Principle Of Nationalism Analysis

The importance of The Principle of Nationalism to shape Nationalism in China and Asia The Three People’s Principles were conceived, drafted and written by Sun Yat-sen. As the ideological essence of Sun, the development of the Three People’s Principles consisted of two stages: the first stage was old Principles of Three People; the second stage was new Principles of Three People. The main contents included the Principle of Nationalism, the Principle of Democracy and the Principle of People’s livelihood. In the context of internal changeless and external threats, Sun Yat-sen, a great patriot, nationalist combined his knowledge learned in the USA, Japan about political structure and democracy with the practices in China, further came up

“In the ‘old’ empires and kingdoms, each subject relates to the sovereign(king). In nation-states, each subject relates to the other ‘horizontally”(Leven). Although Sun was not the first person who proposed the nationalism in China, his virtuous propaganda made national awareness be entrenched in Chinese people’s minds. Before the popularized of the Principle of nationalism, most Chinese regarded themselves as the subjects of the Qing Dynasty. The awareness that they could constitute a nation state did not exist. By means of Principle of Nationalism, the national awareness gradually became widespread and mature. According to Liu, “before the Revolution of 1911, the most appealing and the most provocative slogan that could raise the people’s emotions against the rule of the Qing Dynasty was the “anti Qing”, so-called nationalism by Sun Yat-sen. Sun had asked the revolutionary party to make The Three People's Principles instill in people's hearts and became common sense, but in fact only nationalism arouse sympathy of millions of Chinese”. However, the national awareness also experienced two periods. At the first stage, the nationalism was expanded in the narrow sense. Why was it the narrow nationalism? Because this slogan signified that the majority of peoples confronted the minority of peoples in a country. It was merely the time that the national consciousness of Han Chinese sparked rather than the whole nation. Since ancient times, Han Chinese had dominated the minorities and had an absolute advantage in economic and political terms. Notwithstanding, after the Qing Dynasty, the Han nationality was ruled by the minority nationality. On the one hand, China was invaded by external forces; on the other hand, Manchu rulers lacked efficient policies to fight against foreigner invaders. Therefore, a part of Han Chinese