Jiùwángtúcún shì dāngshí zhīshi fēnzǐ de gòngtóng shǐmìng.
National salvation was the shared mission of the intellectuals of the day.
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From Wang Wusheng's 《论小说与改良社会之关系》 (late Qing): "to save from ruin and plan for survival depends not on one or two talents, but on the love of country spreading to the great majority of the nation." Written as China faced imperial collapse.
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Heavy, formal, historical. Almost always used in contexts about war, colonialism, national crisis, or the late Qing / Republican / anti-Japanese-war periods.
