论民族国家建构的中国逻辑

The Chinese Logic of Nation-State Construction

中华人民共和国的成立标志着中国现代民族国家的建立。而近代中国王朝国家向民族国家的转型失败,其重要原因是缺失一种支撑性力量,即现代政党。辛亥革命后,中国开启了现代民族国家的建构,民族国家建构之中国逻辑的创新性观点凝练是“政党—国家—社会”的进路,这异于西方国家“社会—国家—政党”的建构进路。但中华民国并未在新的政治原则上完成现代民族国家的成功转型与建构。诚然,国民党党治国家的失败并非缘于其党治国家。而作为现代政党的中国共产党,依靠其组织化力量的政治整合,将中国这个世界上人口最多,经济、社会结构超复杂的民族国家,建构为一个稳定、有序、繁荣的整体。

The founding of the People′s Republic of China marks the establishment of a modern nation-state in China. The main reason for the failure of the transition from the dynasty-state to the nation-state in modern China is the lack of a supporting force, that is, modern political parties. After the Revolution of 1911, China began to construct a modern nation-state. The logic of nation-state construction in China is “political party-state-society”, which is quite different from the constructive approach of “society-state-political party” in the western countries. However, the Republic of China has not completed the successful transformation and construction of a modern nation-state on the basis of the new political principles. The Communist Party of China, as a modern political party , relying on its political integration of organizational forces, has built China into a stable, orderly and prosperous nation-state with the largest population and super-complex economic and social structure in the world.