Professor Yang Guozhen realizes the trend and prospect of the development of marine civilization，and shifts the focus of concerning about the national events to ocean duly. “Chinese marine civilization monographic studies” edited by him specially states the sea chart，harbour，sea commerce，pirate，sea trade，sea administration and marine social culture. The book comprehensively shows the abundant contents of Chinese marine social and economic history especially the marine society in Ming and Qing dynasties. Every monograph either puts forward informed opinions，or put forward new ideas，or provides new material，and gain new cognition with the interpretation of new material，to have largely promoted the research of Chinese marine civilization and marine social history. This paper thinks that the monographic studies have very important academic value and practical reference value in nowadays when “One Belt One Road” especially the history of the Maritime Silk Road is researched and largely implemented.