本书是“中国人：承先启后”这门课程的学习指南。

This book is a study guide created for a course entitled "the Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future."

接下来，我应该做中间试验，它是承先启后至关重要的一个环节。

Next intermediate tests should be conducted. This serves as an important link between the past and the future.

学术需要批判。学术批判是一种极其严肃的事业、一种建设性的事业与一种承先启后的事业。

Science needs critique: academic critique is a kind of extremely serious undertaking, a kind of undertaking both destructive and constructive, and a kind of undertaking linking past and future.

林则徐、魏源等救亡先驱的开眼向洋之举开启了投石问路、承先启后、探索启蒙的民族自救运动的先河。

The out -looking moves for salvation by such forerunners as Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan opened a new page in exploring and continuing the national salvation movement.