Li, Changli, “Yi Shanghai weili kan wanqing shiqi shehui shenghuo fangshi ji guannian de bianqian” [Changes in Lifestyle and Ideas in the Late Qing Era in Shanghai] (2004)

Title : “Yi Shanghai weili kan wanqing shiqi shehui shenghuo fangshi ji guannian de bianqian” [Changes in Lifestyle and Ideas in the Late Qing Era in Shanghai]

Author(s) : Li, Changli

Year : 2004

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : social;culture

Journal : Shixue Yuekan (Journal of Historical Science)

Number : 5

Start page : 105

End page : 112

Language:Name : Chinese

Support : Print

Abstract : The commercialization and urbanization of Shanghai in the late Qing caused changes in people's lifestyle and ideas. Foreign commodities were popular, people were enthusiastic about commercial activities, the old social heirarchy was broken, women began to enter social life, and people longed for ease and pleasure. All of this resulted in the breakdown of traditional ethics and the emergence of modern market consciousness, a sense of equality, the pursuit of freedom, and satisfaction of desires.