separation of powers and checks and balances;five-power constitution;the Political Tutelage;Temporary Provisions effective during the period of communist rebellion
The concept of separation of powers in China was introduced from the west during the period of the Opium War. Chinese people's understanding of the separation of the three powers has experienced a deepening process, from formal division of functions to substantive restriction of power. During the process of official system reform and constitutional preparation in the late Qing Dynasty, the separation of powers was quickly accepted by politicians. When the separation of powers became the political tacit understanding and legal consensus in central and local governments, there were also much critical voices of it. Sun Yat-sen combined Chinese and Western culture to create the theory of personal five powers and tried it out in the Kuomintang party. After the northern expedition, the Kuomintang began to train politics, and with its political authority, it raised its power model to the national political standard. It can be seen that from introducing to writing into constitution, check and balance of three powers is an attempt for Chinese people to step out of the shackles of autocracy; while transformation from three to five powers in constitutional system is the result of the resurgence of centralized autocracy.