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Revolutionary Faction In The Late Qing Dynasty Statue Yellow Thought

Posted on:2011-04-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L H TangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360308467554Subject:China's modern history
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In recent years, the Yellow Emperor has been increasingly emphasized and worshipped. It had a long history of ethnic sources. However, as a national symbol of the modern sense was only to complete metamorphosis in modern times. Facing the crisis of subjugation and genocide on Late Qing Dynasty, people generally recognized the importance of solidarity outside the Royal. However, for long life under the rule of the dynasty, the country's concept was very vague or even indifference. This much needed awakening of national consciousness through traditional resources. The revolutionary recognized the fact and started to create the myth of the Yellow Emperor. They excluded cultural factors and divided up ethnic context from consanguinity and created a new national ideology, opening revolutionary wave of respecting for Yellow Emperor in late Qing. In late Qing, respecting the Yellow Emperor is a reproduction of national revival, but also a kind of cultural representation. Studying this phenomenon will be very helpful in understanding the new energy as the carrier of the traditional culture-the Yellow Emperor in the modern transformation, and better helps us understand the construction of the modern Chinese nation, and shows the wisdom of fighting for the country.Through the revolutionary respecting for the Yellow Emperor is to Catalog multiethnic context of Modern Chinese, and create the new position of worshiping the ancestors, which will be an important academic value. It reality has a clear role on the Construction of Contemporary Chinese system and strength the cohesion of the Chinese nation and promotion the cross-strait and even Global Chinese cultural sense of identity.Using the research of the worshiping the Yellow Emperor in late Qing period done by Shen Songqiao, Sun Longji and Gao Qiang, This article uses large amount of raw data to enrich the respect of the yellow emperor in Late Qing. Usually the focus is on the nation's construction itself. The author is more emphasis on the national consciousness awakening and the significance of national construction, especially try to analyze the main person-Revolutionary's political objectives and aspirations of the nation behind.This paper describes the reasons and current research on this topic related research. From the "yellow" respectively in the late Qing dynasty and the relationship of nationalism, "Christian" emperor of Yellow, "the political and cultural significance" of sons of the "Yellow emperor" and the early modernization from four aspects:summarize the current academic circles about this phenomenon of "honor" yellow in Qing dynasty, which provides for the research of the possibility and foundation for this article.This article traces the causation for the Yellow Emperor worshiped in late Qing at second part. It analyzes excitation of ethnic awareness impacted from the era background, so that the different political group, as the reformists and revolutionaries has given the Yellow Emperor of different ethnic connotation, opening the initial wave of Yellow Emperor worshipped in the 20th century. The second part refocuses of the content of revolutionary respecting for Yellow Emperor. By thinking of revolutionaries for political purposes to create the Yellow Emperor myth, reconstructs the traditional values. After the revolutionary transforming, the great changes of the Yellow Emperor's History have taken pace and broken with the traditional, being given a new sense of the times and becoming the soul and God of ancestors of the Han people. The national consciousness was awakened. However, we can easily see, for the purpose of revolution, multiethnic context by the revolutionary molded has many apparent irrational factors. It does not meet the modern sense of the meaning of nationalism.The fourth part focuses on ideological Roots of the late Qing revolutionaries who is able to quickly set off the source wave for Yellow Emperor worshiped. For the Chinese people deepen bath by tradition, how much new content was endowed with Yellow Emperor by Intellectuals, it could not break away from traditional factors.From the "ethnic" discussion of revolutionary, we can see that the foundation which supported the theoretical was still the traditional national concept. In this process, the late Qing revolutionaries had exaggerated the importance of blood and did their best to exclude the interference of culture. They combined the "national concept" with "nationalism" and "racialism" to explain a new theory called "nation", while the real purpose was "respecting the Yellow Emperor". In the end, the "Yellow Emperor" setting up by the revolutionary caused great repercussions in the society, which attained the goal of "anti-Qing". As "respecting the Yellow Emperor" had enormous narrowness, after the awake of national consciousness, the revolutionary intellectuals modified its national theory, expanded ethnic venation of the "Yellow Emperor" which included all the nationalities in China. In this way, the Yellow Emperor became the common ancestors of the Chinese nation, completing its transformation from traditional to modern.In short, the late Qing revolutionaries' ideology of "respecting the Yellow Emperor" is rich. Behind the reality of overthrowing the Manchu rule, there was a new nation, or even a new culture. This still need further study.
Keywords/Search Tags:"Respect for the Yellow Emperor", "Racial consciousness", "Traditional national concept"
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