2009年底我作为教育部邀请的评审专家,参加了“中国海洋文明史”课题的评审,厦门大学杨国祯先生成功申报立项。2010年1月,杨先生举办了开题报告会,我有幸和滨下武志等先生一道参加了这个会。从那个时候起,一直期待着杨先生的研究成果能够尽快面世。之所以有这样的期待,一方面是因为杨先生从20世纪90年代开始着力于开展中国海洋 At the end of 2009, as an expert on evaluation invited by the Ministry of Education, I participated in the review of the topic of “History of Chinese Ocean Civilization”. Mr. Yang Guozhen of Xiamen University successfully declared the project. In January 2010, Mr. Yang held a briefing on the topic and I was fortunate enough to join Mr. Hamashiro and others in this conference. Since then, he has been looking forward to Mr. Yang’s research results as soon as possible. The reason why there is such an expectation, on the one hand, because Mr. Yang from the 20th century, 90 years began to focus on the development of China Ocean