| National character question is one of the most important topics during the modern Chinese national salvation and enlightenment movement. By combing the national character question and its studying origin and development diachronically and synchronically, this article reinterprets the basic meaning of the concept by the principle of history and logic organically unifying; And it systematically summarizes the theoretically cogitating achievement of that on its background, birth, nature, performing and reformation; It gives the corresponding theoretical care for the existing historical omission; Thus it attempts to explain the in-depth value embodied in this question according to the involved main threshold. This article tries to analyze the depth and breadth of Chinese modern national character research in theoretical perspective; The theoretical visual angle it chosen is a kind of cultural comparing research macroscopic threshold; "The Chinese question" globalization goes through the historical perpetual flow; Standing on such dynamic platform, this article reveals multi-dimensionality meanings of cultural anthropology, sociology, psychology, politics and ethnology which the question refers to, and analyzes the thinking course of modern people seeking conscious liberation; It resets the national character question into the space which Chinese modern national politic salvation and culture enlightenment exist in to prove the national character's social value; Furthermore, it opens up and develops the profoundly influencing inertia, which is implicated in the generation's considering, inheriting, criticizing and innovating, thereby it gains some enlightenment of person's modernization through regressively examining. This article starts with the basic question-this is brief comment on the research of Chinese modern national character; It states briefly about the origin and the overall vein of historical evolution of national character, on the foundation of which, it scientifically discriminates the significance of this question as a core proposition; Then it explains the main achievement which Chinese modern national character research obtains and the existing cognitional omission; And it logically analyzes the course that the modern people against the specific historical background seek the nationality's own modernization or the modernizing liberation on theoretical layer. The article inspects the profound value that national character loads mainly on social life, culture and politics, and it chooses and supposes the nationality-developing evolution in advance as the research significance, which is the"harmony and unification"of history and reality, rationality and emotion. |