The Cohesive Effect and Generative Mechanism of the Great Unity Consciousness in the National Crisis in the Late Qing Dynasty
The traditional Chinese concept of"Great Unity"has been shaped and accumulated into a political tradition and ideological identity over thousands of years,showing a strong cohesive effect.After the Opium War,the late Qing Dynasty suffered a series of major impacts from home and abroad,and experienced a crisis of political value and community identity.There were many factors that helped it maintain the subjectivity of the Chinese civilization,and the cohesive effect of the concept of"Great Unity"was particularly crucial.This cohesive effect had been consolidated and strengthened by virtue of the radiation and influence of traditional Confucian culture,which objectively brought the majority of members in the vast territory the confidence and pride necessary for community identity.In the historical process of resisting western military invasion and cultural impact in the late Qing Dynasty,this cohesive force became the most powerful element to mobilize and appeal to the society,helped maintain the continuity of the Chinese civilization,and prevented modem China from perishing amid division and peril.
Great Unity consciousnesspolitical integrationnational crisis in the late Qing Dynastycohesive effectgenerative mechanism