A Conceptual History of Chinese -Isms : The Modernization of Ideological Discourse, 1895-1925.

Intro -- 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 -- 2.1 Syncretist 'State Ideology' in Han China -- 2.2 Ideological Aspects of Millenarianism in the Eastern Han Dynasty -- 2.3 Wáng Ānshí 王安石 as an Ideologist -- 2.4 Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy -- 2.5 Ideology in the 'White Lotus' Groups and the Triads -- 3 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 -- The Age of -Isms in China -- 1 Historical Reorientation -- 1.1 'Unprecedented Events' -- 1.2 A Changed Conception of History -- 1.3 The Acceptability of Western Social and Cultural Models -- 2 New Knowledge in New Words -- 2.1 The Problem of Language: The Modernization of 'Chinese' -- 2.2 Western -Isms and Their Early Translations in Chinese -- 2.3 The Etymology and Conceptual Elaboration of Shugi/Zhǔyì 主義 -- 2.4 The Encylopaedic Function of Zhǔyì in 'New Learning' -- 3 The Ismatization of Chinese Society -- 3.1 Zhǔyì as Antidotes to China's Ills -- 3.2 Ideological Activism and Zhǔyì as Party Identity -- 3.3 The Ideological Transformation of Society -- 4 Chinese Reactions to Ismatic Discourse -- Chapter 4 -- Philosophical Aspects of 'Zhǔyì' -- 1 Zhǔyì as Guiding Principles -- 2 The Polemic Contextualization of Zhǔyì -- 3 Zhǔyì as Guiding Concepts of Social Movement -- 3.1 Ideals of Progress -- 3.2 Zhǔyì as Rationalized Ideals.

3.3 Ideological Projection into the Future -- 3.4 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 Zhǔyì -- 2 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.

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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