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This book combines the advantages of general history, chronicle and other formats, and absorbs the advantages of paradigms such as revolutionary history and modernization. It focuses on tradition and modernity, public and private desires, balance and imbalance, rationality and sensibility. In a style of narrative and discussion, this book combs the historical process of China from the reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1799) to the abdication of Emperor Qing (1912). Interpret political operations from a global perspective, analyze historical events in the causal chain, and strive to "understand the changes of ancient and modern times." Understand macro conflicts in micro details, deduce subtle psychology in real contexts, and strive to see the big from the small and lift things lightly. More than 300 pictures are selected to help readers establish a concrete understanding of the late Qing Dynasty. See people, see things, see the way of the world, have reason, evidence, and emotion, see the rise and fall, see the human heart, there is the past, the present, and the future. Concise but not simple, rich but not complicated.