Kang Youwei Constitutionalism Thought Research

Western constitutional thought was introduced into China in modern times. In national crisis, Kang youwei expressed his constitutional thought in order to save the nation from subjugation of the traditional Chinese political thought and will. Due to the special historical environment, Kang youwei’s constitutionalism thought is still rough, but it enlightened in the aspect of political thought. Constitutionalism thought is an important component for Kang youwei to guide the reform of Qing dynasty extremely in the platform. In the reform period in Qing dynasty, Kang youwei put forward the "house", "xing civil rights", "constitution", followed Japan to establish a constitutional monarchy, the system of constitutional claims. The constitutional thoughts of Kang youwei, will not only make our history of modern Chinese constitutionalism construction difficulties and hardships have a more profound awareness, also will help us to sum up the experience of the constitutional reform. Taking the history as guidance to promote the construction of constitutional government in today’s China. This article first discusses the modification by Kang youwei’s constitutional history so as to explore the modification by Kang youwei’s constitutional history origin and development course, from the evolution of Kang youwei constitutionalism thoughts after refining summary for Kang youwei constitutionalism thought. In the conclusion part of this paper, the author reiterated the core point of view, the overall evaluation was made of Kang youwei?s complex life, its status and significance of constitutional thoughts in China’s modern history has carried on the summary, and on the way to how to build China’s constitutional thinking: the generation pioneered by Kang youwei for proof of ?constitutionalism tools use? can neither bring to China’s constitutionalism, nor is impossible to achieve the goal of rich cause strong, so we can only choose to calm down and sowing the seeds of constitutional culture slowly, maybe this is a way out.