当代中国,或许是古往今来最让人难以理解的一个“问题”。我几乎和每一个“老外”朋友都会说这样的话:我不懂中国,我对中国了解的还太少了。我也常常劝谏周围的年轻学生和青年学者,不要总盯着顶层设计和宏大理论,要眼睛向下,尽可能研究一些自己能懂的东西。我的这本小书(以下简称《道路》),~①就是本着这样的态度,想从身边的经验出发,研究一个自己大体能懂的问题。尽管如此,尽管从写作到出版历时十年,我对中国法治道路的思考也经历了硕士、博士、留学、任 Contemporary China may be the most incomprehensible “issue” ever since. Almost every “foreigner” friend of mine can say the following: I do not understand China and I know too little about China. I often advise around young students and young scholars, do not always stare at the top design and grand theory, want to look down, try to understand something as you can understand. My little book (hereafter referred to as “the road”) is an attitude based on this. I want to study from my own experience and study a problem that I can understand in general. In spite of this, although I spent 10 years from writing to publishing, my thinking on the road to rule of law in China has also gone through master’s and doctoral studies.