《生活系统》奠定周谷城文化观的基础,大革命失败后的中国社会研究使周谷城意识到产业革命对于中国现代化的重要性,周著《中国通史》的“中外文化汇合演进”说是其后“文化综合说”的源头和雏形,周著《世界通史》的编撰使周谷城意识到了欧洲中心论问题。1978年后,周谷城在上述文化思想的基础上提出了精辟独到的“文化综合说”。 The “Living System” laid the foundation for Zhou Gucheng’s cultural outlook. After the failure of the Great Revolution, Chinese social studies made Zhou Gucheng aware of the importance of the industrial revolution to China’s modernization. He said later that the “history of China’s history” had “the convergence of Chinese and foreign cultures” The origin and prototype of the “Cultural Theory of Integration” and Zhou’s compilation of the “General History of the World” made Zhou Gucheng aware of the Eurocentric theory. After 1978, Zhou Gucheng put forward brilliant and unique “cultural theory” on the basis of the above cultural thoughts.