本书以杂文、散文为形式、以哲理、历史思考为底缊、以现实文化为对象，深入剖析西方文明实质和本性，及其与东方文明相遇时产生的摩擦和冲突。全书从分析西方文明着手，一方面将西方文明一一解剖给中国读者看，使读者能够细细地深入观察，并通过本书进一步了解和理解西方文明；另一方面则反思我们自己两百年来是如何在西方文明的刻意误导下逐渐失去自我意识的。(The book, in the form of essay and prose, based on philosophical and historical thinking and with cultural reality as object, deeply explores the substance and nature of Western civilization, and the friction and conflicts generated when encountering with Eastern civilization. The book begins with the analysis of Western civilization, on one hand, dissecting Western civilization to Chinese readers, so that they can make in-depth observation and further understanding of Western civilization through the book; on the other hand, reflecting that how we gradually lose self-consciousness over two hundred years by the deliberate misleading of Western civilization.)