由吉林文史出版社出版、孔经纬教授所著的《中国资本主义史纲要》,是一部研究中国资本主义产生、发展过程及其规律的专著。该书吸收了作者个人在中国经济史、东北经济史研究中的有关成果;突出地剖析研究了中国资本主义的特殊性,观点清晰,史料丰富。因此,不论对专业理论工作者,还是对高校经济理论教师来说,都是一部难得的好书。(一)剖析了中国资本主义的特殊性。中国虽然没有经历过独立的资本主义发展阶段,但是,老早就有了资本主义关系的萌芽,并且资本主义的发展还有一个相当曲折复杂的历史过程。所以,对中国资本主义史的研究,便成为中国经济史研究中不可忽视的领域。作者在中国资本主义史的研究中,运用马克思主义的立场、观点、方法,史论结合,成功地分析了中国资本主义的特殊性。他认为,中国从明朝中叶至鸦片战争前处于资本主义关系的萌芽阶段,但是并没因此而具备类似西方的封建社会末期的社会经济条件;中国也未经历过西方那样的资本原始积累阶段;中国的近代工业,没有经历特定 Published by Jilin Literature and History Press, Professor Kong Jingwei's “Outline of the History of Chinese Capitalism” is a monograph on the production, development and regulation of Chinese capitalism. The book absorbs the author's personal achievements in the study of China's economic history and the economic history of northeast China. It highlights and analyzes the particularities of Chinese capitalism with clear points of view and rich historical materials. Therefore, it is a rare good book for both professional theoretical workers and university economic theory teachers. First, we analyze the particularity of Chinese capitalism. Although China has not experienced an independent phase of capitalist development, it has long been the embryonic stage of capitalist relations. There is also a rather tortuous and complicated historical process in the development of capitalism. Therefore, the study of the history of capitalism in China has become an indispensable area in the study of China's economic history. In the study of the history of Chinese capitalism, the author has successfully analyzed the particularity of Chinese capitalism by using the Marxist standpoint, the view, the method and the combination of history. He believes that from the middle of the Ming Dynasty until the Opium War, China was in the embryo stage of capitalist relations but did not have the social and economic conditions similar to those of the late Western feudal society. China had not experienced the stage of primitive capital accumulation in the West. China's modern industry, did not experience specific