From old-fashioned carriages, boats, and bridges to new types of transportation

Author: Dong Zenggang
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This is a story of China's century of transportation history. Over 400 pictures. From ancient carriages, boats, and bridges to the emergence of modern transportation, the transportation difficulties during the Republic of China, to the construction of transportation during the revolutionary era, and the development of contemporary three-dimensional transportation and the leap in transportation methods. A wide variety of topics, like documentary films and life scrolls. A Hundred Years of Chinese Society is divided into ten volumes, each containing over 400 pictures, supplemented by 50,000 words of text, explaining the various aspects of the evolution of Chinese social life over the past century from the perspective of social changes. We can see the progress of the Chinese people's clothing (clothing), housing (residence), and transportation (means of transport) over the past century, as well as the changes in social life involving folk customs, entertainment, education, science and technology, and military equipment. Changes in political life are not reflected in this book, but the rest of social life is mostly outlined in it. The authors' work not only involves collecting photos but also includes new photos reflecting changes in China's new historical period, allowing readers to observe the trajectory of changes over the century for comparison. This is a very good editorial approach.