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With the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China's social development opened a new page, and the study of Chinese world history also entered a new stage of development. This is mainly reflected in the fact that Marxist historical materialism has been widely disseminated and has become the guiding ideology and theoretical basis for world history research; through the construction of disciplines, historical materials and historical theory and methodology of Chinese world history, the transformation of Chinese world history research from translation to research has been completed. Reform and opening up is one of the powerful driving forces for the rapid development of world history research. The late 1970s and early 1980s were the period when my country's professional institutions studying world history flourished and the number of world history teaching and research personnel increased the fastest and most. It was also an important period for Chinese scholars to explore the system of the world history discipline from a new perspective and debate on some important issues. The rapid development of exchanges with foreign academic circles has created favorable conditions for China's world history research work. At present, the research on world history in our country is developing vigorously. With the healthy growth of new generations, high-level academic achievements are constantly coming out. The research on world history in our country is showing an unprecedented good situation.

This book systematically combs the development process of world history research and compilation by Chinese scholars. From the perspective of combining historical theory and historical education, it explores the theoretical achievements and academic characteristics of Chinese scholars in the field of world history research. It is not only an exploratory work that deeply reflects on the development of the world history discipline and lessons learned, but also an innovative work that analyzes various trends of thought in the field of world history research and looks forward to the future development direction of China's world history. This book uses a broad vision and a big-picture perspective to grasp the important context, pick out the gold from the sand, and reproduce the magnificent moments in human history. World history is an important sub-discipline of history. Its content is a systematic discussion and elaboration of the process of human history from primitive, isolated and dispersed groups of people to the world as a closely connected whole.

The study of world history in New China has gone through seventy years, and has made remarkable achievements in discipline construction, system creation, teaching and research, and talent cultivation. Guided by Marx's historical materialism and dialectics, this book makes a concise summary of my country's world history research over the past seventy years into three stages - the founding of New China, the period of the "Cultural Revolution" and the new period of reform and opening up. It summarizes the fields, key points and issues involved in each stage, compares the progress of domestic predecessors and foreign academic research, points out the achievements and existing gaps in world history research at each stage, explores the subjective and objective reasons, and proposes the direction of future efforts. Then, each branch of world history is reviewed one by one, including research theories and methods, world history, chronological history, regional history, national history, historical figures, historical events, the depth and characteristics of thematic history research, as well as discipline construction, talent training, and the collation, introduction and translation of domestic and foreign literature and materials. The manuscript has correct views and solid information, filling the gaps in the field of domestic world history research.