Book contents
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 From the Third Cooperation to the Third Republic
- 2 From the Xinhai Revolution to the May Fourth Movement
- 3 The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism
- 4 The Vicissitudes of a Crippled Reform
- 5 The Constitutional Manifesto
- 6 Towards the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Constitutional Manifesto
A Centennial Memorial to the Xinhai Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 From the Third Cooperation to the Third Republic
- 2 From the Xinhai Revolution to the May Fourth Movement
- 3 The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism
- 4 The Vicissitudes of a Crippled Reform
- 5 The Constitutional Manifesto
- 6 Towards the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A hundred years after the Xinhai Revolution, a centennial judgment has to be made by an impartial observer for the interest of China’s constitutional cause. Despite its sharp language, the main theme of the Manifesto is to explore the conditions and mechanisms of constitutional transformation, as well as the way out of the hopeless historical cycle of reform and revolution. It analyzes the cultural syndrome under absolute despotism and the difficulties it has caused to constitutional transformation, and presents the human dignity theory of modernized Confucianism as a possible solution to transform the Chinese moral and political personality.
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- Constitutional Reforms in ChinaPast, Present, Future, pp. 179 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025