The border issue holds significant importance in China-India relations, persistently hampering their development. Existing scholarship tends to interpret the causes of China-India border disputes through lenses of colonization, history, security and third-party involvement. However, these approaches overlook the complex power dynamics within the state which regards the border as the tools. To comprehensively explore the new-round China-India border dispute since May 2020, this paper cites the thought and methods of critical geopolitics, applies discourse analysis of geopolitical imaginations, and proposes a novel perspective that analyzes the border dispute in terms of the synergetic role of multiple actors. The findings indicate that: (1) The border dispute can be considered as tools or resources for multiple actors to achieve their goals or interests through jointly constructing geopolitical discourses and imaginations related to border disputes; (2) Based on Indian mainstream media news from April 2020 to March 2021, the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress Party, the military, Ministry of External Affairs and the business and social elites in India have utilized the border conflicts as tools and resources to pursue political and economic interests through three forms of geopolitical imagination: paranoid style, intimate metaphor and moral resistance, thereby exacerbating the dispute; (3) The border dispute from May 2020 to February 2021 is regarded as a continuous process exploited by Indian multi-actors, which means that the conflicts, like the confrontation in Pangong Lake, occurred when the multi-actors' interests were not yet secured, but tend to subside once their interests are largely met. In this regard, China should rationally understand the periodic and persistent nature of China-India border disputes and actively build complementary and cooperative structures between the two countries through positive methods like "appreciative inquiry" which may effectively mitigate or resolve border disputes.

Standing at the new starting point of the comprehensive promotion of common prosperity, tourism has played a substantial role in industrial poverty alleviation. It has helped to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation in post-poverty areas. Tourism has effectively connected these areas to rural revitalization efforts. In this context, it becomes critical to examine the adaptive relationship between tourism urbanization and residents' happiness levels, particularly in typical backward areas with abundant tourism resources. Such an examination is important for solidifying the progress of poverty alleviation, driving rural revitalization, and ultimately fostering common prosperity. By understanding the dynamics between tourism urbanization and residents' happiness, both policymakers and stakeholders can formulate targeted strategic plans. These plans can fully leverage the potential of tourism as a catalyst for sustainable development and inclusive growth, ultimately aiding both local communities and the broader society. This paper constructs a theoretical framework of adaptability between tourism urbanization and residents' happiness level. The methods of sequence matching degree, geographical detector model, and mediating effect model are adopted to examine the spatio-temporal evolution and mechanism of adaptability of Western Hunan from 2007 to 2021. The results show that: (1) The overall mean of adaptability between tourism urbanization and residents' happiness level is 0.417, which is barely adaptable to increases at different phases. This result indicates the existence of a large gap in Western Hunan and a certain Matthew effect. (2) Adaptability is characterized by a spatial pattern of Yongding district, Wulingyuan district, Jishou city, and Fenghuang county at the center. It is high in the north and low in the south of the study area and presents a balanced development pattern from center to the edge with center districts taking the lead. Districts and counties with high adaptation should fully play their leading roles in promoting balanced regional development. (3) Quality tourism resources are among the dominant driving factors. Tourism urbanization and residents' happiness level are consistent with adaptability in high- and low-adaptive areas. Adaptive areas are horizontally aggregated. Tourism urbanization and residents' happiness level have social governance as the main adaptive path and distributive justice as the secondary adaptive path. This research provides insights into the geography of tourism to enhance residents' happiness levels. Scientific references and real case studies are presented to aid the formulation of differentiated measures in tourism urbanization development. By disclosing the spatio-temporal evolution and mechanism of adaptability, this study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between tourism urbanization and residents' well-being. The results can aid the sustainable development and promote common prosperity in the region.

