In January 1948 , Sidney Wilfred Mintz went to a southern coast city in Puerto Rico to start his fieldwork of anthropology.The region was planted almost entirely with sugarcane, which was for the sugar industry in the North American market.On basis of this fieldwork,he produced his book Sweetness and Power.Mintz focused on sugar plantations as representing the early stage of indus-trialization in England and colonial America and the Caribbean.He took sugar as his focus,placing its production,consumption,naturalness and social consciousness,constraint of power and the signifi-cance of its production into a narrative historical structure.He outlined and traced the transformation of sugar from its incarnation as a luxury good to in-dustrialized production, and closely linked it with the accumulation of wealth in primitive capitalism, the slavery mode of production, and the political and economic relationships among countries.From this a network of power and culture was constructed which paralleled the global trade system.In this paper,we discuss the book Sweetness and Power in four parts.