论20世纪初年新式知识分子民族国家理论的提出

On the Nation-state Theory Advanced at the beginning of 20th Century

1 90 3年前后新式知识分子 ,用民族主义和帝国主义两大理论来观察、总结时代的特点 ,外迫于救亡的压力 ,内激于现代性的追求 ,在中国历史上第一次明确地提出民族国家的建构问题 ,并开始运用西方民族国家理论 ,从主权、国民、领土等方面来建构民族国家 ,虽然遇到诸多认同困扰、焦虑甚至危机 。

Around 1903,Chinese new intellectuals observed and summarized the characteristics of the era from the perspective of nationalism and imperialism. Under the pressure of saving the nation from extinction and pursuing of modernity, they raised the problem of building up nation state for the first time in Chinese history explicitly. And they began to apply western nation state theory to build up Chinese nation state from the respects of sovereignty, nation and territory.