From “Republic” to “Democracy”: The Construction of Chinese Democratic Discourse in the 20th Century—Based on the Analysis of “Research on the History of Ideas”

Abstract

From the development of the history of thought, the development of China’s concept of democracy has mainly gone through three stages, namely, the selective absorption stage, the learning stage and the reconstruction stage. In this process, democracy has completed the transformation from the traditional sense to the modern sense, forming the Chinese concept of democracy in the modern sense different from the Western modern sense.