Modern Chinese Folk Weapons
by Qiu Jie
About This Novel
Based on a large number of historical materials, the author describes the overview of Chinese folk weapons from the 1870s to the 1920s. The whole book mainly focuses on three aspects of research: first, reconstructing the basic historical facts about folk weapons in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, including the types, sources, scale and distribution of folk weapons; second, exploring the society reflected by the phenomenon of modern folk weapons. Background, including its relationship with the development and changes of modern society, economy, politics, and culture; third, examine the social impact caused by the issue of civilian weapons, including issues of civilian self-defense, social banditry, local social order and social control issues, government laws, regulations, and management of civilian weapons, and the impact of civilian weapons on revolutionary movements, political changes, and social changes, etc. By examining the process of civilian weapons proliferation, the author interprets the relationship between the state and society, and the government and the private sector. The image is concrete, the vision is novel, and the viewpoint is quite innovative.
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