现代化理论与中国发展

On Modernization Theory and China's Growth

现代化理论兴起于上世纪50年代。作为主流发展理论之一,早期的现代化理论机械地遵循着"传统/现代"的二分法原则,且僵化地坚持西化的发展思路,致使其逐渐难以跟上世界发展的潮流,并于上世纪70年代遭到了全面的理论批判。随后,现代化理论进行了一系列自我反思与修正,因而重获解释力并具有了良好的适应性。

Modernization theory emerged in the 1950s. As one of the mainstream development theory, the earlier modernization theory mechanically obeyed the traditional/modern dichotomy, and stubbornly insisted on its pro-Western ideological bias, which caused devastating theoretical critiques of the theory in the 1970s. Whereafter, the rethinking and amendment of modernization theory started, and therefore it is able to regain the explanation power and adaptability. Moreover, a theoretical analysis of ‘Chinese development’ well supports this point of view.