已故吴于廑先生在1978年首次提出重新思考中国的世界史研究和世界通史编纂,主张摒弃以“剑桥三史”和前苏联多卷本《世界通史》为代表的欧洲中心主义,而用以世界为一全局的宏观视野来认识历史,并在此基础上编写新的世界通史①。从那时至今,四分之一世纪过去了,其间吴先生关于整 The late Mr. Wu Yu-kan first proposed in 1978 to rethink China’s history of world history and the compilation of the history of the world, advocating to abandon the “Cambridge History” and the former Soviet Union’s multi-volume “World History” as the representative of Eurocentrism, To understand history from the macro perspective of the world as a whole and to write a new general history of the world on the basis of this. A quarter of a century has passed since then, during which time Mr. Wu talked about the whole