关于民族自治的历史考察与理论思考——为促进现代国家和公民社会条件下的民族政治理性化而作

Historical and Theoretical Thinking on the Autonomy of Nationality:An Article for Promoting the Rationalization of the Politics Connected with Minority Nationalities in Modern Nation-State Basing on Civil Society

作为近现代产生的民族政治设想或设计,民族自治源于帝国统治与民族主义运动之间的矛盾,是双方相互妥协的产物,但并非是民族平等的体现。从本质上说,这种"以族划界,各自为政"的民族自治容易导致民族关系的疏远乃至民族分离主义的发展,不适合用以处理现代国家和公民社会条件下的民族关系。当代多民族国家民族政治生活的理性观念,应以保证国家主权统一建设和促进公民社会建设为前提,实行各民族团结共治而不是各民族分别自治;在中国,也应以此观念来认识和完善民族区域自治制度。

The nationality autonomy is a modern concept or design concerned with the politics of nationalities. It originated from a compromise between the imperial governance and nationalist movement and is not an embodiment of the idea about nationality equality. It is not a suitable tool to coordinate with the nationality or ethnic relationship in modern nation-states basing on the civil society because it is essentially an autonomy through which the diversity nationalities separately self-govern. The nationality a...