Discourse Interaction in the Event of Rebuilding Yuanmingyuan in Tongzhi Period of Qing Dynasty
The recent discourse studies often focus on how a certain kind of discourse interacts with other kinds after it is produced.This study intends to describe and explain the discourse interaction in the event of rebuilding Yuanmingyuan in the period of Emperor Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty from the perspective of discourse.It is found that the reason why the rebuilding discourses proposed by Emperor Tongzhi was resisted and then deconstructed by discourses of princes and ministers is that Emperor Tongzhi has not added new narration and constructed discourse coalitions in the discourse interaction with the princes and ministers,but relies only on the emperor power to promote the garden work;on the contrary,the princes and ministers challenge the prem-ise of this event,deny the means of the reconstruction work,reconstruct the identity of Yuanmingyuan and fi-nally ask for a kind of change of Tongzhi's speech and action.The above discourses have developed into dis-course coalitions of remonstration.However,Emperor Tongzhi could only use the reasons of filial piety and re-storing the old system and the imperial power to resist the remonstration discourse of the princes and ministers,and finally Emperor Tongzhi had to order the suspension of the construction of Yuanmingyuan.
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