The Study Of Steward Lockhart’s Viewpoint To Tradition And His Practices Of Social Governance

In modern times,Chinese people’s subjective attitude to tradition underwent a process of absorbing the western modernity factors to improved the integrity of the chinese Chinese traditional architecture to comprehensivly attacking on it. And that this process was shown to world in a most solemn and stirring form in the end was driven by the following two changes. The first was the comprehensive reform of the related systems that the traditional beliefs, ideas, norms rely on, such as economic system, political system, choosing officers system, education system, the clan system; Then, it is the devastating strike in the symble of new culture movement to the traditional culture, especially Confucian culture.In contrast,as a colonial servant coming from modern country British, with the expanding of his power and the understanding of traditional Chinese culture, Stewart Lockhart deepened its preferences and utilization to Chinese tradition step by step. Generally speaking,his poformance on this field experienced a progress of respecting for the way of Chinese life in Hong Kong, giving Chinese group more autonomous management and express right under colonial rule, to comprehensivly undertaking the traditional rural governance system in the New Territories, to comprehensivly acceptting Chinese traditional ethics and the social structure on fields of rural governance, civil litigation, moral enlightenment and education in WeiHaiWei finally. History has proved that the governance mode Steward Lockhart draw supports from chinese tradition achieve the "win-win" in the governance results:on the one hand, achieving the goal of colonial rule:establishing a relatively stable ruling order, increasing the fiscal revenue, won praise for steward Lockhart, on the other hand, leading the related areas to a road of the moderate social transformation.In this way, the tradition realized continuation and modernity transformation, it provided basic structural and cultural support for avoiding infinite sink of government power and overcoming the expansion of tomaterialism and individualism under the market economy in the progress of modernization.The reason of Steward Lockhart respecting, drawing support from and transforming chinese tradition is related to the conservative tradition of British,and the goals, strategies of British colonial rule.it more closely related to the characteristics of steward Lockhart,as conservative political thinking, cultural relativism and the love for Chinese cultureas,well as the many commonalities between Chinese and English.When Contrasting with China’s modern social transformation, we can find that Steward Lockhart’s governance practices showed the rationality of the conservative management thinking, the disadvantages of rationalism management thinking, as well as the superiority of Chinese tradition in limiting power, restrainting materialism and individualism. It seems that the good life and good system that Chinese expect can and only can grow in China’s own body. As the main body in this process, the Chinese should be think deeply in two aspects:on the one hand, deeply understanding tradition, "seek implied in tradition", because it constitutes the reality of our start. On the other hand, completly understanding of the generation process of modern order and the operation logic of its system structure a. only understanding Chinese and western, can the Chinese civilization go to the road of rehabilitation.