민국시기 문명론의 맥락에서 본 지방자치론

Abstract

This study is focused on political transformations which are caused by the fall of Qing dynasty in 1911. After the collapse of an effete old empire, there are some changes in the interpretation of civilization which is considered as meta discourse in the modern east asian knowledge network. The different in the interpretations on the concept of civilization that gives an impulsion to cause to dispute about the reform of political system in Early Republican China. Based on comparative analysis of modern Japan and early Republican China's thoughts on civilization, this paper explains that modern chinese local self government and it's logic is derived from the theory of cultural harmony in early twenty century. This paper accepts that the theories of civilization in modern Japan and early Republican China have many similarities. Besides in these theories of cultural harmony include the bifurcation between the 60 中國現代文學 第63號centralizing system and the decentralization system in debates on Republican China's political system. In the Early Republican China,there are acrimonious disputes about system of nation states in the public space. After the First World War, that theories of cultural harmony were combined with the decentralization system and it's logic on controversies about the rebuilding of chinese political system. This paper concentrates on analyzing of the mutuality between the theories of cultural harmony and the decentralization system in the public space on 1910's.