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This book consists of two parts: the first is "Western Tide", which records the history of China from 1842 to 1941, and mainly talks about the influence of foreign culture on Chinese culture. Since the first half was "heard personally" by the author, and the second half was "experienced" by the author, it is regarded by the author as "a bit like an autobiography, a bit like a memoir, and a bit like modern history." The second is "New Waves", which mainly talks about the various changes that have occurred in Chinese culture under the influence of foreign culture, but due to the author's death due to illness, he was unable to discuss it in depth. The value of this book is as the famous scholar Wang Dezhao said: "He (Jiang Menglin) hopes that readers can discover the significance of major historical facts from the trivial things around them described by the author, so as to face the new era and new culture unfolding before them."

This book records China's century-old history from 1842 to 1941. The first half of it was "personally heard" by the author, and the second half was "personally experienced" by the author. The author took advantage of his "leisure" while hiding from air raids during the Anti-Japanese War, and wrote such an "autobiography" in an empty space without lights, tables and chairs, using the pencil and hard-sided notebook he carried with him. This book is regarded by the author as "a bit like an autobiography, a bit like a memoir, and a bit like modern history."

This book is Jiang Menglin's autobiography of Chinese history from 1842 to 1941. Through his personal life experience, he told the impact of foreign culture on Chinese culture at that time, which can be called "the modern history of China in one person."