清末“新绅士——立宪派”略论

Briefly on "New Gentry——Constitutionalists" of Late Qing Dynasty

绅士阶层是传统社会的精英阶层,晚清绅士阶层是在内外环境剧烈变化下而衍生出的新绅士阶层,其中的"新绅士———立宪派"影响很大。他们以东南地区实业家为骨干,主张实行立宪,强烈要求参与政权。但清王朝对他们只是欺骗和愚弄,不愿在政治上给他们一席之地,于是他们在反清浪潮中最后选择了抛弃清王朝。

The stratum of gentry used to be an elitist one in conventional societies. The one in the late Qing Dynasty was derived in the drastic changes of the internal and external environments, and the new gentry-constitution alists of the stratum, with the enterprisers of the southeast areas as their backbones, were very influential. They advocated constitutionalism and made a strong claim for participating in political power. But the imperial Qing court just cheated and fooled them, unwilling to offer them a ting place politically, thus in the wave of opposition against the Qing Dynasty they finally chose to give the Qing government up.