In the last years of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty, great powers were surrounding the country, and domestic revolutionary undercurrents were surging. In the collision between tradition and change, the Zhang family, a weaving family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Chen family, the emerging Westernization businessmen, witnessed the collapse of the old order and the emergence of new trends of thought. The silk shops in Suzhou City, the foreign companies in Shanghai, and the revolutionary stronghold in Guangzhou together constitute a turbulent picture of the times.
