Introduction to World China Studies

Wang Zhan is President of the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations and Executive Director of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.Chu Yanhong, PhD in Overseas China Studies from the Department of History, East China Normal University, is an associate researcher at the Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She is the author of a number of books including Shifting Perspectives: American Studies of Chinese Women’s History Since the 1960s.

• Chapter I: Basic Theoretical Questions about World China Studies.- Chapter II: The Inheritance of Chinese Civilization.- Chapter III: The Great Divergence in History.- Chapter IV: Kondratiev Wave.- Chapter V: The Road of Socialism.- Chapter VI: Chinese Path to Modernization.- Chapter VII: China Studies on the Belt and Road Initiative from a Global Perspective.