The Image of the Chinese Nation:Basic Meaning,Theoretical Types and Construction Strategies
The image of the Chinese nation not only refers to the overall or partial cognition,concept or subjective psychological impression of the"Chinese nation"by domestic and foreign people,but also refers to the material civilization,spiritual civilization and politics of the Chinese nation's physical structure,cul-tural traditions,political economy and so on.The reputation or credibility formed by the development and changes of civilization and its degree is the sum of the soft power of Chinese civilization created by the Chi-nese nation and the hard power of the Chinese state.The consciousness of the subjectivity of the Chinese nation is the driving force for the Chinese nation to move from freedom to self-consciousness and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.The image of the Chinese nation has constructive characteristics because it can shape people's subjective cognition through language technology and other methods.The multidimensionality of the Chinese nation's image refers to the three-dimensional,multi-faceted or plural-istic characteristics of the Chinese nation's image that are jointly determined by the"diversity"of the Chi-nese nation's own internal structure and the subjective and objective factors of the evaluation subject itself.According to the respectability of the national image determined by hard power and the cuteness determined by soft power,the 2×2 matrix typology method was used to divide the national image into four types:Tao Hui type,stridency type,charming type and benevolent type.According to the basic types of national im-age,there are the following four basic transformation paths:economic priority model,military priority mod-el,culture priority model and balanced development model.Based on this,the basic strategies for building the image of the Chinese nation are proposed.Firstly,to enhance the positive perception of China by do-mestic and foreign people.Secondly,to actively participate in international affairs and international cooper-ation,and to shape a positive image of China as a responsible power.Thirdly,to comprehensively use arti-ficial intelligence and other emerging technological means to create a positive and intuitive image of the Chinese nation.
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