Southeast Asia's geographical proximity to China and its substantial ethnic Chinese population make it a pivotal region for studying transnational cultural dynamics in the new globalization era. This study integrates historical migration patterns with contemporary cultural exchanges to elucidate the evolution of cultural communication and human-place interactions. Utilizing qualitative analysis across three "going global" intangible cultural heritage (ICH)—Yingge, Liangcha, and Wangchuan—the research constructs an interdisciplinary framework combining cybernetic communication theory from communication studies with diffusion models from cultural geography. Findings reveal a tripartite transcultural communication pathway: cross-border cultural migration, localized interaction and adaptation, feedback-driven civilization exchange. Spatially, dissemination manifests as migration diffusion - expansion diffusion-return diffusion, reflecting complex spatial and temporal dynamics. Transcultural communication embodies an innovative evolutionary process through the interaction between culture and cultural carriers, while the cross-regional dissemination of ICH reflects mechanisms of "delayed spillover", "localized rooting", and "temporal-spatial circulation". The interdisciplinary integration of communication studies and cultural geography advances theoretical frameworks for analyzing cultural transmission's spatial and bidirectional linkages between migration, trans-region, and identity construction. It also offers actionable insights for China's global cultural strategy, enriching debates on shared human futures in an interconnected world.

Systematical examination of the values of the Global South from the perspective of the modernization and development of the southern countries is an important way to enhance the well-being of the world's people and build a community with a shared future for mankind. This study focuses on the typical development case of Yuanjia village in Shaanxi province, a representative of the Global South, and examines its internal integration and external adaptation of culture and tourism practices with the conceptual tool of development context, extracting the values of the Global South condensed by the culture and tourism practices of the village. The results suggest that the development context of Yuanjia village's culture and tourism practices encompasses four implications: value creating, system building, innovation inspiring, and kinship maintaining. This development model promotes the culture and tourism practices and modernization of the village through functions such as the organization of production networks, the confirmation of legitimacy, the injection of adaptability, and the integration of elements. The successful experience of Yuanjia village corresponds to the development requirements of autonomy, transformation, collectivity, and extensibility emphasized by the value of the Global South. It can provide value demonstrations at different levels for the rural modernization of southern countries through three aspects: the identification of the value of culture and tourism practices in demonstration areas, the optimization of the value translation cycle, and the establishment of a local value production system. By exploring the meaning of the value modernization of the Global South based on the context of Yuanjia village's tourism development, and constructing the transformation framework of this meaning in the modernization of rural areas in southern countries, this study contributes Chinese wisdom and solutions to the implementation of the UN World Poverty Alleviation Program and the promotion of democratization and modernization of international political, economic and cultural relations.

The specific practices and techniques of de-bordering are topics of interest, and are of great theoretical and practical significance in deepening the understanding of the construction of China's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Belt and Road Initiative. The top-down power mechanism of the de-bordering process through law or discipline power alone does not necessarily produce positive effects, and dispositif power is increasingly becoming a more widely used governance technique nowadays. The de-bordering process in the transboundary wetlands of Shenzhen Bay exemplifies this mechanism. The study finds that governance priorities on both sides of the border are key entry points to examine the bordering and debordering processes. The ecological connectivity with different governance priorities has resulted in a series of very different nature reserve practices and cross-border conflicts, which further constructs the boundary between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. This process is nevertheless a linear and binary structural relation with the intentions and practices of de-bordering continue to intertwine. Guided by the discourses of ecological civilization and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, new elements continue to join and interact, on the basis of which the original social relations are spontaneously restructured and adjusted. Governance priorities on both sides of the border began to show a hybrid trend thus gradually promoting the process of de-bordering. This study reveals that dispositif as an operational mechanism may have significance for the process of the construction of the Greater Bay Area, which helps us understand and explain the process and mechanism of the current de-bordering in that dispositif is a specific strategic measure under the guidance of the ecological civilization in China, which embodies a new governance technique. On the other hand, this study provides a new understanding of the relationship between dispositif and the production of borderscapes, expanding and deepening the social contexts in which dispositif operates. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a dynamic and creative region, which can complement the insufficient attention paid to the open, hybrid and creative dimensions of borders in current research, help further promote the connotation and extension of the borderscapes theory, reflect the complexity and vitality of borderscapes, and provide empirical studies with Chinese characteristics.

