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Puppet, Comrades and Souls in Heaven: a Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric
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The study adopts a critical discourse analysis approach to
Chiang Kai-shek’s (CKS) internal nationalist propaganda and authoritarian
discourse practices, investigating his New Year and National
Day speeches in the 1950s. Authoritarian characteristics are evident in
strategies such as legitimation, reification, or myth-making, in the
antagonist categorisation of Self versus Other, in Self-glorification
and the idolisation of the dead, in the hegemonic creation of commonality
and unity, and in the metaphorical conceptualisation of
reality. Patterns of idolising the dead serve to impose and legitimise
CKS’s worldview among his citizens. Another pattern is CKS’s invention
of imaginary compatriots within the “enslaved China” waiting
for the best time to overthrow the “bandits’” rule. Reference to these
imaginary agents indirectly presents to his audience a false but better
impression of the Self, and a dimmer view of the communist bandits.
A third pattern is CKS’s metaphorical use of language, such as references
to communist China as a puppet regime of Russia.
Tijdschrift: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
ISSN: 1868-1026
Issue: 2
Volume: 47
Pagina's: 87 - 112
Jaar van publicatie:2019
Toegankelijkheid:Open