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