北洋时期无锡的绅权得以扩张,地方精英们借助自治组织与商会等公法团体掌管了地方管理大权,成为社会权力群体。当时中国基层社会的管治模式已由传统的政府为主、绅士为辅,变为绅商为主、政府为辅。绅权的扩张给了地方精英们更大的施政平台,但也给全国政权的稳定带来一定的负面影响。北洋时期始终未能解决政权、绅权与民权的平衡发展问题。 During the Northern Period, the gentry power of Wuxi was expanded. Local elites took charge of local management power through public-sector organizations such as autonomous organizations and chambers of commerce and became public power groups. At that time, the governing model of grassroots society in China was dominated by the traditional government, supplemented by gentlemen, and turned into gentry-based businesses supplemented by the government. The expansion of the gentry power gave the local elites greater platforms for governance, but it also brought some negative effects on the stability of the entire country. The Beiyang Period has failed to solve the balanced development of political power, gentry power and civil rights.