Abstract: Both Chinese gentry and Japanese warrior were feadal privileged strata, but they played different social roles in the course of modernization. The former actively safeguarded traditional political system, hindered the development of history, whereas the latter gradually turned into a political force fighting against Dechuan Mufu, propelled the society forward. In order to interpret this historical phenomenon, this article approaches the social feature of Chinese gentry and Japanese warrior from various angles. According to the author, Japanese warrior was an unstable stratum, Chinese gentry was a relatively stable stratum. In a sense, it was this difference that decided the distinct historical fate of the two strata