History of Social Life in Modern China (1840-1949)

The book accounts for the changing track for the public daily life, social life, customs, cultural entertainments and others along with the modernization of Chinese society from the late Ming dynasty, the late Qing dynasty till 1949,which not only investigates the overall changing track of social life in a century of modern times, it also focuses on the prominent phenomenon in social life of various historical times, and inserts the cultural analysis by combining narration and comments to reveal the social and cultural significance of modern social life changes in the transformation of modern Chinese society.