A Confucianism Minister's Political Pursuing

Zhang Zhidong was one of the most important ministers during the late Qing Dynasty. He played an important role in the late Qing's political situations1 development in tens of years, particularly after the Boxer Rebellion.With the clue of the development of Zhang's political reform thoughts, the dissertation includes four chapters of "reform in the system with the centre of civil administration", "traditional political reform's difficulties and outlets", "from reforming in the system to 'imitating the Upper House'" and "wishing deeply for the accomplishment of constitutionalism ",breaks the limitation of special stages and penetrates the development of Zhang's political reform thought, protruding event's affection and specially excavating the cognition about results caused by the affection. Moreover, the dissertation changes the model that only researches Zhang's political thought from "advance", while insists the union of "advance" and "feasibility" in order to get more comprehensive and objective cognition. In the course of introducing Confucianism -minister Zhang's stepping on the road to go after political modernization, the limitation of many contradictions is explained, which not only shows the steadfast and assiduous filling up in course of Chinese political modernization, but also illustrates that it is the continuous motivation for Chinese people in modern times going after political modernization to realize the country self-improvement and save the nation from crisises. "Surplus elaboration" illustrates the important reference sense that Zhang's pursuing the go-on-step-by-step and feasible modern plan provides to present political civilization constructing. It thinks that reformers must adjust states of mind to struggle for initiate and unify the dynamics of prompting reform, the speed of social development and the extent of people' psychology sustaining ability. At last, the dissertation emphasizes that Zhang's thought of the "getting rid of the scope between Man and Han" has very great important enlightening significance for the country including kinds of nationalities to dissolve national contractions correctly and timely.