西方社会的迅速崛起,使中国人产生了许多疑问:近代中国为何大大落后于西方?中国封建社会何以长期发展缓慢?中国资本主义萌芽何以萌而不发?现在看来,这些问题都产生于信念和事实的冲突,即“社会总要发展”的信念与“中国没有自发发展起来”的事实的冲突。只要搞清了中国何以未能发展起来,一系列的中国历史之谜就都能够破解了。 The rapid rise of western societies has caused many questions for the Chinese people: Why did modern China greatly lag behind the West? Why has China’s feudal society been slow to develop for a long time? Why did the germination of Chinese capitalism not sprout? It now appears that these problems have arisen from beliefs. The conflict with facts, that is, the conflict between the belief that “society always develops” and the fact that “China does not develop spontaneously”. As long as we understand why China has failed to develop, the mysteries of a series of Chinese history can be solved.