A conceptual history of Chinese -isms : the modernization of ideological discourse, 1895-1925 /
In A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms, Ivo Spira explores the emergence of Chinese -isms and the key concept zhǔyì ("ism") in the years 1895-1925, covering linguistic, conceptual, and rhetorical aspects of their use in ideological reasoning.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Series: | Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics ;
v. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1; Introduction; 1 Previous Research; 2 Sources and Method; 2.1 Thought, Language, Society; 2.2 Keywords and Key Concepts; 2.3 Sources; 3 The Concept of 'Ideology'; 4 Concepts and Ideologies; 5 Ismatic Concepts; Chapter 2; Ideology and Ismatic Concepts in Premodern China; 1 Conceptions of History; 1.1 The Absence of the Golden Future; 1.2 Past, Present, and Future; 1.3 Notions of Progress and Utopian Visions; 1.4 History as the Product of Action; 2 Some Case Studies in Premodern Chinese Ideology.
- 3.3 Ideological Projection into the Future3.4 Voluntarist Idealism; 3.5 Zhǔyì in the Imagining of New Possible Societies; 3.6 Zhǔyì as a Utopian Political Panacea; Chapter 5; Towards an Analysis of Chinese -Isms; 1 Linguistic and Conceptual Aspects; 1.1 The Morphology of Words in -zhǔyì; 1.2 Morphological Alternatives to -zhǔyì; 1.3 The Relationship of Zhǔyì to Foreign Models; 1.4 Zhǔyì with Prefixes and Other Pre-Modifiers; 1.5 Expressing the Relation Between -Isms and -Ists in Chinese; 1.6 The Construction of Conceptual Fields of -Zhǔyì; 1.7 Reflections on Zhǔyì Definitions.
- 1.8 Criteria for a Typology of Zhǔyì2 Rhetorical Aspects; 2.1 The Reductionism of -Isms; 2.2 The Recontextualization of Zhǔyì as Autonomous Entities; 2.3 The Personification of Zhǔyì; 2.4 The Metaphorical Framing of Zhǔyì as Forces; 2.5 Reinterpreting Past History in Terms of -Isms; 2.6 Ismatic Argumentation; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography; Index.