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Introduction -- The Rise of the Ideological Trend of Updating the Legal System and Laws before and after the Opium War -- The Input of the Western Legal Culture and the Updating of Chinese Settled Legal Ideas (1840-1870s) -- "Chinese-style Westernization ": the Legal System during the Period of the Westernization Movement -- The Sprouting of the Constitutional Thoughts and the Constitutional Reform and Modernization (the second half of the 1800s - the late 1800s) -- The preparation for Constitutionalism in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Constitution -- The Emergence of the Contemporary Chinese Legal Civilization: the Modification of the Law during the Late Qing Dynasty -- A New Chapter in Chinese Criminal Law Civilization-- Criminal Law of the Great Qing Dynasty -- The Draft Civil Law of the Great Qing Dynasty Integrating with the Western Civil Law -- The Commercial Legislation Changing from restraining Business to Protecting Business -- The Reforms Ushering in the Judicial Civilization -- The National Program of Building a Democratic Republic and the New Epoch of Chinese Legal Civilization -- The Development and Devastation of Modern Chinese Legal Civilization during the Beijing Government Period (1912-1928) -- The Book of the Six Laws of Nanjing national government (1928-1949) -- Facilitating Chinese Legal Civilization during the New Democracy Period: building the Legal System of the Base Areas -- Contemporary Chinese Civilization (1949 - present) -- Introduction -- The Groundwork for the New Chinese Legal Civilization -- Constructing the Socialist Legal Civilization with Chinese Characteristics (1st) -- Constructing the Socialist Legal Civilization with Chinese Characteristics (2nd) -- The Historical Experience in Building the Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics.

Part I. Introduction to civilization -- The nature of civilization -- How civilizations perish -- The second great crisis of civilization in history -- The global civilization development and its repercussions -- Part II. Civilization in crisis -- The death triangle of civilization in the 21st century -- Capitalism and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Superconsumerism in the 21st century -- Technology and the limits of civilization in the 21st century -- Climate and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Culture and the 21st century limits of civilization -- Part III. End of civilization? -- The power of crisis relations and the limits of civilization in the 21st century -- Can civilization last? -- Where are we heading?

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the question: What does the New World Order (NWO) mean in the 21st century? After the Polish Revolution in 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991, many people expected better times than those during the Cold War between the West and East. Since Communism lost to Capitalism, can the latter promote freedom and happiness for all of us everywhere? However, this dream did not happen, vice versa we face now so called liquid times, times of instability and chaos. Therefore, this book is written for those who would like to know

Essays bearing on the contemporary scene and on the relation of the individual to society, including papers written during the 1920s and 1930s focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and two major works of Jung's last years, The Undiscovered Self and Flying Saucers

Additional Prefaces from Theodore Jay Gordon, Hazel Henderson, Randeep Sudan, and new original material in each chapter. Considers impact of Covid-19 and influence beyond health and hygiene, impact on economic, social and geopolitical affairs, and the need to change established behaviour patterns including lifestyle, working practices and diet.

Uniquely, critically interrogates the concept of 'civilization' by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century. Includes case studies on the Arab world, Islam, China and Japan.

Introduction: Assembling the civilizational jigsaw / by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-Stutte -- Challenges to the West : civilizational theory, imperialism, and liberal internationalism / by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte -- An historian's approach to civilization : Arnold J. Toynbee and the study of international affairs in the twentieth century / by Luca G. Castellin -- Governable masses and manageable democracy : Samuel Huntington and the origins of the clash of civilizations theory / by Giovanni Borgognone -- The 'Western' roots of democracy : a geopolitical dilemma / by Paulo Butti de Lima -- Islamism and pan-Arabism : debating possible convergences in responses to modernity / by Marco Di Donato -- From pan-Asianism to an Afro-Asian solidarity : notions and connotations of civilization in the context of Chinese Revolution, 1900-1966 / by Zhiguang Yin -- Civilizationism in Russia from the Slavophiles to Vladimir Putin / by Kåre Johan Mjør -- Conclusion: A challenge for the global society? / by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-Stutte.

I. Civilization and modernization: As we understand them. 1. Human civilization and world modernization / Chuanqi He -- 2. The civilizational approach to modernization in contemporary China / Nelly Motroshilova -- 3. Cultural dynamics in the post-Soviet countries: Problems of modernization and preservation of civilizational specificity (example of Russia) / N.E. Tikhonova, S.V. Goryacheva -- 4. Modernization and globalization / N.N. Fedotova -- 5. Modernization in Russia: Ideology and composition of the project / Alexander Rubtsov -- 6. The evolution of the concept of modernization, its specificities in various country groups throughout the world / Valentina Fedotova -- 7. Principles and methods of modernization science / Chuanqi He -- 8. Modernization indices developed by China Centre for Modernization Research, in a global family of development indicators: Publishers' point of view / Oleg Zimarin -- 9. Science & technology and modernization / Jing Jin -- 10. Modernization in the context of the development of the science and technology / Vitaly G. Gorokhov -- 11. A bibliometric analysis of modernization studies (1900-2010) / Qing Ye, Nan Ouyang, Shuyao Wu -- 12. Russia and China in DBs web of knowledge: Bibliometric analysis of publications on modernization / Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich -- II. Global and regional modernization. 13. Regional modernization in the world / Chuanqi He -- 14. Stages, levels and phases of modernization in the Russian regions. Modernization types and clusters / N.I. Lapin -- 15. China's contribution to measurement of modernization / Tamara Orlova -- 16. Social and cultural measurements of regional modernization / Liudmila Belyaeva -- 17. On measurement of modernization stages (by the example of the Tyumen region) / A.N. Tarasova -- 18. Resources and constraints of modernization in the regions of north-western federal district / Aleksandra Shabunova and Marija Lastochkina -- 19. The summation of development of the region in the context involvement in modernization processes / Evgenija Kogay -- 20. Norms and conditions of labor in Russian and Chinese Societies: The case of S. Petersburg and Shanghai / Michail Chernysh -- 21. World modernization outline: 1700-2100 / Chuanqi He -- III. Summing up the conference and the program. 22. Memorandum of the participants of the Russian-Chinese scientific conference "Civilization and Modernization" 23. Protocol of cooperation between the Centre for Study of Social and Cultural Change, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences and the Centre for Modernization Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences -- 24. Programme of the Chinese-Russian Conference "Civilization and Modernization".