On The Concept Of Chinese Traditional Political Culture Of The Bai Luxun

When Lucian W. Pye studied traditional Chinese political culture, he focused on Confucian doctrines. He pointed out that the core of traditional Chinese political culture is moral politics (moral force). He made a comparatively deep analysis of traditional Chinese political culture by initially adopting the research methods of cultural psychology. He followed the course of culture, psychology and personality to analyze Chinese political culture and revealed many driving and obstructive factors, which have been accumulated in Chinese political development process by traditional political culture, thus established western scholars1 authoritative knowledge of Chinese political culture. He indicated that traditional Chinese political culture can't produce by itself modern politics, which is constitutional government and democratic system, but traditional Chinese political culture can include democratic system. The realization of Chinese political modernization must recur to the impact of outside forces and effective inside conformity'. Lucian W.Pye had a deep insight of authoritative dependence, relation politics, political power derived from moral authority, people's cognitive unconformity of Chinese political culture, which is quite valuable in studying Chinese political problems. But under the influences of his growth experiences in china and his cultural superiority as well as his research objectives are the special groups of Chinese people and the indirectness of his sources, his conclusion had the tendency of racial superiority and the defects of exaggerating political culture functions in some degree.Employing the method of literature study, this thesis tries to make a systematic introduction, analysis and comment of Lucian W Pye's Chinese political culture study, with a wish to make up for the deficiency of study about this master of the political culture in Chinese academic field.