陈炯明是近代中国地方自治和联省自治运动的倡导者和实践者,他努力将近代以来日益兴盛的地域认同和地方自治纳入国家建设的蓝图中,认为联省自治是实现社会和政治整合,在和平实现“国家统一”的过程中保持“民主建设”的政治方案。相对于以党建国的路径,陈代表了国家建设的另一种声音。陈之思想作为一种可供选择的方案,由于与现实之间的巨大差距,无法承担起实现政治整合和国家统一的艰巨任务,最终被历史放弃。 Chen Jiongming was an advocator and practitioner of the autonomy of modern China and the self-government movement in the United Provinces. He endeavored to incorporate the increasingly prosperous regional identity and local autonomy into the blueprint of national construction in modern times. He considered that the autonomy of the federal provinces was to achieve social and political integration. To maintain the political program of “democratic construction” in the process of peaceful realization of “national reunification.” In contrast to the path of establishing the nation by the party, Chen represented another voice for the nation’s construction. As an alternative solution, Chen thought can not afford to undertake the arduous task of political integration and national reunification because of its huge gap with reality, and is ultimately abandoned by history.