人们常常要问:想看一本中国通史,以哪一本为好?这个问题很难回答。许多年来,我们耗费了过多的时间精力,翻来覆去地编写大中学校的历史教材,然而由于种种原因,佳作似不甚多,读者能够看到的更少。范老的《中国通史简编》惜无全书,这几年续出两册,还缺好几百年的历史。续编究非原书,不管续者如何高明,总不能改变这个事实。而且全书即使告成,也是煌煌十册的大书,普通读者也难通读。根据目前的情况,除作为高校教材的翦老主编的《中国史纲要》外,可供普通读者 People often ask: Is it better to look at a general history of China? This question is difficult to answer. Over the years, we have spent too much time and energy in compiling and rewriting the history textbooks in schools, but for a variety of reasons, there are not many masterpieces that readers can see even less. Fan Lao’s “China General History Compendium” Unfortunately, no book, the last few years to renew two volumes, but also lack of several hundred years of history. Continued to study non-original book, no matter how brilliant continued, always can not change this fact. And even if the book accomplishes, but also Huanghuang ten books, ordinary readers are hard to read. According to the current situation, except for the “Outline of Chinese History” which is the chief editor of the university textbook, it can be used by ordinary readers