作者倾向于唤回当今世界失落的家庭伦理和教育,在他看来,家世问题不仅是全球化时代的世界问题,而且是更为紧迫的中国问题。关于家族的研究多半是社会学或历史学者的自留地,但由于家族之于我们中国文明的特殊性,对家族的关注几乎是全社会的话题。余世存的《家世》是这一话题的最新收获。它的特殊性在于作者具有学者和作家的双重身份,对家风家世 The author tends to recall the lost family ethics and education in today’s world. In his view, the issue of family history is not only a global issue in the era of globalization, but also a pressing issue for China. Most of the studies on clan are the reservoirs of sociology or historians, but because of the peculiarity of the clan to our Chinese civilization, the concern about the clan is almost the topic of the whole society. Yu’s “family life” is the latest harvest of this topic. Its peculiarity is that the author has dual identities of scholars and writers, and has a great deal of experience in family life