美国学者柯文《在中国发现历史》一书介绍了战后美国中国史研究模式的转变。1986年他在该书《中文版前言》中提到了当时美国最新的四部“中国中心观”研究取向的代表性专著,其中第一部便是曾小萍(MadeleineZelin)的《州县官的银两———18世纪中国的合理化财政改革》(TheMagist American scholar Ke Wen, “Discovering History in China,” introduced the transformation of the post-war American history research model. In 1986, in his “Preface to the Chinese Version,” he referred to the representative monographs of the latest four “China-centered views” of the time in the United States. The first of these was Madeleine Zein’s “ -18 century China’s rational fiscal reform ”(TheMagist