一世界社会科学的发展现状的挑战近三四十年以来西方人文社会科学的发展出现了一些重要的趋势。其中一个突出的表现就是西方国家的社会科学研究,已经进入“去西方中心”的新阶段。这种“去西方中心”的倾向,实际上是世界体系格局的重心持续东移的历史进程在西方思想学术领域的反映。近代以来西方国家在通过暴力建立起世界霸权的同时,也创造了资本主义生产方式,其文明发展在吸收了世界许多种文明的基础上,到18世纪形成,而 I. Challenges to the Status Quo of World Social Sciences Some important trends have emerged in the development of humanities and social sciences in the West in the recent three or four decades. One of the outstanding performances is the social science research in western countries, which has entered a new phase of “going to the western center.” The tendency toward this “center of the West” is actually a reflection of the historical process of sustained and eastward shift of the center of gravity of the world system in the academic field of Western thought. Since the modern times, Western countries established the world hegemony through violence, and at the same time, they created a capitalist mode of production. The development of civilization took shape in the 18th century on the basis of absorbing many civilizations of the world.