중국의 근대화에 대한 정치적 평가 : 정치사적 접근법으로

Abstract

The Political Perspective for the Modern History of China Lee, Cheol-one Modern times China especially Dynastic decline has been understood as an ebbing of centralized political power and its accretion in the hands of regional satraps, a disruption of the balanced tension between state and society. Such a devolution did in some respects occur during the nineteenth century. Nevertheless the Ch'ing institutional format was able, to surprising degree, to hold China together even in the wake of the century's most destructive civil war, a fact which no doubt ensured that the revolutionary transformations of the twentieth century would take place in a national context, and with the nation's preservation as their primary aim. Certainly the most striking feature of modern China has been the phenomenal rise in population. To it can probably be traced many of unique conditions of the age, though the concrete mechanism whereby its influence was felt remain inadequately studied.