Abstract：

Since the 20th century,Chinese and foreign historians have concerned about the periodization of world history. The representative phasing schemes in foreign academic circles include four stages. The first is the“ancient-medieval-modern”syllogism staging,which embodies“modernity”. The second is the“world system”and“global history”,which mainly takes communication and connection as the logical link. The third is Perry Andersons“transitional period”staging,which represents the western Marxist thought. The fourth is the post-modernism stage,which mainly reflects the fragmentation in history. The domestic representative staging schemes include three stages. The first is staging world history with the evolution of“social formation”as the main line under the influence of the historiography of Soviet world history. The second is Wu Yujin-Qi Shirongs practice in compiling world history,taking connections as its main logic. The third is the stages of modernization-civilization history. The above staging shows consensuses in world history periodization at home and abroad. However,this paper argues that historians still need to further explore whether there are universal laws in world history staging in order to solve the problems in world history periodization.

Published on Social Science Front, Issue 7, 2021.