明清变革与中国道路——沟口雄三的思想世界

The Reform of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Chinese Approach-A Study of the Intellectual World of Yuzo Mizoguchi

沟口雄三坚持以中国为方法,以世界为目的进行他的中国研究。他给近代中国的变革道路找到了其历史基体的根源,那就是起源于明末清初的思想及社会变迁。而成熟于清末的乡治空间一方面推动了王朝体制的解体,一方面又给在中国实行代议制度带来了困境。沟口既不是文化本质主义者,也不是中国特殊论者。儒教社会主义对于他而言并非一种理论,而恰恰是一个需要解决的问题。沟口始终站在人类的立场上思考中国问题,他也期待中国能够以参与创造新的人类普遍原理的精神,创造新的基体,开展新的思想和社会变革实践。

Yuzo Mizoguchi insisted on taking China as the method and the world as the purpose to conduct his research on China.He found the root of the historical matrix for the reform of modern China in the ideological and social changes starting from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.The mature rural governance in the late Qing dynasty,on the one hand,promoted the disintegration of the dynasty system,and,on the other hand,brought difficulties to the implementation of a representative system in China.Mizoguchi was neither in favor of cultural essentialism nor Chinese particularism.Confucian socialism was not a theory for him,but a problem that needed to be solved.Mizoguchi always thought about China’s problems from the standpoint of mankind.He also expected China to create a new foundation and to carryout new ideas and social transformation with the spirit of creating new universal principles for human beings.