本尼迪克特.安德森的著作《想象的共同体》是一部在20世纪末讨论“民族主义”的经典著作。他结合了多重的研究路径,运用比较史和社会学方法来论证民族主义的起源与散布。通过对“民族主义”的相关概念的解读和历史背景的分析,从文化根源和民族意识的角度,将“民族主义”定义为“想象的政治共同体”。 Benedict Anderson’s book Community of Imagination is a classic book discussing “nationalism” at the end of the twentieth century. He combined multiple research approaches and used comparative history and sociological methods to demonstrate the origins and spread of nationalism. Through the analysis of the related concepts of “nationalism ” and the analysis of historical background, “nationalism ” is defined as “imagined political community ” from the perspective of cultural origin and national consciousness.