近代中国乱世的根本原因,在于中国社会在进行现代化转型的同时,无法保持政治稳定性。陈志让所剖析的就是这一时代政权的性质和表现。他对这一时期的评价基本是负面的。长达15年的军阀割据不仅使得中国处于内乱分裂之中,也将大量本可用于发展工业的资本变成了炮灰,在他看来这 The root cause of the chaos in modern China is that the Chinese society can not maintain its political stability while carrying out its modernization. What Chen Zhirong analyzed is the nature and performance of the regime in this era. His assessment of this period is basically negative. The warlords’ separatism, which lasted for 15 years, not only left China in the midst of a civil strife but also turned a large amount of capital available for the development of industry into a cannon fodder, which in his opinion