中国近代史研究，是新中国成立后，经过六十年的探索和创新，建立了完整学科体系，发展迅速、成就显著的一个历史分支学科。本书以概述与专题相结合的形式，对六十年来中国近代史研究的历程和进展做了系统梳理，重点介绍了这一研究领域的主要成就、有代表性的不同学术观点及其所持的主要根据，实事求是地评介了以往研究中的成败得失；酌情展望了未来前景。本书对于学习和研究中国近代史有重要的参考价值。(The research of modern Chinese history is a rapidly developed subdiscipline of history with significant achievements after sixty years' exploration and innovation with the establishment of a complete discipline system since the founding of New China. In the form of overview combined with special topics, this books gives a systematic presentation of research progress and advancement of 60 years' modern Chinese history, focusing on the major achievements of the research field, different representative academic views and the basis they mainly held with the review of success and failure of the previous research based on facts at the discretion of the future prospects. This book has an important reference value for the study of modern Chinese history.)