A Semiotic Phenomenology of the Boxers' Movements: A Contribution to A Hermeneutics of Historical Interpretation

In this project, I attempt to illustrate how history is reconstructed by the power/knowledge discourse. Within the concrete study of the Boxers' movements (abbreviated as BsMs hereafter) in China between 1898 and 1901, I have indicated the fundamental problem: the sources are insufficient and have to be examined hermeneutically (interpreted as texts). That is, history and its production contain the problematics of temporality, causality, facts vs. meaning, data vs. realities. I attempt to offer an alternative possibility of understanding which, mainly, includes a set of unexplored materials and a new way of interpretation, i.e., an intersubjective-synchronic analysis of Chinese nationalism in late nineteenth-century China.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Chen, Kuang-Chung

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8600146

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71008