Abstract: Mankind at present is in a turning period of many sides: the cold war just ended, 20 century is going to its end and the era of globalization is coming. The ending 20 century is a century full of wars, natural disasters, revolutions and reactive movements ,as well as a century with the overall spreading of global modernization, with the great breakthrough for capitalism, socialism and the modernizationin Asia, Africa and Latin America. China has finally waken up in 20 century and has made a drastic historic transformation with a triple jump through the revolution of 1911, socialism and the reform and openness to get into the main trend of global modernization. The relation between China and the world will be the subject of 21 century.
Key words: the Turn of Centuries; the Cold War; 20 century; modernization; globalization; China