Study On The Concept Of Power Politics In The Warring States

Warring States Era began with Han、Zhao and Wei dividing Jin State, and ended when the First Emperor of Qin unified China in221B.C.It is an age of great upheaval and tumultuous change in the history of China? the Chinese history., with great importance and specific significance.At the time, the monarches of the countries adjusted the internal and external policies following the lobby of the political strategists (i.e, counselors), causing numerous international and domestic power struggles and political turmoils. The Warring States Era is the epoch of violent change in politics, economy, military, and culture in the Chinese history, and many poles of power competed in ever-shifting alliances.The old ethics had been destroyed, but the new value system had not yet been built.Ethical and moral is diminishing to the political, and wars became the normal. The old aristocracies declined, and the new counselor class arised. It’s worth noting that the unprecedented open ethos, relaxed political environment and the prosperity of the thought in the age never reappear since then.So the research of the political thoughts in the warring states Era is very important."Warring States"is the most complete work for recording the political struggles of the warring states era.In the two thousand monarchy epoch, the confucianism had been had occupying the orthodox status, so "Warring States""had not received the attention and objective evaluation it deserved.After the May4th Movement, people began the revolution of "Condemnning LinBao and Confucian", and the political thoughts in the "Warring States""was geting more and more attention.At present, the academic study about "Warring States"" is focusing on its versions comparison, and literature and art value.In the book’s content, people pays more attention to the adviser’s mental outlook and debating skills of the counselors.In general, the study of its political thoughts is relatively little, and also unsystematic.So this essay take "Warring States"" as the research model, focusing on the concept of power politics followed by the monarches and the counselors. The theoretical value of the essay is that it take the concept of power politics as the Angle of view, to analyze the characters and dialogues of the "Warring States comprehensively, and the social mechanism for the emergence and development of the concept for further study.The selection of the perspective has certain innovative, and enriches and develops the research direction of the"Warring States".In the practical significance, it focused on the concept of power politics followed by the monarches and the counselors, and on the purpose to get a more comprehensive and profound understanding of the warring states Era in social and political views.Meanwhile the author hope that the study on the special era will have benefits for the development of the contemporary society in abolishing the system of the officer’s standard, cultivating spirit of citizenship, and making the integration of politics and morals.The essay based on the research methods combining the comparatice analysis, qualitative analysis, functional analysis and interdisciplinary research method, and focused on the feature of the concept of power politics.The author applied the methods of induction and deduction, and generalization, analytical and synthetical to analyse the factors influencing the formation of the concept, including natural environment, social customs and realistic demand and so on. At the same time, it also have the aid of the geopolitical theory in the international politics.