The Logic Transformation of National Governance in the"Fuqiang"(Wealth and Strength)Discursive Change during the Wuxu Period
The formation of the term"fuqiang"(wealth and strength)in modern China is part of the change of discourse reflected in the proposition of national modernization.The strategies of"self-strengthening"and"seeking wealth"before the first Sino-Japanese war were mostly confined to the adjustment of the traditional state-social relations.In 1898,however,the discursive cluster of"business power","people's wisdom"and"wealth and strength"through extensive social mobilization was established at the level of national gov-ernance.The establishment of the new economic management department in the period of 1898,the law of encouraging private investment in industry,the transformation of knowledge dissemination ideas and modes,made the content and scale of national governance expand,and re-shape the state-social relations in the sense of modern national governance structure.The practice of"prosperity and constitution"in the late Qing Dynasty surpassed the transformation process of national governance of the 1898 Reform,and continued the fragility of state-social relations with"weak business power"and"people's wisdom".In this sense,we can re-examine the epoch-making significance of the Reform Movement of 1898 as a historical"moment".
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