著者

朱 琳

出版者

関西大学文化交渉学教育研究拠点(ICIS)

雑誌

東アジア文化交渉研究 = Journal of East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies (ISSN:18827748)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.115-129, 2012-02-01

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This essay focuses on Liang Qichao (1873-1929), an important figure in modern Chinese history, and explores his discussion and views of “revolution”. There are many who point to Kang and Liang as being the “reformation school”, but at the beginning of the 20th century, Liang Qichao experienced internal conflict over “reform” and “revolution”, and faced a watershed in his thinking. I have therefore turned to the concept of “revolution” as a suggestion or hint to analyse the interior and exterior background that led to the changes in Liang’s theory of “revolution” as well as the changes in his ideology in an attempt to portray Liang’s “change” and his “stability”.After providing a basic background for Liang’s activities, I focus on an historical setting for 1902, and open with a discussion of Liang’s political novel Xinzhongguo weilaiji, in which I consider the psychological conflict of “reform” and “revolution” in this work. I trace the changes in his ideology through an interpretation of Liang’s choice of terms for translation of “revolution” – geming [Jp. kakumei] – and the implications of this choice. I end with an analysis of his record of a tour of the United States in 1903 as part of my search to identify the catalyst that lead to the change in his ideology.Given that the Xinhai Revolution occurred one hundred years ago, I believe there is great significance in returning once more to the era in which the term geming, or“revolution”, first appeared.