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民族国家叙事是建构现代民族国家“想象共同体”的一种重要表意方式,晚清小说家借鉴西方国家现代化经验,以文学的形式展开不同的国家形象想象。他们或回顾历史,或针砭现实,或深情展望未来,通过艺术想象建构起各异的中国形象谱系,民族国家叙事由此占据晚清小说叙事的中心地位。由于晚清作家对民族国家强盛目标期待的共同性以及时代语境的共时性,决定了作家对于民族国家拯救路径认识上的趋同性,即通过政治体制的变革来解决现实的民族危机,在建立主权独立的近代民族国家基础上实现强大国家的复兴,几乎成为晚清小说家的共识。
National narrative is an important way to construct the modern nation-state “imagination community ”. In the late Qing dynasty, novels writers used the experience of modernization in western countries to launch different national images in the form of literature. They either reviewed history or acted in reality, or looked forward to the future with affectionate feelings and constructed different pedigrees of Chinese image through artistic imagination. Thus the narrative of nation-state took the central position in the narration of fiction in the late Qing Dynasty. Because of the commonality of late Qing writers looking forward to the powerful goals of the nation-state and the synchronicity of the context of times, they determined the writer’s concurrence of knowing the path of saving the nation state, that is, resolving the realistic national crisis through the transformation of the political system. The establishment of a sovereign and independent modern nation and nation based on the revival of a mighty nation has almost become the consensus of late Qing novelists.