The rural tourism is an important industrial carrier and key industrial path for implementing the strategy of the rural revitalization and innovation-driven development in the new era, and promoting rural economy and society in China to achieve high-quality innovative development. The iterative development of rural tourism formats has reconstructed the rural economic and social forms and reshaped the nature of rural space. The continuous emergence of new industries and new formats has promoted the re-transformation of rural production functions, and the spatial innovation factors and resource allocation have broken through regional restrictions, giving feedback and enabling the development of rural tourism innovation. In foundation of criticizing and inheriting Schumpeter's innovation theory, this study interprets the connotation and characteristics of the rural tourism innovation, builds a rural tourism innovation system with "one core" and "five supports", and looks into future key areas of China's rural tourism innovation research. The results indicate that firstly the rural tourism has experienced the innovative development processes from scratch with gradual exploration and from weak to strong, which has the characteristics of times, integration and regionalism. Secondly, in the rural tourism innovation system, the format innovation is the core representation form and material space carrier of rural tourism innovation along with the institutional innovation as the start point for the top-level design and logic, the financial innovation as the solid foundation and power support, technological innovation as an important engine and breakthrough force, organizational innovation as the key support and effective guarantee, and social innovation as realistic path and core drive. Finally, the research framework of the rural tourism innovation is constructed from the perspectives of theoretical system, practice pattern, evolution process, dynamic mechanism, and optimization countermeasures to expect the important knowledge contribution and theoretical guidance for understanding, elaborating, and exploring the occurrence, succession, and innovative development of rural tourism, in pace with the effective guidance and decision-making basis for the innovative practice and management of rural tourism under the situation of China.

Common prosperity is the essential requirement of Chinese path to modernization, and high-quality development is the fundamental way to achieve common prosperity. And tourism has many advantages in the process of realizing common prosperity, such as its natural attribute of enriching people and its characteristics of adjusting income distribution. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to explore the impact of tourism high-quality development on common prosperity. However, there are few empirical studies on the impact of tourism on common prosperity, and even fewer on the spatial spillover effect of tourism on common prosperity from the perspective of high-quality development. Therefore, based on the panel data of Chinese 262 prefecture-level cities, this paper uses the entropy method, spatial autocorrelation analysis and spatial econometric model to measure the spatio-temporal evolution of the level of tourism high-quality development and common prosperity, and tests the direct effect and spatial spillover effect of the impact of tourism high-quality development on common prosperity and its four dimensions (development, commonality, sharing and sustainability). The results show that: (1) Both tourism development and common prosperity show an increasing trend year by year, but both the differences between cities are increasing. Tourism development and common prosperity in most cities have not exceeded the overall average, and the overall development level is low. (2) Tourism development and common prosperity have high spatial agglomeration characteristics, and the Beijing-Tianjin region and Yangtze River Delta are the common high-value agglomeration areas of tourism development and common prosperity. Common prosperity has obvious characteristics of "high administrative level driving". (3) There is a significant positive spatial correlation between tourism development and common prosperity, but it showed a decreasing trend over time. The number of H-H and L-L cities gradually decreased, H-L cities increased, and L-H cities remained basically unchanged. (4) Tourism development has significant positive direct effect and spatial spillover effect on common prosperity, and the intensity (total effect) sequence of tourism development on dimensions of common prosperity is as follows: development > sustainability > sharing > commonality. (5) The effect of tourism development and common prosperity showed obvious regional heterogeneity, among which the direct effect order is: west> central> east, south> north. At the same time, the western region has a negative spillover effect, while the southern region shows a positive spillover effect.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), stemming from the social practices of communities, groups, or individuals, is intrinsically linked to specific locales. The dynamic interplay of globalization and localization has significantly expanded the material, conceptual, and symbolic dimensions of ICH, pushing its boundaries beyond their origins. The study explores the dyeing and finishing techniques of Gambiered Canton Gauze (Xiangyunsha) in the Pearl River Delta, examining both the tangible products and their representation within three apparel companies. By analyzing data from diverse sources, this study uncovers how brands' positions within translocal networks establish norms and scaling strategies, forging multiple ICH narratives. Each of the three brands incorporates Xiangyunsha into its design. The first, a local enterprise, demarcates an exclusive domain of heritage. Through its localization strategy, the brand's owner aligns her local identity with this heritage domain, claiming right to interpret and steward its authenticity, leveraging local elements such as history, climate, resources, and culture as a competitive advantage in marketing. The second enterprise employs a multiple localization strategy, engaging with local, regional, and global assets to advance brand development. Though not a native brand, it has established significant partnerships with local authorities to safeguard heritage, positioning it as a global eco-conscious fashion icon and achieving scale-jumping. The third brand, founded by a Western designer with international experience and an ecletic artistic sensibility, along with her Chinese husband, follows a hybrid localization strategy. Operating from China's capital, rather than the heartland of Xiangyunsha production, the brand weaves ICH practices into the global cultural fabric. This approach results in a mosaic that mirrors current cosmopolitan values, enriched by an ongoing influx of innovative ideas, discourse, and knowledge. This study discerns that scales within ICH practices are interconnected, presenting a non-hierarchical relationship. It posits that the sense of locality and place in ICH is fluid and contextual, shaped by a web of connections forged through ICH practice.