救亡·启蒙·复兴——现代性焦虑与清末文字救国论

Salvation · Enlightenment · Revival: Modern Anxiety and the View of the Language Saving the Nation in the Late Qing and Early Republic Period

清末的文字改革,是在现代性焦虑的逼促下,出于启蒙的考虑,汉字被剥去道体的神圣光环,而充当了卫道之器。这种以语言改革为进路,开启民智以达致国家强盛的致思路径与实践模式,在晚清渐次展开的民族主义救亡与复兴运动中日益成为一种合法性的意识形态话语。

Since the language reformation in the late Qing period had been pushed by the modern anxiety, the Chinese characters had been regarded as the tool of defending Dao out of consideration of the Enlightenment. It had increasingly been a legitimacy ideological discourse to enlighten people even to achieve national prosperity by the language reform approach in the gradually expanded nationalism salvation and revival movement s in the late Qing period.