Analyze how the cultural differences between China and the West have different impacts on the political systems of China and the West.

Differences between Chinese and Western political thought

I. Differences in the basis of the formation of Chinese and Western political thought.

The most important basis for the formation of political culture is the natural and social basis.

First of all, the natural geographical environment has an impact on the political culture of China and the West. China's Han culture originated in the northwest and the Central Plains, the natural environment is suitable for agriculture, China is located in the northwest mountainous, the north of the great desert, southeast of the sea, affecting the external exchanges, which determines China's traditional culture is characterized by closed. But most of the culture of the western countries originated near the sea, people face the sea, live by the sea, earlier engaged in maritime trade, so in the cultural form is more open.

Secondly, there is the economic mode of production and the economic form of China and the West. Different modes of economic production and economic patterns play a decisive role in the formation and development of a nation's culture. Chinese society has been characterized by self-sufficiency for thousands of years. In the West, capitalism emerged earlier, and on the basis of this economic foundation, a civil culture was formed which was different from that of the Chinese subjects.

On the other hand, there is the structure of social and political life in China and the West. Socio-political life is the direct basis of a nation's political culture. In the ancient times of China, the natural economy based on small peasants led to the formation of a centralized monarchical system in politics. At the same time, the blood relationship has long influenced our society and retained authoritarian ideas and family concepts, which are manifested in people's identification with the monarchical power, the retention of the idea of puritanical officials and the existence of patriarchal style. And in the western constitutional monarchy or separation of powers in the country, people dare to break the bondage of feudalism, calling for rationality and human freedom.