In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), international students from the Global South have become increasingly prominent in the globalization of higher education. The complex geopolitical dynamics underpinning this phenomenon have drawn significant attention from geographers. However, much of the existing research adopts Western perspectives, particularly those informed by postcolonial theory. Some Western scholars interpret China's educational cooperation as a form of neo-colonialism or cultural hegemony, reflecting a spatial misplacement of problem consciousness. These interpretations often overlook the agency and subjectivity of students from the Global South, deviating from the de-centering critique at the core of postcolonial theory. This analytical misframing arises from uncritically applying postcolonial frameworks designed for North-South power asymmetries to South-South contexts, thereby neglecting the situated agency and affective dimensions through which students negotiate geopolitical power. In contrast, this study introduces a "mobile aspiration - place negotiation" theoretical framework, which highlights everyday practices and human-environment interactions as critical arenas for the (re)production of geopolitical discourses, knowledge, and cognition. Drawing on longitudinal fieldwork with BRI-affiliated international students, the research traces how their aspirations and life projects evolve across three key mobility phases—pre-departure, during-study, and post-graduation—through engagements with shifting geopolitical landscapes and localized conditions. The findings reveal that students actively reinterpret China's developmentalist discourse and pragmatic ethos in ways that align with their own national imaginaries and personal futures. Through transnational mobility and place-based negotiation, these students balance personal development aspirations with geopolitical structures, forging "strategic coupling" relationships with the host country. This interactive dynamic generates a decentered geopolitical perspective on South-South globalization, advancing a logic of knowledge production that is decolonizing rather than re-colonizing. By foregrounding mobile aspirations as key sites where geopolitical subjectivities are transformed, the study contributes to rethinking South-South educational mobilities beyond Western-centric critiques. Ultimately, this research offers an innovative analytical framework that deepens our understanding of educational cooperation under the BRI, shedding light on the specificity and complexity of the South-South educational mobility model. It provides a more situated and affectively attuned account of geopolitical subjectivity formation, challenging dominant narratives while illuminating alternative modes of geopolitical engagement in an increasingly multipolar world.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as a key mechanism through which China promotes mutually beneficial cooperation, has profoundly reshaped the dynamics of interaction in border regions. Taking GS Village on the China-Laos border as a case, this study examines how the implementation of the BRI impacts both livelihood transformation and cultural adaptation among borderland residents from the perspective of Pu'er tea, by using an interdisciplinary approach integrating in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and biochemical analysis of tea. The findings are as follows: (1) Within the policy framework, GS villagers maintain regular cross-border mobility, and their everyday practices contribute to the construction of a transboundary cultural community. (2) The BRI has facilitated the tea trade between China and Laos, with the entry of Laos ancient-tree tea into the Chinese market expanding consumer choices and prompting villagers to upgrade their industrial strategies. (3) In response to market structure changes, villagers have reinterpreted tea-related cultural resources to construct differentiated narratives, based on the localized pedoclimate and artisanal craftsmanship differentiation between China and Laos. (4) Although the biochemical compositions of Chinese tea and Laotian tea are similar, villagers strategically employ cultural symbols for innovative product differentiation, thereby enhancing consumer perception of distinctive product characteristics. This performative practice effectively demonstrates the agentive wisdom of borderland communities in the process of intercivilizational exchange. Overall, the BRI has not only strengthened cross-border economic connectivity but also stimulated cultural innovation as a means of endogenous development among border regions. This research offers a novel perspective for understanding the sociocultural reconstruction of frontier societies and contributes a cross-border agricultural case to the theory of the social construction of nature.