值此世纪之交和我国进入老龄社会的时候，邬沧萍教授主编的《社会老年学》由中国人民大学出版社出版了。我翻阅着这本五十多万字的专著，觉得这是老年学研究中一件值得高兴的事情，也是认识和解决我国人口老龄化问题的一次理论升华。 这本著作的问世与我有一定渊源。因为我曾担 At the turn of the century and as China enters the aged society, “Social Gerontology”, edited by Professor Wu Cangping, was published by Renmin University Press. I read through the book of more than 500,000 words and think that this is a delightful thing in the study of gerontology. It is also a theoretical distillation of understanding and resolving the problem of population aging in our country. The advent of this book has some origin with me. Because I had to bear