Shizhao National Salvation Thought (1902-1927)

Zhang Shizhao was an important but controversial historical figures in the modern history of China. He lived through three historical phases, which were the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China.He had a lot of common ground with the colored people, some said that he went both ways, some said he is maverick.Anyhow, one thing is beyond doubt that he was a patriot concerned with the fate of motherland and personally to save the nation.In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Shizhao firmly supported and personally participated in revolutionary activities, actively maintained fruits of the revolution against the autocratic rule, and advocated constitutional government. When Constitutional implementation was hopeless in the warlord, Zhang Shizhao also was eager to save the world from a traditional culture to seek remedy. After the founding of new China, he had to run around the unity of both sides tired, until died in Hong Kong. In this paper, I want to get some benefit for the social and political issues today by studying his saving ideas from the end of Qing Dynasty to the National Revolution.The introduction of this article stated the significance of this study and the current status of academic research. Main thesis is divided into four parts.The first part is "trend of the times of Zhang Shizhao. " This part states that modern Chinese is how to awaken,and the formation of Zhang Shizhao's saving ideas on the historical background. This part also probe into the evolution and the specific reasons of Zhang Shizhao's saving ideas.The second part is "the way of salvation is the revolution",which mainly talks about "what is the state of China", "What is the cause of national decline"and"What is the way of salvation". This part analysized the national revolution thoughts of Zhang Shizhao,then evaluated his ideas, and affirm his spirit of independent thinking.The third part is the "constitutional pursuit of salvation. " This section shows Zhang Shizhao's understanding of constitutionalism,which includes the aims to save the country from a constitutional, the key of the constitutional implementation and the highest level of constitution. This part discusses how Zhang Shizhao adjusted the implementation of the constitutional program based on historical reality In addition. the author also briefly evaluated Zhang Shizhao's constitutional thoughts, emphasized its outstanding contribution to constitutional development in China, but also points out its historical limitations.The fourth part is the "'agricultural countries'ideological construction", which mainly discusses the views of Zhang Shizhao on the western industrial system, his political blueprint, and his views to traditional culture. In addition, this section also briefly evaluated Zhang Shizhao's "agricultural country " design.The conclusion mainly analysized the features and the evolution of the Zhang Shizhao's saving thoughts, and further pointed out his current meaning to today...