岛田虔次先生是日本京都大学教授,日本学士院院士,国际著名的中国朱子学、阳明学和中国近代思想史研究权威。本文原载于岛田虔次先生遗著《中国思想史研究》一书,其主导在揭示中国儒家中所具有的民主主义特性。承方祖献先生推介,以及与岛田虔次先生的高足、日本京都大学著名的中国明清之际思想史研究者小野和子教授联系,在获得岛田先生的遗族同意之后,本文首次译成中文,交与本刊发表。在此特表谢忱。摘党要:黄宗羲《明夷待访录》中的思想,与后来日本明治时期思想横井小楠有着相似之处,而后者是在尚未读到过黄宗羲这部著作的情况下得出这种相似的思想观点的,这里意味着儒家中的具有民主性。而孙文的民主革命思想,也与黄宗羲有相应的关联。 Mr. Shimada Shimada is a professor at Kyoto University in Japan, an academician at the Japanese Academy of Sciences, and an internationally renowned researcher on the Chinese Zhu Xi and Yang Ming studies and the history of modern Chinese thought. This article was originally published in Mr. Takeshi Shimada’s book, “Studies of the History of Chinese Thought,” a book that dominates the democratization of Chinese Confucianism. Mr. Cheng Zuxian’s introduction and contact with Professor Takano Shimada and Kyoto University’s famous history researcher on the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Japan and Kyoto, Professor Takanojima Shizuka, after the concurrence of Mr. Shimada’s bereaved, this article was first translated into Chinese , Submitted to the publication. Special thanks here. Abstract: The thought of Huang Zongxi’s “Visiting Record of Mingyi” has similarities with the thought of Yokoi Yokoi in later Meiji Japan, and the latter draws similar researches without reading Huang Zongxi’s work Ideological point of view, here means that the Confucianism is democratic. Sun Wen’s democratic revolutionary thought also has a corresponding relationship with Huang Zongxi.