本书选取过去一两百年里海外中国学家提出的带有全局性的中国问题，包括解释中国的话语权问题、中华文明传承问题、中西历史大分流问题、康德拉季耶夫长周期律问题、社会主义制度及其未来前景问题、中国现代化道路问题，以及“一带一路”倡议问题，作者将这些中国问题置于人类文明进程和世界格局变化进程中加以考察，逐一提出系统解释，对世界中国学做出了重新定义。

褚艳红，上海社会科学院世界中国学研究所助理研究员，华东师范大学历史系海外中国学专业博士，研究领域为海外中国学、史学理论与史学史、美国中国妇女史研究。曾在《历史教学问题》、《探索与争鸣》、《中国史研究动态》、《海外中国学评论》、《中国社会科学报》、《社会科学报》等刊物发表学术论文、译文多篇。译著包括《中华药商：中国和东南亚的消费文化》(主持翻译，上海辞书出版社，2013年12月)和《山茂召日记》(独译，广西师范大学出版社．2015年6月)。

Chapter I Basic Theoretical Questions about World China Studies With Regard to Tan Chung’s Question
Section I Related Concepts on China Studies and World China Studies
Section II Methodology of China Studies
Section III Historical Evolution and Theoretical Exploration of Domestic Research on China Studies Abroad
Chapter II The Inheritance of Chinese Civilization With Regard to Toynbee’s Question
Section I Differences between Chinese and Western Civilizations
Section II Divergence between China and the West in the Evolution of Civilization
Section III The Jiangnan Phenomenon in Chinese Civilization
Chapter III The Great Divergence in History With Regard to Questions of Pomeranz and Needham
Section I Land System and the Rise and Fall of Han and Tang Dynasties
Section II Primogeniture and Industrial Revolution
Section III Human Migration and Civilization Progress
Chapter IV Kondratiev Wave: With Regard to Kondratiev’s Question
Section I Innovations, Revolutions, and the Long Cycles
Section II Long Cycles and the World Pattern
Section III Long Cycles and China
Chapter V The Road of Socialism: With Regard to Fukuyama’s Question
Section I The Evolution of Socialism
Section II Leaping over the Caudine Forks
Section III Peaceful Evolution into Socialism
Section IV The End of History: Socialist Society
Chapter VI Chinese Path to Modernization: With Regard to Ramo’s Question
Section I Foreign Scholars’ Studies on the Chinese Path
Section II The Historical Choice of the Chinese Path
Section III Land, Population and Rejuvenation
Section IV Socialism and China’s Modernization Drive
Chapter VII China Studies on the Belt and Road Initiative from a Global Perspective: With Regard to Richthofen’s Question
Section I Chinese Civilization and the Silk Road That Continued for Thousands of Years
Section II Belt and Road Initiative and the World
Section III Research and Comment from the International Community on China Belt and Road Initiative
Afterword