建国以来,由中国艺术研究院主持编纂的古代与当代戏曲史学著作已经出版发行,近代史著作空缺的遗憾直到2011年7月才由贾志刚主编的《中国近代戏曲史》的出版得以消解。这是一部完全按照戏曲艺术自身规律进行年代划分并进行写作的戏曲著作,文章采用史论结合、以史代论的方法,抓住近代戏曲艺术发展的最大特征“变”字来展开论述,从而全面完整、系统深入、立体综合地清晰展现了风云激荡的近代中国背景下的戏曲艺术的发展全貌。 Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the publication of the ancient and contemporary Chinese opera historiography edited by the China Academy of Art and the regrettable absence of modern history works until the publication of the “History of Modern Chinese Opera” edited by Jia Zhigang only in July 2011 was eliminated. This is a theatrical works completely divided and written according to the regularity of the art of opera. The article uses the theory of history to combine and uses the method of the theory of history to seize the most characteristic of the development of modern Chinese opera , So as to be comprehensive, systematic and in-depth, and comprehensively and clearly reveal the full picture of the development of opera art under the background of modern China.