Looking Back from Deep Space: a Map of the Evolution of Civilization

"Looking Back from Deep Space: A Map of the Evolution of Chinese Civilization" - Re-understanding China from a cosmic perspective. This is a work that breaks through the conventions of decoding civilization. It integrates anthropology, climatology, molecular biology and complex systems science, treats the eight thousand years of Chinese civilization as a continuously evolving life network, and sets up a "civilization telescope" for you to travel through time and space. From Pei Ligan's talisman carving to the layout of the Forbidden City, from the contention of a hundred schools of thought to the fusion of the Silk Road, this book reveals how cultural genes such as "the unity of nature and man" and "the isomorphism of family and country" grow adaptively amidst the impact of external forces and technological changes, showing the amazing resilience of civilization. "Looking Back from Deep Space" brings double insights: breaking away from the linear view of history and seeing clearly the laws of rise and fall; using correlational thinking to connect the hidden causal chains of social production, institutional formation, artistic explosion, and monarch's wisdom. It is not only an intellectual expedition intertwined with humanities and science, but also guides us in today's era of AI shock and global transformation, how to grasp the underlying logic of civilization evolution - to gain insight into the changing situation and look forward to the future. To understand this history of Chinese evolution is to reconstruct our understanding of the world and ourselves.