Now what is extraordinary about this is, what gives China its sense of being China, what gives the Chinese the sense of what it is to be Chinese, comes not from the last hundred years, not from the nation-state period, which is what happened in the West, but from the period, if you like, of the civilization-state.
这点非同寻常的 是，它赋予了中国做为中国的意义， 也赋予了中国人 成为他们中国人的意义， 这不是从过去几百年， 也不是从民族国家开始形成这种认识， 这跟西方发展也不一样， 而这一阶段，如果你喜欢， 可以说是文明国家的阶段。