The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China by Q... - 9781032074214

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The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing ChinaA Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902-1910\nAuthor(s): Qing Cao\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032074214, 978-1032074214\nSynopsis\nThe Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China investigates the linguistic and intellectual roots of Chinas modern transformation by presenting a systematic study of the interplay between language innovation and socio-political upheavals in the final decade of the Qing Dynasty.\n\nThis book examines the formations, internal tensions, and promotion of such macroconcepts as nation people (guomin ??), nation (minzu ??), society (qun ?), state (guojia ??) and revolution (gemin ??) as novel ideas borrowed from Europe but mediated through Meiji Japan. Using corpus-based discourse analysis of the full-text corpus ([url] million words) of the two most influential periodicals, Xinmin Congbao (????) and Minba.