20余年来断代史与专史积累的微观研究成果, 亟需全局性的整合, 用以更新和发展有关中国历史的通感。有了这种“总体史”作依托, 明清史的认识眼光就有可能立足于比较高远的基础, 避免高低不同的无谓反复。从有关“反欧洲中心主义”中国观、认识明清历史视角的变化以及明清经济的发展与不发展等方面, 提出若干研讨性的疑难问题, 以期深化对明清历史再认识的讨论。

It is requisite to have an overall integration of microcosmic achievements accumulated through twenty-year studies on China's periodic history and particular history so as to renew and develop a general sense of the history of China.Having depended on such a "general history", the vision of the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties is likely to become wider and far-reaching, thus avoiding relapses of no value as to higher or lower evaluations of such a periodic history.However, there are several problems concerning the "anti-Eurocentric"view of China, the change of historical perspectives as to recognition of t he Ming-Qing history, and the development of the Ming-Qing economy or not.