《剑桥中国史》中认为:“在中国历史长剧的发展中,中国商人阶层没有占据显要位置。它只是一个配角——也许有几句台词——听命于帝王、官僚、外交官、将军、宣传家和党魁的摆布。”财经作家吴晓波在《跌荡一百年——中国企业1870—1977》前言中把“中国近代企业家”称为一个“下落不明”的阶层,并认为这显然是一种不公平现象,因为,正是这群似乎从来没有出现过的人,在中国悠久、广 Cambridge History of China states: “China did not occupy a prominent position in the development of the Chinese historical drama, it was only a supporting role - perhaps with a few lines - and healed the emperor, the bureaucrat, the diplomat, and the general , Propagandists and leaders at the mercy of the party. ”“ Wu Xiaobo, a financial writer, refers to the ”modern Chinese entrepreneurs“ as a class of ”missing whereabouts“ in the foreword of ”One Hundred Years of Unreasoning - Chinese Enterprises 1870-1977" And that this is obviously an unfair phenomenon, because it is this group of people who seem never to have in China, a long, wide