该书源于哲学家冯友兰先生于1947年在美国宾夕凡尼亚大学讲授中国哲学史的英文讲稿，后经整理，于1948年由麦克米伦公司出版。此书出版后，又有法文、意大利文和南斯拉夫文的译本出版，在欧美很有影响。最近，著者的学生涂又光据英文本译为中文，弥补了此书过去没有中文本的遗憾。该书作者冯友兰先生学贯中西，在言必称西学的二三十年代潜心研究中国哲 The book from the philosopher Feng Youlan in 1947 at the University of Pennsylvania taught Chinese history of English speech, after finishing, in 1948 by Macmillan company. After the book was published, French, Italian and Yugoslav translations were published, influencing Europe and the United States. Recently, the author’s student, Tuyou Guang, translates the English into Chinese, making up for the regret that there was no Chinese version of the book in the past. Mr. Feng Youlan, the author of this book, has studied Chinese and Western philosophy with great concentration in the 1920s and 1930s,