The organization of my country's society, to the family as a unit How to understand

Liang Qichao pointed out in his Travels in the New World: "The organization of our Chinese society is based on the family as a unit, not on the individual, and what I have developed is the autonomy of the clan system." Feng Erkang holds a similar view, and he believes that the clan is the social organization that has existed for the longest time and circulated the most generally in Chinese history, and possesses a wide range of people that cannot be compared with any other social organization. Fei Xiaotong, on the other hand, pointed out more clearly that the basic community of Chinese vernacular society was the "small family", and that the family that existed within the clan was only a round in the social circle, which could not be said to be non-existent, but could not be said to be an independent unit, not a group. Some scholars have further argued that the clan not only constitutes the basic unit of governance in China, but is also isomorphic with the state in terms of governance structure. Weber, for example, regarded China as a "family-structured state", and Yin Haiguang argued that "in the so-called 'age of autocracy', China was ruled by a single family at the center of all families. " In addition, some other scholars regard the clan organization as the basis of governance in Chinese rural society. In this regard, Fei Xiaotong believes that the governance of traditional Chinese society is a kind of imperial power and gentry power **** with the role of the "dual-track politics", the exercise of imperial power relies on the bureaucracy, the gentry for rural governance of the organizational basis is the clan.