康有爲調觸中西思想,復以之爲基礎創發其思想理論體系,從而在真正意義上開啓了中國近代思想文化的歷史閘門。《孟子微》就是他這方面的代表作之一,其思想史意義並不次于《孔子改制考》、《新學僞經考》和《大同書》。正是在此書中,康有爲通過重新詮釋孟子,將儒家傳統的“民本”論轉化成爲了近代民主政治思想,並將近代西方的平等觀念引入中國政治思想範疇。 Kang Youwei reconciled the ideas of both China and the West and created the theoretical system of his thoughts on the basis of complex theories, thus opening the gate of history of modern Chinese thought and culture in a real sense. “Mencius” is one of his masterpieces in this area. The significance of his history of history is not inferior to that of “Confucius Restructuring”, “New Course” and “Datong Book”. It is in this book that Kang Youwei transformed Mencius, a Confucian tradition, into a modern democratic political thought by reinterpreting Mencius and introduced the concept of equality in modern West into the category of Chinese political thought.