商传先生著《走进晚明》一书于2014年7月由北京商务印书馆出版,为何兹全先生主编的《中国近世社会和政治研究丛书》成果之一,是一部对晚明社会转型问题深入研究的力作。“晚明时代”所探讨的内容始于万历初年,至弘光政权的覆灭为止,前后经历了大约半个世纪。弘光以后的南明政权,存亡于战乱之中,没有了繁荣景象,与晚明时代商品生产条件下的社会生活场景,已迥然不同。关于晚明时代开始发生社会变迁的观点已为目前许多学者所认可和探讨,商传先生则进一步提出以“国家权力的异化”来解释明朝何以在社会转型过程中逐渐走向灭亡,认为“晚明时代国家权力没 Mr. Chuan Chuan’s book ”Entering the Late Ming Dynasty“ was published by Beijing Commercial Press in July 2014. One of the achievements of the series of ”Research on Social and Political Studies in Modern China“ edited by Mr. He Zizhi is a reference to the late Ming society Transformational issues in-depth study of the masterpiece. ”Late Ming Dynasty “ explored the content began in the early years of Wanli, until the dawn of the fall of Hongguang regime, after about half a century. After the Hongguang Nanming regime, survived in the war, there is no prosperity scene, and the production of goods in the late Ming and social life scenes have been very different. The viewpoints about the social changes that began in the late Ming dynasty have already been accepted and discussed by many scholars. However, Mr. Shang further suggested that ”the alienation of state power“ explain why the Ming dynasty gradually disappeared in the process of social transformation. ”State power late Ming dynasty did not