读何兆武先生《历史坐标的定位》（《读书》二○○○年第四期） ,对文中的一个观点有不同看法。何先生认为中国在明清“传统的皇权专制体制已进入了没落阶段……未能比较顺利地展开一场近代化运动”。其外因 ,是利玛窦等旧教传教士作为西方文化媒介的传播者在近代科学和近代思? Reading Mr. He Zhaowu’s “Positioning of Historical Coordinates” (“Reading” Issue 4, 2000) has a different view on one point of view. He believes that China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties “the traditional imperialist authoritarian system has entered a decline phase ... ... failed to start a more smoothly modern movement.” The external cause is that the old missionaries such as Matteo Ricci, as the communicators of western cultural media, are in modern science and in modern times?