西汉末年的王莽改制是中国历史上的一桩奇案。它可以看做是一次儒家理想主义在中国当时社会条件下的第一次彻底的尝试。透过这段历史,我们可以得窥中国古代思想中王权思想与儒家思想的相互作用,使得中国大部分的历史都在王权的社会结构中做螺旋式循环中缓慢行进着。 Wang Mang reorganization in the late Western Han Dynasty is a strange case in Chinese history. It can be regarded as the first thorough attempt of Confucian idealism under the social conditions in China at that time. Through this period of history, we can get a glimpse of the interaction between the ideas of monarchical power and Confucianism in ancient Chinese thought, and make most of the history of China go slowly in the spiraling cycle of the social structure of monarchy.