“新民”与“新国”:关于梁启超民族主义的内涵

The New People" and "The New Nation": On Liang Qichao's Nationalism Connotation

作为中国近代民族主义的奠基者,梁启超民族主义充满了理性的色彩,少于种族和情绪的冲动,更多的是对国民性的深层思考和重新建构,通过对具有理想人格的"新民"的设计,而使中国终达至"新国"的目标,即一个独立自由富强的现代民族国家,它为最上之团体,具有优先性。"新民"与"新国"及其两者之间的内在逻辑关联,构成他民族主义的主要内涵,这一思想也成为中国近代民族主义的主流。

Liang Qichao,who lays a foundation of Chinese modern nationalism, makes his nationalism thought more rationality.He pays the further study and the re-construction of National Character rather than represents the ethnic emotional actuation.He designs 'The new people' with perfect characters,and 'The new nation' will be build by it as his final goal.Namely,an independent,liberal, prosperous and strong,modern nation is the highest organization.His nationalism connotation mainly contains 'The new people' and 'The new nation',and their intrinsic logistic relation.Liang qichao's nationalism became the main nationalism direction in modern China.