Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. You will also be exposed to primary source documents – actual historical documents that are the foundation for the historical analysis you read in the chapter. These documents include letters, poems, and songs through history-documents that actually enliven the past. Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading including outlines, chronologies, numerous maps and key terms with definitions.

"现代性"问题必然会对正在思考中国现代化之路的中国知识分子造成极大的困惑，因为它意味着：现代化的进程并不只是一套正面价值的胜利实现，而且同时还伴随着巨大的负面价值。 自由、民主、法制这些基本的正面价值实际上都只是在商品化社会中才能顺利地建立起来的，但是商品化社会由于瓦解了文化传统而必然造成"神圣感的消失"，尤其商品化社会几乎无可避免的"商品拜物教"和"物化"现象以及"大众文化"的泛滥，更使知识分子强烈地感到在现代社会中精神生活的沉沦、价值基础的崩溃。人类在现代社会中所面临的最根本二难困境正在于此。
目 录
八十年代的现代性批判与九十年代转型
八十年代中国文化讨论五题
古今中西之争
从“理性的批判”到“文化的批判”
《中国当代文化意识》前言
儒学与现代

Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the latter prioritizes the self to be perfected morally and socially. Tracing the cultural origins of the two large intellectual traditions, Li details how each model manifests itself in the psychology of the learning process, learning affect, regard of one's learning peers, expression of what one knows and parents' guiding efforts. Despite today's accelerated cultural exchange, these learning models do not diminish but endure.

本书通过比较东西方两个相似历史时段，即秦国统一前的春秋战国时期和拿破仑征服欧洲失败前的时期，提出了一个关于世界政治的动态理论，分别利用古代中国和近代早期欧洲的历史检验了动态理论，集中关注了该理论对国家形成的意义，强调了国际关系学与比较政治学的不可分割，并从动态理论的角度对世界政治转型进行了思考。
译者序
中文版前言
致谢
第一章 世界政治的动态理论
第二章 春秋战国时期的国际政治动力学
第三章 反思近代早期欧洲的国际政治动力学
第四章 国家形成和转型的动力学
第五章 结论与意义
附录一 近代早期欧洲（1495-1915年）有大国卷入的战争一览表
附录二 春秋战国时期（公元前656-前221年）有大国卷入的战争一览表
附录三 有大国卷入的战争一览表的操作标准
附录四 中国历史年表
参考文献

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外国商人，晚清时称之为洋商。洋商在上海的贸易活动，远可追溯至唐天宝十年（公元751年），即使从清道光二十三年（1843年）上海开埠算起，他们在上海的贸易活动也长达160余年；其历史可谓源远流长。但由于解放后几十年我国对外经济贸易没有提到应有的地位，导致对洋商研究很冷落，不但研究者寥寥，研究成果也不多。
20世纪90年代，随着国家对外开放的不断发展和加入世贸组织，对外经济贸易在国民经济中的地位越来越重要。因之在经济、金融、贸易领域，与外商来往频繁，开始引起了研究者的关注，并把对洋商的研究提升为重要课题。
“以史为鉴，可以知得失。”系统、深入地研究上海开埠以来的涉外经济史，可以为推进上海对外开放，进一步发展上海的外向型经济，起到很好的借鉴作用。为此我们从2002年开始编写本书，历时六年，于2007年定稿付梓。全书约100万字，分9篇37章141节（另附录3篇），插图150幅，附表142份，较完整地勾画了上海洋商百年的发展轨迹。
《洋商史》系在我主持编写的《上海对外经济贸易志》过程中，积累3000余万字的资料，2100幅历史图照的基础上，又从外贸系统搜集了大量的中外文洋商史料，本书的编撰工作可谓集众人之智慧。《洋商史》所描述的从上海洋商企业的起源到上海解放后洋商企业的逐渐消失；从上海洋商开设进出口贸易洋行起始，发展到创办涵盖各行各业的工业、商业、航运业、公共事业、文化事业；其时间跨度之长，洋商企业行业之齐全，内容之系统、全面，资料之翔实，图片之稀有，可以说是弥足珍贵。上海是近代中国的窗口，在与洋商的交往中，是中国的缩影，从这个意义上讲，本书是中国第一部完整的洋商史。它的问世，我想对中国对外贸易史、中国近代史，以及外交史的研究，都是有所裨益的。

本書論述中國造紙術、火藥術的發明、科學代表作《本草綱目》及《天工開物》在全世界的傳播和影響；討論西方科學知識、技術術語和科學著作在中國的傳播和影響；又介紹中西互相翻譯對方科學著作的具體情況；中、日兩國之間的科學交流,亦有專章論述。