collecting and publishing the poet's works and archives; 2) studying the poetics of his works (in particular, the principles of creating the image of China); 3) describing his work in the context of Chinese culture, Russian literature traditions of the 'golden' and 'silver' ages; 4) analyzing the principles of poetic translation implemented by him. As Chinese researchers show, Pereleshin's works combined the traditions of acmeism and symbolism associated with the names of Alexander Blok, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Osip Mandelstam, which organically combined with techniques characteristic of Chinese classical poetry. Of great importance for the understanding of the specific features of Harbin literary life were the concepts 'Harbin critical realism' and 'Harbin silver age', introduced by Professor Li Yanling, which contributed to the development of the ideas about the 'island' ('enclave') type of Russian culture's development in China. The article indicates the limited range of problems raised in modern literary research and suggests areas for further research: analysis of religious and philosophical motifs in Pereleshin's works, description of contradictions and paradoxes in his worldview, study of the impact that Chinese and Russian poetic traditions had on his works, which would make it possible to understand the innovative nature of the artistic forms used by him, as well as to draw conclusions about the general principles of intercultural interaction.