全系列现有中、英、日、法、德、西、韩七种语言版本。前四篇完成三条文明线及模式综论，第五篇以美国制度史检验并修正这些模式；五种新增语言均按各自读者的历史经验独立重写。

The series is available in seven languages. Four core volumes map three civilizational lines and their patterns; a fifth tests and revises those patterns through American institutional history. Each new edition is independently rewritten.

与哲学史篇构成对称。哲学史篇扫描个体层——每个哲学家在凿构循环中做了什么。本系列扫描制度层和关系层——文明的制度（国家、法律、宗教、经济体系）和关系（阶层、族群、师承）如何殖民或涵育个体层。

A structural counterpart to the Philosophy-of-History series. Where that series scanned the individual layer — what each philosopher did within the chisel-construct cycle — this series scans the institutional and relational layers themselves: how civilizations' institutions and relationships colonize or cultivate the individual layer.

三条主线：西方、中国、日本。按时代节点交叉分析，终点是二战前的张力收束。坐标定位，不是文明排名。

Three main lines — Western, Chinese, Japanese — analyzed in cross-civilizational comparison at each temporal node. The series concludes at the convergence of tensions before World War II. Coordinate positioning, not civilization rankings.