Account Book of the Middle Class in the Republic of China: Make Good Use of Every Penny
by Compiled By Huang Yingwei And Yuan Weipeng
About This Novel
This book is the daily income and expenditure account book of a middle-class warehouse manager in Suzhou, Anhui Province, and the author's detailed research and analysis of the account book. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the account owner's daily income and expenditure and several important social and economic activities between 1936 and 1942, including family illness, death, funerals, sacrificial activities, going to the countryside to collect rent, book purchasing and reading, social etiquette, wartime contingency and love. National donations, etc., From which we can see through the cultural character of the owner of the account book, which is a mixture of old and new and a blend of East and West. His style of behavior not only reflects high economic rationality, but also has a profound imprint of traditional Chinese culture; it can also be seen that the relationship between urban and rural areas in modern China has a distinct dualistic characteristic.
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