TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spira,Ivo
TI  - A conceptual history of Chinese -isms: the modernization of ideological discourse, 1895-1925 
T2  - Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics
SN  - 9789004292741
AV  - PL1281 .S65 2015
U1  - 140.951 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Chinese language
KW  - Etymology
KW  - History
KW  - Ideology
KW  - China
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Terms and phrases
KW  - fast
N1  - Revised version of the dissertation; University of Oslo, 2010; Previous title: "Chinese -isms and ismatisation."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ideology and Ismatic Concepts in Premodern China -- 3 The Age of -Isms in China -- 4 Philosophical Aspects of ‘Zhǔyì’ -- 5 Towards an Analysis of Chinese -Isms -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms , Ivo Spira explores the linguistic and rhetorical development of Chinese -isms, as well as the key concept zhǔyì 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 (1895–1925) 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004292741
ER  -