World History and World Peace:An Analysis of Chen Hengzhe's View of World History

Chen Hengzhe was a forerunner of world history studies in China.Her monograph,History of The West,was one of the earliest textbooks in the Republic of China era.Her view of world history was based on peace.She thought cultures and cultural communications were important contents and served as the drive force of world history.She believed different countries could choose different ways to develop their politics and societies.Her view of world history gave too much priority to social elites,which was a disadvantage.But her world history studies and other ideas,especially her pursuit of world peace in narrating world history,have exerted a great impact on later developments of world history in China.