18th Century China and the World (Social Volume)

Author: Qin Baoqi
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Publish Date: 1999-06-01
Features: This volume discusses 18th-century China and the world from the perspective of social history. First, in the preface, it should be clarified where social history research stands in historical research, as well as its purpose and objects. Historical research can be divided into three levels: The first level is comprehensive historical research; the second level is comprehensive social history research and cultural history research; the third level is specialized political history research, economic history research, ethnic history research, military history research, and academic history research. Macro-level historical research takes the overall historical phenomena, historical experiences, historical processes, and development laws as its objects. Therefore, it is a comprehensive summary and generalization of the two lower levels of disciplines from a holistic perspective. Social history research and cultural history research take the historical phenomena, historical experiences, historical processes, and development laws of a certain aspect as their objects. This aspect involves various specialized disciplines, so it can also be said that they stand from a specific angle, conducting comprehensive summaries and generalizations of the disciplines of the lower level. Political history, economic history, ethnic history, military history, and academic history, on the other hand, are more specialized disciplines with relatively simpler research objects.