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This preface was written specifically for English-language readers. Five years have passed since the completion of the original Chinese edition in 2017. These five years have been eventful in terms of global developments: COVID-19, tensions between China and the US, the economic crisis, the conflict in Ukraine... all of which make the themes of this book more relevant. And since the original book was written with Chinese-language readers in mind, I thought it necessary to write a new preface for the benefit of English-language readers. This book is about China’s path to modernization as well as development theory. I describe how an impoverished agrarian nation became a modernized state. What were the major choices that China made along the way? What is unique about China’s path to modernization? What are the universal laws of modernization that China discovered? In what ways does China’s success challenge the theories of main- stream social sciences (including political economy, development economics, polit- ical science, international relations, and civilizational studies)? How will China’s success contribute to these fields? What does a Chinese-style path to moderniza- tion mean for the 21st-century world? How should today’s world view Marxism and socialism? These are some of our key questions. In this preface, I want to talk about why I wrote this book and what readers can gain from the English editio