An Elementary Research On Chinese Metropolitan Bourgeoisie In The Early 20th Century

The early 20th century was the time when China was turning from a traditional society to a modern one. Along with the industrialization to turn quickly with the city, Capitalist stratum gradually became a new elite stratum in both country and city ,and Played an important role in the social life at that time。They guided the new city society lives, and changed citizens'living state . If we abandon their life history research and Investigate its political function and economic function ,we couldn't reflect this stratum completely, So this text tried to discuss and analyze the life history of modern capitalist stratum, and re-appeared the life of capitalist ,and reflect the interaction of politic,economy, social life and social concept.The first part is mainly about the formation of capitalist stratum in three aspects: number, source and configuration. From the middle19th century to early 20th century, along with the progress of Chinese modernization, Chinese market further opened, and the number of comprador capitalist, financial capitalist and industry capitalist increased continuously, the capitalist stratum already appeared in several big cities. The number of them was little .But they were engaged in a special economical activity of production, which gradually made them a social predominant power. China was in a important social transformation period by the early 20th century ,So the special history environment, made the source of Chinese capitalist much more complicated .in this stratum We can not only find the...