Social Life Research On Hangzhou City In Republic Of China

"To recall the water towns,is to recall Hangzhou."Hangzhou,known as the Paradise on the earth,boasting a long history spanning over 5000 years, now basks in the fame as the major scenic travelling city both domestically and oversea, and is nominated as the state-level historic and cultural city.With the booming development in municiple construction,the image of Hangzhou is changing day by day.It is the profounding cultural inheritance and unique remembrance of the city that constitute the essence of the driving force for the changing.The Period of Republic of China saw the major transition of the society of China and the forming of the sense of aesthetic of the city.The in-city culture of Hangzhou became more tangible and overt afterwards. The political and economical environment after Revolution of 1911 ,repectively makes up of the social and economy background for the ever-progressing society.Focusing on daily expenses,the Hangzhou dwellers exhibit the collective recollection marks that distinguish from other cities in respect of eating and dressing habit,residing and transportation,entertainment ,recreation and leisuring.And the folk custom and belief were showing signs of innovation,which results in the increasing of heterogeneous factors.There is a profoundly vicissitude in field of living,expensing,leisuring and social custom for average people.As a matter of fact,by studying Hangzhou of the Minguo Period,we can systematically relive the changing process in Republic of China,make up the inadequate research concerning the local history and further the academic resrearch.Meanwhile,it also shows great academic value and significance in excavating the historic and cultural resources and potentials in tourism,capitalizing resources,scientifically and efficiently managing the replanning and rebuilding of older parts of the city,space and development laying out.Plus,the study of the social life history of Hangzhou can provide an invaluable reference to the relative research of other cities as Shanghai,Tianjin,Chengdu,Shenyang,Wuhan,etc comparatively,in the hope of upgrading the research level of the modern history,especially in Republic of China.The study is mainly divided into 5 chapters,besides the introduction and epilogue.The introduction illustrate the origin,significance,academic background of the chosen subjects,.briefly introduce the literature and data ,the method and innovation for the study.The first chapter lays its emphasis on the political and economic environment of Hangzhou after the impact of Revolution of 1911,revealing a "innovative Hangzhou". The second to fourth chaptor focus on the expenditure habit of Hangzhou dwellers,depicting the uprising of a leisure city in aspect of eating,dressing,residing,transportation,varied leisure activities city recreation and modern entertainment,which is a thermometer for the social life development of Hangzhou.The fifth chaptor is mainly about the progress and transition of the custom and mores of Hangzhou during Minguo Period,the inheritance and vicissitude of civil belief,pointing out several misconduct behavior and illustrating the social life development of Hanghzhou dwellers from another angle.The epilogue section sets its eye on the feature,cause,momentum and social...