近日拜读了武汉大学历史系教授夏诚先生的新著《近代世界整体观》一书,颇见新意,深受启发。夏诚教授在该书中以其新颖独到的见解和对世界近代史精辟的宏观分析向我国世界史学界提出了挑战。《近代世界整体观》(以下简称《整体观》)是我国世界近代史研究的一个可喜成果,显示出我国近代史研究已开始突破传统的框架,走向世界。建国以来,我国世界近代史的研究和教学虽然取得了一定的成绩,但也走了许多弯路。50年代我们开始受苏联《世界通史》体系的影响;60年代中 Recently read the history of Wuhan University Professor Xia Cheng new book “modern world holistic view,” a book quite new and inspired. In his book, Professor Xia Cheng presented his challenge to the world history scholars in our country with his novel and unique insights and his insightful analysis of the modern history of the world. The “holistic view of the modern world” (hereinafter referred to as the “holistic view”) is a gratifying achievement in the study of world modern history in our country, which shows that the study of modern history in our country has begun to break through the traditional framework and move toward the world. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, although the research and teaching of the modern world history in our country have made some achievements, they have also taken many detours. In the 1950s, we began to be influenced by the system of the “Universal History of the World” in the Soviet Union; in the mid-1960s