正当人类迈向新世纪之际，作为哲学社会科学“八五”国家规划重点项目、国家“２１１工程”重点课题最终成果的学术力作《１８世纪的中国与世界》，带着浓郁书香问世了。这部著作包括导言、政治、军事、边疆民族、农民、经济、社会、思想文化以及对外关系诸卷，历时八年，砥励 At a time when mankind is heading for a new century, the academic masterpiece “China and the World in the 18th Century”, a key project of the “5 th Five-Year Plan” of philosophy and social sciences and the ultimate achievement of the state’s “211 Project”, was published with a strong scent of incense. This book includes the introduction, political, military, frontier ethnic groups, peasants, economic, social, ideological and cultural as well as foreign relations volumes, which lasted eight years, encouraging