“近代的历史,是相对于封建主义社会即中世纪的历史说的。在西方,近代史就是资本主义社会的历史;中国近代史,既不是像西方一般资本主义社会,当然也不是一般的封建主义社会,而是半殖民地半封建社会。这个社会,是几个帝国主义共同统治的,社会经济卷入世界资本主义体系,在国内,一方面发生和发展了资本主义,同时还严重保留着封建主义残余,因此,它在性质上,已不同于在其以前的封建主义社会,而划进近代史的范畴。这 “Modern history is relative to the feudal society that is the history of the Middle Ages.” In the West, modern history is the history of capitalist society; modern history in China is neither like the general Western capitalist society nor, of course, the general feudalism Society, but a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, which was ruled by several imperialists and whose social economy was entangled in the capitalist system of the world. At home, on the one hand, capitalism took place and was developed while the remaining feudalism , So it is qualitatively different from the category of modern history in its earlier feudal society.