Abstract:
A leading and decisive factor in the economic system of ancient Chinese society, the state played a basic part in easing up conflicts between classes. Meanwhile the state also stood for a social group with separate economic interest of its own. As a result, the contradiction between the state's interests and its function drove it in the midst of social contradictions, whose evolution determined the destiny of the state and the nation. The existence of the state as a group of interest made possible endurance of a triangular economic structure with the landlord, the peasant and the state each taking a pole. Connected with the three poles was an interbinding link which contributed to the very strong stability of this social economic structure and even the whole society.
