中国现代国家成长的三级台阶——以斯蒂芬·哈尔西、王柯和孔飞力的相关论述为中心

Three Steps in the Growth of Modern State in China—Focusing on the Relevant Discourse by Stephen R.Halsey,Wang Ke and Philip Alden Kuhn

在传统国家走向现代国家的历史进程中,现代国家的诸多要素逐步配置到位,其过程大致可以区分为“三级台阶”。依照“三级台阶”的分析框架,斯蒂芬·哈尔西、王柯、孔飞力的相关论述为我们分析晚清时期中国探索如何构筑现代国家的三级台阶提供了精彩的范例,但全面把握中国现代国家建设的三级台阶需要在理论上更深入地揭示现代国家结构上的整体性、成长过程的顺序性、发展进程的紧张性和内外格局的约束性。

In the historical process of China from a traditional state to a modern state,many elements of a modern state are gradually arranged in place.This process can be roughly divided into“three steps”.According to such a“three-step”analytical framework,the related argument of Stephen R.Halsey,Wang Ke and Philip Alden Kuhn provides wonderful examples for China to explore how to construct three steps of a modern state during the late Qing period.However,we need to fully reveal the structural integrity,the order of growth process,the tension of development process and the binding of the internal and external patterns of the modern state before we understand the three steps of China's modern construction.