On Early Political Ideas Of Zhang Dongsun (1912-1922)

In the early Republic of China, many clerisies struggled for the truth how to save the nation due to the birth pangs causing by the society transformation. Zhang Dongsun is a deputy of them. Since he repatriated from Japan in 1912, he immediately flung himself into political criticism activities with great passion and published a lot of review comments, which engendered broad social affection. His political ideas also became mature gradually during this process. This paper takes his political articles which were published in Ordinary Statement,Magazine of Justice,Liberation and Transformation and so on as a research object, tries to discuss the development course of his political thinking and its historic value and meaning using for reference.This paper is divided into four parts:Part 1: Origin of the Problem: clarify the necessity of the Early political thinking ,and recalling its previous academic researchment, and description of ideas in this paper, the basic method and basis of historical data.Part 2: Discuss Zhang Dongsun's education background and political-related activities in the early years, in order to find out the reasons causing his political thinking.Part 3: It's the main part of this thesis and is divided into three parts which giving the specific analysis of the early constitutional thought, the social reform thought and the socialism thought separately. Try to reveal the development course of Zhang Dongsun's early political thinking and the influence causing by social environment.Part 4: Concluding remarks: Self-criticism of shortage during the researchment. Also bring forward the ideas that treating the early political thinking as the start of the later "the third way", which providing a reference for later research.