从官僚政治到宪政民主——中国传统政治的特点与其现代转型

From Bureaucracy to Constitutional Democracy-Characteristics Of China' s Traditional Politics and Its Modern Transformation

中国的传统政治自隋唐以后,可以概括为是以科举制度为核心的政教合一的官僚政治,科举制度在其中发挥着社会整合与社会凝聚机制的特殊作用。科举制度的废除是中国传统政治的分水岭。中国传统政治由官僚政治向宪政民主的艰难转型,自清末到现在并没有结束,但我们已经快接近胜利的曙光。

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties,China's traditional political system can be outlined as bureaucracy of combination of politics and religion, with the imperial examination system in the core, functioning as a special mechanism of social cohesion and readjustment. Abolishment of the imperial examination system marks a watershed in China' s traditional politics. The arduous transition of China' s traditional politics from bureaucracy to constitutional democracy beginning from the end of the Qing empire has not yet concluded by now, but the first victorious light of the morning is almost in sight.