改革開放以來中國內地社會的劃時代變遷

改革開放之前，中國內地是一個以農業勞動人口為主的處於早期工業化階段的社會。改革開放之後，內地由於計劃生育而使勞動力人口占總人口的比重迅速增加，少兒撫養比和老齡人口撫養比均處於低位，從而增加了儲蓄率，迎來了人口紅利。而人口紅利與外資的結合，也促動了長達三十多年的高速增長。經濟發展的結果，逐步使第一產業占比下降，第二產業和第三產業占比上升。到最近幾年，第三產業占比超過了第二產業而成為拉動國民經濟增長的主導產業。經濟結構的變遷，使內地的社會結構也發生了重大的變化，這不僅使農民階層占比迅速下降，工人階層占比迅速上升，而且還產生了一個龐大的中產階層。多項調查表明，以職業為標誌的中產階層的數量正在超過工人階層的數量，使內地開始了後工業化的步伐。內地經濟與社會結構的變遷，也第一次使城鎮人口的總量超過了農村人口的總量，並且在2016年年底達到57%左右。與此同時，農村居民也開始了非農化過程，即居住在農村的居民，並不一定是農民而可能是非農民。中國社會的這種變遷，急劇提升了其消費潛力，從而拉開了消費品的升級換代序幕。

漢字帝國的構建：從甲骨文到電子網頁
(The Construction of the Written Word Empire: From Oracle Bones to Digital Web-Pages)

No invention can be greater than that of writing in the history of human civilization. Writing enables a literate culture to construct what this paper proposes to call “Written Word Empire”. Like any political-social empires, a Written Word empire is also subject to rises and falls. The empire constructed through the Chinese Written Word is adopted as a case study.

The Written Word is defined as a visual representation of the Spoken Word. The Chinese Spoken Word arguably emerged with the Peking Man — hunter-fisher-gatherers (about 400,000 to 200,00 BP). Early pottery signs by definition are not regarded as the Written Word representations. Oracle bone scripts, and bronze scripts are mature representations of the Written Word. In other words, the Chinese Written Word Empire began with oracle bone scripts in Shang dynasty and has continually grown until today.

The Chinese Written Word Empire (CWWE ) for short) can be expounded in multiple perspectives. Given the space permitted, the paper will examine the empire in terms of (1) multimodal experience, i.e., total saturated experience (TSE) with total saturated signification (TSS); (2) the evolutionary history of the book. The Spoken Word is embedded in the multimodal experience of living and becoming. The Written Word, one of the essential building blocks of the CWWE, due to its materialization and objectification, fossilizes the living Spoken Word in linearized endurable chunks. This metamorphosis made loss of the properties intrinsic to the Spoken Word, and at the same time gained a life of existence unique to the Written Word itself.

The book, another essential component of the CWWE, arguably began, properly so to speak, with bamboo strips (簡冊).(Some scholars hold that oracle bone inscriptions should be regarded as books too, but we have reservations for this view.) The Chinese book is traditionally classified, in view of cultural history, in terms of writing media, e.g., 帛書，金文，碑文 and many others. Digital technology is the latest medium used to represent the Written Word. This talk will review the evolutionary history of the book media in terms of multimodal experience, i.e., TSE with TSS.

刑事法治與國際公約

國內刑法與國際刑法的銜接和互動，是現代刑法發展的一種趨向。國際刑法的基本原則和具體規範，散佈在諸多國際條約尤其是聯合國框架下的國際公約之中。近些年來，中國在刑事立法、刑事司法領域以及相關法制領域的重大變革，也呈現出與聯合國反腐敗公約、制止恐怖主義公約、公民權利與政治權利國際公約等國際約法協調發展的趨勢。在刑事實體法方面，主要表現為相關罪名體系的完善和刑罰制度的變革；在刑事程式法方面，主要反映在有關法治原則的確立、特別程式的規定，以及人權保障措施的具體化。此外，在國際刑事司法協助的法律實務層面也呈現出靈活性與多樣化發展。

【提綱】

一、法治原則與刑事法律制度改革

二、刑法修正與國際公約

三、 刑訴法修正與國際公約

四、 刑事司法改革與國際公約