《中国的共产主义与毛泽东的崛起》是史华慈的成名和代表之作,虽然已经历了60年的历史考验,但这部西方关于中国共产主义与毛泽东的研究著作仍然闪耀着智慧的光芒。在当时美国反华反苏的历史大背景下,史华慈继承其师费正清的主要思想理论,首先反驳了大批认为中国的共产主义是受苏联所控制的假设,然后同时创造出“毛主义”一词——这在他的这部书中都有很好的体现与具体的阐释。因此《中国的共产主义与毛泽东的崛起》这本书及其思想在客观上不仅促进了西方毛泽东学从新闻传记向学术研究方面的转变,更大大推动了西方中国问题研究实质性的进程,为海内外研究毛泽东与马克思主义打开了更为广阔的理论空间,提供了更多的方法论启迪。 “China’s Communism and the Rise of Mao Zedong” is a well-known and representative work by Shi Huaci. Although it has gone through 60 years of historical test, this western research work on Chinese communism and Mao Zedong still shines bright light of wisdom. Under the historical background of the anti-China and anti-Soviet activities in the United States at that time, Schwab inherited the main ideas of his theory of fee Zheng-ching, first of all refuting the assumption that a large number of Chinese Communists were under the control of the Soviet Union and at the same time created a “Maoist” The word - which is well illustrated and specifically explained in his book. Therefore, the book “The Communism in China and the Rise of Mao Zedong” objectively not only promoted the transformation of the Western Mao Zedong Study from news biographies to academic research, but also greatly promoted the substantive progress of the study on western China issues for Studying Mao Zedong and Marxism at home and abroad has opened up a broader theoretical space and provided more methodological inspiration.