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This book is the masterpiece of Professor Kong Feili of Harvard University in the United States. It uses a large number of local chronicles and other Chinese materials to research using social science methods. It focuses on the regiment training, local armed forces and the resulting changes in social structure during the late Qing Dynasty in China; it explores the beginning of modern China from the changes in social structure caused by events within China such as the White Lotus Uprising and the outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion. This book has been revised repeatedly by Mr. Kong Feili since its publication, and the Chinese translation published this time is his latest revised version.