自从魏源提出“师夷长技以制夷”以来,中西文化的论争就一直持续不断。体用之争,全盘西化与中国本位文化之争,彻底否定传统与重新振兴儒学之争等等,一百多年来,在不同的历史条件下和不同水平上,周而复始地进行着。在今天,如何正确处理中西古今的文化关系,仍是我们必须要面对的问题。在《毛泽东选集》第一至四卷第二版发行之际,我带着这一问题,学习了《毛选》中的有关著作,认为其中关于中西文化观的思想,仍然是我们今天在实践基础上发展马克思主义和建设我们民族的精神文明的指导思想。 Since Wei Yuan put forward the idea of ​​“developing the barbarians' skills in order to control the barbarians,” the controversy between Chinese and Western cultures has continued. The struggle over the body, the dispute over the entire Westernization and the Chinese culture, the total denial of the tradition and the revival of the Confucianism, etc. have been carried out continuously and continuously under different historical conditions and at different levels for more than a hundred years. Today, how to deal with the cultural relations between ancient and modern China and the West still remains a problem that we must face. During the publication of the second edition of the first to the forth volumes of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, I took this issue and studied the relevant works in Selected Works of Maoist Mao Zedong, thinking that the ideas on the Chinese and Western cultural views are still the ones we are practicing today Based on the development of Marxism and the spiritual civilization of our nation's guiding ideology.