近年来的西方中国学研究纷纷致力于以后现代主义、后殖民主义、中国中心论等视角来瓦解从前居统治地位的西方中心视角,目前又流行互动比较的视角,而且偏爱比较晚明前清与同时期欧洲的关系,但比较中总是忽略中国历史的连续性和整体性。美国学者霍斯泰特勒的《清朝殖民地事业》一书所作的中西历史比较研究,即存在这种不足,并且这种状况在西方学者中具有明显的普遍性。 In recent years, western Chinese studies have devoted themselves to dismantling the dominant Western perspective from the perspectives of modernism, postcolonialism and China-centered theory. At present, there is a popular comparative perspective. At the same time the European relations, but the comparison always ignores the continuity and integrity of Chinese history. The comparative study of the history of China and the West by the American scholar Hostessler’s The Qing Dynasty Colonial Cause has such a deficiency, and this situation has obvious universality among the western scholars.