传统社会结构与中国早期现代化的延误

正如C·E·布莱克所说的,一个最成熟的传统社会,也就是一个长时期内最不情愿现代化的社会。中国作为现代化的“后来者”,恰是这方面的典型。中国在早期现代化的追赶过程中并不顺畅,屡遭挫折,即表现为延误性。致密的中国传统社会结构延误了中国的早期现代化。一、传统经济结构制

Traditional Society Structure and Delay of Early Chinese Modernization

The early Chinese modernization was delayed by traditional society structure in terms of economic structure,political structure and cultural tradition.As economic structure is concerted,for the production conditions of pre-modern times,China formed a series of criteria which attached more importance to farming and restrained commerce.It was not good for the growth of modern production mode.For the political structure,the most powerful eastern absolutism built on the patriarchal clan system was a shackle to free creating and democracy spreading.From the viewoint of culture tradition,the traditional Confucian pan-moralism was an opposition to democracy,nomocracy,human rights of modern society.It also shrinked the Chinese people's science and organum spirits.