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The establishment of the concept of “nation” or“people” in modern Japan and China: The contribution of intellectuals in promoting a new terminology for the constituent members of the state 近代日中における「国民」概念の成立 ―国家構成員の育成と知識人の試み 王, 暁雨 4485 国民 人民（national） 国家（nation） 个人（individual） 関西大学（Kansai University） The word guomin in Chinese or kokumin in Japanese, which translates into English as either “nation” or “people”, is not a term of modern coinage; it has been used since antiquity in both China and Japan. The promoting of the modern nation and its people is closely related to success or failure in the formation of the nation-state. Because of this, in both China and Japan, it has been said that the establishment of the concept of the “nation/people” (guomin, kokumin) is a crucial part of this modernization process. A look at the changing terminology for the constituent members of the state should be useful in clarifying what is subsumed under the concept of guomin/kokumin, as well as aiding towards a deeper awareness of the value judgments and interaction with foreign cultures that were involved in fostering the modern nation and its people. This paper offers a modest analysis of the changes in value judgments and personal perspectives that took place in both China and Japan during the progress of modernization, both from the perspective of how the concept of the modern nation and its people was established, and by reference to the discourse of intellectuals regarding the constituent members of the state. departmental bulletin paper 関西大学東西学術研究所 2016-04-01 application/pdf 関西大学東西学術研究所紀要 49 297 312 02878151 https://kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2011/files/KU-0400-20160401-16.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10112/10281 https://kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2011 jpn