现代化过程是现代世界的普世现象,它代表了人类对自然环境和社会环境的合理性控制的扩大。换个角度说,它是自工业革命以来现代生产力导致社会生产方式的大变革,从而引起世界经济加速发展和社会适应性变化的大趋势。本书就是一部将中国百年现代化追求的艰难步履,放置于这种世界大趋势中加予考察的史学专著。 The modernization process is a universal phenomenon in the modern world, which represents the expansion of man’s control over the rationality of the natural environment and social environment. To put it another way, it is a major trend that the modern productive forces have led to major changes in social production since the Industrial Revolution, which led to the accelerated development of the world economy and changes in social adaptability. This book is a historiography monograph that examines the treacherous steps pursued by China in its century-old modernization and placed it in the general trend of this world.