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A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms
The Modernization of Ideological Discourse, 1895â1925
Series: - Conceptual History and Chinese Linguistics, Volume: 4
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In A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms, Ivo Spira explores the linguistic and rhetorical development of Chinese -isms, as well as the key concept zhÇyì 主義 ('ism') itself. He argues that the introduction of this concept from Japan in the 1890s inaugurated an 'Age of -Isms', in which it served as a conceptual focus for the stereotypical categorization of people and the utopian imagination of the future.
The book focuses on Chinese -isms in the formative period (1895â1925) through a close reading of key primary sources, covering linguistic, conceptual, and rhetorical aspects of their use in ideological reasoning. Spira emphasizes the combination of internal (traditional) and external (Western and Japanese) factors in the emergence of Chinese -isms.
The book focuses on Chinese -isms in the formative period (1895â1925) through a close reading of key primary sources, covering linguistic, conceptual, and rhetorical aspects of their use in ideological reasoning. Spira emphasizes the combination of internal (traditional) and external (Western and Japanese) factors in the emergence of Chinese -isms.
Ivo Spira, Ph.D. (2010) University of Oslo, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the same university. He is currently working on Dungan (a Central Asian variety of Chinese), and has recently written on the relationship between conceptual history and etymology.
All interested in -isms in general or in the relationship between language and ideology. Indispensable for anyone concerned with -isms or the modernization of ideological discourse in China 1895â1925.