Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: Technological Revolution and the Transformation of Chinese Society

Author: Lü Naiji
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Undoubtedly, contemporary China is undergoing a transformation, and this transformation encompasses the three levels mentioned above. Since the Opium War in 1840 (some argue it began with the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Hundred Days' Reform, or the Xinhai Revolution), China has been forcibly pushed into the historical process of social transformation, which has spanned over 160 years to this day. In this arduous and winding journey of over one and a half centuries, China has experienced two major social structural transformations—first during the Xinhai Revolution and then during the New Democratic Revolution—with several failures or setbacks in between. The social structural transformation that began with the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s is the third such transformation in China's path of social transformation since 1840. Over the past few decades, a series of localized transformations have also occurred. From the perspective of the reform and opening-up, this social structural transformation will ultimately pave the way for China's overall social transformation. Professor Lü Naiji, in order to deepen his research, provides a detailed discussion on how the development of science and technology, as the main thread, drives the transformation of endogenous nations from tradition to modernity and from modernity to post-modernity. He also attempts to explain the inevitability and universality of the development path of endogenous nations from a philosophical perspective. He argues that the knowledge economy represents the deepening of the transition from modernity to post-modernity, while globalization pushes modernity to a global scale and marks the process by which developing countries join the ranks of modernization. From both historical and logical perspectives, he elucidates the philosophical foundation of modernity, demonstrating that there is a necessary path for the development of human society and a common platform for mutual interaction among humans. This book systematically describes the laws of scientific and technological development, the interaction between science and technology and society, and the trajectory of scientific and technological progress. It analyzes modern society, characterized by information technology and the knowledge economy, and points out that China is at a critical juncture in its social structural transformation.