The Perspective Of Modern State Building Frontier Governance Research

In this paper the writer mainly talk about the border area government since modern times within the vision of the construction of modern state. Modern state is the combination of nation-state and democratic-state; therefore, building the modern state is the mixture of nation-state building and democratic-state building. The characteristic of modern state determines two basic goals of the border area government. One is to rule border areas effectively, the other is to establish its own legitimacy and achieve identity from frontier people.This paper based on the basic ideas of nation-state building and and democratic-nation building. The clue of this paper is the historical process of modern frontier governance.This paper discusses the view and practice of the nation building in each period, and summarizes effectiveness of the border area government in each time,and the meaning border area government for the nation building is also discussed.This paper includes three parts, which are introduction, body, and conclusion.In the first part the writer want to tell about the reason why to choose the topic, the basic clue of the paper, the research measures, and the historical materials of this topic.The second part id the body part, which includes five chapters. In this part the issues of nation building and frontier governance in each period will embody.chapter one talks about the traditional frontier governance in the dynasty-period. And the writer holds that Unity and division, the properties of central-government-group are two perspectives to study this issue. Besides, the writer want to study the characteristics of frontier governance form the perspective of nation-society relationship.Chapter two talk about frontiers management in the late qing dynasty. The writer holds that pressed by the frontier crisis stimulating, border area government in late qing dynasty became to transform, and the national transformation is more important, which open the process of modern state building. Chapter three tells the border area government and state construction condition during the period of the republic of China. The outbreak of the xin-hai revolution has an important meaning for building modern state but the nation transformation also inspired nation separatism. Due to aggression of the border area government powers and warlord regimes, effect of border area government is insufficient. In this period the state power can not easily integrate to frontier society. At the same time, the state legitimacy deficiency affects the frontier nation’s national identity because of the unbalance between national political integration and multiple appeal in frontier nation.Chapter four tells the border area government and state building after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. New China built the modern state through the political organization, institutionalization and democratization. This period of the border area government has two contents:one is to integrate ethnic relations and establishment new China’s national identity through a series of national policy and regional autonomy system. The second is to transform frontier society through the state power. The most important characteristics of border area government is that national power can go deep into the roots of frontiers society.Chapter five shows the the national building and the border area government after the reform and opening policy. There are great development for national construction and the border area government in this period, but at the same time severe challenges are also faced with. How to innovate the traditional frontier management in the new time to,and how to seek to effective management way are the main problems to talk about in this chapter. The writer holds that the right way to build border area government is to construct the places gradually and institutionalized.The third part is the conclusion part, which mainly summarizes state building border area government from the angle of historical development. The writer holds that strong central government, the transformation of the border area social by the state, to protect the minority power and deal with national, ethnic, market, society and the relationship between the central and local governance are the basis of the successful implementation of the frontier. At last, it puts forward that in the new historical conditions gradual institutionalization construction the correct road to promote the border area government.