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Sometime last year, I can't remember the exact date. The international cultural publishing company in Beijing approached me through a student working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and said that there was a world history written by an Australian scholar. I hope I can help them translate it so that it can be published in Chinese.
At first, I was hesitant about this matter, because its writing was elegant and its historical date was too simple, so it was not suitable for China students to use as teaching materials. Later, after careful reading and chewing in the process of translation, I found that this book has many advantages, which will not only help the public understand the history of the world, but also have reference value from the perspective of academic research. Although it may not be used as a teaching material, it is a rare reading material for quality education in universities.
First of all, in the past, books on world history imported from China came from either the East or the West, and few books came from South Asia. Western history books are dominated by "Western Europe-centered theory". In recent years, although "global history" has been advocated in order to correct the deviation, it is still difficult to get rid of the influence of "Western European centralism". At first, most of Toyo's world history books were also disseminators of "Western Europe-centered theory". After World War II, Japan's economy rose to become a big country, and some people tried to build a world history centered on Japan, which was inevitably biased. The author of this book, Jeffrey Bryan, is an Australian scholar. We finally have a book to introduce, which is different from the East. ...
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