Middle-Range Theory and the Rise of New Social Historical Perspective
摘要
Xiao (Xiao Ziqiang, journalist of the China Reading Weekly newspaper): In your recent works, there are two new overarching concepts: “new social history” and “middle-range theory”. Judging from the content of the books, these two concepts are closely related. Which of the two was proposed first, and which came later? Is there an evolutionary relationship between them?