辛亥革命:政治秩序和权威的重建

辛亥革命的不彻底并不是因为革命党人主观上的妥协、让权,而是因为革命前中国人并没有感受到中国社会秩序的不合理.所以,在革命过程中,革命党人所致力的只是改变传统权威维持下的政治秩序;革命胜利后所进行的建设,也就只局限于建立新政治秩序和新权威,而不是法制和国体的建设.正是在当时整个社会要求恢复权威和秩序的呼声下,袁世凯夺得了民国权柄.

The 1911 Revolution - Reconstruction of the Political Order and Authority

This essay argues that the incomplete success of the 1911 Revolution was not caused by the revolutionists' subjective compromise and abandonment of power. It was due to the fact that Chinese people had not realized that the social order was irrational before the Revolution. As a result, the only one effort the revolutionists made during the Revolution was to change the political order under the traditional power. After the success of the Revolution they focused on the reconstruction of a new political order and power while ignoring the construction of the legal system and the state system. It was under such a situation in which the whole society was appealing to restore the power and order that Yuan Shi-kai usurped the power of the government.