广西师范大学陈雄章副教授的学术专著《交往与世界历史变迁》(广西人民出版社1999年出版),以42万言的篇幅,展现了作者本人对世界历史研究的学术思考。在书中,作者试图通过对18世纪这一特定时段的研究,来揭示交往与世界历史变迁的关系,正如作者在自序中所言:“本书的特点是:从历 Associate Professor Chen Xiongzhang of Guangxi Normal University academic monograph “Association and World Historical Changes” (Guangxi People’s Publishing House published in 1999), with 420,000 words, shows the author’s own academic thinking on world history. In the book, the author attempts to reveal the relationship between communication and the historical changes in the world through the study of this particular period of the 18th century. As the author put it in his preface, "The book is characterized by: