I. Course introduction
Course Name: Modern Social Life History of China
Main content: This course is an elective course of history department. It tells the daily life and activities of modern people, including material life, spiritual life and interpersonal relationships. Through these specific aspects of social life shown in this course, we can reproduce the colorful picture of modern people's life, so that students can have a richer and more vivid social life besides regime change and system rise and fall, and let them pay attention to history not only the elites, but also the wider people and their lives. Paying attention to social life history will surely make modern history more vivid and closer to the true colors of history.
Assessment method: thesis+open book examination
Course arrangement: 54 class hours
Recommended textbook: Relevant Chapters of Modern Social History of China, edited by Qiao Zhiqiang.
Main reference books:
1. Illustrate the changes of social life in China in the last hundred years (1840 1949), edited by Zhong Fulan, Lin Xue Publishing House, 200 1.
2. Xue and Liu, eds., Social Life and Concept Change in Contemporary China, China Social Sciences Press, 200 1.
3. Editor-in-chief Liu, Records of Social and Cultural Changes in Modern China, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, Zhejiang People's Publishing House.
4. Li Changli, Social Changes in Shanghai in the Late Qing Dynasty, Tianjin People's Publishing House, 2002.
5. Sun Yanjing, Research on Social Fashion in Late Qing Dynasty, Renmin University of China Press, 2002.
Second, the text
Explore the history of daily life (5 class hours)
First, the research status and prospects of social history
Second, the basic content of social life history
Third, why do you want to study social life history?
1, reappearing the scenes of people's lives.
2. Ideas come from life.
3. Explore the history of daily life
Chapter one. The face of material life (12 class hours)
Section one. Overview of evolution of material life
I. Clothing (clothes)
1 official clothes
2 Folk costumes
3 women's dress
2. Diet (food)
1 diet structure
2 Eating habits
3 Western-style diet
Three. Domicile (residence)
1 rural housing
2 urban housing
Four. Transportation (travel)
1 land transportation
2 Waterway traffic
3 information transmission
Verb (short for verb) use (use)
Room 1 user
2 illuminator
3 for chronograph
Section 2. Material life and social changes
First, the basic characteristics of material life
1 regional
2 nationality
3 class nature
2. The changing track of material life
Motivation of 1 transition
2 the process of change
Third, the change of social function of material life.
1 Promote the gradual disintegration of the natural economy.
2 Enrich people's material life
3 Change the traditional fashion habits
4 to promote the modernization of ethical concepts
Chapter two. Characteristics of Spiritual Life (16 class hours)
Section one. Life belief and spiritual character
I. Faith in God and daily life
1 omnipresent god
2 ghosts and gods concept and life
Two. Mental outlook and personality
1 contented attitude towards life
2. Value orientation of high righteousness and low profit
3 the spiritual pillar of loyalty and filial piety
4 Modern China farmers' mentality
Section 2. Leisure, entertainment and spiritual interests
First, the traditional forms and characteristics of entertainment
1 form
Traditional entertainment and mental outlook
Second, the development of modern new entertainment
1 scientific, cultural and recreational forms
2 New sports and entertainment
Section 3. Customs and festivals
1. A wide range of customs and habits
1 Birth custom
2 Adult customs and habits
3 wedding etiquette
4 funeral customs
Sacrificial ceremonies and customs
6 social customs and habits
2. Various festivals
1 New Year's Day and Shangyuan Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival
4 winter solstice festival
Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Cold Clothes Festival.
6 Bath Buddha Festival and Laba Festival
Seven other festivals