“晚清这个时段已经被贴上了众多负面的标签。这是有道理的,在很多方面这个时段都不能让人满意,但它有一个鲜明的特点,即处于深刻的转型之中,而且这个过程原本能以和平渐近的改革方式通向它要到达的终点。”在《被打断的转型:晚清真相》一书的序言中,黄波几乎已经很明确地提到:若转型的过程不意外中断,中国的历史完全可以是另外 “This late Qing period has been labeled with a number of negative labels.That makes sense, and in many ways this period is unsatisfactory, but it has a distinctive trait of profound transformational and This process could have led to the end of its arrival by way of peaceful asymptotic reform. ”In the preface to the book Interrupted Transform: The True Story of the Late Qing, Huang Bo almost certainly made it clear that if The process of transition is not unexpectedly interrupted, and China’s history can be entirely different