Abstract: In this paper, the author attempts to review the Chinese contribution to the study of fields and waves, with some special reference to microwaves and optics of the electromagnetic spectrum. Like Maxwell, who accomplished at one blow the theoretical prediction of the existence of electromagetic waves and the identification of light and electromagnetic waves, Hertz discovered experimentally electromagnetic waves and simultaneously, the identity of electromagnetic waves and light. The Chinese are known to have observed the phenomena associated with magnetism, electricity and light, and found their applications, since remote antiquity. Interestingly enough, a long history of two thousand years had elapsed before man began to understand electromagnetism and optics as a unified science at the time of Faraday-Maxwell-Hertz. Some aspects of the Chinese study of fields and waves during recent decades, which are related to the impact of Heinrich Hertz' discovery, are sketched in this paper according to the above theme.