《剑桥中华人民共和国史》是多卷本《剑桥中国史》的最后两卷,由于这部“巨著”系由西方学术界的中国学“权威”集体编撰,发行量大,流传面广,因而书中的错误观点也广泛传播。它不但对西方社会公众了解中国产生严重的误导,而且有迹象表明,它也对中国国内的中国近现代史、中共党史、中国革命史的研究和教学工作产生了某些负面影响。近年来在这些学科领域出现的关于近代中国社会的性 The History of the People’s Republic of China in Cambridge is the last two volumes of the Cambridge Chinese History, a multi-volume book. Since this “masterpiece” was compiled by the “authority” of the Chinese studies in Western academia and has a large circulation and a wide spread of coverage, The erroneous viewpoints in the book are also widely circulated. It not only caused serious misleading understanding of the Chinese community in the West, but also showed some negative impacts on the research and teaching of Chinese modern history, history of the CPC and Chinese revolutionary history in China. The nature of modern Chinese society that emerged in these disciplines in recent years