内容简介
本书核心是要回答一个问题，究竟“何谓中国”。施展在这本书中以问题为导向，超越具体学科的限制，调用地理、历史、哲学、思想、经济、财政、货币、军事、人口、社会、法律、国际政治等各个学科领域的知识，对中国几千年的复杂历史，以及百年来的成败兴衰给出了一个统一的解释框架。
在古代史的阐述当中，施展突破了常见的中原本位视角，也突破了草原本位视角，在中原、草原、西域、高原、海洋等多个亚区域彼此互动、相互依赖、相互塑造的过程中，发现了超越于各个亚区域之上的一个统一的历史进程，从而将中国史定位为一个体系史。
施展用中国的超大规模性这一线索，连贯地解释了中国能够维持一个大一统帝国的原因，中国在近代陷入落后的原因，20世纪伟大的中国革命史也在这个背景下获得了全新的意义，在中国与西方的遭遇过程当中，中国历史的一些内在动能被激活出来，在这个背景下，中国的经济崛起以及其对世界秩序的深刻塑造，也获得了全新模式的深入讨论，作者也在此基础上对未来提出了一系列极富建设性的探讨。
作者简介
施展，北京大学史学博士，上海外国语大学教授。
著有《枢纽：3000年的中国》《溢出：中国制造未来史》《破茧：隔离、信任与未来》，以及《迈斯特政治哲学研究：鲜血、大地与主权》。
在知识平台得到APP开设的3门课程“中国史纲50讲”“国际政治学40讲”及“中国制造报告20讲”，目前累计超过35万人次学习。
Content introduction
The core of this book is to answer the question, "What is China?" In this problem-oriented book, he transcends the limits of specific disciplines, and calls on the knowledge of geography, history, philosophy, thought, economics, finance, money, military, population, society, law, and international politics to provide a unified framework for explaining the complex history of China over thousands of years, as well as the ups and downs of the past century.
In the interpretation of ancient history, it breaks through the common perspective of the central plains and the perspective of the grassland. In the process of interaction, interdependence and mutual shaping of multiple sub-regions such as the central plains, the grasslands, the western regions, the plateau and the ocean, it finds a unified historical process beyond each sub-region, thus positioning Chinese history as a system history.
Using the clue of China's mega-scale, he has coherently explained the reasons why China can maintain a unified empire, the reasons why China fell behind in modern times, and the great Chinese revolutionary history of the 20th century has gained a new meaning in this context, in the process of China's encounter with the West, some internal kinetic energy of Chinese history has been activated, in this context, China's economic rise and its profound shaping of the world order also lead to an in-depth discussion of new models, on which the author offers a series of constructive discussions about the future.
About the author
Xu Xu, PhD in history from Peking University, Professor at Shanghai International Studies University.
He is the author of "Pivot: 3000 Years of China," "Spillover: A History of Making the Future in China," "Breaking the Cocoon: Isolation, Trust, and the Future," and "Meister Studies in Political Philosophy: Blood, Earth, and Sovereignty."
The three courses "50 lectures on Chinese History", "40 lectures on International Politics" and "20 lectures on Made in China Report" offered by the knowledge platform have been studied by more than 350,000 people.
