1、1800 单词， 9400 英文字符， 3000 汉字 出处： Jr P R M. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Popular Chinese Political ThoughtJ. Review of Politics, 1975, 37(2):175-199. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Popular Chinese Political Thought Peter R. Moody, Jr. In recent years, scholars have been increasingly ap
2、plying behavioral approaches to the study of Chinese politics. One interesting strain of this is the work of Lucian Pye and Richard Solomon, who stress the study of Chinese political culture analyzed mainly in terms of an authority crisis. Solomons explication is the more detailed and elaborate. Par
3、t of his thesis is that harmony and peace are basic and enduring political values in the Confucian tradition, and therefore questions of the handling of social conflict constitute a major area of tension in the Chinese political culture.2 The Chinese hopes for order and believes that this comes abou
4、t only through strong authority; without such authority there is luan, chaos. But the means required to exercise authority create resentment, and resentment becomes the basis for more luan.3 An explanation of Chinese politics in terms of this tension, the yearning for and resentment of authority, su
5、ggests an interpretation, if not a full-blown theory.4 I wonder, however, whether this is the most useful interpretation. The political culture approach in political science yields many excellent insights, but also perhaps blocks out others. Sometimes it would seem to lead to irrelevance, and even f
6、atuity. Thus, Solomon suggests that the totalitarian state in China, by destroying the authoritarian family system, would foster the rearing of new generations which would not have in their personalities the emotional inhibitions which were the basis of political submissiveness.5 Thus, totalitarianism digs its own grave. This may be so, but one might doubt whether the psycho-logical change, if there is any, would have any necessary political impact: as both Confucius (pro-f
