中国人对马克思可谓家喻户晓妇孺皆知,然而马克思由于没有亲自来中国访问过,因此对中国不甚了解。而且马克思一生研究的是近在眼前的资本主义欧洲,对远在天边的封建主义中国显然无暇顾及。翻看马克思的浩瀚著述,提及中国的文字寥寥无几。不过尽管马克思对中国不够“重视”,但他在《鸦片贸易史》一文中对中国的几句评论,却“句句是真理”,相当于“一句顶一万句”。他说：“一个人口几乎占人类三分之一的大帝国, The Chinese are well-known to Marx as a household name, yet Marx did not know much about China because he did not come to China personally to visit it. Moreover, Marx’s life study is the immediate capitalism in Europe, which is apparently too time-consuming for the feudal China far beyond. Looking at the vast writings of Marx, there are few references to China. However, although Marx did not pay enough attention to China, his few comments on China in his article “The History of Opium Trade,” however, “Sentence is Truth,” which amounts to “one sentence top ten thousand sentences.” He said: "A great empire, which has a population of almost one-third of humanity,