中村哲是日本京都大学教授。他立足于对东亚各国和地区的历史研究, 着眼于把握现代世界结构变化的性质,在批判传统的理论学说基础上,提出了一系列新见解,自成一理论体系,在日本史学界颇有影响,也引起了中国学者的注意。他的著作《奴隶制与农奴制的理论》和《近代东亚经济的发展和世界市场》的中译本已于1994年分别由武汉大学出版社和商务印书馆出版。中村哲的近著《中国前近代史理论的再构成》一文(载于中 Nakamura is a professor at Kyoto University in Japan. Based on the historical study of various countries and regions in East Asia, he focused on grasping the nature of the structural changes in the modern world. He put forward a series of new ideas on the basis of criticizing the traditional theory of the theory and formed a theoretical system in his own right. Influence, also attracted the attention of Chinese scholars. His translations of “Theories of Slavery and Serfdom” and the Chinese translation of “Modern East Asian Economic Development and World Market” were published by Wuhan University Press and Commercial Press respectively in 1994. A recent article by Nakamura Tetsu, “A Reconfiguration of the Theory of Chinese Modern History of Modern Times” (in