On The Nationalistic Ideas Of Liang Chi-chao

Liang Chi-chao is a very complex man that has a significant impact in the history of modern China whose fickle political words and deeds often dazzled people. However, Liang Chi-chao is not a volatile political speculator concealing deep nationalist aspirations under his capricious image. Surveyed his life, national independence and prosperity always was his pursuit. Liang Chi-chao was not only practice nationalism, but also propagated the thought of nationalism. In historical retrospect, Liang Chi-chao is the first man introduced the doctrine of nationalism from abroad, and had given considerable publicity to it. Through Liang Chi-chao's words, nationalist ideology had been widely spread in modern China. In the introduction and spread process of the nationalism, Liang Chi-chao had not transplanted the West nationalism simply. He carried out nationalism with the transformation of Chinese by absorbing the broad range resources of China and foreign combining with the realities of China. Liang Chi-chao soberly realized that China's traditional cosmopolitism can not adapt the concept of intense global competition, Only solidified all ethnic groups of China which are Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Miao, Tibetan and others could fight against imperialist aggression. Thus, he proposed the famous ideology which is "big nationalism ". Although this idea was refused by the revolutionary party member firstly, it was widely accepted by people in the end. For Liang Chi-chao, nationalist propaganda is only a means for national goals. In order to avoiding the plight of nationalism discourse, Liang Chi-chao even didn't make no reference to nationalism in the late. Because of lighting the name of nationalism and weighting the contents of nationalism, Liang Chi-chao's nationalist ideas has very diverse manifestations, Many ideological doctrine including liberalism, socialism, cultural conservatism had closely associated with his nationalist ideology, Liang Chi-chao had been always followed to nationalism, However, he did not consider that national interests is paramount above everything, he strived to connect nationalism with freedom, democracy, constitutionalism, trying to achieve national interests and personal interests, nationalism and the cosmopolitism simultaneously. His moderate and rational nationalist ideas have an important reference value for the contemporary development of the Chinese nation.