全球化过程实际上是世界体系、世界经济体系形成和演变的过程。从历史角度看,全球化过程的起点,不是像“欧洲中心论”传统观点所主张的那样,是从欧洲资本主义兴起并向全球扩展时开始的,而是起源於1400—1800年间亚洲支配世界体系的时期,而在这个时期,中国是整个亚洲体系的核心,因此,是世界体系的核心。直到 1800年,中国一直是推动全球化进程并在全球体系中发挥关键作用的区域力量。到1800年,中国的这种地位最终演变成制约中国发展的包袱,导致 The process of globalization is actually the process of forming and evolving the world system and the world economic system. From a historical point of view, the starting point of the globalization process started not from the rise of European capitalism and its global expansion, as advocated by the traditional view of “Eurocentrism” but from the Asian domination of the world in 1400-1800 System, at a time when China is at the heart of the entire Asian system and therefore at the heart of the world system. Until 1800, China had been a regional force that pushed forward the process of globalization and played a key role in the global system. By 1800, this position of China eventually evolved into a baggage that would restrict China’s development