编者按:和加拿大人贝淡宁一样,美国人白鲁恂早已看出:中国不仅是世界民族大家庭的又一成员,它也是一个伪装成民族国家的文明国家。中国远非一个空洞的概念。威斯特伐利亚体系建立至今不到四百年时间,民族主义远远无法涵盖人类政制文明建构的历 Editor’s Note: Like the Canadian Beidanen, the United States has long seen Bai Ruyi: China is not only another member of the world’s ethnic family, it is also a civilized country disguised as a nation-state. China is far from a hollow concept. Less than four hundred years have passed since the establishment of the Westphalian system. Nationalism is far from covering the history of the constitutional civilization of humanity