After the end of World War II, the old historiography gradually declined and was completely replaced by modern historiography. The "General History of the World" is a masterpiece of modern historiography, involving politics, economy, military, culture, education, religion, science and other aspects.

During the Republic of China, both Western and Eastern historiography uniformly divided human history into "ancient-medieval-modern", called the "rule of thirds".

However, according to this historical division, China's modern era began with the Opium War in 1840, several hundred years later than the modern history of the West. This is particularly embarrassing, as if the Chinese were uncivilized before 1840.

There is a strong Eurocentrism in the trichotomy.

The General History of the World rejects the existing principle of "trichotomy" and uses 1500 A.D. as the dividing line, describing the isolated world before 1500 and the world that arose in the West after 1500.

Of course, since the original author is an American, the book's narrative of Chinese history is problematic.

For example, the General History of the World does not admit the existence of the Xia Dynasty, and says that there are no dense forests on the Loess Plateau, which are obviously erroneous views. According to geological research, thousands of years ago, the Loess Plateau was densely vegetated and there were a large number of forests.

Most outrageously, the General History of the World holds that the Shang Dynasty were a small group of (ethnographic concept, non-Mongols) who arose in the steppes of the northwest and conquered the local Neolithic tribes by mastering bronze smelting and chariot manufacturing technology in the Middle East, and using the military superiority brought by technology to invade North China.

This is too nonsense, if Zhou Hexuan directly copied the original book without revision, it is estimated that the Chinese people would be sprayed to death when this book was written.

Why did our well-known descendants of Yan and Huang become the descendants of nomadic tribal conquerors in the pen of Western historians?

During his stay in Nanjing, Zhou Hexuan lived in the faculty dormitory of Central University. He first laid out the outline of the "General History of the World", wrote the first few chapters, and gave two academic lectures at Chuo University, when suddenly a Japanese man came to visit.

The person who came was about 50 years old, with a thin body and a horse face, and bowed ninety degrees when he met: "Zhou Jun, the contemptible Kato Shigeru, I have admired the name for a long time!" ”

Duan Xipeng said: "Mr. Zhou, this is Mr. Shigeru Kato, an expert on Chinese economic history in Japan, and he is also the first person in Japan to study Chinese economic history. ”

"Hello Mr. Kato." Zhou Hexuan shook hands with each other with a smile.

Kato Shigeru is still very famous in the field of historiography, and it is impossible that Zhou Hexuan has not heard of it, and there were several Chinese historians during the Republic of China, all of whom were students of this person.

Shigeru Kato specializes in the economy of Chinese dynasties, such as the acre system of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the town economy of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the calculation of the Qin Dynasty, the commercial tax of the Song Dynasty, and the manor economy of the Tang Dynasty. He made great contributions to China's economic history, and the basic historiological method for the study of ancient Chinese economic history was pioneered by Shigeru Kato.

By the way, Shigeru Kato is a loyal supporter of the Japanese emperor, and his loyalty to the emperor has nothing to do with politics and is more like a belief that flows in the blood. But whether it is politics or faith, Kato Shigeru does not make small moves in academic research, unlike another Japanese historian, Naito Hunan, who advocates the co-prosperity of Greater East Asia.

This is a relatively pure scholar.

Duan Xipeng said with a smile: "Mr. Kato is here to inspect China this time, and he is going to visit some small towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and he just arrived in Nanjing yesterday. ”

Shigeru Kato explained, "I'm going to go on a field trip to China's village and town markets, and after the trip to Jiangnan, I'm going to go to Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places. ”

"Mr. Kato's scholarship is really rigorous." Zhou Hexuan praised from the bottom of his heart.

The first research on the economic history of Chinese towns was initiated by the historian Mr. Quan Hansheng, who published "An Investigation of the History of Chinese Temple Markets" in 1934. In the same year, Shigeru Kato published "The Periodic Market of Villages and Towns in the Qing Dynasty", which was also a pioneering research.

Shigeru Kato said: "China has a long history, and the Chinese economic history I have studied is just a drop in the ocean. The more you know about Chinese history, the more you can feel her charm, especially the economic strategies of ancient China, which still have a role to learn from today. ”

Zhou Hexuan was not an Emperor-Han Scholar, he hated Japanese warmongers, but he was not prejudiced against pure Japanese scholars. What's more, this Japanese scholar has also made great contributions to the development of Chinese historical research, and he took the initiative to invite: "When Mr. Kato goes to the north for an investigation, I can help you contact a local university so that you can collect historical materials." ”

"Thank you so much!" Kato said happily.

Duan Xipeng's eyes glanced at the manuscript on the desk, and he couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Zhou, has you started writing that world history textbook?" ”

"Well, more than 10,000 words have been written." Zhou Hexuan nodded.

"It's too fast," Duan Xipeng was extremely surprised and asked, "Can I take a look?" ”

"Of course." Zhou Hexuan said.

Duan Xipeng first looked at the outline, and saw that the main body was two parts - "The World Before 1500" and "The World After 1500". Subdivided into "Human Before Civilization", "Ancient Civilization of Eurasia", "Classical Civilization of Eurasia", "The End of Classical Civilization", "Medieval Civilization of Eurasia", ......

The title that shocked Duan Xipeng the most was "Medieval Civilization in Eurasia". Because according to the current historiography, only Western civilization has the Middle Ages, and China does not have the Middle Ages.

Zhou Hexuan: Is this going to redefine the "historical trichotomy"?

Shigeru Kato also came over to take a look, and when he finished reading the outline list, he was also so shocked that he didn't need to read the content of the text at all.

Just by the titles of those outlines, we know that Zhou Hexuan's "General History of the World" is completely different from the current popular historiographical research methods, and similar to his other works.

However, the complete rejection of the "trichotomy of history" is also too shocking and is likely to attract collective condemnation and criticism from Western historians.

Kato Shigeru sincerely admired: "Mr. Zhou's historical research is really admirable. ”

According to the principle of "tripartite history", Japan's modern history is also very late, and it suffers from discrimination just like China. Zhou Hexuan's "General History of the World" will definitely be recognized by the Japanese historical circles, at least Kato Shigeru very much agrees with this approach.

Duan Xipeng carefully read the 10,000-word text that had been written, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhou, what kind of history textbook are you, you are obviously creating a monograph on world history." ”

No wonder Duan Xipeng was too surprised, "The General History of the World" begins by redefining the nature of world history, and there is a very clear and straightforward sentence in it: world history is not only the sum total of the history of various regions of the world, but if it is divided and divided, its nature will be changed. Just as water, once broken down into its chemical components, ceases to be water, but becomes hydrogen and oxygen.

This sentence expounds a "historical global view", which understands the history of all countries in the world as an inseparable organic unity that influences each other, and this view is also of groundbreaking significance today.

Once this textbook is popularized in Chinese universities, the academic views and academic vision of Chinese history students will definitely far surpass that of Western students.

History is not just for research, and the so-called "reading history makes people wise". As long as you study and read the "General History of the World" carefully, the ideological concept of "globalization" in it can definitely expand the three views of the people of the Republic of China, and even influence the country's development strategy and diplomatic activities.

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