Many problems concerning the ontology of "western cultural history" have not been well solved in the study of western cultural history both at home and abroad.

China's research on the history of western culture rose with the expansion and spread of western culture in modern China. Since 1990s, it has become an important subject and has achieved fruitful results. Related works can be roughly divided into four categories: comprehensive, specialized, comparative and theoretical.

Contemporary foreign studies on western cultural history are characterized by practicality, pluralism and internationalization. The research content has expanded from simple political culture, military culture and religious culture to economic culture, social culture, comparative culture, psychological development culture and film and television culture. Research perspectives generally include overview research, classification research, stage research, country research, comparative research and theoretical research.

From the perspective of globalization, we can try to analyze and demonstrate the cultural relationship between China and the West from the historical level, the realistic level and the future level, explore the historical evolution process of their respective origins, exchanges, conflicts and integration, and theoretically explore the new changes, new features and new problems of the cultural relationship between China and the West in the era of globalization, as well as the influence and role of these changes in building a new cultural relationship between China and the West.