Today, human civilization has reached an unprecedented crossroads. On the one hand, human society is faced with a mountain of global governance issues, and huge risks and challenges threaten the survival of human civilization at all times; on the other hand, today's world system is a nation-state system led by the first-mover industrial countries. Once the first-mover countries feel that the costs they pay for global governance are higher than their benefits, they will choose to reverse globalization and return to their own comfort zones, leaving latecomer countries to drift in the wind and rain. This huge dilemma is "the biggest dilemma of human civilization in the 21st century." American sinologist Bai Luxun once pointed out: China is a civilization disguised as a nation-state. After 5,000 years of civilization, why is the Chinese civilization still young and full of vitality? As an enduring civilization, what valuable experience has the Chinese civilization accumulated in dealing with all major crises and challenges in human society? What unique solutions will Chinese-style modernization, which embodies the rich heritage of Chinese civilization, provide to the common problems of the human world in the 21st century? This book is divided into two parts. The first part is based on the internal logic of the rise and fall of civilizations, and takes agricultural civilization, industrial civilization, and information civilization as the main lines. It analyzes the deductive logic of Chinese civilization over the past 5,000 years. At the same time, it uses world history as the latitude and a global perspective to conduct an in-depth perspective on the historical performance of the world's major civilizations over the past 5,000 years, objectively analyze the core of the world's original civilizations, and reveal the laws and development trends of the rise and fall of civilizations. The following part analyzes the inherent dilemma in the era of globalization. Under the premise that the colonial hegemonic civilization is increasingly declining and internal friction, Chinese civilization, as a world-class civilization that has never been cut off, will surely become the leader in the process of human civilization in the 21st century with its unique civilizational outlook and conscious responsibility for the future and destiny of mankind. Chinese-style modernization has created a new form of human civilization and will surely solve the biggest dilemma of human civilization in the 21st century.
