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"Cultural wage earners" are no different from ordinary wage earners in the essential meaning of their work. The difficulty of survival, the fatigue of work, and the wandering of the soul make their understanding and experience of the survival and living conditions of the wage earners more direct and profound. Therefore, in addition to the satisfaction and needs of survival, "cultural wage earners" also have a pursuit of spiritual yearning and ideals.

"I have never been a good girl. I don't know how to smoke, drink or play Pai Gow. I am the king in the dark, and you are a little prince in the light. It was our fault. Now the time has come and it's time for us to separate." "I didn't expect that time can't melt your heart. I was wrong. We were originally a deal. Now, the deal is over." Jiang Wenzhen's eyes gradually blurred, "It's over."

This book is a new historical work by the young historian Xu Fei. This book will sort out and analyze the various misunderstandings of modernization by many important figures in the self-rescue movement of the late Qing Dynasty, and the historical process in which these misunderstandings pushed the Qing Dynasty towards its demise. No idea is created in a vacuum, and this book will also trace the origins and explore the origins of various misunderstandings. The Opium War opened the door to China, and China, which was closed and backward, suffered constant disasters. From the Sino-Japanese War of 1891 to the Revolution of 1911, the Qing Empire struggled to save itself. At the central level, there were enlightened Westernization leaders like Li Hongzhang and Yi? At the local level, there were pragmatic innovative forces like Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi. Among the people, there were intellectuals like Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong who were passionate about saving the country. However, their various efforts failed to save this dying empire. Why is this? The self-rescue process of the Qing Empire was also China's effort to modernize. The fall of the Qing government was actually related to the Chinese people's misunderstanding of modernization at that time. The Qing government lacked reference coordinates at the critical moment and lost its way forward. A striking example is Kang Youwei's misunderstanding of the Western parliamentary system, and his reform plan was neither fish nor fowl. Even if Cixi had not launched a coup, the reform movement would have had no future.