The Nineteenth Century of Cheng Yun-hyung Author: Liu Yonghua Publisher: Life, Reading, New Knowledge Joint Bookstore Nine Dragons Book City

"Cheng Yunheng's Nineteenth Century" tells the story of the life world of an ordinary villager in Huizhou in the 19th century. Based on a detailed interpretation of the 0-year-long daily records left by the protagonist and his family, the author uses his life course as the scripture and the living world as the weft, and comprehensively reproduces the different aspects of this world—from farmland cultivation to commodity sales, from food and clothing to relationships and human feelings, from time and space perception to reading and writing practice, from ritual performance to political experience—and its changing trends. This book attempts to combine holistic historical analysis, microhistorical interpretation, and ethnographic methods to observe the role of different factors such as international trade, dynastic institutions, regional societies, and individual decision-making in shaping the life world of villagers, and to deeply explore the historical experiences of an ordinary person in the era of great change and the changes and unchanged changes in the Chinese countryside in the 0th century.

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Song Zhijun (General Manager of Life, Reading, New Knowledge Joint Bookstore)

The use of folk documents such as "Pai Ri Account" to show the life of Chinese peasants in the 19th century is the exemplary significance of this book as a microhistory research. Professor Liu Yonghua of the Department of History of Peking University has shown keen observation in the process of discovering historical materials, and has shown outstanding ability in document analysis in the process of sorting out historical materials. This book adopts the writing method of "holistic history at the individual level", based on a holistic historical framework, and presents the interactive texture between the daily life of Chinese villagers and the era of great changes in China, and even the process of world history. Reading this book can break people's stereotypes and general stereotypes of farmers in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and provide a new dimension and a new perspective for understanding "rural China".