From Hereditary To Mobility: A Study On Social Hierarchical System Transition In Chinese Ancient History

There being a social transition in ancient China from Xizhou (JI) to Qin-han (~~X) dynasties, a hierarchical society mobility system had taken the place of the hereditary one. Through an analysis of a social member status, defined by the hereditary social system in Xizhou periods, defined by the military-exploit-rank in Chunqiu-Zhan抔uo(ki!1U) periods, had been defined by his intellectual and ability in two Han() dynasties at last, and his gotten social sources had been distributed on the basis of one's boring identity turned to one's capability correspondingly. The dissertation concludes a fluidity social estate system had taken shape preliminarily in two Han dynasties, this system actives the social structures, and had made great progress in Chinese equality process. And this system is originality of the civil official institution, moreover, it is a giant contribution that Chinese political institution had made for the whole world in ancient. The body of the dissertation consists of five sections. The foreword gives a concise account of the research conditions about this field before, and the thesis?main ideas. Chapter 1 analyzes the structures of the hereditary hierarchical society, it抯 working regulation and the reason of it's collapse in the Chunqiu period, and there had come into being many thought resources of equality effected the later social. Chapter 2 maintains that the military exploit rank institution destroyed the system of the hereditary, and turned the social into a fluidity structure, on the other hand , the military exploit rank institution was not able to be a stable and protracted but only a transition between the hereditary system and the fluidity system . Chapter 3 discusses the new fluidity system how to emerge, work and it's peculiarity. This system is thought a stable and protracted one, it actives the social structure, was able to give new information of the social bottom, renewed the social upper-class elements, it had turned the fluidity and the social estate seeming an opposing function into a system. This system?stabilization and institutionalization indicate the fluidity social estate system had been formed roughly. The ending phrases make comments on the fluidity system at point of modem political philosophy theory; that it had made great progress on equality-seeking in Chinese history, and as a institution, it was also a giant contribution made in ancient China for the human being.