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"New World History" is a ground-breaking new general history of the world written by the famous historian Mr. Sun Longji based on his many years of teaching "General History of the World" courses in the United States and integrating the latest academic results of global history research. The existing world general history works in the Chinese-speaking world are either translated and introduced by Western scholars, which cannot avoid the "Western-centric" stereotype; or they are works by local scholars, which lag behind the progress of international world history research in terms of concepts, vision, and materials. Mr. Sun single-handedly reconstructs the general history of the world using the concepts and methods of "global history", aiming to change the backwardness of research in this field in the Chinese-speaking world, provide the Chinese-speaking world with world history books that are more suitable for reading, understanding and dissemination, update the Chinese people's understanding of world history, and enrich the Chinese people's humanistic knowledge structure. "New World History" is a general history of the world written by Chinese scholars specifically for Chinese-speaking readers. It integrates scattered world history knowledge into a complete picture of world history. It is an important reading for today's readers to re-understand the world. Volume 2 focuses on the development and changes of several major civilization areas in the Middle Ages: the Qin and Han Empires, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, the Islamic countries created by the Arabs, the Slavic world, and the unique development context of India. It sorted out a variety of civilization models for us and put forward the "correct "It was the Silk Road that made Han and Rome call each other 'Great Qin'" and "the Huns were the morticians of the ancient world" and many other original ideas, which fundamentally correct the false impression that "the Germanic people's attack on Rome was the watershed between ancient times and medieval times", subvert the traditional interpretation of Indian history, and have subversive significance.

In this book, Mr. Sun Longji uses his own unique way to re-elaborate on topics such as the Revolution of 1911, the May 4th Movement, the Lu Xun issue, and nationalism that are the core of China's modern political and ideological history. He also sorts out and criticizes the "textual network" of historians' writing of modern history, and creatively proposes the analytical approach of "end-of-century trends of thought", which expands the horizons of the entire modern history study. The articles in the book embody two major characteristics of Mr. Sun Longji's academic writing: First, he is good at using the history and ideological trends in other parts of the world as the background and reference for discussing China's history, and highlighting the essence and characteristics of historical events and figures in comparison.

"New World History" is a ground-breaking new general history of the world written by the famous historian Mr. Sun Longji based on his many years of teaching "General History of the World" courses in the United States and integrating the latest academic results of global history research. The existing world general history books in the Chinese-speaking world are either translated and introduced by Western scholars, which cannot avoid the "Western-centered" stereotype; or they are works by local scholars, and their concepts, perspectives, and materials lag behind the latest progress in international world history research. Mr. Sun single-handedly reconstructs the general history of the world using the concepts and methods of "global history", aiming to change the backwardness of research in this field in the Chinese-speaking world, provide the Chinese-speaking world with world history books that are more suitable for reading, understanding and dissemination, update the Chinese people's understanding of world history, and enrich the Chinese people's humanistic knowledge structure.