Anhui East To Zhou Fu Family Century Change (1860-1960)

The evolution of families is closely linked with social changes. In the moderntimes, the Chinese society had a tremendous change. Under the social changes ofmodern times, the once powerful and prominent family often didn’t keep the familyhonor. Different from those short-lived courtiers family, the Zhou Fu families didn’tdecline after a hundred of years and they have completed the transformation frombureaucrat families to business families, then to the scholar families. They have greateffect on the politics economies and scholars of modern china.In this paper, the study is about the Zhou Fu families in the Dongzhi country ofAnhui. By the investigation of the evolution of the Zhou Fu families, in the process ofsocial change in modern China. Firstly, this paper inspects the origin and the processof formation of Zhou Fu’s families in Dongzhi County between Qing Dynasty and therepublic of China, and to further exploring the construction of the family affairs ofZhou Fu as well as their interpersonal relationship. Then, the paper inspects Zhou’sfamilies members actively response to social upheaval in the early of the republic ofChina, and also intends to study the relation between family members and socialdevelopment in the local place. Finally, the paper inspects during the period of therepublic of China and after the founding of The People’s Republic of China in1949, alarge number of experts and scholars are emerged in the Zhou’s families. And thenthe paper discusses the members of families’ function to the emergence andformation of Zhou’s families’ culture in Dongzhi County. And then I discuss themembers of the families play an important role in the emergence and formation ofZhou’s culture families.The investigation of the transformation of the Zhou Fu families in the Dongzhicountry not only helps the study of the history of the modern family, but alsoprofound the study of the modern culture history.