近代口岸城市开放研究述评

A Review of Studies on Chinese Opening Trading Ports to the West Powers in Modern Times

开放口岸通商作为西方列强首先侵入中国的方式之一,其演变历程构成了近代中国对外关系、社会变迁与近代化发生发展的基本线索和重要内容。目前对这一主题的研究呈现出力度加大、视角转换、领域细分的趋势,局部个案剖析与整体规律探索相结合、主体理论取向与多样视角观点相结合,推动了研究不断深化,取得了一大批较高水准的成果。

As a type of admitting the western powers economic intrusion into China, the course of opening ports to the foreign countries in accordance with unequal mutual treaties has revealed the basic threads and vital parts of China＇s transition of external relations, social changes and modernization. Presently, there＇s a trend of study--focus increasing, angle--of--view varying and study--field specializing, as well as of combining the partial--locality analyzing with general--law summarizing in methods and of combining principal parts with innovating parts in theories, which has deepened the study on this subject and pushed some valuable achievements forward .