关键词: 联合国禁止酷刑规范, 中国参与, 社会学制度主义, “社会适应性逻辑”

Abstract: Ever since the entry into the UN System of Regulations against Torture,China has been actively involved in related international conventions,and cooperated with UN institutions against torture and similar organizations of various countries and regions in the world.The steps of reform in the system of administration,legislation and justice are quickened.There have been three different interpretations in the academic circle about the causes and motives for China to participate in regulations against tortures,namely,the strategy theory,the stimulus-response theory,and the beneficial theory.However,all three tend to reason on the simple expected results logic and are not sufficiently persuasive.This paper attempts to refer to the theory of social adaptive logic of sociological institutionalism to offer a new interpretation by analyzing five aspects the institution provides for the participants,namely,meaning construct,cognitive dimension,social legitimacy,the cognitive map about the shared issue network,and common characters of the participants.

Key words: UN Regulation against Torture, China’s participation, sociological institutionalism, social adaptive logic