国外关于毛泽东与“文化大革命”的研究随着1966年夏“文化大革命”的爆发而开始,至今尚未结束,其间取得很大进展,甚至形成了“文革学”的研究流派。当年的世界局势,当年的历史局限,使得国外对毛泽东和“文化大革命”的研究产生了特殊的效果,其中包含了对人类解放美好前景的憧憬,也包含了对中国这个代表共产主义的强大力量发展前景的揣测和不安。这些研究中不乏严谨的学术思考,也有的明显是出于偏见。不管几十年来关于“文革”与毛泽东的研究在国外又有了多少变化,在当年的动机下产生的历史经验和研究成果,值得人们今天认真反思。 Foreign Studies on Mao Zedong and the “Cultural Revolution” started with the outbreak of the “Cultural Revolution” in the summer of 1966 and have not yet ended. Great progress has been made during this period and even a research genre of “Cultural Revolution” has been formed . The current situation in the world and the historical limitation of the year made the overseas studies on Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution have a special effect. These included the vision of a bright future for human liberation and the suggestion that China, as a representative of communism Powerful speculation and unease about the future of growth. There is no shortage of rigorous academic thinking in these studies, and some are obviously out of prejudice. Regardless of how many studies on the “Cultural Revolution” and Mao Tse-tung have changed abroad in recent decades, the historical experience and research results produced under the motivation of that year deserve people’s serious reflection today.