本辑发表了一组关于《世界文明史》的讨论文章。《世界文明史》是国家教委“高等教育面向21世纪教学内容和课程体系改革计划”的重点项目,由北京大学历史学系承担编写。世界史专业全体教师为此举行了四次学术讨论会和多次编写细纲的讨论会。本辑除将一部分教师在讨论中发表的论点作扼要介绍外,限于篇幅只能发表三位教师有代表性发 This series published a series of articles on the “World History of Civilization.” The “History of World Civilizations” is a key project of the State Board of Education and the “Higher Education Program for the Reform of Teaching Content and Curriculum System in the 21st Century”, which was undertaken by the Department of History of Peking University. All the world history professional teachers held four academic seminars and several seminars on the preparation of the outline. In addition to the series will be part of the teachers in the discussion published a brief summary of the arguments, limited to the length of the three teachers can only publish a representative hair