论中华民族的系统结构——“中华民族多元一体格局”理论的系统论分析

A Study on the System Structure of the Chinese Nation:Systematic Analysis on the Pattern of Diversity in Unity of the Chinese Nation

中华民族是当代中国56个民族构成的有一定层次结构的有机系统，是在特定的时空坐标中孕育、形成和发展的，具有整体性、结构性、层次性、动态性、开放性及相关性等系统的特征。笔者以系统论为方法论，就“中华民族多元一体格局”理论中的若干问题——一如何理解“中华民族”这个“一体”，如何理解“多元”与“一体”的关系，如何理解“多元”的各个民族之间的关系，做了初步的分析。

The Chinese Nation, composed of 56 ethnic groups in contemporary China, is an organic system with a hierarchical structure. She was gestated, formed and developed in a specific time--space coordinate with some characters of system, such as integrity, structure, hierarchy, dynamic, openness and correlation. Taking the system theory as the methodology, the author made some preliminary analysis on three questions relating to the Pattern of Diversity in Unity of the Chinese Nation： how to understand the ＂unity＂ of the Chinese Nation, how to understand the relation between ＂diversity＂ and ＂unity＂, and how to understand the relations among the diversified ethnic groups.