The Construction Of Modern State And The "Nationalization" Of Border People

The citizen is the social and political identity constructed by the modern state,the subject of constructing the modern state,and the subject of constructing the modern state.Under the pressure of the extinction of modern China,the transformation of establishing a modern nation-state for the purpose of saving the nation from extinction began in China,and the process of the integration of the modern state began in the border areas,has had the fundamental influence to the frontier social formation.Under the promotion of the construction of modern state,the traditional identity of border people has been gradually transformed into the social and political identity of “ National ”.Starting from the late Qing Dynasty,the importance of state sovereignty and borders became more and more obvious,and the state’s connection and governance of the border areas were strengthened,the Border Society and the national consciousness of the border people were remoulded and reformed mainly by the way of Border Amendment,nationality confirmation and border development,and the initial results were obtained.However,the ordinary border people in this period only had the legal national status,and did not obtain the rights of modern nationals,still under the oppression of various forces.The founding of New China completely overthrew the feudal regime,through the establishment of a complete system,the border people will be completely liberated from the traditional shackles,participate in modern political life,become with the ideal and the actual two levels of new nationals.Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture is one of the most intact regions of China’s chieftain system.Under the domination of the chieftain for more than 500 years and the bondage of primitive religion,Buddhism and Christianity,in addition to the multi-ethnic mixed environment,compared with the mainland,its population shows obvious heterogeneity.How to shape the heterogeneous population into modern citizens has become an important theme in the construction of modern frontier.As the invasion of Britain and Japan intensified in modern times,the importance of the southwest border related to the survival of the country was self-evident.In order to defend the “Bottom border”,Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture was brought into the modern state governance.The modern state nationalizes the border people from the three dimensions of sovereignty,system and identity.In this process,the border people interact with the state transformation and move closer to the modern state under the pressure of resisting oppression and resisting foreign aggressors,to transform the nation into a modern state;the traditional exploiting classes,including Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture,gradually transformed their roles under the construction of the modern state into modern political life and formed new citizens of the New China.By examining the history of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture from the late Qing Dynasty to the 1960 s,we can find that the nationalization of the border people in the context of modern state construction is a traditional society in which the identity of the population is not transnational and the personal relationship is dependent,the political culture goes to the region,gradually forms and has the national attribute to become the political and the psychological national process.The process of the nationalization of the border people has its general logic: It is consistent with the construction of the modern state,and the border people gradually acquire their social and political identity within the framework of the sovereignty and system of the modern state;The essence is the shaping process of the relationship between the rights and obligations of the “State”and the “People”,and also embodies the special logic: In this process,the transformation of the state interacts with the self-transformation of the border people,and the state “Creates the people according to the border people”,according to the characteristics of the border people,take differentiated measures to shape the nation.The founding of New China and the building of socialism marked the initial completion of the nationalization of China as a whole.In this period,the complicated history and religion,backward economic conditions,governing ideas and governing ability all restricted the further nationalization of frontier people It has also led to a number of historical legacies in the nationalization of the border people: The outflow of the border people,the nationality of the border people,cross-border problems,and the insufficient degree of overall nationalization,etc.,all of them are the problems that need to be solved urgently in order to realize the high-level and high-quality nationalization of frontier people in modern countries.