关键词: 民权, 近代, 民主, 人权

Abstract: Civil rights in modern China is a revolutionary term that stands for the idea of anti-autocracy. The concept of civil rights in modern China inherits and reforms the people-oriented traditional value concept, and selectively borrows relevant aspects in western political studies. As a considerably complicated item with different meanings in different historical situations, it has special implications that not only relates to but also distinguishes from the normally recognized values such as democracy, human rights, freedom, equality and so on. The Chinese concept of modern civil rights is marked by the following features: utilitarianism, idealism and collectivism.

Key words: civil rights, modern, democracy, human rights