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Description:

With “time” as the main theme, this book outlines the evolutionary process of time measurement systems and concepts from a sociocultural point of view. As the first book of this kind, it has helped to open up a new field of research. In accordance with the research questions at hand, the book comprises of three parts. The book is a historical exploration of changes in the time measurement system in modern China, and offers an account of the main features of Modern China’s new time measurement system.

This book is intended for scholars and researchers who are interested in changes on time systems and concepts in Modern China, and in relation to. The secondary market is non-academics who are trying to understand the social culture history of time in modern China.

Contents:

Chapter I  Transformation of western calendar and the debate on calendar era

Chapter II Politics and time: historical outline of calendar reform in modern China

Chapter III Updating of timepiece and transformation of time measurement standard in modern China

Chapter IV Time and the development of new traffic

Chapter V Changes on time management ways in modern time: an analysis based on schools and factories

Chapter VI Metropolis time: Shanghai in late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China

Chapter VII Time treasuring and punctuality: new interpretation of time value

Chapter VIII Recent changes on the concept of time: cognition of intellectual elite

Conclusion