马克思和恩格斯在其几乎长达半个世纪的多方面的活动中,非常注意东方问题特别是中国的局势。他们专门就中国问题写了不少文章,对十九世纪四十至六十年代中国发生的重大事件直接作出了反应。马克思和恩格斯最重要的著作如《资本论》、《反社林论》、《政治经济学批判》等等,包括了许多关于中国问题的指示和意见。在马克思和恩格斯之间以及同各国社会活动家之间往来的信件 Marx and Engels paid great attention to the situation on the East, especially China, in various aspects of their activities for nearly half a century. They wrote a number of articles specifically on the issue of China and responded directly to the major events that took place in China in the 1940s to the 1960s. Marx’s and Engels’s most important books, such as Capitalism, Anti-Socialist Theory and Critique of Political Economy, etc., include many instructions and opinions on the China issue. Letters between Marx and Engels and between social activists in various countries