美国对中国历史的研究由来已久,也产生了很多知名的学者、汉学家。一直以来,对于中国历史的研究都过分强调了西方文化对中国的冲击。20世纪60年代末期开始,美国研究中国史的“西方中心观”模式受到挑战,倡导以中国本国为出发点,从中国本身发现自己的近代史,这就是柯文提倡的“中国中心观”。 The United States has been studying the history of China for a long time and has also produced many well-known scholars and sinologists. All along, the study of Chinese history has overemphasized the impact of Western culture on China. Since the late 1960s, the United States has been challenged in its study of the history of China by a model of “Western Centrality,” advocating starting from China as a starting point and discovering its own modern history from China itself. This is what Ko Wen advocated ".