Immanuel Wallerstein 美国纽约州宾汉顿大学“费尔南德·布罗代尔经济、历史体系和文明研究中心”主任,国际社会学协会主席,杰出教授,世界体系学派的核心人物,1977年起主编《评论》(Review)期刊。专著《现代世界体系》(The Modern World-System),《不确定的知识》,《所知世界的终结:二十一世纪的社会科学》。2000年当选美国社会学会所评选美国二十一世纪最杰出的社会学家。这是他2007年11月3日在上海大学演讲以后会后讨论会的记录稿。
"Few peoples have had to undergo the variety of successive shocks – liberation, depression, expropriation, attrition, demotion – that Russians have endured in the last decade and a half. Even if these, historically considered, are so far only a brief aftermath of the much vaster turbulences of the 20th century, it is no surprise that the masses are ‘profoundly tired and resistant to any public mobilising’. What they will eventually make of the new experiences remains to be seen. For the moment, the people are silent: Pushkin’s closing line applies – ‘narod bezmolvstvuet.’(人文与社会按:即“人民是沉默的”,普希金戏剧《鲍利斯·戈都诺夫Boris Godunov 》末行,穆索斯基据该剧改编成歌剧,1955、1986两次拍成电影。)"