侯外庐的戊戌变法史研究为抗战时期所作的《中国近世思想学说史》的一部分，该书是建国之前运用马列主义进行研究的该领域内最为深刻全面的著作，其研究以学术思想为中心、以社会史为根本，其中关于戊戌变法史的研究在全书的论述中具有独特的地位，是论述中国近代社会发展道路必不可少的一环，这在抗战的环境下具有重要的政治意义。无论是在戊戌变法史还是在马克思主义史学的研究脉络中，对于侯外庐的此部分成果的研究均不够深入。本文拟从内容与方法两方面分析侯外庐的戊戌变法史研究，同时结合当时的写作背景阐明其独特的学术贡献与隐含的政治目的。侯外庐运用《资本论》中的重商主义理论与列宁关于中国革命的论述构造戊戌变法的经典论述，是马克思关于人类社会发展规律的普适性与中国发展道路的特殊性的一个典型结合，隐隐指明中国发展的前途为无产阶级领导的革命，可以视作对延安批判蒋介石的一个学术上的回应。侯外庐对于康有为、谭嗣同的学术思想研究，既延续了之前学者如梁启超、钱穆的一贯的关注点，也提出了新的观点与研究方法。与党内其他学者相比，其研究成果中体现出哲学思想、政治思想与经济背景高度一致的特点，将文本与马列主义结合得更加紧密，是马克思主义中国化过程中历史研究的典范。侯外庐戊戌变法的研究，展现了了马克思主义中国化的具体过程，兼顾了学术与政治、求真与致用，为中国近代思想史的研究提供了新的路径。

Hou Wai-lu’s study of Hundred Days' Reform is one part of his book --《The Intellectual History of Modern China》,which is finished during on Anti-Japanese war .This book is the most profound and comprehensive using the theory of Marxism before 1949 ,its content focusing on everyone’s thought and its foundation is social economic background .The section of Hundred Days' Reform occupy an very important position in the framework of this book ,it is an indispensable section in the process of improving the development of modern China ,so it has important political significance during Anti-Japanese war.However,the research from the perspective of Hundred Days' Reform or Marxism historiography is not profound.This paper intends to analyze the portion of Hundred Days' Reform in Hou Wailu’s book from the perspectives of content and methodology,at the same time,stating the unique contribution in the scholarly field and connotative purpose at the political level.Hou Wailu constructed the classical text about Hundred Days' Reform based on the theory of mercantilism in the ‘Das Kapital’ and the conclusion about Chinese revolution written by Lenin,which is one typical bond of the general law of the human society development written by Marx and the specific development of modern China.This model could be identified as an response of the criticism of Chiang Kai-shek ,because it demonstrates the future of china is the revolution led by the proletariat.The study of the scholarism of K'ang Yu-wei and Tan Si-tong not only contains the viewpoints written by previous researchers such as Liang Qichao and Chien Mu,but also proposes new viewpoints and methodologies.Compared with other scholars in the Chinese Communist Party,Hou Wailu’s study show that philosophical thought is highly consistent with political thought and economical background,which is the paradigm of Historical Research in the process of Sinicism of Marxism because it integrates with Marxism more closely.Hou wailu’study of Hundred Days' Reform show the process of sinicization of Marxism, it combine academic and truth with political and practical purpose,which provides a new method for the study of the intellectual history of modern China.