地方自治作为清末兴起的社会政治思潮之一,其兴盛不是偶然的。本文主要从清政府自救行为的推动,士绅寻找新的政治出路,资产阶级政治上分权的主观要求,知识分子群体救亡图存的追求四个方面来阐述清末地方自治思潮的兴盛。 As one of the social and political trends that rise in the late Qing Dynasty, local autonomy is not by accident. This article mainly elaborates the prosperous trend of local autonomy in the late Qing Dynasty from four aspects: the promotion of self-help by the Qing government, the search of a new political outlet by the gentry, the subjective request of bourgeois political decentralization and the pursuit of the survival of the intellectuals.