The Contemporary Value And Evolution Of Chinese Nation Awakening Under The Perspective Of Modernization

Under the promotion of modernization, human society has undergone the tremendouschanges. Rapid socio-economic development, growing national consciousness, ethnic nationalawakening, and the establishment of modern democratic nation-states constitute the basicstructure of modern human world. During the process of national awakening, the course, thetheory choice, and the connotation of national awakening are different due to their differenthistorical backgrounds. Under the promotion of modernization, Chinese nation is involved inthe tide. As the catching-up modern country, the Chinese nation expands the activeexploration of modernization. In the process of modernization, along with the Chinesenation’s continued awakening, modernization construction demonstrates the strong nationalcharacteristics and features of times, unlike the western.Chinese nation, as a free nation, under the function of modernization, gradually shows astrong feature of self-behavior, and with the imperialist invasion, ethnic consciousnessawakening continues sublimation. Before the Sino-Japanese war of1894-1895, nationalconsciousness awakening manifests the cry of elites; After the Sino-Japanese war, nationalconsciousness awakening gradually shows the mass behavior; Anti-Japanese War is the peakof the consciousness awakening of Chinese nation. It took over100years for Chinese nationto experience from the awakening to national independence due to obstruction of imperialism.Thought disorder of Yi-Xia distinction, emotion worries of western learning, and themarginalization of agricultural civilization were the internal causes of slow process ofChinese national consciousness awakening.National awakening is reflected not only as national consciousness awakening, but alsoas national spirit glowing, the establishment of national development direction, and the choiceof national development road. The new era gradually gives the new connotations to nationalawakening. National awakening could maintain the national character and prevent alienation.It promotes national spirit cored as patriotism and reform and innovation era spirit, and asse-mbles all forces to realize the Chinese Dream and to achieve the Chinese nation’s great rejue-venation. Nowadays, by strengthening the leadership guidance of Marxism and the Communi-st Party of China, we should continue to strengthen the history conception education andsituation and policy education, strengthen the judgment of the modernization path selections in different countries, strengthen the national confidence, confirm national struggle goals, andpromote Chinese nation’s healthy and orderly development under the conditions of new times.