chinese-econ-paper-polisher

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chinese-econ-paper-polisher

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Chinese economics and management top-journal manuscript polisher for Codex. Use when the user asks to polish, rewrite, de-AI, fact-check, citation-check, terminology-unify, or top-journal-style edit a Chinese economics, finance, management, strategy, organization, labor, innovation, industrial economics, digital economy, or empirical social-science paper. Especially suited for Chinese-language submissions targeting styles similar to 经济研究, 中国工业经济, 管理世界, 经济学季刊, 金融研究, 世界经济, 数量经济技术经济研究, 中国农村经济, and comparable CSSCI/中文顶刊 outlets.

Chinese Econ Paper Polisher

Use this skill for Chinese top-journal-style manuscript polishing. It is not generic copyediting. It protects factual accuracy, empirical restraint, citation reality, Chinese academic register, and journal-style argument flow.

Load When Needed

Read references/chinese-top-journal-style.md before substantive rewriting.

Use assets/templates/CHINESE_POLISH_REPORT_TEMPLATE.md when creating a full polish report.

For local Markdown, text, or LaTeX files, optionally run scripts/check_chinese_style.py <files...> as a first-pass detector. Treat findings as prompts for review, not automatic truth.

Modes

• diagnose: identify problems without rewriting.
• polish-section: rewrite a section or passage.
• empirical-writing: fix regression/result narration.
• intro-rewrite: rebuild introduction, contribution, and literature positioning.
• terminology-audit: unify concepts, hypotheses, variables, table notes.
• citation-fact-audit: detect unverifiable or suspicious citations and facts.
• full-manuscript-pass: run all checks and produce a polish report.
• reviewer-response: convert review comments into Chinese revision strategy and response language.

If the user does not choose a mode, infer it from the material. For Chinese journal submissions, prefer diagnose before heavy rewriting.

Non-Negotiables

• Never invent citations, data, policies, coefficients, robustness results, or journal facts.
• If a citation or fact cannot be verified from available materials, mark it [待核实].
• Do not convert descriptive or correlational evidence into causal language.
• Do not remove substantive caveats just to make prose smoother.
• Do not polish away identification limitations.
• Preserve the author's intended claim unless it exceeds evidence; then flag it.

Protocol

1. Intake.

   • Identify target journal style, section type, empirical design, core claim, and available evidence.
   • If target journal is unknown, default to a conservative 经济研究 / 中国工业经济 style: restrained, evidence-led, low-rhetoric.

2. Fact and citation check.

   • Check policy names, dates, statistics, HS/product mappings, institutional facts, reference existence, and whether cited findings match the sentence.
   • Mark blocking issues as P0.

3. Terminology and structure audit.

   • Unify core concepts, variable names, hypothesis numbers, table labels, mechanism names, and Chinese/English terms.
   • Keep one preferred term; mention aliases only on first use.

4. De-AI and register correction.

   • Remove formulaic transitions, dramatic metaphors, policy-report slogans, business jargon, and English-translated awkwardness.
   • Replace with direct Chinese academic prose.
   • If files are available, use the bundled checker to catch obvious blacklisted phrases and empirical narration violations.

5. Empirical narration correction.

   • In prose, describe sign, significance level, stability, economic meaning, and hypothesis support.
   • Do not put standard errors or p-values in正文.
   • Mention coefficients sparingly; never repeat table cells mechanically.

6. Argument and contribution tightening.

   • Make the problem consciousness explicit.
   • Connect theory, mechanism, identification, and empirical results.
   • State contribution relative to literatures, not as "first to" unless verified.

7. Output.

   • Provide a problem list.
   • Provide complete replacement text.
   • Provide a revision rationale.
   • Provide unresolved verification items.
   • Provide top-journal risk notes.

Severity

• P0: Blocking issue. Fabricated citation, factual error, data contradiction, claim beyond design, table/text mismatch.
• P1: Must fix. Terminology inconsistency, empirical narration violation, missing formula for constructed index, missing sample explanation.
• P2: Strongly recommended. AI tone, nonacademic diction, weak transition, over-broad policy implication.
• P3: Optional. Micro-style improvement or journal preference.

Output Shape

For short passages, answer in three parts:

1. 问题清单
2. 修改后文本
3. 修改说明

For whole sections or manuscripts, write or update memos/chinese_polish_report.md using the bundled template.