塞缪尔·亨廷顿是哈佛大学教授、美国政治学会会长,在中国学术界有相当的声名。他的稍稍带有“爆炸”论断的论著与文章,一次次大胆地激怒中国学者与读者。这部《文明的冲突与世界秩序的重建》自然也不例外,其“爆炸”性论断一以贯之。但在这部近34万字的大部头学术论著中,亨廷顿把他的关于“冲突”的思路与“文明”搅在了一起。他认为.目前世界上现存有八大文明,中华文明、日本文明、印度文 Samuel Huntington, a professor at Harvard University and president of the American Political Science Institute, enjoys a considerable reputation in Chinese academia. His treatises and articles with a slightly “explosion” assertion aroused Chinese scholars and readers once and for all. This “clash of civilizations and the reconstruction of the world order” is no exception, and its “explosive” conclusion is consistent. But Huntington confused his idea of ​​“conflict” with “civilization” in a large academic book of nearly 340,000 words. He believes that there are currently eight major civilizations in the world, Chinese civilization, Japanese civilization, Indian