“挑战-回应”模式与中国早期政治现代化的启动

“挑战—回应”模式的合理性在于肯定了外力的作用。中国传统社会由于具有小农经济的封闭性、君主政治的专制性、儒家思想的钳制性和优越自大的心理 ,使得传统政治形态具有显著的连续性 ,这种连续性构成了中国传统政治走向现代化的障碍。外力挑战打断了这种连续性 ,从而充当了中国早期政治现代化启动的“不自觉的工具”。然而中国内部力量始终是推动政治现代化启动和进一步发展的决定性因素

The Patten "Challenge-Response" and the Start of the Early Political Modernization of China

The rationality of the "challenge response" pattern is that it affirms the effect of the outside force. The Chinese traditional political formation had incomparable consistency, because of the closeness of the small scale peasant economy, the despotism of monarchism, the authoritarianism of Confucian thought and the superior self important mentality among people at that time. The consistency became the obstacle to the Chinese traditional politics moving towards the modernization. The challenge of the outside force broke the consistency, so it served as "the unconscious instrument" of the start of the early political modernization of China. However, the inside force was always the decisive factor for promoting the start and the further development of the political modernization.