毛泽东作为中国共产党的第一代领导人,他青年时期的经历为众多人所关注,连西方学者也不例外。美国的斯诺、特里尔和英国的威尔逊是西方学者中研究毛泽东生平较为突出的代表人物。本文通过分析三个不同时代的西方学者对青年时代毛泽东的描述,来寻求西方学者对毛泽东研究的脉络。 Mao Zedong, as the first generation of Chinese Communist leaders, his youth experience for many people’s attention, even the Western scholars is no exception. The United States, Snow, Trier and the British Wilson is the Western scholars in the study of Mao Zedong’s more prominent representative. This article tries to find the context for the study of Mao Zedong by western scholars by analyzing the descriptions of Mao Zedong in the youth by three Western scholars of different ages.