The Wars In The Latter Qing Dynasty And The Explaining Of The National Psychological Wounds In The China Discussion

In the national crisis time, China fell into dual crises of the political situation and the social value. The voices of transforming social crises had being emerged day after day, thus the modern political comment periodicals arose at the historic moment. With the aid of the political comment periodicals, the modern Chinese intellectual disseminated the modern western statist nationalism thoughts and expressed political viewpoints, in order to mobilize the national to save the nation from doom and ensure its survival.The China Discussion was established just at this moment that the Reform Movement of 1898 had been strangled, and the Qing dynasty being reduced to the status of a colony. With the political comment texts of the China Discussion, we may understand its chief editors how to recognize national and political resources, how to express their national emotion and the political ideals in the wartime, how to construct the modem Chinese statist nationalism ideology.In the first chapter, the author sorts out the development vein of the political comment periodicals at the end of the Qing dynasty. From the macroscopic view the author elaborates the medium environment in which the China Discussion located. With the nationality crisis getting more and more serious, the development of the political comment periodicals experiences three stages. The country and the national became both key words in the political comment periodicals.In the second chapter and the third chapter, the author analyzes the explaining strategy of the China Discussion about the national psychological wounds. One side is that the wounds were recollected which is brought for Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the raging tide of the partition by the dual visions. The other side is that the images of all quarter participants were described in Boxer Movements and the Eight Power Expeditionary Force invades China by the contradiction manner.In the fourth chapter, from the domestic political environment view, the author analyzes the political view difference and the clique relates between the chief commentators of the China Discussion and the domestic modem factions under the war pressure, in order to understand their dissemination motive.In the fifth chapter, the author elaborates the influence of Japanese social environment on the chief commentators of the China Discussion, which related the might state and the civilized national, and induces the China Discussion how to construct the modem Chinese statist nationalism ideology.In the sixth chapter, by comparing with Sein Min Choong Bou, the author analyzes the transformation reasons on the policy of editing and the categories of contents. As the epitome of the modem political comment periodicals, we inquire that the modem intellectual how to make a choice between the meaning of the state and the meaning of the national in the periodicals.