古典式农民战争中的近代意蕴——太平天国革命思想之剖析

The Modern Meaning of Peasant War in the Classical Type ——An Analysis of the Revolutionary Thought of Taiping Rebellion

Taiping Rebellion occurred under modern background contained some modern thought which the peasant wars did not have before. It introduced some Western ideology against tradition culture in Chinese history for the first time, to attempt to break up Chinese old value system with Western cultural factors. The “Taiping Field System in Tian Dynasty” demonstrated the modern wishes to direct the peasant war to escape the traditional fate in virtue of the Western value form of “perfect idea”. The advanced thinker of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom opens “ the new page for guiding politics”, manifesting the modern trend in option of industrial civilized revolution in order to avoid the historical circulating law. However, due to the historical limitation of the old culture of the peasant class of revolutionary main force, The possibility with the modern factors in the Taiping rebellion can not be realized practically. Therefore, Taiping rebellion still belongs to the category of classical type of peasant war.