Mark Mancall, China at the Center: 300 Years of Foreign Policy, The Free Press, New York, 1984. から。
THE ESTABLISHMENT of the government of the Chinese People's Republic at Peking on October 1, 1949, in effect brought the Empire back into existence after the long chaos of the interrognum. The Chinese Communist state displayed all the characteristics of the Empire: a highly centralized, hierarchically organized bureaucracy with coherent view of the world; a socio-administrative structure into which all parts of the population fitted and which fitted all parts of the population; and an ideology that provided a basis for the conceptual unification of the entire society. The new Chinese state's ideology and vocabulary were not the same as those of the old dynastic state. But the structure and perceptions of relationships, the language, the imperative toward centralization and an ordering of the whole society, the primacy given to ideology--all those facets of a culture that change much more slowly than the events of history occur--once again found their natural refraction in the new Chinese Communist state. ('Imperium Revividum', p. 337. 太字は引用者)
新中国ではなかったという説。
THE ESTABLISHMENT of the government of the Chinese People's Republic at Peking on October 1, 1949, in effect brought the Empire back into existence after the long chaos of the interrognum. The Chinese Communist state displayed all the characteristics of the Empire: a highly centralized, hierarchically organized bureaucracy with coherent view of the world; a socio-administrative structure into which all parts of the population fitted and which fitted all parts of the population; and an ideology that provided a basis for the conceptual unification of the entire society. The new Chinese state's ideology and vocabulary were not the same as those of the old dynastic state. But the structure and perceptions of relationships, the language, the imperative toward centralization and an ordering of the whole society, the primacy given to ideology--all those facets of a culture that change much more slowly than the events of history occur--once again found their natural refraction in the new Chinese Communist state. ('Imperium Revividum', p. 337. 太字は引用者)
新中国ではなかったという説。