Chapter I
Basic Theoretical Questions about World China Studies:
With Regard to Tan Chung’s Question 1
Section I Related Concepts on China Studies and World China Studies 4
Section II Methodology of China Studies 25
Section III Historical Evolution and Theoretical Exploration of Domestic
Research on China Studies Abroad 55
Chapter II
The Inheritance of Chinese Civilization:
With Regard to Toynbee’s Question 93
Section I Differences between Chinese and Western Civilizations 98
Section II Divergence between China and the West in the Evolution of Civilization 121
Section III The Jiangnan Phenomenon in Chinese Civilization 128
Chapter III
The Great Divergence in History:
With Regard to Questions of Pomeranz and Needham 149
Section I Land System and the Rise and Fall of Han and Tang Dynasties 156
Section II Primogeniture and Industrial Revolution 168
Section III Human Migration and Civilization Progress 182
Chapter IV
Kondratiev Wave: With Regard to Kondratiev’s Question 191
Section I Innovations, Revolutions, and the Long Cycles 194
Section II Long Cycles and the World Pattern 226
Section III Long Cycles and China 257
Chapter V
The Road of Socialism: With Regard to Fukuyama’s Question 289
Section I The Evolution of Socialism 292
Section II Leaping over the Caudine Forks 297
Section III Peaceful Evolution into Socialism 315
Section IV The End of History: Socialist Society 328
Chapter VI
Chinese Path to Modernization: With Regard to Ramo’s Question 341
Section I Foreign Scholars’ Studies on the Chinese Path 346
Section II The Historical Choice of the Chinese Path 357
Section III Land, Population and Rejuvenation 385
Section IV Socialism and China’s Modernization Drive 415
Chapter VII
China Studies on the Belt and Road Initiative from a Global
Perspective: With Regard to Richthofen’s Question 431
Section I Chinese Civilization and the Silk Road That Continued for
Thousands of Years 435
Section II Belt and Road Initiative and the World 462
Section III Research and Comment from the International Community on China’s
Belt and Road Initiative 490
Afterword 520
