本书主要借鉴话语分析的方法，努力突破 20世纪80年代启蒙主义的国民性研究，也避免了由于简单挪用后殖民主义理论而产生的误读，考察了国民性理论产生的历史过程，揭示了它和启蒙运动之间的渊源关系，对晚清至五四时期的国民性话语作了细致和系统的研究。 (This book mainly draws on methods of spoken language analysis to attempt to break through research on the nationalism of the enlightenment movement of the 1980s. It has also avoided simply creating diversions through post-colonialism, testing the historical process that nationalist theory created, and revealing the source relationship between it and the enlightenment movement. It makes a meticulous and systematic research of the nation's language spoken from the late Qing to the May Fourth Movement.)