Research On The Changes Of Social Groups In China Modern Times

After the opium wars, social structure of China began to rapidly aggravated in the Late Qing dynasty and initial stage of Republic China. With the development of commodity markets and industrialization in Modern times, the life-style of capitalism class rammed the China traditional feudal society and agitatedly the closed social stratum. On the one hand, principal social groups among the social changes had strong transforms, which led the stratum with unitary fluidity to split. The old pattern with "scholar-official, peasants, handicraftsmen, merchants" had been history. In the new direction of economy and policies, merchants began to go from edge to center and there had new social powers such as townspeople stratum, new intellectual stratum. On the other hand, the new social powers had not the capability to rectify the society; it was inevitable that the army groups abruptly rose.From the fission and rectification of social stratum system, China social stratum system of modern times had obvious history brand, which determined the characteristics of changes of social groups and made a sufficient significance to further social changes.