Late Qing and Early Republican Bourgeoisie and Social Changes

Author: Yang Liqiang
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: The great social changes during the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in China, especially the rise of the early bourgeoisie and the new intellectual groups, have always been a focus of research in Chinese historiography. This book is a collection of essays by Professor Yang Liqiang of the History Department at Fudan University on this subject. Professor Yang Liqiang is a renowned scholar in the study of modern Chinese history and has made outstanding achievements in the field of the modern Chinese bourgeoisie, earning recognition from both domestic and international academic circles. This book utilizes materials such as newspapers, archives, local gazettes, and collected works that have rarely or not been used by previous scholars, introducing sociological and quantitative historical methods. The analysis is meticulous, and the arguments are unique. Historians and lovers of literature and history will find the new developments in related research in this book.