Research On The Development Of Kang Youwei’s Monarchy Ideas

Kang Youwei is one of the most important enlighten figures in modern Chinese,in the aspect of the scholarship, politics and economics his thinking has a veryimportant significance. He lived in the crisis of the case which was the internationalinvaders press and domestic unrest. However, in this case, the patriotic personagesdidn’t overthrow，they just put the mind of sorrow and the anger into power. At thesame time, they saw the realization of the tasks of national independence andprosperity of he country as a starting point for everything. Kang Youwei studied thepolitic systems of the other successful countries through thinking judge of themonarchy. And he proposed the idea of the constitutional monarchy to hope that therulers of the Qing Dynasty-Emperor Guangxu can be able to accept his reformprogram and order to achieve the country’s prosperity.Kang Youwei surrounded the monarch tightly. He violently criticized the feudalautocratic system that China has always adhered to. And he considered the traditionalChinese autocratic monarchy defects which were the decline of the Chinesebackwardness and decay. So that it hoped the national transition to constitutionalmonarchy from the feudal autocratic monarchy through the gradual reform. ReformMovement has been an attempt of Kang youwei’s monarch thought by the authority ofthe emperor’s political reform. However, he has put all the hope to a monarch who didnot have the real power. So it doomed to the failure. When the process of the reformwas not as simple as he imagined, he proposed the idea of “virtual monarchrepublican” until he died. Kang Youwei has already recognized the reason of the China’s backwardness,which is the existence of monarchy. However, China wanted to be a prosperitycountry by the monarch. So the contradictory relationship has been generated. KangYouwei’s philosophy view was evolutionary and the progressive coexist and heopposed mutation strongly. His political future was linked with Emperor Guangxu. Sothere would be mixed the personal gratitude into the treatment of Emperor Guangxu’sattitude. At the same time, his conceited personality had the ideological colors with astrong sense. The existence of these factors was an important source of monarchyformed.