侯旭东在《中国古代专制说的知识考古》一文中,一说关于中国秦代以来是专制主义的“论断”是19世纪末年中经日本传入的;二说该论断是18世纪“个别”的“西方人对中国的歪曲”;三是侯本人开始时已经强调了只对专制主义作词汇传播史的考察,对中国秦代以来的体制本身不做研究,但又在其文章中五次以上指称该论断是西方人对中国历史的“歪曲”与对中国的“偏见”。这些,一是与相关的历史事实严重不符,二是文章在观点上自相矛盾。关于中国秦代以来是君主专制统治的认识,一是中国本土从秦汉时期就有,并且到清代中期一直有传承;二是严复、谭嗣同、夏曾佑等人未经日本直接与西学接触而早于侯文中所说的梁启超等人,就对中国秦代以来的君主专制统治进行过详细阐述。这两方面的大量史实表明,侯文的观点不能成立。 In his article “The Knowledge Archeology of Ancient Chinese Autocracy,” one remarked that “the thesis” about despotism since the Qin Dynasty in China was introduced by Japan in the late 19th century; “2” said that the judgment was “ Individual ”“ Westerners’ distortions to China ”; third, Hou himself initially emphasized the investigation of the history of the spread of vocabulary by authoritarianism; he did not study the system of the Qin Dynasty in China itself, More than five times in his essay, the assertion is that Westerners’ “distortions” in Chinese history and “prejudices” in China. These, first, are seriously inconsistent with the relevant historical facts, and second, the articles are self-contradictory in their opinions. Since the Qin Dynasty, China was the monarchy’s autocratic rule. First, the Chinese natives had existed from the Qin and Han dynasties and inherited from the middle of the Qing dynasty. Second, Yan Fu, Tan Sitong and Xia Zengyou came into contact with Western learning earlier than Japan Liang Qichao and others mentioned by Hou Wenzhong elaborated upon the monarchy and domination since the Qin Dynasty in China. A large number of historical facts show that Hou Wen’s point of view can not be established.