殖民与德化的帝国观比较分析——评迈克尔·曼《社会权力的来源》

A Comparative Analysis on Imperial Views of Colonization and Moralization:A Book Review on The Source of Social Power by Michael Man

英国政治学者迈克尔·曼在其著作《社会权力的来源》中最让人回味的理论观点是帝国观——一种关于帝国政治体系的政治概念观点,中西方的文化思想差异导致了这种概念观点之间的差异:西方追求殖民化的帝国观的同时中国追求的却是以德化为导向的帝国观。西方学者将中华历代王朝称为基于西方中心主义视野下近乎罗马帝国的“中华帝国”。除了每一个文明与生俱来的中心意识是共同点外,中华王朝采取的是西方帝国所完全不同的统治方式,更关键的是中华王朝在历史上从未像罗马帝国那样中断过。

The theoretical view contained in the book The Source of Social Power by Michael man,a British political scholar,is the imperial view or political conception of the political system of the empire,and great cultural differences existed between the west and China in this respect:the Western nations pursued a colonial empire while China pursued a moralization-oriented view of empire.Western scholars refer to the Chinese dynasties as the Chinese empire based on the Roman Empire under the vision of western centrism.Except for the innate central consciousness of every civilization in common,the Chinese empire adopted a completely different way of ruling from what is adopted by the western empires,and more importantly,the Chinese empire never broke off in history but the Roman Empire did.