This article will make some comments on several basic issues involving modern Chinese liberalism studies, such as types, genres and main current of modern liberalism, modern liberalists, and reasons for the failure of modern liberalism.

• 对有关近代中国自由主义研究的一些基本问题,如近代自由主义的意义、心价值及特征,近代自由主义的发端与发展阶段,近代自由主义的类型、派与主流,近代自由主义者,近代自由主义失败的原因等,有必要进行评述。