“旧邦新造”的制度逻辑:西式话语中的近代省制言说

Institutional Logics of Transforming the State:The Provincial System Controversy of Modern China in Western Discourse

随着帝制中国向现代国家转型,传统的"封建论""郡县论"囿于政治道德化的障碍,无法为现代国家地方治理体系的构建提供切实的理论指引,省制改革不得不向西方政治文化中汲取理论资源。但西方理论与中国地方治理经验的结合产生了诸多扞格之处。与此同时,从帝制走向共和,国家观的更新使得国人对省制的认知发生了重大转变。

With the transformation of imperial China into a modern country, the traditional "feudal theory" and "shire-county theory" are hampered by the obstacles of political morality, and cannot provide practical theoretical guidance for the construction of modern state local governance system. The reform of provincial system has to absorb theoretical resources from Western political culture. However, the combination of Western theory and Chinese local governance experience has produced many contradictions. Meanwhile, from the imperialism to the republican, the renewal of the national concept has led to a major shift in the perception of the provincial system.