The Main Contents And Modern Values Of The Thoughts Of Official Administration In The Important Political Affairs On The Period Of Zhenguan Reign

Official administration has always been a very important political issue in every dynasty. Feudal administration system is established for safeguarding the Royal Society and the state power, while contemporary administration of officials aims at building socialist society with Chinese characteristics and continuously realizing the fundamental interests of the people. Although ancient and contemporary official administrations have quite different objectives, their administration ideology and practice, shaped by a succession of Chinese culture of more than 5000 years, are interlinked and scattered in the long course of history. As the gem of China, the administration ideology needs to be probed deep in the hope of serving modern China society. The book the Important Political Affairs on the Period of Zhenguan Reign, as an exhaustive record of the Period of Zhenguan Age, involves the study on dominant ideology of Zhenguan's ruling clique head by Tang Tai Zhong. The book contains some liberal ideas of administration and system design, for example, appointing people on their merit, providing wide opportunities for airing view, managing officials by emotion, valuing Confucianism and education, severely punish officials of corruption, etc. Regarded as the great achievement of administration ideology, theories and practice in feudal society, the book not only functions as the backbone for the emergence of Zhen guan Reign, but also has extensively and substantially influenced the following monarchical governing strategies in China. Therefore, the book is worthy in the way of discarding the dross and select the essence.Right now, some problems in need of urgent solution still exist in the sphere of troop construction of Party member and governmental management. These problems should be urgently studied and dealt with in terms of useful and effective administration thoughts and methods. At present, many Chinese scholars tend to research, propagate, and mechanically apply what is called comprehensive western thoughts of official management. They research western government management and administrative practice, thought that are not necessarily applicable to conditions in China, but their study of absorbing and referring thoughts of official administration in the traditional Chinese culture was very insufficient. Thus, this thesis attempts to systematically discuss and summarize the thoughts of official administration in the Important Political Affairs on the Period of Zhenguan Reign, reject the feudal dross of those thoughts, find out some applicable and helpful experience with certain reference values, which was hoped to provide values to theories and practice of contemporary official administration.Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to this thesis. In view of the historical and research value of the Important Political Affairs on the Period of Zhenguan Reign, an extensive study on the book has been carried out in the scholastic circles with the publication of a large volume of papers and articles. The ideas of governing a country and official management have also attracted great attention from different specialists and scholars. This chapter surveys the important representatives and the research result t of their works.In Chapter 2, the historical background and causes of the thoughts of official administration in the book will be briefly analyzed. Those ideas of official government are regarded as the historical heritage and sedimentary accretion, as well as the production of the monarch-Tang Taizhong and his subjects for running the country.In Chapter 3, the thoughts of official administration in this book are systematically discussed and summarized from the four main aspects of selecting officials, appointing officials, managing officials and serving as officials. The key criterion for selecting officials is to combine his ability with political integrity; the fundamental principle of appointing officials is to make the best possible use of men; the main objective of managing official is to promote administrative clearness and efficiency; the best quality of serving as officials is to contribute to the development of the whole society. In addition, constrained by their historical perspective, Tang Taizhong and all of his subjects take a one-side approach to the nature of state machines, as well as an official's mission and responsibility. It is also briefly introduced in this paper.Chapter 4 concludes the influence of the thoughts of official administration on history, which is presented briefly from the following three aspects:ideas of every Chinese monarch for governing the country, influences over the design of the following official administration and system, and impact on the posterity's manner and thoughts pattern.Chapter 5 mainly makes a study on the modern values of the thoughts of official administration from this book. On the basis of thoughts of official management proposed in the Chapter 3, this chapter puts forward some corresponding measures to the problems and flaws existing in the process of practice of contemporary administration.The purpose of history research is to track down the origin and grasp the rules, is to make the past serve the present and create the future. Although our society has undergone earthshaking changes, the construction of staff members has always been a social problem that requires enough careful attention and appropriate treatment. How to select, appoint, manage or serve as an official is closely connected with the national economy and the people's livelihood, which should be reckoned with. As a famous work of history that is abundant in political opinions of giving the people peace and security and successful experiences of administration, the book of the Important Political Affairs on the Period of Zhenguan Reign offers bright standpoints, profound experiences and abundant wisdom of official administration. By means of summarizing the experiences and learning from the successful decisions in the book, the present construction of staff members can be radically strengthened, special in its basis of history and its national characteristics. And by that means, the construction level and the ruling capacity of our cadres can also be greatly enhanced.