Three Thousand Years of Great Civilizational Change

World civilization is undergoing a change! From the perspective of global history, Jonas Hsu outlines the roadmap of the development of Eastern and Western civilizations over the past three millennia and their respective similarities and differences in two main lines: they have developed in parallel for a long time, and there are also peaks and valleys and turning points in their respective development; finally, China has formed a unified state, and Europe has moved towards the juxtaposition of powers until the formation of modern nation-states. The formation of modern nation-states. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, China has been in decline, while the Europeans discovered the New World and started a modern civilization based on the Industrial Revolution. Since then, the modern civilization formed in the Western world has led the direction of world civilization. This book analyzes the causes of the success and failure of both in terms of geography, social system, and ideology and culture, and indicates the opportunities and challenges that Chinese civilization may face in its revival.