各类章节体的中国通史课本出生得很晚。在没有这类教本之前,前人大多直接从第一手的史书阅读起,先获得片断的历史知识,久而久之才有比较通贯的长时段历史概念。出生于19、20世纪之交的一代前辈,犹然是先读经、后治史,而治史必从《尚书》、《春秋》、《史记》、《汉书》开始,及至《通鉴》,慢慢延展开来,而后蔚然成大家。时代变了,教育制度变了,这样慢工出细活的方式显然不可能再复旧重来。“速成”的好处不用我说,但缺陷也是明显的。我们得到的史 Chinese history books in all kinds of chapters were born very late. In the absence of such a textbook, most of our predecessors directly from the first-hand history books to read, get a piece of historical knowledge, as time passes there is more general concept of long history. The generation who was born at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is still the first to read the classics and then go through the history. And the history of the rule must begin with the Book of History, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Records of the Historian and the Han Dynasty, Slowly extended, and then became everyone. The times have changed, the education system has changed, and it is obviously impossible for such a slow-working, fine-living approach to come back to life again. The benefits of Crash do not have to be me, but the pitfalls are obvious. The history we have