柞蚕丝业是近代蚕丝业的重要组成部分。本书以近代中国的柞蚕丝业为研究对象，以唯物主义和历史学等理论和方法为指导，采用地方志、近代期刊及相关文献资料，试图复原近代柞蚕丝业兴盛和衰落的历史面貌。近代柞蚕丝业的勃兴一度与桑蚕丝业在国际市场上的颓势形成鲜明对比，近代中国柞蚕丝业的兴衰，既是外国资本主义国家对中国轻工业原材料掠夺和剥削的具体表现，又是近代中国在内忧外患局势之下，充分利用本国资源优势，与外国进行商战、挽回利权的有益尝试。因此，探讨和研究柞蚕丝业在近代的勃兴、发展和衰落，可视为考察近代中国经济史的一个重要突破口。

The silk industry is an important part of the modern silk industry. This book takes the silk industry in modern China as the research object, guides the theories and methods of materialism and history, and uses local chronicles, modern periodicals and related literature to try to restore the historical appearance of the prosperity and decline of the silk industry in modern times. The rise and fall of China's silk industry in modern times is not only a concrete manifestation of the plundering and exploitation of raw materials for China's light industry by foreign capitalist countries, but also a beneficial attempt by modern China to make full use of its own resource advantages under the situation of internal and external troubles, conduct commercial wars with foreign countries, and recover its rights. Therefore, discussing and studying the prosperity, development and decline of the silk industry in modern times can be regarded as an important breakthrough in the investigation of modern China's economic history.（AI翻译）