本論文係以一九二三年孫中山總理領導中國國民黨改組、以迄一九三七年蔣中正出任中國國民黨總裁為斷代，研究民國初年中國國民黨黨治政權／國民政府成立初期，在統治正當性的意識型態建構上，由孫中山到蔣中正的演變。 本論文所欲描述與析論的，就是作為傳統中國政權統治正當性之意識型態基礎的儒家意識型態，如何經歷辛亥革命、五四運動以至國民黨改組到統一中國，重新又取得統治意識型態地位的歷史過程，以及具體體現在孫中山和蔣中正兩位國民黨黨國領袖三民主義思想及其道德形象中的儒家意識型態樣貌。

This article is to study the transition of the Kuomintang administration's political legitimacy's ideological hegemony construction from Sun Yet-San to Chiang Kai-Shek during 1923 to 1937. That period is since the Kuomintang's reorganization under Sun Yet-San's leadership to Chiang Kai-Shek's becoming the leader of the Kuomintang. This article is to explore the historical process of the Confucian ideology as a traditional Chinese regimes' political hegemony how to acquire the same hegemonic position in the new republic era through the revolution of 1911, May Fourth Movement, the Kuomintang's reorganization to Republican China's unification. In the meanwhile, this article is to specifically reflect the appearances of the Confucian ideology in the two Kuomintang leaders Sun Yet-San's and Chiang Kai-Shek's San Min Chu I thoughts and moral make-ups.