An Introduction to Huang Zhong-xi's Enlightening Thoughts of Society

The main character of Huang zhongxi's enlightening thoughts of society was to criticize autocratic monarchy and persue democratic politic. It was a mirror of the seeds of capitalism at the time of Ming and Qing Dynasty, and in fact a democratic thought of the new and developing citizens with representative significance. Because the thoughts were constrained by the limitation of times, Huang zhongxi didn't put forward the view of abolishing autocratic monarhy.But the criticism of autocratic monarchy and the tentative idea of the social system in future initiated the bourgeoisie democratic reformism of modern China. Huang zhongxi's thoughts may be rated as the starting point of Chinese modern thoughts and the boundary line that divided the new and the old stages of ancient political thoughts of China.