【摘要】 传统社会中,中国人对于地域的忠诚远高于对国家的忠诚,这对现代民族国家的建构十分不利。民国初年,袁世凯代表的北洋军政集团开始强化中央集权,省制改革成为推行一元化统治的重要手段。各种省制改革方案先后出台,但最后都以失败而告终。从推进国家现代化角度看,袁世凯出台省制改革方案与政治实践具有一定合理性,并取得某些成效。然而,省制改革也始终面临其无法克服的困境。尤其是袁世凯以省制改革为名,打压政治反对派,引发地方政治势力的强烈反弹,使国家丧失了一个调整中央与地方关系的机会,从而导致民初政治格局进一步走向混乱与动荡。更多还原

【Abstract】 In traditional society,Chinese were more loyal to regions than to the country,which was bad to construction of a modern nation.In the early years of the Republic,Yuan Shih-kai on behalf of the Beiyang Military Group started to strengthen the centralization of power,so the provincial system reform became an important means of carrying out the unified rule.Various provincial system reform program were introduced,but finally ended in failure.From the view of promoting the modernization of the nation,the province reform plan and the political practice Yuan Shih-kai introduced were reasonable,and achieved certain results.However,the provincial system reform met problems unsolvable.Yuan Shih-kai in the name of the provincial system reform,suppressed political opposition,and triggered a strong reaction of revolutionaries,and consequently the country lost a chance to adjust the relationship between the central and the local,and finally degenerated into a political chaos and turbulence.更多还原