20世纪三十年代的中国进行了一场社会史论战,它实际上是由亚细亚生产方式引起的。亚细亚生产方式是一个颇具争议的话题,苏联和日本分别对之进行了解读,认定中国历史属于亚细亚形态的社会,这意味着中国将被排除在世界史进程之外。受特定时代背景的影响,中国史学家大多接受的是斯大林有关社会发展模式的论述,认为秦以后中国几千年的历史属于封建社会,它改变了以后中国人书写历史的方式。 In the 1930s, China conducted a polemic of social history, which was actually caused by the Asian mode of production. Asiatic mode of production is a controversial topic. The Soviet Union and Japan respectively interpreted it and concluded that Chinese history belongs to a sub-Asian society, which means that China will be excluded from the process of world history. Influenced by the background of a certain era, most of Chinese historians accepted Stalin’s discourse on the pattern of social development. He believed that since the Qin Dynasty China’s history of thousands of years belonged to the feudal society, it changed the way Chinese later wrote history.