The Making of Modern China - A Social History

这个项目的目标是从一个新的、多学科的和全球的视角来写一个关于现代中国从十世纪到现在的历史记录。该项目的结果将以500页的专著和一个附有精选历史资料的配套网站的形式发表。这个项目的前提是，要理解中国历史的主要方面和特征，必须将它们纵向地、历时地置于中国传统和转型的漫长过程中，并将它们横向地、同步地置于全球背景和潮流中。本书的主要重点将放在广义的中国社会的基础、形式和后果上。在本书所述的千年期间，中国社会经历了一系列影响深远的社会、经济、政治和文化变革，其结果是中国社会的实践和结构日益现代化，中国的现代性慢慢出现。通过运用跨学科和比较的方法来理解中国社会的发展，叙事将突出结构变化和不同社会群体应对这些变化的反应。总的来说，这本书试图摆脱对政治史的频繁关注，转而对广泛的社会发展进行同样重要的考虑。每一章还将包括对全球发展的系统参考，并与其他地区进行比较，从而展示中国历史与世界的相互联系。

The goal of this project is to write a historical account of the making of modern China from the tenth century to the present from a new, multidisciplinary and global perspective. The results of the project will be published in form of a 500 page monograph and a companion web-site with selected historical sources. The premise of this project is that the major aspects and characteristics of Chinese history can only be understood by placing them diachronically and vertically within the longue duree of Chinese traditions and transformations as well as synchronically and horizontally within the global contexts and currents. The main emphasis of the account will be on the foundations, forms and consequences of Chinese society, broadly conceived. During the millennium considered in the book, Chinese society went through a series of far-reaching social, economic, political and cultural transformations as a result of which increasingly modern practices and structures took hold in Chinese society and a Chinese modernity slowly emerged. By applying an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to understanding the development of Chinese society, the narrative will highlight structural changes and the responses by various social groups to deal with these changes. In general, the book seeks to move away from the frequent fixation on political history to the equally important consideration of broad societal developments. Each chapter will also include systematic references to global developments and offer comparisons with other regions, thereby demonstrating the interconnectedness of Chinese history with the world.