Structural Coordinates of the History of Civilization (Volume III: The Modern World): A Self-as-an-End Application / 文明史的结构坐标(第三篇:近代):Self-as-an-End框架的文明史应用

Third of four volumes. Covers approximately 1500–1939. Examines how the medieval peak of colonization was broken, how new eruptions of the individual layer were once again covered by new forms of colonization, and how three civilizational lines converged before World War II. Key nodes include the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and its contrast with British gradualism, late Ming individual-layer emergence, the Imjin War as a cross-civilizational node, late Qing external shock, the Meiji Restoration, 19th-century industrial capitalism, the nation-state, and the interwar cultivation windows (collapse-type vs. gradual-type). Originally written in Chinese; the English version is a rewrite, not a translation.

文明史系列第三篇,覆盖约1500年至1939年。追问中世殖民高峰如何被打破、新的个体层浮现如何再次被新形态殖民覆盖、三条文明线如何在二战前收束。关键节点包括宗教改革、启蒙运动、法国大革命与英国渐进路径的对比、晚明个体层浮现、壬辰倭乱作为跨文明节点、晚清外部冲击、明治维新、19世纪工业资本主义、民族国家、以及战间期涵育窗口(崩溃型vs渐进型)。中文为原版,英文版为重写而非翻译。

Keywords: Self-as-an-End, history of civilization, three-layer structure, colonization, cultivation, Reformation, Enlightenment, French Revolution, constitutional monarchy, Meiji Restoration, industrial capitalism, nation-state, totalitarianism, cultivation window, Imjin War

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Resource type: Preprint

Language: Multiple languages (Chinese original + English rewrite)

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• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18898186 (is continuation of) — Volume I: Ancient
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18898226 (is continuation of) — Volume II: Medieval
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18727327 (is supplemented by this upload) — Paper 3
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18842897 (is supplemented by this upload) — Philosophy-of-History Application
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18898263 (is continued by) — Volume IV: Patterns